Google Trends – A bloggers friend

Wednesday, April 7th, 2010 at 8:50 am

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

wordpresstrends

wordpressregions

wordpresslanguage

For WordPress themes

themestrend

themeregions

themelanguages

Finally for WordPress plugins

plugintrends

pluginregion

pluginlanguage

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.

About the author

Mike Paetzold got started blogging in 2003 and has become an expert on using WordPress. He has become known as The WordPress Guy.

After being an under ground niche marketer using his blogs he has surfaced to share some of the ways he uses blogs to enter various niches profitably.

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