Jumping on Keywords When they are Hot
Posted by Michael D Jensen on January 30th, 2007
Recently a big story hit the news about Google modifying their algorithm to fix googlebombing. When news hit, my first instinct was to start buying PPC ads for classic googlebombing phrases, like miserable failure. It was a good instinct, as we got some decent traffic from our market audience who, just like me, needed to see it for themselves in the search results.
I wasn’t the only one that started advertising, as there was at least one other company that had an ad up on Google. And interestingly, Rand posted about predicting search queries over the weekend.
A very similar situation happened to me a few months ago after Aaron Wall posted about the keyword “trust rank” and how it wasn’t being utilized at all by PPC campaigns (can’t find the post, sorry Aaron). Being the thinker I am, I created a page about Trust Rank as well as Page Rank, and then created a simple PPC ad and put it up. Minutes later…traffic. Not a whole lot, but definitely traffic from our market audience.
Being able to predict search queries would be fantastic. However, I think being observant (reading blogs, talking with people, being attentive in your audience’s shoes) will keep you in the game and help you to catch search terms quicker than others. This not only applies to PPC, but also to blogging, where if you can get to your audience before other communities do, then you’re more likely to get further credit when they blog or comment.
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1. Andy Beard | January 30th, 2007 at 8:38 am
One thing that you can pick up on is related searches to a hot topic.
As an example, I gain daily traffic for things related to Google CSE and monetization, even though I haven’t got any in depth content on the subject.
2. Michael D Jensen | January 30th, 2007 at 4:32 pm
Great thought Andy. Do you do keyword research just like you would on your own/client’s site? or do you just think/look out for related searches?
3. Andy Beard | January 30th, 2007 at 4:46 pm
Call it intuition
Every new service that is launched, people are going to want to know how to make money from it.
Also if you use tagging extensively, you are more likely to get the attention of the people using the service.
They are all out there monitoring the response in the blogging community, and you can often get links from the company blog right on release if you write some good content with a unique perspective.
Being on lots of email lists helps in pre-positioning for product related content, and using meme trackers often allows you to pick up hot topics a lot earlier than you might in a slow caching feed reader.
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