Tourist Kidnappings on the Rise in Mexico

Tourist Kidnappings on the Rise in Mexico was published in March of 2008, during spring break for many college and university students. US Homeland Security issued a warning against traveling to Mexico because of the rise in aggression to American tourists. The topic was trending on Google and we were able to place the story at precisely the right moment to leverage the search volume.

Other than the front page of GoGirlfriend, it is the most read page on the site. It remained on the first page of Google search for a number of years, pulling from three keyword phrases – highly searched terms for people considering a vacation in that country.

Page views – 63,110
Time on page – 3.34 min
Top referrers – Google & Google News, CNN, MSN, Bing
Links pointed to this page – 567

Top Keywords

• Mexico kidnappings
• Kidnappings in Mexico
• Mexico kidnappings tourist

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