Can’t find anything to blog about?  Still looking for the visitors you were sure you would get with your “Britney Shaves Head” post?  If you blog has a niche, it can be tough to keep up with posting every day.  One thing that I have done in the past is keep an eye on Google Trends (www.google.com/trends).

Google Trends keeps an eye on the latest searches that are piling up on the internet.  Updated every 15 minutes or so, you can catch the latest searched topics quite easily.  I have used this tactic in the past to catch key news items or tech items for my HiTech Blogger blog.  If you don’t see anything relevant to your blog in the TOP 20, don’t worry, you can look into the TOP 100 also.  Even if you find something in the 100th position, there are still more searches for that topic than most other topics on your blog to begin with.

It may not be very good traffic, but it is targeted without a doubt.  Here is the list of the TOP 10 from when I made this post.

Today’s Hot Trends (USA)
  1. von trapp family
  2. 2008 nfl draft order
  3. the sound of music
  4. christopher plummer
  5. jesus camp
  6. kerry collins
  7. charmian carr
  8. kleinfeld
  9. danica patrick
 10. petrosun

These topics are highly likely to get you some traffic.  You cannot count on it however, because some of the time these topics hit peak and drop quickly (example: news items).  Something like the 2008 NFL Draft Order might stay high for a day or two, but not much longer after that.

Always keep your eyes peeled for ways to get traffic to your blog.  It’s more important to get traffic than it is to get PR (page rank).  I know I am going to catch flack for that, but I hate how Google is controlling the entire internet, especially web advertising, with the emphasis put on PR.  Either way, it’s just my feelings on the whole thing since this blog was b*tchslapped a couple of months ago to a PR0!