Comments on: Aikido, Through The Eyes Of Google

By: Jerry

Jerry — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 19:28:18 +0000

Thanks, Dunken. I’m a big fan of your blog. I really enjoyed the Star Wars / ki article.

By: Dunken Francis

Dunken Francis — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 19:04:24 +0000

I’m and Aikido instructor and a Web 2.0 consultant so have a fair bit to do with Google… without baseline numbers it’s very hard to get more than an overall impression of trends, however I can tell you from memory that the TKD search numbers are about 10 times that of Aikido, and MMA is about 1000 more. Martial arts is a “niche” activity, and Aikido is a niche martial art, so we are still very much a specialist search term LOL. A tip for any of you with club websites – make sure you include the town and surrounding towns in both your body text and keywords, as invariably people search for not just “Aikido” but “Aikido Boston mass” etc when looking for a club to join.

By: The Dark Knight

The Dark Knight — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 04:05:08 +0000

I hate math….

By: dichotomy

dichotomy — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 03:12:22 +0000

I would be interested to see how the different martial arts stacked up to each other in terms of search popularity. I don’t think Aikido is a household name like karate or mixed martial arts, unfortunately.

By: Jerry

Jerry — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 03:02:24 +0000

No, dichotomy, I can’t. I agree that without a baseline, the utility of the graphs is severely limited.

By: dichotomy

dichotomy — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 02:41:39 +0000

The google site doesn’t qualify the graph with numbers. You can’t be sure if they are talking about a rise of one person, 100, 1000 or 1000000. It shows a trend, but it doesn’t give a way to classify it because it doesn’t say it it is a significant drop or not. In statistics, any change below the standard deviation is not a significant fluctuation. Is there some way to get a graph with numbers on that site?

By: MM

MM — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 02:31:20 +0000

The UFC has exploded like crazy in the last few years I’ve noticed. Especially since I’ve moved to the south I’ve met like a million rednecks who claim they prize fight. lol here is a certain level of “meat-head” mentality that goes along with it I think. However, BJJ is a very solid modern art with some real history etc. UFC/MMA really utilizes BJJ, but it’s not pure in that setting.

I think MMA is appealing to some people guys because of the competitive nature. All the UFC wanna be guys I’ve met are real meat heads that were always trying to out-man each other and impose their pseudo chest beating on every other man.
However, I’ve met established MMA guys who do MMA because they purely love MMA and it isn’t about proving anything to anyone for them.
But for young angry men MMA seems to be an outlet for a competitive nature. They wanna feel cool, and maybe they would be googling Aikido if Seagal was still cool. lol

Then again I’ve looked up a few Aikido schools online and have found some very offensive ego- masculine statements.

Edited by Jerry (MM, I’d rather we not discuss particular schools here. Thanks.)