Abusing Google Trends – Unethical blogging

February 22, 2008

in Blogging

Google Trends Snapshot

I stumbled upon the website BlogFlux today and found myself reading a blog titled Jehzlau Concepts. I found one of the articles very interesting about how to increase rank on your blog even if you don’t post often. You should check out the article.

The article says that a great way to get traffic is by riding many small, short waves of web popularity by using the cool tool, Google Trends, that shows you what people are searching for NOW. Not 10 minutes ago, but what is hot right now. For instance, today Google Trends shows that J-Lo had twins, a teacher sent illicit pics to students, the Philadelphia airport has delays, and there’s a Star Trek collection tour.

The post is very interesting, and the concept is intreaguing. Yes, it’s a great way to get some quick traffic to your blog, and depending on what you’re trying to achieve with your website, it might be right for you. I can see it working for a website whose revenue is based on quanitity, not quality of leads. 

For some specialized industry, using Google Trends for industry news is great, but posting for the traffic alone, without any real interest, I believe it is unethical and a waste of time. That is, unless you’re a Star Trek fan…

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{ 3 comments… read them below or add one }

Jehzeel Laurente February 23, 2008 at 5:37 am

wow thanks for the comment :)

btw, I’m not abusing google trends, I’m just sharing what I learned :)

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dannybuntu February 24, 2008 at 4:03 am

Jehz, oh it’s you! I keep bumping into you. OMG you SEO specialist! Now I am here and you are here too. The force is with you man. The force is with you.

Oh, btw, hi Katz, I like Clinton too, but I think Obama will win. Simply because Clinton has too much “Clinton” in her blood.

Old Politics vs. New politics. People want change!

BTW I am not american and I am not in america. Butttt, see i know about the issues!

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John February 27, 2008 at 6:03 am

try checking Macuha.com, it’s worse than jehzlau.

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