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Searching for Home Appliances Online
Which websites are maximising their market share?
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Calculating Share of Search
• Rankings Based Reach (RBR)* provides a simple way to compare a
website’s search engine rankings with its competitors.
• RBR is an estimate of the percentage of available search traffic a
website will receive for a set of phrases – this gives the site’s share
of search or reach.
• It is weighted based on the popularity of each search phrase and the
relative click through rate (CTR) of each ranking position.
*Source: Rankings Based Reach (RBR) is a methodology developed by FIRST., http://www.firstdigital.co.nz
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Selected sites
The following New Zealand home appliance and whiteware sites were selected for
Ranking Based Reach (RBR) organic search performance analysis.
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Sites
100percent.co.nz homekit.co.nz
albanyextreme.co.nz lvmartin.co.nz
applianceshed.co.nz magnessbenrow.co.nz
bettaelectrical.co.nz mitre10mega.co.nz
briscoes.co.nz noelleeming.co.nz
bunnings.co.nz smithscity.co.nz
farmers.co.nz thegoodguys.co.nz
fisherpaykel.com/nz thewarehouse.co.nz
harveynorman.co.nz
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What are people searching for?
Source: Google Keyword Tool, New Zealand exact match, Feb 2014
In order to identify which websites are leading in organic search FIRST researched
frequently used home appliances and whiteware related phrases.
Search Phrase
Local
searches per
month
Search Phrase
Local
searches per
month
blender 2,400 portable air conditioner 390
heat pumps 2,400 coffee machine 320
vacuum cleaners 1,300 kettle 320
washing machine 1,300 toaster 320
dishwasher 880 whiteware 320
fridge 880 dryer 260
fan 720 steam cleaner 260
gas heaters 720 air conditioner 170
kitchen appliances 720 home appliances 110
microwave 720 kitchen scales 110
freezer 390 gas cooktops 90
homewares 390 ironing boards 20
ovens 390
Total searches per month (NZ)
15,900
Total searches per year
190,800
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Search trends
Source: Relative total keyword performance on a normalised scale of 1 to 100, Google Trends, New Zealand, February 2014
The chart below illustrates interest in key search terms “fridge” and “freezer” in New Zealand over the last 7 years.
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fridge freezer
The search volumes for these two search terms are
constantly rising. We can see that the term “fridge” is quite a
bit ahead compared to the term “freezer”.
Companies selling whiteware should focus on search
terms that are trending upwards, have decent search
volume and 'search intent'. Targeting terms like 'fridge'
and 'freezer' should be a part of a successful SEO
strategy to improve market presence.
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Search trends for “home appliances” and “homewares”
Source: Relative total keyword performance on a normalised scale of 1 to 100, Google Trends, New Zealand, February 2014
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home appliances homewares
As the search trends show, there is growing
online demand for people searching for home
appliances and wares.
Companies selling homewares and home
appliances can capture a lot of this search
demand by increasing their online
presence for related searches.
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Harvey Norman beats its strongest competitors online
The chart illustrates that brand search terms like Noel Leeming, Briscoes and Harvey Norman show strong seasonal trends with peaks in
the Christmas season. As we can see, Briscoes seems to be catching up to Noel Leeming. Harvey Norman is leading the way. The Good
Guys have improved their online brand reach recently. 100 Percent should invest in natural search optimisation if they want to catch up.
To combat being left behind, runner-up stores (for home appliances and whiteware) need to drive consumer brand recognition
via search, display, social and email remarketing campaigns.
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Source: Relative total keyword performance on a normalised scale of 1 to 100, Google Trends, New Zealand, February 2014
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Search trends for “nespresso machine”
Source: Relative total keyword performance on a normalised scale of 1 to 100, Google Trends, New Zealand, February 2014
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nespresso machine
Retail stores not ranking for “nespresso machine” in the
Google search engine are limiting their possibilities for
online sales as this search term is playing an
increasingly important role for consumer buying
decisions. The search volume has been constantly rising
over the last few years.
Stores selling nespresso machines, therefore need
to consider niche consumer search behaviour, such
as “nespresso machine” search terms, in their
content marketing strategies.
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Google: Search engine results page 1
What the consumer sees: The top of the Google search results page for a search on “home appliances”
In the paid search Noel
Leeming ranks at fifth
position just before The
Good Guys. Ranking
on the paid top
positions for the search
term “home
appliances” is highly
competitive.
Up to 3 keywords- related
Google ads for paid search
terms lead the Google
search results page: Able
Appliances and HomeKit
rank at first and second
position followed by
RentRite for the search
term “home appliances”.
Able Appliances do not
offer any small devices as
kettle, fans or toasters and
mainly offer whiteware.
RentRite on third position
rents whiteware items.
HomeKit ranks on highest
position of shops that offer
whiteware and home
appliances online and was
recently founded in 2009.
Under the organic search
results Fisher & Paykel
(who is a manufacturer)
ranks very good on
second position. Noel
Leeming ranks on 9th
position followed by Betta
Electrical (not seen on this
slide).
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Source: Chikita, 2010 (Organic Search) & Accuracast 2009 (Paid Search)
35% of users click
on the top organic
search result
Almost 95% of organic
traffic goes to the top 10
results
The importance of top rankings
Search engine position
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Rankings Based Reach: Natural Search
Source of ranking data: Google New Zealand, www.google.co.nz, February 2014. * includes all websites under the relevant domain name (eg, including www. and shop.)
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The RBR leader is far
ahead compared to it’s
competitors with an
excellent RBR of over
40%. Overall, only two
companies have a RBR
over 10%, which means
that there is still a lot of
room for improvement.
Nearly all companies will need
sustained focus on natural search
optimisation should they wish to
challenge Noel Leeming as the
market leader online.
These websites can compete by
optimising for highly relevant and popular
search phrases.
MASSIVE OPPORTUNITY
HomeKit is only selling
home appliances and
whiteware online, but is
ranking low for relevant
search terms in the
organic search. A
successful strategy should
focus on improving their
RBR.
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Consumer Research: Brand Recognition
Almost half of all mentioned store brand
names have a market recognition of more
than 90%. Starting with Harvey Norman
as the market leader, followed by The
Warehouse and Noel Leeming.
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the Great Sites platform Feb 2014 (n=2,470).
Question 1: Which of the following store brand names do
you recognise? (Tick all that apply).
Although most Kiwis know
Harvey Norman, only about 27%
of all New Zealanders tend to
buy home appliances and
whiteware there (see next slide).
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Consumer Research: Purchasing Behaviour (Offline)
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the Great Sites platform Feb 2014 (n=2,470).
Question 2: From which of the following stores have you
purchased in the last 3 months in person (offline)? (Tick
all that apply).
82% of all Kiwis
recognize Smiths City,
(see previous slide) but
only 1 of 14 New
Zealanders is shopping
there.
Although the brand recognition of
Noel Leeming is nearly as high as
the one of The Warehouse (see
previous slide), only 33% of people
tend to shop there.
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Consumer Research: Purchasing Behaviour (Online)
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the Great Sites platform Feb 2014 (n=2,470).
Question 3: From which of the following stores have you
purchased in the last 3 months online via their website ?
(Tick all that apply).
There is large potential in selling
home appliances and whiteware
online and nearly all stores are
making efforts of being
representative. This market
offers large potential but is also
highly competitive.
About 12% of Kiwis
buy products from The
Warehouse online.
Briscoes and Noel
Leeming are just
making one fourth of
online sales compared
to it’s strongest
competitor.
Home Appliances and Whiteware
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• The home appliances and whiteware market is highly competitive,
urging players to optimise their RBR to get ahead of their
competition.
• Noelleeming.co.nz has set a clear course to follow, but also
fisherpaykel.com/nz (who is a manufacturer), briscoes.co.nz, and
harveynorman.co.nz are currently the most visible sites in the digital
home appliances and whiteware landscape, achieving a dominant
share of voice thanks to strong positions in organic results.
• A considered search strategy that integrates both organic and paid
search should be a key customer acquisition channel for stores
offering home appliances and whiteware, driving revenue and
growing the stores share of digital spend.
• More than half of all home appliances and whiteware websites have a
very low organic RBR score, under 1% (!). This represents a big
opportunity for natural search optimisation.
Summary &
Observations
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