Labor Day Recap: Vinyl Wall Art Is Now My Top Search Term

September 1, 2008 · by Scott

Tetris wall decal Nice to have a day off! Good luck to people being affected by Gustav today and the upcoming days. Being in Houston, what has happened to New Orleans could just as easily have happened to us.

Back on June 21st, I revisited trends from previous posts to see how they were doing. Well, I’m doing it again. I won’t bore you with a recap of every post, but there are a few I wanted to go over starting with the most important one:

Aug 11th - Vinyl Wall Art

I never would have expected it, but the vinyl wall art post has become my most popular post of all time in just under 3 weeks. Not because domainers love it or are linking to it, but because of loads of organic traffic. Vinyl wall art is my number one search term now, even higher than domain related keywords (geodomains is second, in case you were curious). I suppose that’s kind of embarrassing for a domaining blog to admit.

But I think this shows how hot this trend really is. And to give you an idea of what people are typing to find vinyl wall art (at least the ones that got to my site):

vinyl wall art
vinyl wall designs
vinyl art
vinyl wall
vinyl sticker wall art
uk vinyl wall art
big wall art
vinyl people wall art
vinyl wall art home
how to make vinyl wall stickers
vinyl wall art blog
vinyl wall looks real
vinyl for wall art

And these are directly related to my suggesting that ’80s vinyl wall decals were going to be a big subniche:

nes vinyl wall
star wars vinyl wall decals
star wars wall vinyl
wall decal big nickelodeon commercial
ghostbuster wall art (yea, for real)
mario vinyl wall art
andy warhol wall decal (Hate to say it, but I told ya so!)

Yea, people really typed those in to get to my blog. Perhaps I should change my focus? hehe…

If TrendDomaining.com is ranking real high for these keywords and people are clicking on them, then the supply is not meeting the demand. Hint hint.

Aug 14th - Olympics

I said that Michael Phelps could do for swimming what Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods did for basketball and golf, respectively.

TrendDomaining.com Swimmer Of course, it’s too early to tell. But this NY Times report proves this trend is on the right track. From the article: “I don’t want this sport to be an every-four-years sport,” said Phelps. “In between the four years, there’s really not as much exposure as I’d like.”

Aug 7th - Oil Bubble

Well, on August 7th crude oil was about $118 a barrel. Yesterday, August 31st, it was at $120. Not a burst. But it’s still almost $30 lower than it’s high in July. The price of gasoline has gone down, but it doesn’t seem to reflect the huge drop in crude these past 2 months. That’s because these crude oil barrels are futures; the current price of crude is for Octobers gasoline. So don’t fret, the bubble is bursting, even if the price of gas doesn’t reflect it completely; it should come October. Yes I said “should.” Hurricane Gustav or many other things may have a say in it.

Trenddomaining.com hurricane

Either way, speculators are moving on to something different. Soon we should start seeing reports of money being pumped into alternative energy like never before.

July 7th - Home Servers and Movies-on-demand Boxes

Of course, not long after I wrote this post, news of a Netflix box hit Yahoo. Genius. Blockbuster announced their kiosk business model, which is identical to Redbox and too little too late. It’s just not enough. Netflix gets it, Blockbuster doesn’t.

Vudu has a sleak new box, but it’s still not comparable to what Netflix has.

I feel that eventually every (fortunate) home will have either a home server, movie box or both.

June 30th - Bamboo

I still think bamboo will be one of the biggest trends of the upcoming decade. It just has so many answers for the world.

Though not a site of authority, here is a post that claims bamboo clothing is the next big eco-trend. Here is another company putting it all in on bamboo clothing.

Bamboo is helping computers go green with ASUS finally rolling out it’s bamboo notebooks, Dell’s Hybrid and SimpleTech releasing these nifty external drives.

Since the post, I was able to pick up a couple decent bamboo names: