Hurricane Gustav which I picked up from google trends, as I’ve said for the past day or so has been a great keyword, and my site’s not even about weather related topics.

Jamie Meredith from OurBlogThing, asked to see some more detailed stats and perhaps some graphs, so here’s some of my stats from Google Analytics, this is really just the first few pages… as it has the most frequent traffic stats for the past few days since I started this experiment. The image is at the very bottom of this post – just click on it to make it bigger- as you can see from the pic, I did pretty well, without really exerting a lot of effort, it’s not like I wrote a 10 page article on hurricane gustav, it might’ve been 3 paragraphs.

“hurricane gustav track” 65 hits
“gustav track” 43 hits
“vancouver earthquake” 37 hits
“tropical storm hanna” 25 hits
“tropical storm hannah” 21 hits
“hurricane hannah 2008″ 19 hits
“mackenzie phillips” 15 hits
“hannah hurricane” 14 hits
“hurricane gustav” 12 hits
“hurricane gustav latest update” 11 hits
“latest update on hurricane gustav” 11 hits
“latest gustav track” 6 hits
“latest on hurricane gustav” 6 hits
“updates on hurricane gustav” 6 hits
“hanna hurricane” 5 hits
“hurricane hannah” 5 hits
“latest update on hurricane gustav” 5 hits
“latest updates on gustav” 5 hits
“gustav latest track” 4 hits
“track hurricane gustav” 4 hits
“hurricane gustav latest” 3 hits
“hurricane gustav latest updates” 3 hits
“latest updates of gustav” 3 hits
“storm hannah” 3 hits
“vancouver earthquake august 2008″ 3 hits
“hanna hurricane 2008″ 2 hits
“hanna+hurricane” 2 hits
“latest info on hurricane gustav” 2 hits.

“Hurricane Gustav” = 118 Hits total

“Hurricane Hannah” = 96 hits total

“Vancouver Earthquake” = 40 hits

“mackenzie phillips” = 15 hits

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The past few days I’ve been experimenting with google trends.

Google trends are hot topics of the moment. I wrote one tiny post using the keyword phrase Hurricane Gustav track, and have gotten about 500 hits in two days.

Not too shabby, I can always use more traffic, and I have impression based advertisers who pay me for each view of my website, which is nice.

I was quite amazed at this technique myself, as I never expected it to be this valuable.

The more amazing thing is the fact that I was also able to round up about 35 new subscribers overnight. I didn’t think the traffic would be that sticky but apparently I’ve got myself some new readers.

I’m definitely going to be using google trends more and more to bring in more quality traffic, and keep you posted on the outcome.

One note- Hurricane gustav is still bringing in a lot of traffic, my advice would be to write a blog post about Hurricane Gustav track, and see how much traffic you get from it.

On a side note -I do feel bad for those in the path of Hurricane Gustav, and making money off a hurricane isn’t that great, but they’re used to hurricanes and if I went through something like Hurricane Katrina, there’s no way I’d move back to the gulf coast region. My thoughts and prayers are definitely with the people down there.

Lets hope Hurricane Gustav proves to be a let down as far as hurricanes go..

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Google Trends update:

Yesterday I mentioned delving into google trends as a way to bring new traffic.

Yesterday I wrote a post about Mackenzie Phillips, Del  Martin Dieing, and Hurricane Gustav track. Each of these topics were at that point in the top 5 google trends.

I know I planned to write 25 posts on google trends topics, however I had some errands to run offline and was unable to get back on – don’t worry I’ll be doing a lot more of these.

I found out that it’s a very wise thing to do, in fact I’m thinking about instituting a trendy wednesday. Every wednesday I’ll focus my efforts on google trends topics.

The results have been astounding – I got 131 hits to one blog post on hurricane gustav. All these hits were either from google search or google blog search, which definitely proves that the point is valid, perhaps if I’d worked on a longer post with more mentions of hurricane gustav I would’ve ranked even higher.

At any case this does prove something pretty remarkable, and that I’m going to be delving a lot deeper into, over the coming weeks.

Stay tuned for further updates on google trends.

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You know, this project of using google trends is seeming to be harder than I thought, I really don’t know what to say about hurricane gustav track. Plus I’m running out of time, so I may need to continue the experiment tomorrow. Rest assured though I will get to the bottom of the mystery on how to use google trends to build traffic.

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