Friday, June 20, 2008

Google Trends for Websites

Google has just updated its Google Trends application to allow trend spotting by domain name. The new feature allows the same capabilities from the keyword trend search, but adds the ability to view trends by domain name.

The difference comes in the stats. When searching by keyword, the chart graphs search volume index. In the website section, it graphs daily unique visitors (a number I assume it grabs from search result clicks, not Google Analytics).

Under the graph, the extra stats show "Regions" of the search taking place (just as the keyword search does), but it replaces "city" and "languages" with "Also visited" and "Also searched for." So it is like a cross between Google Webmaster Tools and Google Trends.

Check it out at:
http://trends.google.com/

1 thoughts:

Ron said...

I liked using it as an opportunity to show "higher ups" who our 'real' competitors were versus the ones in their mind.