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If you look at Google Trends the same way you approach Clickbank reviews, you will not have problem setting up a Squidoo lens based on a specific keyword or keyword phrase. Google Trends is a free tool offered by Google Labs that charts the popularity of searched terms based on almost minute by minute data updates. It charts how often a particular keyword or keyword phrase is searched on and brings together some pretty sophisticated analytics to show you in almost real time what people are looking for. It offers visual representation via graphs the volume of searches on a particular tool or between two search terms. It is based on popularity is broken down by region, city and language. It is possible to refine the main graph by region and time period.

There are seasonal search terms, searches on popular figures and everything that is breaking news globally. People who died, movie stars, politicians, oddities and the like – any thing that is searched for is quantified in Google trends.

What does this mean for a Squidoo affiliate marketer?

You are essentially looking at a potential goldmine, delivered on an hourly basis. You know what people are looking for not days after they’ve searched for something, but hours afterwards. This opens up some really incredible possibilities. If you found, for instance, that there was a hot trend for Elvis memorabilia, in particular an Elvis poster or T-shirt, you could set up a Squidoo lens in under 30 minutes and offer an affiliate product that fit that trend. Squidoo is indexed at lightening speeds and your search engine ranking on various low competition keywords would get you near the top of the Google search results. A successful affiliate marketer puts themselves in the path of oncoming traffic.

Google Hot Trends are seasonal, news-driven and fad popular

Knowing that people usually “Google” what they’re already interested in, just heard about or are excited about, you can offer them what they’re looking for quickly and easily just by following Google Trends. On average, it takes about 30 minutes to write enough content to put up a decent Squidoo lens and the products are available both through Squidoo’s setup and through the myriad of affiliate programs and networks out there.

The possibilities are staggering. Even if every affiliate marketer tried to keep up with Google Trends, there would be more than enough room to make everybody involved wealthy. Google Trends upgrades every hour on the hour with new trends, new keywords and keyword phrases. It’s just a matter of being there, building lenses and inserting relevant and useful affiliate products. It used to be you had to guess at what people were thinking. Now, with the introduction of this new technology, you’ve just got to follow the trends at www.google.com/trends. It’s just that easy.

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Posted on November 17th, 2008 by W.B.P.S. Marketing Tips
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