In an update to How Do You Use Google Trends?, Corvida from Read/WriteWeb wrote the post I wish I had written, Google Trends for Websites Sucks for Small Blogs, highlighting the fact that Google Trends might be useful for analysis and for term, keyword, and site comparison, but it isn’t useful at all for most bloggers, sites that are too “small” to register on Trends:
If your blog or website doesn’t receive a lot of traffic, you’re better off sticking to trackers such as the service. Google Trends for Websites won’t have any data for such sites, which is a shame considering the smaller bloggers may be the biggest users of the product. Personally, I don’t see the use for Google Trends for Websites compared to other tools that are out there that offer the same information and more. Blogs already receive the information that Google is giving via their own statistics software with a lot more flexibility and options to choose from. In the end, Google Trends for Websites seems like a bit of a dud and the name should be changed to Google Trends for Popular Websites.
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leave tracking to alexa and just use this to track trends? Use it this was and it crosses boundaries to smaller bloggers?
I agree — but Alexa is just so lame — but I guess it is all we have. Have you played with Compete.com?