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🧐 The most underrated tool you're not using
Hey there,
For years now, one of my favorite tools for keywords and easy traffic to my sites is something that I think most site owners overlook.
If you've taken some of my courses then you may have seen me mention this.
I think I'd also mentioned it in a podcast interview or two.
And around a month ago, I discovered a way to level this shit up and combine it with trendjacking for even more traffic explosions.
Quick sidebar: I've got two tickets to Affiliate Gathering that I can't use if anyone wants to buy them for face value. I paid $270 total for them.
It's Google Trends.
Google Trends is how I found the stand up paddle board niche back in 2013 when basically no one else was making sites on the topic...and I made a lot of money in the niche, selling a total of 3 paddle board sites across six years.
Then about month ago I discovered that there's a Google Trends daily email blast that tells you what's trending RIGHT NOW.
Perfect for trendjacking.
I want to be honest with you though - I didn't intend on sharing the deets about this email blast cause it was a competitive advantage for those of us who knew about it. But then someone on Twitter shared it last week for a round of internet high fives, so here we are.
You can sign up for the daily emails here: https://goo.gle/trendsemail and they come from "Simon Rogers" at Google, so that's the sender name to watch for in your inbox.
Just remember for that trendjacking to work, you gotta be ready to deploy content with a quickness.
Here's my bonus tip for using this: if you find an interesting niche taking off, use something like NicheFinder.io or NicheSiteMetrics to see if any other low authority sites are already publishing on this topic so you can work on an entire cluster real quick like (to take advantage of the trending traffic).
Stay awesome!
Shawna
P.S. FYI my Expert Picks for April are up on the Odys Global blog right here. If you don't already have an account, get one now in case you wanna snap up one of my picks. (Don't forget that my affiliate link adds a cool $100 credit to your account!)
FYI: Some of the links in this email are affiliate links, but I only recommend stuff that I actually use/test.
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