OK, here we go, my first real contribution to this forum. This method is nothing new, but it can produce great results. I first came across this about a year ago from the great "Waggers" @ Warrior Forum. I implemented it, put my own spin on it and have had some successes. The concept is Google Trends. Google Trends gives the 100 most searched for stories on the internet for the previous hour. Now if it is being searched for and has made it's way into google trends, you can pretty much guarantee there is a hell of a lot of interest! I usually do this 2 or 3 times a month, just when i'm bored or need a little break from my main niches. The 3 most successful stories i have found are:- March - Leann Rimes Affair April - Battlestar Galactica Final Episode May - Katie Price (Jordan) & Peter Andre Split Up OK, i came across these subjects on Google Trends on the day that they were happening. I went over to blogger and wrote in my own words the breaking news story. I added pictures and also went to Wikepedia for information to produce a factfile of the "star". Monetize your blog, adsense/kontera/adbrite, whatever you want. I usually also find an affiliate product, for Leann Rimes, i added an Mp3 download product from Clickbank and for the other 2 stories i found relevant amazon products. Social Bookmark your blog at:- - Digg - Mixx - StumbleUpon - Reddit - Propeller - Delicious - Twitter Ping your blog at:- - Pingoat - Ping-o-matic - Pingler - PingMyBlog Add tracking software to your blog, either google analytics or statcounter, go and have a cup of coffee, find something else to do and watch your results! Now, you may not be successful everytime, but i have a 1 in 3 success rate. So out of every 3 of these i do, 2 totally bomb, but 1 makes me money. My most successful google trends blog to date was the Leann Rimes one, wait for it.... In 24 hours, my blog received 19,551 hits. I removed adsense after an hour (i got scared of the amount of hits i was getting) and replaced it with kontera and adbrite ads. The blog died and stop receiving visitors by the following evening. However over a total of around 30 hours, this produced $5.58 in adsense, $12.11 in kontera, $19.06 in adbrite and 2 sales of the clickbank product (2 x $18.29 = $36.58). So my total = $73.33 Now i know this is not the usual do 10 minutes work and earn $10,987,543 that most e-books profess to be able to help you achieve, however, if you have never made any money or have a spare half and hour on your hands, i urge you to go and check out Google Trends. Cheers
This looks like something that could actually work. Thanks for sharing this method. Can you tell me few more things? Like, do you make a new blog for each trend, or you have one collective blog where you just write the post related to actual trend? How many posts do you write for this purpose on average? Do you continue to work on some blog if the trend remains on the top?
Good tips for people that might not be too familiar with Google Trends... Don't forget to develop some Hubpages or Squidoo lenses on your topic as well. If you have an RSS feed for your blog, think about adding an RSS module to your Web 2.0 pages as well. A hot topic and a well-written lens on Squidoo can help to generate some revenue by itself, as well as drive traffic to your blog! Thanks for the tips!
Very interesting, thanks for sharing! I'm going to test this out right after I finish watching cartoons ;P
Hi guys, sorry for the delay in replying, just been on holiday for a week! I did try a collective blog of google trends, but in my opinion it works better making a new blog for each separate google trend. Your blog is more SEO friendly. I have used squidoo for this as well and that worked fairly well too. I find what works best is just write a short report and if the trend is about a certain famous person go to wikipedia and write a short bio. Usually just one quick blog post. This is a quick method to use when you have half an hour to spare. Apart from bookmarking and pinging you don't have to do anything to drive traffic. I have made some blogs where i didn't get any visitors at all, but some blogs have had 1000s of visitors in just a few hours. Cheers James
Sweet! Nice one James! I have read a lot about google trends but nothing I read before actual explained how you get traffic in that short period of time and about monetisation techniques. I'm going to keep my eyes peeled and ears to the ground so hopefully I can take advantage of this!
You can get the edge by posting breaking news when it happens. Blogs can get posts indexed in minutes and so you can really see big results and the "major sites" don't usually publish the story till the next day. Of course, the problem is that entertainment/news etc doesn't exactly monetise all that well.
Thanks for posting this. I have used Google Trends but have never taken it further than a post. Will try and incorporate some of your ideas. gave you a rep
this is a great method but you have to be one of the first persons to try to monetize on it because competition gets steep really fast.
but i think blogspot blogs is not allowed in some social bookmarks sites.... example digg. am i right?
Thanks for sharing such a great tip. I just want to know is blogger recommended... or wordpress or any other blogging thing will do as well?
Digg does allow Blogger bookmarking. You can use any blog theme you like, i just use blogger as it's quick and easy. Some of things you may wish to try over the next week or so:- - Champions League Final - FA Cup Final - Susan Boyle and Britains Got Talent - UK Big Brother - NCAA 2009 college baseball i guess you may also be able to use CPA offers to monetize! Cheers James