Category: Google Trends

Looking through Google Trends today and saw that a lot of people are searching for Tremelimumab. I continue to be strangely obsessed with how many weird terms exist and how many people search for them. Some of my faves from this week:

Most of my readers should be familiar with Google Trends and the SEO benefits of using the service as a keyword research tool. For those of you new to the concept, Google Trends shows you terms that a lot of people are currently searching for on Google. Place those terms on your website and you might be able to generate a lot of traffic quickly by ranking for the trendy term.

The long tail of search concept is a pretty crazy one when you see it play out in reality. Here are some of the search terms that people have used to find my site in Google: “ads with old people” “advantage of working for google” “blocking yelp” “can you see the real me” “chamath” “cloud information” “dental nitrous oxide reaction on video” “gib” “made it ma” and of course my favorite: “search death locations”

Yesterday I wrote about how a business could prepare for big events like Black Monday sales by creating content on your site that targets keywords people might be looking for. The post generated some ok traffic to my site from some interesting sources that I thought would be good to mention to you. Yesterday I got a lot of traffic from both Google Trends and Google Blog Search. While most people use the Web search part of Google, Yahoo, etc.…

I wasn’t going to post anything today but I read a post about optimizing press releases via PRWeb on E:Visibility’s blog that I thought would be of interest for my readers.  Here’s the quick summary: Use Google Trends to target keywords for your press release Google Trends shows you which cities generate the highest amount of searches for the term Use the most popular city for your term as the MSA in PRWeb for targeting. Here’s the post: Targeting Your…