Have you tried Google Trends yet? The idea behind google trends is so advertisers can chart when a specific search term has more activity than other times.
Google trends charts the number of searches done for any keyword or phrase over time. It goes back a couple of years to give you a long-term idea of what is hot and what is not during specific months of the year.
If you are using google adwords or another ppc program to advertise, google trends could help you rearrange your ppc budget to maximize your results during the peak months for your search terms.
Unfortunately, google trends does not show any results for long-tail search phrases that do not have enough searches to warrant them adding it.
An example, Blogging Tips does not have enough searches. Article Writer and Press Release Writer don’t have trends either.
When using Google Trends for the term SEO, it does track the trends. Amazingly enough, although many web gurus are out there saying that social bookmarking is on the rise, but seo is on the decline, it seems google trends disagrees with them.
The search term SEO shows an upward trend over the past 2 years and it’s still climbing. SEO is becoming more necessary, not less. Gosh, hate when that happens. When supposed web gurus are proven wrong.
And to add salt to the wound, the number of searches for social bookmarking seems to be ahead of what it was in 2006, but not by much and declining. Uh oh, someone get me a tissue.
Don’t get me wrong. I see social bookmarking as having value, but it’s value is as one of many seo tools you can use to gain link popularity and to bring new traffic to your website or blog. I’m just posting in response to several people out there that see social bookmarking as replacing SEO, when in reality it’s just another seo tool.
Another funny thing. The search term Google Adwords shows a steady rise according to google trends while there are not enough searches for yahoo sponsored search doesn’t have enough searches to even have a graph. MSN Adcenter shows beginning this year a steady rise in the number of searches though.
Although Google Adsense shows a steady climb, yahoo publisher is rising fast starting this year. Hmmm, does that mean that a lot of people are signing up to show yahoo ads on their website, but that not nearly as many advertisers are signing up to have their ads shown?
I wouldn’t jump to conclusions like that based on google trends, but at least this seo tool can help you get an idea of whether or not a particular search term is on the rise or the decline and when it’s hot and when it’s not.
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