Using Google Trends to see what your competition is doing
Aug 28, 2009
Not too long ago, I wrote an article on how to choose my next blog post. In it, I discussed how you can use Google Trends to find the next topic to write about. Well, most of us may not have a blog. For those of us that don’t and are looking to make money through ecommerce or their services, it would be nice to see what types of leads the competition is getting. So, if I’m selling a service, I want to market the latest trend to get business. After all, I don’t want to optimize my site for something no one wants. So, here are some steps on taking advantages of the latest trends in your industry.
- Choose a service or product you want to sell.
- Run a google search on it.
- Copy down (or keep a browser tab open) of the top websites found.
- Go to Google Trends
- Type in these website addresses into the Google trends search box, and hit search.
- Chances are, you may not get any results, so look below the search box and click on the link titled “Websites”
- Now, you may see some results.
- Continue searching until you see something pop up in the section on the right titled “Also searched for”
- Now, you have your latest trend!
Best of luck!
