How to use Google Trends to find the best title keywords

Google is one of the most popular search engines around, which also hosts a useful web traffic tracking tool called Google Trends. Google trends is a site that allows anyone to compare the popularity of different words and phrases across the internet, and the popularity of such words over time, which can assist you with picking the best keywords to choose to drive traffic to your articles and other web content.

Difficulty: Moderate

Instructions

1. Open a web browser and go to Google Trends. (http://www.google.com/trends) The page looks quite similar to the normal Google homepage, but the search bar will turn up search statistics rather than web pages.

2. Search for several keywords you are comparing. In the search field, enter several keywords you are thinking of using in a title, separated by commas. The search will display how often each term is searched for, giving you a good idea which word is more likely to bring traffic to your article.

3. Search hot trends to come up with article ideas. Another useful feature of Google Trends is that they list the top 100 hot trends, which are searches that have suddenly seen a huge increase in popularity. Writing articles on the latest hot trends can bring in an influx of traffic, though oftentimes trends fade quickly, or or not large enough in scale to amount to a lot of views.

Tips & Warnings

• Google Trends lists the countries and cities which search for words in the highest proportions, a very interesting feature.

Resources

• Google Trends

[poe9368]

on 10/27/2009 Great information on How to use Google Trends to find the best title keywords. Very helpful.

[kims3003]

on 9/15/2009 great article

[jfjones]

on 8/17/2009 I like this information. I might try it. Thanks!

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on 7/31/2009 Great Article! 5*

[Marilynda]

on 6/5/2009 Google Trends to find the best title keywords is a great article. Thanks 5*