Trends Blogging
Posted 15th October 2009 at 10:46 AM by bgmacaw
Trends blogging is the technique of posting about the latest trends that people are searching for on Google. You can do this on just about any blog if you’re creative enough although it's generally best to do this with a wider niche or general purpose blog than with a narrowly defined niche blog.
The number one place to find the trends you should write about is the Google Trends search engine. All you have to do is pick a topic and write about it and, most of the time, you'll rank well and get traffic from that term. This is because Google loves to give new content on a hot topic a boost to the top.
If you need some ideas on what to write about, just go to the current top trending sites, read what they have to say and regurgitate it enough to make it unique to your blog. By having the content unique you'll tend to push your site ahead of scrappers and aggregators who're merely copying, especially if your blog already has a level of authority in Google's eyes.
Overall, the basic strategy is simple. You just find a hot trend and write a simple, keyword rich, post about it. This will usually result in a quick hit of traffic, anywhere from a few hundred to a few thousand in a matter of hours.
While this traffic isn’t always that easy to monetize, just by pulling in the numbers you can improve your chance for making money with Pay-Per-Click advertising such as Adsense or Chitika or CPA affiliate offers. After all, even relatively untargeted search traffic from Google is better than no search traffic at all.
But, what can you do to put yourself ahead of the curve? Where can you find these trends ahead of time?
One observation I’ve made comes from watching TV. Whenever something happens on a popular TV show, a lot of people start searching for it. They'll search for some odd disease on House or ER, a location featured on The Amazing Race, a bit of music heard on Lost, a fat loss method discussed on Oprah, the results of some reality show and so forth. This kind of traffic is really nice because you'll get hits on your site during the show and for about 24-48 hours afterward for that term. Plus, you learn to love reruns because the search pattern will start all over again. You can get the time edge on these shows by checking show websites, spoiler blogs and forums and general entertainment and news media sites like TMZ, Now Public and Media Hits.
Another way to get ahead of the curve is to find newly announced products. You can then write a blog post or even an entire niche blog around that product. By the time the product is actually released to the general public, your article or site has age and links. This means that you will already be recognized by Google as an authority on the subject and will often result in your site getting a good initial surge of search traffic as well as having ongoing search engine traffic. Even better, this traffic will tend to monetize well.
If you take the time to look, you’ll locate those trendy topics that you can use to drive search traffic to your site.
The number one place to find the trends you should write about is the Google Trends search engine. All you have to do is pick a topic and write about it and, most of the time, you'll rank well and get traffic from that term. This is because Google loves to give new content on a hot topic a boost to the top.
If you need some ideas on what to write about, just go to the current top trending sites, read what they have to say and regurgitate it enough to make it unique to your blog. By having the content unique you'll tend to push your site ahead of scrappers and aggregators who're merely copying, especially if your blog already has a level of authority in Google's eyes.
Overall, the basic strategy is simple. You just find a hot trend and write a simple, keyword rich, post about it. This will usually result in a quick hit of traffic, anywhere from a few hundred to a few thousand in a matter of hours.
While this traffic isn’t always that easy to monetize, just by pulling in the numbers you can improve your chance for making money with Pay-Per-Click advertising such as Adsense or Chitika or CPA affiliate offers. After all, even relatively untargeted search traffic from Google is better than no search traffic at all.
But, what can you do to put yourself ahead of the curve? Where can you find these trends ahead of time?
One observation I’ve made comes from watching TV. Whenever something happens on a popular TV show, a lot of people start searching for it. They'll search for some odd disease on House or ER, a location featured on The Amazing Race, a bit of music heard on Lost, a fat loss method discussed on Oprah, the results of some reality show and so forth. This kind of traffic is really nice because you'll get hits on your site during the show and for about 24-48 hours afterward for that term. Plus, you learn to love reruns because the search pattern will start all over again. You can get the time edge on these shows by checking show websites, spoiler blogs and forums and general entertainment and news media sites like TMZ, Now Public and Media Hits.
Another way to get ahead of the curve is to find newly announced products. You can then write a blog post or even an entire niche blog around that product. By the time the product is actually released to the general public, your article or site has age and links. This means that you will already be recognized by Google as an authority on the subject and will often result in your site getting a good initial surge of search traffic as well as having ongoing search engine traffic. Even better, this traffic will tend to monetize well.
If you take the time to look, you’ll locate those trendy topics that you can use to drive search traffic to your site.
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