21 Comments

  1. February 10, 2008

    Hmm, nice post. Where’d you get that screenshot from?

  2. February 10, 2008

    Emma Samms 12450%???? wtf?

  3. February 10, 2008

    I have been reading your blog for a month now. I also subscribe to it. You are very talented.

    I was just wondering about this topic in terms of finding the top movers, create ads, and even generate traffic.

    I would appreciate it if you and anyone else here has a chance to hit my blog, leave a comment, or add a link to your site, I would really appreciate it.

    I am trying to build traffic, but if that request is inappropriate protocol, please let me know that as well!!

    Thanks,

    Mike

  4. February 10, 2008
  5. February 10, 2008

    Well, I went in and set up a test of one the items on the buzz in Google and Yahoo. Google had no ads running, but wanted a $5 bid, so I just deleted it and went with Yahoo. The ad started running in 10 minutes. I will keep an eye on traffic.

    Thanks –

  6. February 10, 2008

    It is interesting stuff. For someone new to the business the amount of stats and information can be quite a shock to the system yet at the same time having all this information and knowing how you use it right is very powerful.

  7. Kris10
    February 10, 2008

    Simple and quick post, but very informative and thought-provoking! How do you get those stats for google?

  8. February 10, 2008

    Yeah you’d be surprised… I’m making a crapload of cash off Yahoo at the moment. Some of the saturated keywords on Google have like 5 advertisers on Yahoo. I wonder how much longer this will last before someone let’s the cat out of the bag ;-)

    Shhhhhhhhh.

  9. February 10, 2008

    buzz and google.com/trends hot sites for my mind.

  10. February 10, 2008

    Thanks for the tip. Seen them before but somehow forgotten about them.

  11. MacG
    February 11, 2008

    So how exactly do you capitalize on…Emma Samms???

  12. Tracy
    February 11, 2008

    http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=sr_nr_i_2?ie=UTF8&rs=&keywords=emma%20samms&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Aemma%20samms%2Ci%3Advd
    would be one way, or Dong Yun Lee has put up in Yahoo looking to refinance ad when you search for emma samms.

  13. MacG
    February 11, 2008

    So it can actually be something totally unrelated?

  14. February 11, 2008

    If you could get a list of Howard Stern guest the week before they come on you would also be straight. Seems his guest always hit the top on google trends the day they appear.

  15. February 11, 2008

    This post rocks. :)

  16. Alex
    February 11, 2008

    The best blog post I’ve ever read.

  17. February 11, 2008

    Yeah guys, nuff said.

  18. February 12, 2008

    Bloody brilliant and great of you to share. Most practical bit of advice you’ve posted yet IMHO. :-)

    Vic

  19. February 13, 2008

    Excellent post, thank you. It’s a technique I’d like to try.

    If I may, I have a question. Do you, or any of your commenters, know of a tool that would let me see the ads that are running in specific geographic locations when a search is done in Yahoo? Because I don’t live in the USA, I generally don’t see any ads (since most Yahoos search advertisers only run their ads in the US).

    I know of tools that will let me do this in Google, including Adwords Anywhere and AdWordsWW … but I don’t know of one for Yahoo. I’d appreciate any leads, since that would allow me to assess competition for Yahoo advertisers, as you describe.

  20. February 27, 2008

    This is a great tip for all of us!
    It just a matter of being creative. Setting up something with ZIP/e-mails offers might be also an idea here. Though you must make sure you are not going to pay too much per click.

    Here another smaller url:

    http://hotsearches.aol.co.uk/?invocationType=hotsearchtb_aoluk_po_ws_unauth

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