Google Trends is a great website that helps writers tremendously. Use it to find out how popular a search term is, how popular a website is, what the hottest searches are, etc.
Google has a tool that can help writers come up with ideas for articles. It can also show how often something is searched on Google. This tool is called Google Trends. On Google Trends, you can see many topics and searches that are popular currently.
So if you are unsure what to write about, take a look at Google Trends. This unique site contains a list of “Hot Topics” and “Hot Searches.” Hot Topics shows the news that are gaining popularity from news sources, social networking sites, blogs, etc. Hot Searches shows the Google searches that rise the most suddenly in popularity. Keep in mind that it does NOT include general search terms like “cats.” It only shows the terms that suddenly are searched more. They are both updated hourly, while the actual search trends are updated daily. Notice how “Hot Searches” is what Triond uses for their “Topic Suggestions” list.
You can also compare the popularity of two search terms. Just use commas to separate the two. So if you wanted to compare the number of searches of desktops and laptops, just type in “desktops, laptops.” You may notice numbers by your search term. That number is the relation from your second search term to your first search term. If you compared the laptops to desktops, just the way I typed it, you would probably see a “1.00″ next to “desktops.” And there is also a number around “6.20″ besides “laptops.” This means that laptops are searched for about 6.2 times more often than desktops.
Websites can also be compared. If you type in “google.com” in the search, Google Trends shows you the amount of traffic that google.com has received in the last few years. And you can also compare websites. Say you want to compare espn.com and foxsports.com. Just type in “espn.com, foxsports.com.” There you will see that espn.com is about 17 times as popular as foxsports.com. See what I mean? This is useful stuff!
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Google Trends is very useful for writers. A good idea is to type in a new article’s main search term into Trends and see how much search volume it has. Sometimes a term doesn’t have enough search volume to be displayed.
This is a great site that gives writers some really great information. Check this cool tool out yourself at Google Trends.
January 19th, 2011 at 5:54 pm
Great information for anyone looking for solid topics that draw traffic, great share.
January 19th, 2011 at 6:10 pm
Fantastic idea
January 19th, 2011 at 6:31 pm
Good information, thanks.
January 19th, 2011 at 6:42 pm
I love google trends
January 19th, 2011 at 6:52 pm
Google Hot Trends is an addition to Google Trends which displays the top 20 hot, i.e., fastest rising, search-terms of the past hour in the United States.
This is for searches that have recently experienced a sudden surge in popularity.
For each of the search-terms, it provides a 24-hour search-volume graph as well as blog, news and web search results. Hot Trends has a history feature for those wishing to browse past hot searches.
Hot Trends can be installed as an iGoogle Gadget. Hot Trends is also available as an hourly Atom web feed.
Google Trends is a public web facility of Google Inc., based on Google Search, that shows how often a particular search-term is entered relative to the total search-volume across various regions of the world, and in various languages.
On August 5, 2008, Google launched Google Insights for Search, a more sophisticated and advanced service displaying search trends data.
January 19th, 2011 at 7:29 pm
Great information, Thanks for sharing
January 19th, 2011 at 8:28 pm
For me its just best to write on things I know about.. rather than doing research on hot topics that I am clueless about.
January 19th, 2011 at 8:33 pm
wow……… google trends
January 19th, 2011 at 11:48 pm
Its very interesting,sometimes its good to know what people need and search for.
January 20th, 2011 at 12:08 am
Thanks for this helpful information.
January 20th, 2011 at 12:20 am
I have never known this. Will check it out immediately.
January 20th, 2011 at 2:45 am
Funny, I was actually in there tonight looking for something someone had mentioned to me but I did not find anything.
Like B. Nelson, I prefer to write about things I know or researched.
Great information. Thanks N.
January 21st, 2011 at 1:10 am
Nice information. I’m sure many writers will find Google Trends useful
January 21st, 2011 at 5:31 pm
I’ll keep trying with this, even though I am not very numerate. good stuff.
February 3rd, 2011 at 11:07 pm
Appreciate the share.
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February 5th, 2011 at 10:39 am
It’s good for seeing which keywords are rising fast in popularity, but to actually get search volumes, you have to use the Google Adwords keyword tool.
February 6th, 2011 at 11:38 am
Very informative.Thanks
February 13th, 2011 at 12:02 am
Thanks, I needed good ideas for writing
February 21st, 2011 at 8:41 pm
Great article; great tips. Thanks.
February 26th, 2011 at 9:07 pm
I prefer to write about subjects I already know a fair bit about or which interest me enough to make the research fun. That might not get me as many views as writing about topics chosen to be popular search subjects, but I guess I’ll just have to live with that.
October 5th, 2011 at 2:12 pm
Good read! You might also wanna take a look at this..
Top 10 Interesting Google Trends