I just saw a post on the official Google blog talking about their new Hot Trends search page.
Here’s yet another research tool to tell you what people are looking for right here, right now. Or yesterday or the day before if you care to go back in time.
Admittedly, most of the results won’t be anything most people will create a web site for, or even be able to monetize if they did, but occasionally I suspect you’ll find something that will be interesting that you can promote or design a page for.
You never know what’s going to get hot overnight. I might have told the story here before, if I did I apologize, but I think I just might have told it more privately. In any event, I had a page go crazy a couple years ago, I know it was May 15th because it was on my son’s birthday, I think it was 2 years ago, whenever the latest Star Wars movie was about to come out.
Out of nowhere I had 10’s of thousands of hits on a single page on one of my sites. All those people were looking for Star Wars t-shirts, and my page was ranked #1 on Yahoo at the time. Normally I would get a few hits a day, on that day it exploded.
That’s why I advise people to build VRE (virtual real estate), the more pages you get out there, the more opportunities you have for serendipitous events to occur.
The Star Wars hit wasn’t the only time I’ve been fortunate, and it won’t be the last.
Anyway, check out the Hot Trends page, and start thinking about how current trends will enable you to predict future ones, and profit from them.
Tags: Business Ideas, google hot trends, Internet Marketing ideas, SEO and Traffic
