Google Trends for Websites: I Like It

If you have been following the tech news lately you probably know that Google decided to extend its Google Trends to website traffic as well. That is, you can now use the tool to gather traffic data about any website on the web.

The search community was divided regarding the accuracy and usefulness of yet another tool for this purpose.

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Personally I am liking it. As you can see from the image above, it even captured the Digg spikes that we had on DailyBits. The traffic for DailyWritingTips should be about half of what DailyBlogTips gets, but overall it looks like as accurate as Alexa or Compete would get.

There are also good chances that over the time Google Trends for websites will become even more accurate. No other company, after all, disposes of the assets that Google does.

Have you tested the tool? What do you think about it?

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19 Responses to “Google Trends for Websites: I Like It”

Transcriptionist on June 24th, 2008 10:13 am

Mine is not yet in on Trend!
Sweepstakes on June 24th, 2008 10:19 am

Neither is mine, although we get a good amount of traffic. I wonder how they decide to include some sites and not others.
David Shaw on June 24th, 2008 10:31 am

I dont have any trends…

Hopefully that will change soon!
Mushfiqur Rahman on June 24th, 2008 10:35 am

If Google could tap into the countless Analytics users out there, Trends might become the next big thing. Alexa is next to inaccurate. So, lets wait and see what the Big G is up to.

Sad, but my site isn’t there yet. I use Analytics and would happily share my data.
Rajaie AlKorani on June 24th, 2008 10:42 am

Still no data available for my site, but I’m working on changing that
Winning Startups on June 24th, 2008 10:42 am

Don’t care for it. Google Trends can’t calculate the info on my site. Guess it’s still too small. Perhaps after I win Blogging Idol my site will register, but until then I stlck with Alexa.
Mike Edwards on June 24th, 2008 10:48 am

I’ve been blogging for about 4 months, and it is a labor of love. I get about 30 to 40 hits a day, which is pretty cool.

I love this site for blogging tips. I am trying to build traffic and this site is extremely helpful.

My blog provides career advice and even has a forum, but it is soooo tough to get readers.

Thanks!!

Mike

mike@directyourcareer.com

http://www.directyourcareer.com
Daniel Scocco on June 24th, 2008 10:57 am

@Everyone, hmm, I thought they would be reporting data for most sites. Daily Bits is not that big after all.

Now I know though, thanks for the feedback.
SEO Genius on June 24th, 2008 11:11 am

Thats great news, well i will definitely be using this in the future. I have just tried my website and there are no trends as of yet
SEO Genius on June 24th, 2008 11:13 am

Grr i cant edit my post, sorry for another post just been searching for websites in the same niche as mine and i see that it shows the top searched words on google for finding that website. I am guessing thats what the right column is for?

Thats great if it is, it means i can try and target the high traffic words using this data as well as other tools. Hopefully making my overall choice more accurate.
Todd Andrews on June 24th, 2008 1:40 pm

Its a nice little service, but nothing too revolutionary. I am concerned a little about the privacy, but I suppose anything on the web is fair game.
TechnoDiary.com on June 24th, 2008 4:34 pm

I compared Alexa, Google Trends and My real traffic stats in a blog post here http://www.technodiary.com/goo.....atcounter/

Both G trends and Alexa are at par with real stats in my case.

~Sahil
Grace on June 24th, 2008 9:11 pm

I can’t wait to check it out! I’ll be over there in a few seconds. Thanks for sharing!
Hendry Lee on June 25th, 2008 2:02 pm

At least for one of my quite popular site, Google only picked up the data earlier this month. The traffic has been stable for a year.
moserw on June 26th, 2008 2:01 am

I am all for Google. It will be very useful too. Just that all blogs and sites are not yet featured. Wish it was all encompassing to make it perfect.
Grant on June 26th, 2008 3:40 pm

I like it. Gives me a nice, simple, and hopefully accurate view of how my site has steadily grown over the past two years.
dimaks on June 27th, 2008 4:04 pm

Great tool.. but they forgot to put the figure scale on the Y axis