Dec
How To Pull In 30,000 Extra Unique Visitors Per Day, For 5 Minutes of Work
Last month I was browsing through some “make money online” blogs for shits and giggles, and I came across a post about Google Hot Trends at one of the higher-quality blogs in our niche.
That post, plus an earlier expose of Google Hot Trends at TechCrunch, reminded me of how fun it can be. (If you haven’t used it yet, Google Hot Trends is a continuously updated list of the hottest new search queries.)
At the same time, I realized I better get my act together and write about how to use Google Trends to dramatically increase traffic to your website. At this point, it’s no secret – more and more bloggers are writing about it, so the usefulness will diminish by the day, but there is still time to reap the rewards if you’re smart enough.
(Sidenote: Once bloggers exploit the crap out of this and it becomes common place and less effective, some guru will put it into an ebook and sell it for $47 
)
Here’s how to do it:
The Prerequisite: A Well-Indexed, Frequently Updated Blog
Unfortunately, this isn’t going to make you rich overnight with no work. It requires a fair amount of work, plus you have to have done lots of work in the past to make this worthwhile.
See, it only works if you already have a blog that’s fairly popular and gets new content indexed in Google real fast (like within minutes.) If your new content pages aren’t indexed that fast, this strategy won’t do you any good.
But if your blog posts show up in Google quickly, this could boost your traffic dramatically. (Maybe not 30,000 new visitors per day like they claim in the TechCrunch article, but you never know until you try.)
Step 1: Head to Google Hot Trends
First, jump to Google Hot Trends and browse the list. This is a frequently updated list of the hottest search queries of the moment.
If you find an interesting term, you can click on it for a few more details. You’ll see just how hot it is, and when the peak searching was done. The list shows today’s date by default, but you can also browse past days if you so desire.
Step 2: Choose a Popular Search Term
Once you have scanned the list, pick a good, fresh term with lots of searches to focus on.
This is the tricky part though. It’s best to pick a new, uncommon, or long tail term since they’ll have less competition. The more popular, generic terms aren’t worth chasing. For example, even if a term like “Thanksgiving” is popular, it’s also very crowded, and big sites already have the top Google SERPs. So skip the obvious terms.
And as much as Google wants to have “fresh” results in their listings, some sites/pages are going to be very hard to knock off the top spot with nothing more than the timeliness of your posting. For example, if there’s a popular movie coming out on DVD, there’s a good chance IMDB and Amazon.com are going to claim the top spots no matter what you try.
A great idea that has served me well is to look at actual URLs that make it onto the list. People type URLs into Google all the time, and they’re usually not competitive terms. So having a blog post titled “coolwebsite.com” or “neatwebsite.com/newpage” could lead to lots of traffic from people who end up at your site instead of typing the URL into the browser directly.
The “neatwebsite.com/newpage” type pages are the real gold mines.
Step 3: Craft a Blog Post
Now that you have your search term, prepare a new blog post on that topic. It should use the exact search term in the title and then have it in the post, too.
The key is to do this quickly. Time is of the essence. You want the post published quickly and pings sent out so that your post is indexed in Google within minutes.
Step 4: Check Your Stats
First, keep searching Google using the chosen term and wait to see if your site shows up. Ideally you’ll get a top-three ranking.
Then watch your stats and see how many people end up at your site. It’s unlikely you’ll get a Digg-like boost, but if you have a good site and a very popular term, you can easily pull in a few thousand extra visitors in a day.
(I used this technique last December and went from about 2 visits per month the whole way up to 11,000, from one trendy blog post!)
Step 5: Repeat Daily
That was simple, wasn’t it? Now just repeat the process daily (or even hourly) every time you find a good query.
But before you get going, read these bonus tips…
Bonus Tip 1: Make Sure the Topic Matches Your Site
When I first discovered this tip, I made the mistake of picking any random hot term for whatever website I felt got indexed the fastest. So I might have had a website about mobile phones with a page about a new weight loss program on it.
It was cool to have a few thousand extra visitors, but it was a waste of bandwidth, because the visitors had no interest in browsing the rest of my website.
Yeah, you could throw some affiliate links in there and make a few commissions, but sticking with related topics is a better long-term strategy.
Bonus Tip 2: Consider Perennial “Hot” Terms
Another finding from Google Trends are the perennial hot terms. There are even a couple I noticed recently, like “black Friday 2008 ads.” So you can be reasonably sure that “black Friday 2009 ads” will be a big deal in 12 months time… so why not start planning now and get a jump on everyone else?
Or browse back to mid December 2007 and see what was hot. It’s possible something similar will spike in search volume tomorrow!
Bonus Tip 3: Certain Topics Are Better Than Others
You’ll notice certain topics pop up more than others. Celebrity names and event names, for example. Politics is a big one, too, especially with the current economy and recent election.
Weather is actually pretty big, too. Any storms and school closing queries are going to be searched often enough to make it onto the Hot Trends list.
If I had to pick one niche/topic this strategy is ideal for, it would be entertainment websites. Whether it’s celebrity gossip or UFC videos, you are virtually guaranteed to find great terms to focus on.
Bonus Tip 4: Combine Trends with Insights
You can also get some cool data with Google Insights.
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Thanks for the tip. It seems like Google really owns the world wide web, hey
Excellent tips with the hot tool. I use it a lot already, and you’ve certainly expanded my knowledge about it. Using it to look back at what was hot certain days, like holidays and special event days kicks ass when you want to rank hard for those keywords the next year on the same day/type of day.
Justin Dupre
Deeboo.com Webmaster, SEO, and Internet Marketing Community
Thanks for these great ideas! I’m trying it out right now, and I’ll come back to let you know how it goes!
dave
This was nice post after I read it. I just started blogging. just sucking all the information i can that be useful. Thanks for the post.
This sounds like a very cool technique and one that I will try out.
I always forget about Google Trends and, for that matter, Google Insights.
I guess that I get so busy that these things come onto my “to do list” and then get shelved aside for whatever reason.
Your results are impressive, to say the least.
i guess i need to put my snail migrations blog to rest lol
This is what people need in driving more visitors to our site. as long as we has problem with traffic this is the solution. Thank you for publishing nice post.
YES! I have found the secret of all traffic methods! AND FOR 5 MINUTES A DAY!!
Now I shall get 30,000 visitors per day! YESH! THE best post…
EVER.
But on the serious note, I completely forgotten about Google Trends. Great for researching. Thanks for reminding me.
P.S. I’ll be creating my own little e-book for $197…
great article, will remmeber this technique when my website grows. thanks
Very informative article. I got lot of knowledge about google trend. I will also try this technique for my one site.
Effective and awesome tips.
Thanks for the article.
This sounds pretty interesting and I just may try this one out. I mean, the added traffic isn’t going to hurt.
Great ideas.Getting 30k visitors per day is a goal that anyone should have. (Bookmarked)
This is a great article i used Google Insights tool alot , to those how didn’t try it yet, you should try it.
Very nice solid tips. I will try this to boost my traffic.
this sounds like a great idea! now i just have to get my blogs listed as frequently updated!!!
Hot trend is updated daily right? I mean how do we know if the trend is strong? We need to see this trend based on more longer time period right? like a month perhaps and Not just for one day period?
Sam
Great tips! Another one similar to google trend is google insights!
Now just gotta figure out what am I trying to monetize?
Just wanted to add to “google insights” is that
you can look at the historical trend for certain niches, some may be seasonal like in the home improvement industry.
btw great info!! yeh you’re right internet marketing does suck!!
WOW, awesome tips, thank you so much for the information.
Nice. It was interesting to check all the tips. Thanks for info!
I have done similar to this and it’s a great way to boost traffic.
Thanks a lot for the awesome tips and advice. I want to give it a try.
Thank you so much for the cool tips that I might use. Keep posting.
it may One of effective way to boost traffic, rarer people concentrate this topic and after getting success they not ever shares, great post ….
really great tips for user like us who never think about wonderful tricks…
WOw, this looks like a super duper tip for us bloggers.
Just Bumped into your website somehow and have to say Great advice =)
This is really great info for me. I’ve been thinking of how to really use google trends for some time now having heard about the advantage. With all that I’ve read about this powerful resource I think this is more insightful and revealing.
Thanks a great lot!:)
I’ve tested Trends myself and I love it. A very useful tool.
Thank you for this great information. I use a lot of Google services but I have not used Labs. I will play around with it more. Thank you.
Thanks for the great post. It really help us on how to start on internet marketing.
Very cool article. I was recently thinking about working trends but I wasn’t sure how to go about it. Your article has been very helpful. Thanks!
I never thought about it that Google Trends can be so effective in directing thousands of visitors to our website within a few minutes. Thanks for the valuable posting.
Wow, this is a very well written piece. You have truly revealed what lots and lots of other people aren’t aware of about Google Hot trends. Thanks a great deal for sharing this.
Thanks for the handy piece of advice, I will be looking into using Google Trends to boost the traffic to my various sites.
An interesting idea. I’ve always leveraged the info on Google Insights for Search, but I rarely spend time on Google Hot Trends. I’ll have to give this a shot and see what happens…thanks.
How sad that “Hot trends” only works for searches in English, it would have been fun seeing what “Hot trends” is in a small country like Denmark.
I am wondering how someone can share a post like this. It is not less than a big treasure for me and I am going to find many suitable terms. I hope in coming days, I am going to have a lot of traffic.
Thanks for this eye-opening post.
I’ve heard of Google Trends before
but never taken the time to explore
its wondrous possibilities.
Will definitely implement this
strategy.
Thanks again and keep coming up with
great posts.
Zekimann
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Hey this posy is really good. Good description of how to get traffic. Hope I can promote my site using these methods. Thanks for very useful information.
This is incredible. I heard google trends couple of months ago but did not pay attention… now I know.. thanks a lot.
I like the idea but it is a lot of work. the best strategy revolves around long term not one day peak traffic. SEO is the best for continued traffic
Wow, this is some inspiration to get a popular blog going.
These tips were very helpful and ones I will come back to. I especially learned from using blogs that are relevant. Keep the info coming!
I love ur tips !! I will bookmark
These are some very great tips =D
This is Interesting, just randomly bumped into your website off of google. However great tips subscribed to your RSS
I appreciate the way of your blogging and providing such a wonderful nutshell tips.
Great tip. Unfortunately I can’t do this now as my blog is new one.
Can I use this tip even if my blog gets indexed in a day and not in an instant ?
I was unaware of hot trends.. Seems like a good utility to find hot topics.
Thanks for letting me know.
Google Trends… Sounds like a sweet deal, will also write an article on it. Everyday there’s a new developed way to increase traffic to your blog.
This is another great and helpful idea every webmaster and blogger should consider.
Long tails is the key to working the trend market. For instance, if someone killed their wife and kids, focus on the name of the killer and the place where it happened. It sucks because it feels almost like you are exploiting to get traffic but that is how the big guys do it.
Personally, trend marketing is not really worth the time and energy you have to spend to do it (when I tried it, I was spending hours watching CNN and Fox News and writing sometimes 10 posts a day)…I got the volume but aren’t very targetable from a marketing standpoint so in essence you are doing shotgun marketing.
Finding what people are searching for is awesome… and if it’s a new topic, that means there is low competition.
No doubt that is really a great way to pull in so many visitors a day. Keep up the good work and keep publishing blogs like these, they really help survive on the internet.
Excellent post. Thanks Sucker for the tips.
that’s a wonderfully good tip.. i’ll go implemet it soon.
Thanks for the good info to help those of us trying to squeak out a living on the internet. Have to run them by the boss, but looks good!- Nate
i know about google trends but i forgot all about it. i don’t know if it would be good to plunge in and just post about any hot trend especially if you’re targeting a certain niche. it would turn off some of your loyal visitors.
This blog post is useless. All you recommend is writing blogs about hot Google search terms. Don’t you think people are already blogging about them because the topic is already hot? I mean I don’t even need to search Google to know that Obama is popular nowadays. It is highly likely that people already wrote about them before you even know it.
One more thing, it is funny to see all these people leaving ridiculous and short comments like “nice tip” just because your blog does not have no follow tag for comments. It just makes me sick
Great Post! Thank for the information I have been trying all week to remember this site and couldn’t figure it out.
Thanks again
The ebooks are already out there.
This is a good technique to get a rapid influx, but monetizing hot trend traffic is tough.
Nice idea. I did this with another technique a few months back and sure enough, it worked. The key thing is as you stated, timing.
I did make the same mistake:Choosing a key string outside of my niche. Big bounce rate!
Being sneaky is half of the battle for more website traffic ive also use the competitive intel.For my conversion of my traffic in my headlines lines, the best open rates come from:
A. Benefit Laden Subjects
B. Announcement-Based Subjects
C. Good News to the Reader Subjects
D. Fear-Based Subjects
E. Mysterious Subjects
The BEST open rate for an email that I ever got was whenthe subject said “Bad News”.
You said that lots of bloggers started writing about this topic, but I really haven’t read anything about it yet. And I am going start my own blog in near future, so this tips are definitely going to help me, thanks.
Those are really excellent tips for students like me learning the ins and outs of the trades.
This is a very useful post, great tips. But I’ve never heard of Google indexing new content so quickly. How do you get Google to index your content within a minute of publishing it?
@Columbus Movers
You need to publish useful content on a frequent basis so that Google thinks it is worthwhile to spider your site constantly.
Bonus Tip 1: Make Sure the Topic Matches Your Site
You’ve got that right. If I pick up on the latest political scandal, it’s boomtime, but if I try to target some celebrity crap, going after trends won’t earn me one single visit. My site also fits the rest of the profile you recommend. 3 years old. PR5. Spidered all the time. Updated daily.
Google knows my site is political, and won’t give any leniency towards other topics.
very great ideas. We love it!
We’ll try use your tips. Thanks again.
Great pieces of advices! I will also share them to all my friends.
Great tips! I want to give it a try.
Really Nice Tips. Thanks For Sharing The Tips for the Increasing the Traffic.
The Bonus Tips are great info. Thanks for the post, I will have to use these tips in the future!
Great tips..I always for get to do this…
Does anyone capitalize off PPC traffic like this too?
That’s could be gold too!
hmm I haven’t thought of this perennial Hot Terms. will sure start working on it asap. Thanks for the tips buddy
Great marking and observation, really no one even think about about unique funda of trends. great work
WOW, I have been in internet for a long time, but I have never thought about this google trend. Thank you very much.
This is one great article, now is the time I need some of those Power-Indexing tips!
Nice advice for those who has news-, politics-, technology-, celebrity-oriented blogs. A lot of people know th? advantages of Google Hot Trends but not much of them use it to its maximum.
I have never used hot trends, You have to have a lot of blogs, other way is hard to get realted topics.
Entertainment sites works really well in generating tons of traffic (and income). Thanks!
Good tip! I thought it will be another “how to get to the first page of digg” tutorial but I learnt something new here.
I just found this post and wanted to say that this method has worked really well for my niche sites. This is a great post and one that I will refer to in the future (save me writing it, lol).
Thanks for posting.
Karl
Almost gonna get a copy of it before I stumbled upon this post. Thanks for the insight! Will try out this before buying impulsively!
30,000 uniques more is impressive.. What an awesome tool, I have to check out this new google addition..
Bookmarked..!
That’s a good advice. Plus it may give you an idea for an awesome article. I approve.
Most people look at the top keywords and never do well. I wonder if people ask if you could get 1,000 hits to to your site or try for a year to get listed for top term and get 25,000 what would you do. take the traffic from lower keyword and make some money instead of trying for years to get listed on first page.
yes ofcourse.trends is a superb tool for bloggers !
Thanks for the tip……….nice tips
Very nice tips, i would say tips of the day
Tried your tips and our site traffic grow more and more daily! Thanks for your free site traffic tips.
Google trends can be actualy pretty useful tool but unless you have often updated site with a wide range of themes and subjects you’ll not be able to pull this trick off.
Internet ranking is definitely very important to a business. Thanks for the useful information!
That hot keywords from google, is what i was looking for and never heard of, you rock big time.
Thanks
thanks for sharing such great tip but 30,000 per days..isn’t it a little exaggerating
Hai,
Good tips.
Choosing a hot niche is not a problem.
How to get indexed by Google within minutes?
Because most of the hot trend keywords will die in few hours.
Please give some tips.
Ok, I gotta say that I have never seen anyone post all of this info together.
Great insight, thank you!
After reading this post, I’m just dreaming to have these many visitors on my blog. wow. Awesome tips. Hope to see more such informative posts from you. Thankyou
Great, i am trying this out. I too having a lot less visitors on my blog, lets hope for the best. Thanks a lot for this post.
Let me try this out. If it works for me, i’ll be very thankful to you
thanks for this 5 min post,people wanted it to make 30000 in one day,that awesome!
Yes, you are absolutely right. It will only work with the blog which is already popular among the Internet visitors. You should take it into consideration.
Great tips, thanks. I will try it soon in order to get more traffic
Thank you for these useful tricks. I think with these technique I will get a lot of new visitors soon.
“People type URLs into Google all the time”
THis is true, I just don’t know why they do it.
Google must love it !
well,till today i just read till 20000,but this one is about”30000 visitors” & more is that” he said {extra},great stuff buddy,i will try first then reply!
first. 300
then 1000
till 2000 but no” 30000″
& more-over in 5 min? my eyes are just look like$$$$$$$$$$$$
It is a nice post will definitely help me in increasing the traffic on my site so that i can increase my income from google…
Nice blog wih all the useful information. I did this with another technique a few months back and sure enough, it worked. The key thing is as you stated, timing.
I did make the same mistake:Choosing a key string outside of my niche. Big bounce rate!may be your technique will work…
well i have tried this trick on my blog and the result is not thousands uniques in a day but yes it did boost my traffic a lot.
How sad that “Hot trends” only works for searches in English, it would have been fun seeing what “Hot trends” is in a small country like Denmark.
What an awesome idea! I am off to try the same thing right now.
Sweet. Thanks for the tips. You have a really good point…the owner’s view isn’t necessarily the view of the rest of the site’s visitors.
Great tips!
I didn’t know about google hot trends before reading this. I have done a bit of research about keywords related to my site. I think they will prove quite helpful in earning some extra revenue.
Well, nice tips, but it depends on what you want to do with these extra visitors. For example, if adsense revenue is the purpose, then its ok, but if affiliate marketing is what you are interested in, then no, the aforementioned won’t help.
I NEVER THI UPTO TILL YET,BUT AFTER I TRY THIS ONE! I REACH THERE WHERE I CAN NEVR BE IMAGINE,I WANA TO MEET SOME-DAY TO GIVE YOU TREAT BUDDY$$$$$
I really appericiate your ideas & i am totally with it.Lovely blog …it is really helpful. I would want to thank the author for writing this article.
I would reccomand this to you, these are very helpful.
I tried it a few days back and it really worked in my blog but the highest I got in one day was 3680 hits, not bad considering that before I tried this trick, my blog was limping at 25 hits a day. But it is not everyday that you get lucky, there are days that it is slow but at leat there is a very good improvement in traffic. Thanks a lot for this tip.
Thanks a lot for this tip, I’ll try it with my blog
YOU REALLY MAKE”MY LIFE 5 MINUTES SPECIAL$$$$$$”,BY GIVING ME ENOUGH TUTORIAL TO GOT CASH TODAY!
This idea works great unless you’re using Google Adsense, in which case running thousands of people to your site will only crash your CTR.
Im building my blog up right now and once it starts getting indexed quicker *crosses fingers* Im gonna use this asap!
I hope i can get more visitor using this tactic..
Will implement shortly. can’t wait my statistic look like the pics u use on post ;D
Tha is great article on getting traffic (not quality traffic) using Google hot trends.
that’s really good tips but someday we hard to find any topics that match our our blogs.
Yeah. I agree. Just too time consuming.
Hey with the help of your post attracting traffic to your page has started to appear to be so simple. Thanks for sharing these innovative ways.
that’s really good tips but someday we hard to find any topics that match our our blogs.
Great post and practice, i’d try the way you told me.
This really costs a lot of time. Who know the ROI, i bet i need to find a valuable affiliate program, not juet google adsense.
Okay how do you do this so called Google Trends to pick out a good niche….can someone explain that process to me? I read it alot on WF but i really don’t understand how that works as all I see are peoples names on the list.
When I saw the headline of this article, I immediately thought it was another scam. But I am glad I took the time to read the article because this has some great ideas. This idea could also work for somewhat established websites, so this shouldn’t just be limited to blogging. But I want to add this:
Don’t go after any traffic. Go after “relevant” traffic, otherwise you will gain useless traffic to your site, and what is the point of that? You can’t make money off of non relevant traffic.
What a great idea, and you are exactly right the key here is to chose a relevant topic to your blog, or quickly create a new blog and use this method to start driving traffic to. The main thing would be that if you cant get indexed quickly then your time could very well be wasted. With Google insights it shows the breakout terms that could also be used in a similar case.
Excellent post.Thanks for the great tips.
Nice tips, but online newspapers always get firsts places
Being as new as I am into this whole SEO thing, I’ve never tried Google Trends. I’ve heard about it before but never really knew how to use it.
My blog is relatively new but I work on it everyday and I look up to people like you that post helpful things like this. Thanks again!
as a small time web designer knowing the power of blogs .. if this works it’s amazing …
Hey , its really nice post for some one new to this business but i have one concern if i post something irrelevant but in hot topic in Google Trend than it will heart my site reputation.
@Flash
If you start posting random articles that don’t apply to your regular readers/visitors, they may lose interest and quit visiting your site.
So tread carefully.
This is an interesting way to get massive visitors. But trends may change as quickly as they started so this technique may bring the huge traffic but only for the period the trend is hot.
This is really great post; you have opened the door to get huge traffic. I was not at all aware of this technique; let me try this to make more money from my blog.