Google Trends is a useful Google proprietary online tools for webmaster or bloggers. With Google Trends you can compare the world’s interest in your selected topics up to 5 keywords. It also shows how frequently your keywords have appeared in Google News stories, and in which geographic regions people have searched for them most. There are few indicators for your reference such as the trend it self, search volume and regions and the new feature called Google Trends for Website which you can use to see the trends of a website traffic.

So what is this tool for and how can you utilize it for your blogging activities?

What is the topic of your blog post? Do you have any considerations when choosing the topic of your blog post or you just write anything you like. Actually there’s nothing wrong with that. But if you want to use keywords to drive traffic to your blog, there are few things you need to consider. One of them is the power of search engine which is so efficient in driving traffic to your blog. But the question is how? One of the method that you can do is to use “most wanted” or “top search” keywords on your blog post.

There are many tools you can use but i recommend to try Google Trends. Recently i searched for couple of keywords to see how Google pattern their trend. From these keywords i found that “blogger template” or “blogger templates” and “wordpress theme” or “wordpress themes” have made a significant growth in the last couple of months.