World Live Web Part 2

Written By: admin Posted On: August 8, 2007 Tags:

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The other day I talked about harnessing the power of the World Live Web from many different places to find out the subjects of people’s searches that are being performed today. Today I just wanted to make a quick post to point out a tool created by the geniuses behind SEOmoz called Popular Searches.

Popular searches is a free tool (for now) that scrapes and aggregates data from tons of great sites that will allow you to analyze trends and other useful up-to-date information. The list is updated once per day but you can go back in time to check the archives for a particular date.

From SEOmoz:

By themselves, these pages can be a fantastic resource for a search marketer trying to find trendy content or high popularity search phrases to target. However, if there were a resource that aggregated all of these sources into one location and enabled one to see the popular searches from the past, maybe even make it available in a CSV format, that would be truly handy, right?

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8 comments...What do you think?

Posted by B2 8th August, 2007 at 6:10 pm
Great One !
Thank you for sharing that tool, it will help for sure ^^
Posted by Mutiny Design 8th August, 2007 at 6:47 pm
I can’t see this one being that useful, although I’m sure it is a great asset for SEOMoz’s link baiting stratergies. Although it could be useful to find emerging uncompetative terms.

I am currently testing a tool I made to check your ranking in the SERPs for different countires. You can see it at http://sites.mutinydesign.co.uk/hosts/sem_labs/rank-check/

justing looking for the right domain now.
Posted by Matthew Blancarte 8th August, 2007 at 10:23 pm
Hmm, an interesting tool for sure. Thanks for the info!
Posted by Scot 8th August, 2007 at 11:04 pm
Mutiny,
It’s a good way to stay on top of trends for organic traffic with less competition. Your tool looks like it’s coming along good and while I wouldn’t have much use for it, the design and usability is great so far. Maybe if there were a way to check every country at once?

Matt,
No problem.
Posted by Chuck 8th August, 2007 at 11:52 pm
Nice resource. Thanks for pointing it out; hadn’t heard of that one before.
Posted by Shane 9th August, 2007 at 2:57 am
Hey Scott,

That’s a pretty cool tool … it gave me a great idea for a new post entitled …

“Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan Travel to MySpace and get Cooking with Harry Potter while Pamela Anderson Cools off with her Mac Computer”

haha
Posted by Scot 9th August, 2007 at 3:49 am
Hey Shane,
Nothing is stopping you from pinging then deleting
Posted by Bush Mackel 9th August, 2007 at 9:56 am
Great find Scot! Hopefully I’ll put it to good use. *nod* (#):)