Damn Garry,

Another awesome tip.

I’ll go try it right now.

Thanx man!

-Garry, We both appeared on the Trends front page for the Walmart Black Friday Ad today (great job) and I received over 80 visitors today for this post Walmart Black Friday Ad , what always impresses me is how you take little tips like this and use them to your advantage.

Well clearly it works as demonstrated by you and David, but the times I’ve been there the search terms are rather bizarre: “omen threat meter”, “wow auctioneer”, “bagnon”, and my personal favorite, “man marries dog”. LOL

I suppose if I knew what those were, I’d be better off. As of right now, one of them makes sense and that’s similar to what you two are referring: “black friday sales”. So I suppose the moral of the story is to simply monitor the thing and pick out what makes sense.

You know, this may sound weird, but I don’t use iGoogle. LOL That said and with the benefit this little gadget can afford me, then I think I’m going to give it a go. Thanks for the tip, buddy!

Hehe…just Google. LOL

Like Yahoo Buzz? Thanks for the tip. It’s time to use use iGoogle.

Hey great tips! Now I know what to blog about looking at the demand in searches

Garry, haha, I just typed in Google- Okay first thanks for the tip on the igadget, I knew about trends but not that gadget. Here’s a tip, try using Yahoo! Buzz, it’s just like Google Trends.

-homemom3, I use Yahoo Buzz and Hot Trends, it is interesting to compare as they are really different.
-Gary & Mark - I don’t use the iGoogle, I have it setup, I just don’t use it. Probably more because I use multiple computers each day, everything I do I want to access from different PC’s. I subscribe to the RSS of Google Hot Trends and Yahoo Buzz.

PS: #2 this morning so far on Trends. If you have a Golf Blog, you could write an article on this.

“who was the youngest to win the pga title”

Oh David, you’re good! Thanks!

How to change the region settings ?
I want to know the trends for the italian language.

ciao
alexander

P.S.: Fantastic, every day I learn a new thing with you Gary and David. Incredible, I’ve no more time to do my normal office job….

Hey Garry, not sure if it does this for everyone but I’m appearing under #6 on google trends (Ohio Gas Station Ghost). I’ll let ya know later if I get much traffic from it. I hadn’t tried this is several months so now I can do a comparison from before.

@homemom3:
I’d be interested in knowing when you posted using that keyword phrase so we can get an idea of how long something like this takes.

@Garry and David:
Perhaps you can shed some light on this as well. If I’m not mistaken, it all comes down to when your blog is crawled. So for those of us who are visited by the spiders on a frequent basis (read: daily), I suppose we just have to sit back and wait. And if that’s the case, then that begs the question, “how do I train the spiders to visit me more often?” if there is such a thing. Perhaps blogging frequency is the key? (hmmm, sounds like an idea for a post, Garry. )

Mark it was less than two hours ago but within 20 minutes of it being live it hit google trends.

David- I had never thought of RSSing them, thanks for the tip.

Garry- Almost daily I get an error thing when reading your comments. I wasn’t going to say anything but the hubby told me that ya might want to know in case others were experiencing it too. I can read the main page but it’s when I click to read the entire thing or the comments that I have the issue and like I said not EVERY time.

Yes it says internet explorer could not open internet site gives this web address http://www.garryconn.com/google-hot-trends-can-make-you-money.php and states Operation aborted.

Hi Garry,

Thanks for the great tips you and Dave provide. Also, I am experiencing the same issue as homemom3 when I check out your comments section from Google Reader. I refresh the page after the error appears and the screen blanks out and then it re-loads properly without the error occuring again.

~J

-Mark, in this case the crawling is not really the key since you can be on the main page with a blog post. Blog post do not rely on crawling. So, you can write a post, 5 or 10 minutes later you can be listed there. As far as training those spiders, thats a whole nutter story, lol…

Garry and I talked earlier and believe it is coding and those of us that deal with internet explorer, hopefully someone knows what’s going on and can help him.

Mark, not sure if I’m still on that google page or not, however I have received over 400 visitors from it.

@homemom3:
Thanks for the update. I must have missed the boat on one of the terms I posted about this morning. I used the exact wording, a couple of times even, and I’m not showing up in the results. Maybe it’s my blog is too young? I’m at a loss.

Uuuh… Gary, it seems we just found two (homemom3 and Jason) of the 20% of your readers which not already use Firefox !

Do you remember where that incredible downloadpage for the best browser of the web was ?

LOL

ciao
alexander (aka as Mr. Firefox)

@David, I guess I’m missing something.
Which home page are you talking about ?
On google.com I don’t see any blog posts..

ciao
alex

-Alex, I thought we were talking about Hot Trends, and I was referring to the Hot Trends page, and showing up there after doing a post. If you do a post for a Hot Trend item, and you never show up, your blog needs some more work.

@David
A apart the fact that I blog in italian language and that (as far as I know) Google Trends is not available in italian (in fact there is writen “Google Hot Trends (USA)“), it would be interesting to know from where Google catches this hot trends (Technorati, digg, … ?), because knowing that, we can optimize our strategies to jump on the running train of the hot trend.
ciao
alex

-Alex, Hot Trends are based on the top searches from Google. They explain it here.

David said:
“-Mark, in this case the crawling is not really the key since you can be on the main page with a blog post. Blog post do not rely on crawling.”
AND
“If you do a post for a Hot Trend item, and you never show up, your blog needs some more work.”
For example what I have to do ?
ciao
alex

I think we got off track a little. And I may have mis commmunicated what I am saying. All of my comments were talking about the MAIN PAGE of Hot Trends. I have sites too that I can write a perfect post on a Hot Trends item and not make the front page of Trends. I have other sites that get there quick. It depends on all the other aspects such as age and how good your SEO on the Blog is. Hope that clarifies this.