How to Get More Traffic with Google Trends

by on 07/10/2009 in Google

Bloggers in general, well always, love sharing information with their friends and visitors. The information we share is what we love to write about. My greatest reward is when my friends comment positively about what I write. If you’re a blogger and you do not care about traffic, than it’s the same as talking to yourself, yes, you are strange. Blogging is a form of creative writing and expression from authors who have knowledge about the subject matter.

google-trendsWhat if you could capitalize on the hottest trends at this very moment? You can, just by visiting Google Trends to see what’s hot in the news and what others are searching for. I am not suggesting that you should write about what others are searching for everyday, but using some of the search phrases in your own article can leverage some needed traffic.

You should write about what you know to avoid being called out on a subject you are not familiar with. All you need to do is visit http://www.google.com/trends/hottrends and see what search terms you may be able to use that can bring you more traffic. Try not to shoot for number one, but maybe take a search term in the top 20. For example, I write about technology and for this day July 10th, there are no search terms that I would write about, tomorrow is another day.

You need to know when to leverage Google Trends and when to walk away, I walked away today. If there are search phrases that are in my niche, I will use a few keywords based on the search term in my tags as well as in my article. Do not forget to bold those keywords or phrases in your blog article.

If you write about health and exercise, than I would have at least two sentences on Tour De France and Lance Armstrong. Notice I made both phrases bold. You should also include them in your tags at least once, if not twice. I have both in my tags listed once.

Let me know your opinion on this traffic driving tip.

15 Responses to “How to Get More Traffic with Google Trends”

  1. Jonathan - Advanced Life Skills

    Jul 10th, 2009

    Great tip, thanks Frank.

  2. Frank J

    Jul 10th, 2009

    Jonathan,

    Try it a few times and see how your traffic increases.

  3. David Hopkins

    Jul 10th, 2009

    Using the same technique is also effective in domaining. Since pretty much every generic domain of value has been registered, snapping up domains on new products, trends etc. is where the pennies are.

    Domains like this could be gold one day: http://www.twittersearchoptimization.com/

    • Frank J

      Jul 10th, 2009

      David,

      Either I am buzzed, or I have no idea what your are trying to convey.

      • David Hopkins

        Jul 10th, 2009

        Domainers use similar latest trend aggregators to snap up domain names for emerging terms. Stuff like this:

        http://www.seomoz.org/popular-searches/index/2009-06-22

        Either knowing that they will be worth a lot or hoping that they might be one day. Like in the case of twittersearchoptimization.com.

        Would be quite useful if Apple forgot to snap up domains for their latest widgets :P

        • Frank J

          Jul 11th, 2009

          David,

          You are good. They do that often and I have seen it first hand on Godaddy.

  4. Joanie

    Jul 10th, 2009

    Thanks, nice tips. I really appreciate the posts lately on getting more traffic, SEO, etc. They’re much appreciated.

  5. Ching Ya

    Jul 11th, 2009

    That’s true, Frank. To cleverly use the info we obtained from Google Trends could help, also, may I suggest Twitter hot search/trend as well? However, it’s important to not ‘trying-too-hard’, for example, to have ‘emma watson underwear photos’ (no.2 of Google Trends today) to be put within a techie blog is simply out of place.

    @wchingya
    Social/Blogging Tracker

    • Frank J

      Jul 11th, 2009

      Ching,

      I use Twitter, Digg, Reddit, but Google Trends can help as well.

  6. JJ

    Jul 12th, 2009

    It will be good to look at “consistently searched” terms that appeared many times over a period of time in the Google Trends Top 100 list, something like this and this

  7. Mo

    Jul 16th, 2009

    Thanks for the tip, I will have to try this.

    • Frank J

      Jul 16th, 2009

      Mo,

      You are welcome and please share your results with us.

  8. matalic

    Jul 21st, 2009

    thank you frank 4 the informations
    i started to do some hot trends a month a go on my blog
    but,the probleme i don’t get a lot of trafic,from the search engine.
    only 100_200 visitors, they comes frome digg.com and other social bookmarking sites that am using
    what do you advice me
    and thank you again.

    • Frank J

      Jul 21st, 2009

      matalic,

      Check out our SEO category. You will find a lot of information on how to drive more traffic to your blog.

  9. matalic

    Jul 22nd, 2009

    ok thanks frank