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This post should have been done yesterday, but yesterday’s information was so eye opening that I spent my time using this new information instead of updating this blog .

Yesterday we learned something very, very cool.

We started using Google Trends to determine how much actual traffic our ideas would be getting.

http://google.com/trends

Google Trends is nice, but there are no numbers on the graphs so you really don’t know for sure how much traffic your idea keyword would get.

Through the 30 Day Challenge we learned of a way to compare our keywords to a base keyword that has a consistent amount of searches each day. With knowing the base keyword daily traffic, we were able to compare our ideas to the base keyword on the graph. This gave us a much better idea of how much traffic our ideas would generate. This is great!

The only bad thing, is after putting all of my keywords through the tool I discovered that none of my idea keywords were any good! Even though Wordtracker showed at least 80 searches per day on each one of the them, the Google reality is that none of them would actually get more than 20-30 searches a day from Google.

So, I had to look for more ideas and keywords.

Many others in the 30 Day Challenge had to do the same. The forum was alive with people stating none of their keywords looked good. Some were discouraged. Not me!

I would like to know that my keywords will not work out before I put a lot of work into them. And, once I have find a winning keyword phrase, I know I can be confident that it will get enough traffic to be worth while.

I think I found a pretty good keyword phrase.

30 Day Challenge Day 8

An eye opening day for sure! Stay tuned for day 9.

It’s still not too late to get started on the Thirty Day Challenge, but hurry.

Mike