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Google Trends is very helpful when we are trying to gain a high-level understanding of how certain things are been searched for or how people from across the world are engaging with a different concept in different ways and at different volumes. It helps us understand a large number of folks in a small period of time when it comes to a certain dimension.
- Visually appealling
- Simple to use
- Helpful comparison charts
- Make it easier to set a custom time range
- Add context when possible for certain results
- Related topics don't seem very related to current search.
We use it to know the keyword search volume, what's the search cycle and how the keywords have varied over time.
- Search volume.
- Keyword searching trend.
- It doesn't show exact search volume but shows a range.
We have great word-of-mouth referrals, but are working on beefing up our marketing to reach new audiences faster. Google Trends provides an interesting way to see the relative popularity of search terms related to our business over time. My hope is that it will help us identify useful tweaks to make to our current site and content to rank higher for relevant search terms by identifying the terms to focus on.
- Clean and appealing interface.
- Easy to change search parameters.
- Easy to hop between keywords to explore related terms.
- Only 5 keywords for the comparison chart.
- Related keywords are somewhat limited.
- Help screens are less helpful than third-party articles.
May 24, 2021
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It is currently being used by different areas within the organization. Not only marketing team, but also commercial and planning and buying teams find useful information from Google Trends, when looking in user behavior and search trends in search queries related to the categories and products we sell, so we can follow it and be able to offer what users are looking for to buy.
- Rising search queries and trends.
- Trends across different regions.
- Product and category seasonality.
- Values are not absolute numbers, instead of indexed numbers.
I cannot speak for the whole organization but I know the entire Marketing department relies on Google Trends. We use this site to predict ad performance, help us decide on keywords, follow trends of current keywords we are using in campaigns, and also see if there is any seasonality of recurring ups/downs with certain terms. We also use the trending topics feature to see if there is anything relevant there to any of our clients.
- Allows you to search keywords and phrases in certain locations to see search volumes, this is huge and helps us be successful with our Google Ad campaigns.
- Shows us insights into trending topics which allows us to stay in the know and apply any relevant trends to current clients.
- Year in Search and Trending Topics provides us great inspiration for our ads
- Being able to search in certain locations gives us a ton of help when setting up campaigns and doing our keyword research for clients.
- Being able to compare multiple keywords or search terms side by side is extremely helpful.
March 06, 2020
Google Trends is the new trend!
Google Trends helps us see daily search volume for our organization and competitors. It helps us think through how we want to use keywords to optimize our website and our youtube videos. It also helps us with our advertising and knowing what keywords to use and what people are searching for. This is used in our marketing department.
- Allows us to look through search data.
- Easy to use.
- Very visual and good user interface.
- I wish I could see more analytics to google trends
- Better integration with other google products
- Related search terms could be better
January 28, 2020
Easy To Use Product
My company uses Google Trends to see how our client's brand name holds up to the broad keywords used to identify the company. The simple graph feature allows us to have a visual of how these general and brand keywords are ranking year over year and month over month to see if we are on track with yearly and monthly trends.
- Measuring how popular a keyword is.
- Using graphs to compare the search volume of different queries over time.
- If monthly searches are around ten or less the graph can be difficult to read.
- Could provide different types of graphs to show differences.
December 13, 2019
Get Fast Results Comparing Keyword Phrases with Google Trends.
I use it for my own consulting business, as well as for my clients' businesses to research seasonality by industry. It's also great for comparing general search terms' volume when doing keyword research.
- Researching industry seasonality.
- Researching product purchase intent by keyword search.
- You can narrow your search by industry, but Google doesn't always have a category that applies. It would be nice to be able to drill down and even search for what may be a closer fit.
- Perhaps some integration between Keyword Planner and Google Trends would be nice, so you don't have to bounce between them.
November 05, 2019
Google Trends is Neat!
We utilize Google Trends to estimate seasonality for our clients, both with SEO and paid search services, as well as for all digital initiatives. Both our paid media and SEO teams use Google Trends for these purposes, sometimes collaboratively. It addresses business problems such as projecting budget allocations, estimating competition, determining opportunity, etcetera.
- Great job at estimating seasonality for different industries & areas of interest.
- Does well at helping determine potential competition during different times of the year.
- Does a good job with helping us determine recommendations for clients in terms of tactics, budgets, etc. throughout the year, and with different strategies.
- It would be great if Google Trends had more specific data, and wasn't so aggregated.
- We would like if Google Trends could get more granular into different topics or industries.
- It would be nice if we could combine Google Trends data with our initiatives in SEO and paid search directly, without having to try to combine & analyze all of that data ourselves.
October 16, 2019
Google Trends offers a quick and easy way to assess how your company is being searched
Google Trends has proven to be a great tool when assessing how what the public are researching about our company, as well as an easy way to see how issues (both positive and negative) are playing out on the search engine.
- Ability to compare different search terms against one another.
- Ability to show search interest over a period of time.
- A relatively simple graphic interface to show how issues are being searched online.
- Some of the data is a bit lacking as it only shows Search Interest over time and not actual searches.
- Google Trends always defaults to the USA. It would be nice if it would save your search preference.
- It would be helpful if it also helped to present the top search results over time.
September 12, 2019
Google Trends is Insightful, Easy to Use, and Free!
Google Trends is a great resource to see what is trending on Google. We use it as a tool at our search engine marketing agency to have a broader context around keyword fluctuation for seasonal and year over year trends. It provides us with insights we can share with our customers on what is happening in their industry space.
- Google Trends shares interest in a keyword or topic over time.
- It allows you to filter by geographic area.
- Google Trends shares related topics and queries.
- The data nicely exports to a CSV file. It would be nice to be able to also export to PDF as a more styled way of sharing this information with teams.
Our marketing department for our travel tour operator uses Google Trends to help identify certain keywords and trends in searches being used and where in the world they are searched. this better helps us determine where our next destination will be, where our current destinations are under-performing, etc. Google Trends has been a great tool for us in our business.
- keywords
- insights
- analytics
- more information
- vague
- multiple keyword searches
I have used Google Trends within the marketing team at my organization to support sales. The platform enables us to incorporate SEO into our content creation process by understanding how our audience discovers content that is relevant to our products. In addition to giving us insight into the needs of our customers, it has definitely helped us increase web traffic and generate leads for the sales team.
- I love how Google Trends presents the popularity of a specific query by location. For example, my product may be more popular or more "searched" in a specific state or city. This helps a lot for direct mail campaigns or any sort of in-person marketing efforts like events or pop-ups. You could use the information from Google Trends to decide what locations will be more receptive of your product/industry or you could see where people have little to no interest and build a brand awareness campaign focusing on those areas.
- Another great feature within Google Trends is that it shows "Related Queries", which are basically suggestions of better keywords or phrases to incorporate into your content. If you search for data on a keyword you're using that's too broad (your content won't stand out among other web pages) or too narrow (not many potential customers are searching that keyword or phrase), Google Trends will suggest a related keyword or phrase that is more appropriate or trending at the moment. You could go back and incorporate these phrases into your content so that it's more likely to be found on search engines.
- Within the Google Trends "Related Topics" section, you can choose whether you want to see topics that are "Top" or "Rising". I like this feature because looking at a "Rising" topic can help you create content that's more likely to be seen - especially if you're a beginner. Most topics that are in the "Top" category can have thousands of web pages that you're competing against and you can feel like your content is drowning. But the topics in the "rising" category can be great for newer sites that haven't developed authority online yet. You can write on one of these topics and be one of the first sites to create content on that topic, which gives you a head start over other sites.
- Google Trends "Categories" is also a great feature. If you don't have any content ideas for your website, you can easily find inspiration by selecting a category that's relevant to your industry. The top keywords or topics will come up and you can create content on those topics to increase your number of web visitors. For example, if you work in the fashion industry and you don't have content ideas, you can have Google Trends generate data for the "Beauty & Fitness" or "Shopping" categories to see what's trending. Google will tell you if a specific brand, person, or event is trending and you could write an article based on one of those trends. Since people are searching for that topic, your content will be seen. This is a great way to create timely content even if you're new to an industry or simply haven't kept up with it.
- I think that Google Trends needs a tutorial mode or some sort of instructional pop-ups. The only reason why I understand how or why the information on Google Trends is useful is that I took a course on it prior to using it professionally. For a beginner, it's very possible that you could look at all of the graphs and information available and have no idea how you can apply it in your role. It would be helpful if each feature gave examples on how it could be used. However, Google Trends is free and this is the only con I see within the platform.
February 27, 2019
A free tool every marketer needs
We use Google Trends to analyze keywords and popular search terms. It helps us target the keywords we want to use for our blog posts and social media posts.
- Gives insight into what keywords are popular.
- Gives suggested topics/ keywords.
- Some reports are not available for certain keywords due to insufficient data.
February 23, 2019
Predict search trends
Google Trends is a free tool from Google that allows users to view trends in search queries over time. I’ve used it in my search marketing agency to forecast seasonal fluctuations in search traffic and compare search queries against one another.
- Tracking relative search volume over time.
- Comparing volume for multiple search queries.
- Forecasting future search volume.
- Not a robust keyword tool.
- Data is general, not specific.
- Would like to see a professional version beyond the free features.
February 04, 2019
Use Google Trends to discover market and competitor trends
Google Trends is used by the marketing team, and we use it to inform our marketing strategy.
It helps us to understand which of our markets grows or contracts over time, and what terms people use to search in our markets.
We also use it to compare trends over time, so we see how our brand name fares against competitors.
It helps us to understand which of our markets grows or contracts over time, and what terms people use to search in our markets.
We also use it to compare trends over time, so we see how our brand name fares against competitors.
- It's extremely easy to use. You don't even need an account and it's free! In terms of accessibility, it's a dream.
- It's made by Google, the largest search engine on earth, so you feel the data is reliable.
- It creates useful visualizations of the data - including line charts and geographic spreads. It also suggests related topics for further research.
- I know Google can't tell us for privacy reasons, but it would be cool to see the actual volume of searches for a term. Everything is shown on a 1-100 scale, which means you only see relative, not absolute data.
- Google could let you refine searches a bit more with boolean language.
- I'd like to see a feature which lets you select multiple countries at once. You can only select 'worldwide' or a specific country, which isn't too great if you want to group countries e.g. English speaking, Scandinavia, European etc.
December 15, 2018
Google Trends and Your Customers
As a blog looking to make an impact on our region we study Google Trends in order to find out what is trending not only nationally but at a state and local level as well. One of the best features of Google Trends is the ability to study a phrase/trend over time. I love looking at things in terms of a year because you can understand what months certain subjects have more or less interest and you can create your content around that. I also love the related query options so you can also see other relevant subjects.
- Explains interest over time.
- Gives other relevant search information.
- Breaks down information by subregion.
- I wish you could go deeper into the subjects, like see the individual search results.
- I also wish that you could really define the subregions and go to a city by city level.
- It would be nice if you could organize material by age group and genders.
August 27, 2018
Great platform to learn about trends
In our company, Google Trends is currently used by Marketing department. The tool allows us to find out what is trending now, what was in trends before, and even predict what will be trending in the future. The information from Google Trends helps our marketing managers to have more complete picture of the market for better planning.
- It is free and always available
- User interface is clean and very convenient
- Gives lots and lots of valuable data
- I wish notifications were more customizable
- Reports could be more customizable too
- It'd also be great to have company's profile there and share and discuss results with colleagues in live mode
We use Google Trends to:
- Get to know the latest trends in our business
- Monitor marketing performance - How is our product performing in the market?
- Brand health: How is our brand performing globally?
- Competitor check- How are my competitors performing?
- Create better content.
- SEO (Keyword Research) - Which particular query is searched frequently?
- Real-Time data on any given topic using Explore
- Point out the latest trends: by default it provides the latest trends from all around the globe on the homepage. I can choose the technology that I am interested in, and start doing some research on the trends. This helps me to strategize better on how to use this technology in my projects.
- Clean UI: Simple and Easy UI, easy to navigate.
- No Transparency on how the calculation happens at the back end and the numbers are arrived in Google Trends.
I use Google Trends to identify popular search topics that may be related to my clients' businesses. Then I can use other tools to extrapolate keywords for SEO purposes. The other way that I use Google Trends is to identify popular topics that I can turn into successful Facebook Ads for use in my clients' advertising campaigns.
- Google Trends shows me geographic locations where a particular topic may be useful for advertising.
- Google Trends allows me to drill down into those locations to metro and city levels where I can focus on exactly what local business clients need to know.
- Google Trends allows me to identify and qualify search terms that my client's need to optimize their websites and social media content for.
- Google Trends shows me what people are talking about in a specific location over a specific period of time. This is a great way to know what I should be posting on social media.
- It would be nice to have breadcrumbs available so that I can go backward in a particular search. One I click a topic and then click the related terms two or three times, I find that I'm so far down the rabbit hole that the "Back" button in my browser is a really inconvenient way to find my way back to a certain stage of my search. If there were breadcrumbs I could jump directly back to a particular stage and chase another rabbit from there.
- It's easy to get lost searching in here for an extended period of time. I would be nice to be able to print a report of my whole session when I have finished.
- It would be nice to have a Top Tends board of job searches or other information related to jobs that are currently popular Google searches.
March 23, 2018
Find Your Inspiration with Google Trends
I use Google Trends mainly for content ideation. It is a great place to start if you have a specific topic in mind or even if you are looking for that initial inspiration. Google Trends helps me determine what my client's audience is interesting in at that very moment or in the past.
- Content ideation. Brainstorming new topics for content your overall strategy and content calendars.
- The ability to geotarget helps narrow down what your specific audience is talking about.
- Targeting of trends based on a specific industry
- Though it has the ability to narrow down results, it would be even better if you could get more specific data
- I wish I could easily export data and graphics
March 21, 2018
Great for quick check of keyword searches
As a website developer, I use Google Trends to make sure that every site I make is optimised for search engines. This is done by researching the trends relating to the clients' industry/business and then implementing those trends into the website's content to ensure that it shows exactly where and when it should [be] in Google.
- Provides information on amount of times a keyword is searched
- Useful for seeing the location of users searching the keyword
- Allows the targeting of keywords based on trends for an industry
- I think if they were to add a comparison tool, for comparing multiple keywords it would be very useful
- It would also be useful to be able to export this info to a graphic
February 28, 2018
A great tool to analyze traffic trends on specific domains or events
Google Trends is a great tool to discover trends on specific keywords. It is really useful to anticipate traffic increase at some periods of the year (for SEA or SEO campaigns).
- Traffic trends
- Keyword suggestion
- Related keyword traffic trend
- Trend on a specific location
January 30, 2018
Google Trends for fashion retail
We use Google Trends to track the "health" of our brand and other related search terms within our industry. It's a great way to highlight trends over time and get a perspective of our standing in the digital world in relation to our competitors. It's also useful in assessing the size and scale of fashion trends and where that trend is in it's lifecyce, allowing us to ensure we don't overbuy a dying trend.
- Historical data
- Search volume tracking
- Competitor reports
- Visual reporting
- Data is aggregated so therefore does not provide detail on the actual volume of search activity online
- Some of the industry segmentation could be improved to provider great insight on specific markets
January 29, 2018
A fun addition to existing tools
I use Google Trends in a limited capacity to make sure we understand the activity around keywords relevant to our organization. It is one of a number of factors we consider when tailoring online and search ads, web content, and other marketing. I also sometimes use it when considering new initiatives, to make sure what we are pursuing is relevant to potential users.
- Instant view of trends by geography.
- Clear visual indications of change over time.
- Easy comparison of multiple search terms.
- Limited use when looking for terms specific to organization or industry.
- Need to have keywords in mind - difficult to find potential relevant keywords.
- Limited integration with Google AdWords, which is probably the most useful application of the data.