Google Trends – A bloggers friend
Every so often I take some time to go through the topics that I write about through some of the Google tools. Just finished a series on using Webmaster Tools.
Today I figured to go do some research in Google Trends on the topics I wrote about here regularly. I started with the three major ones – WordPress, WordPress themes, WordPress plugins.
Found a very interesting fact that has caused me to add a new plugin here. Not sure how it will work but this is a good example of how you can find things using trends you might overlook.
First lets look at what I found.
For WordPress
For WordPress themes
Finally for WordPress plugins
The part that made me feel good was that all of the trends for these topics are going up. As those are some of my primary topics that I write about regularly it will pay me to continue.
The part that caught my attention is that English and the North American region are not the biggest draw any more. These topics have tilted to a much more south east Asia and Indonesian is by far the most popular language choice.
So it is time to look at the translation plugins and get my information available in other languages if I want to get as much traffic as possible.
The other big thing that I know from playing with some of the various language translators is that I need to be aware of using slang that won’t translate well.
The latter is probably a good thing to be aware of even if you are not using translation software as some terms mean totally different things in the US, Great Britain and Australia even though all are “English”.
Testing the Global Translator plugin but if anyone has a good resource for translating pages would love to hear from you.
Take advantage of trends for all of your blog topics as it is a great tool for bloggers and you may be surprised at what you find out.
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7 comments
Abi Carmen
Twitter: http://emeraldpaymentsolutions.com
on April 7, 2010 at 10:25 am
Mike, Excellent article as usual.
I have been using Global Translator on most of my blogs and it seems to work great with one big minus. The cache (gt-cache) seems to continuously build up the files and with 25+ domains on each of my hosting accounts, Bluehost got bent out of shape last week and told me that I have over 200K files and I am limited to 50K.(most due to GT)
Are there any recommendations for a Translator that doesn’t keep all the translations forever or am I missing something in GT to remove these files after a certain period?
Thanks,
Abi
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Mike
Twitter: thewpmaven
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April 7th, 2010 at 10:28 am
That was one of my concerns about using it when reading through the directions. I will continue to be looking and hopefully others have ideas they are willing to share.
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Andre Arnett on April 7, 2010 at 6:35 pm
This is pretty interesting and I will be paying close attention to your results. it sounds like it has a lot of potential. thanks for the heads up.
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Joel Osborne
Twitter: JoelOsborne
on April 7, 2010 at 9:15 pm
Yes, I have noticed that as well (other languages/countries). That’s a good idea to use a translator plugin. With faster and more internet technology reaching all over the whole, we will keep seeing these numbers rise.
This is a great example of knowing your market. Markets change… what was one way 5 years ago isn’t necessarily the same today.
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Sparrow on May 4, 2010 at 7:29 pm
Hi Mike,
The Google Global translator was a disaster on my shared server.
I used Xenu to assess my URL load. Xenu reported 84,000 URL’s of which the vast majority were translated pages.
I had to go through the laborious task of creating a new robots.txt to disallow language files and using Googles webmaster tools to de-index the language files.
After that I deleted the GT-cache for the plugin. There were about 70,000 files totaling 2.7 GB.
My website is now more acceptable to my web host, runs faster and the deletion does not seem to have affected my traffic much.
I now am testing Google AJAX Translation which does not appear to cache results.
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dhyar
Twitter: twitter
on June 14, 2010 at 12:16 am
I looking script or plugin wordpress for build in gtrend to post. I think that will boost my traffic. Anyone know about this?
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CB 600 F on June 16, 2010 at 10:46 pm
@Dhyar, try to search wptrends in google, you will find wp trends, the wp plugin will post newest google trends to your wordpress blog
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