May 23

I keep a track of Google hot trends, beacuse it is interesting to watch as it gives you a general idea of what is buzzing at the moment on the net. But after seomoz post dubed mother of link bait it really got me thinking about what exactly is behind the hot trends algo. Anyway the reason for this post is really about why you should follow the ‘what’s hot’ and how you can use Google’s hot trends to your advantage. Combined with Google Alert you can have a headstart on topics that have the potential to fly. Simply pull the data off the feed and dump the hot trends into a database, analyse the data over time you’ll and get some pretty interesting patterns. Combined this with Google alert and you can roughly preddict when a trend may go hot.