How to find popular keywords? What are people searching for?
Posted On Sunday, November 18, 2007 at at 6:28 AM by Eddie
One of the best ways to draw traffic to your site is to drag your search rankings high on a popularly searched keyword. It is hard to find the popular keywords, as they change from day to day (a little like the "most paid keywords" from adsense) but some things like "harry potter" and "ufc" always dominate the top of the charts. Here is how you can find out what people are searching for in a variety of search engines.
+ Google Trends: Allows you to tap into Google's database of searches, to determine what's popular. View the volume of queries over time, by city, regions, languages and so on. Compare multiple terms, as well. See our review: Google Trends: Peer Into Google's Database Of Searches.
+ Google Zeitgeist: What people are searching for at Google and its associated specialty services in a variety of categories. There are versions for various countries, as well.
+ AOL Hot Searches: Top current queries, or see those in the last hour, last day and within particular categories.
+ Ask IQ: See top searches at Ask.
+ Dogpile SearchSpy: Choose to see either a filtered or non-filtered sample of top, real-time search terms from this popular meta search service. Sister site MetaCrawler offers a similar MetaCrawler MetaSpy service.
+ Lycos 50: Long-standing service showing top searches at Lycos each week.
+ Yahoo Buzz Index: Shows you what's hot and what's not in terms of search topics at Yahoo.
That's all for now folks, good luck promoting (and/or monetizing) your website!
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