Google Trends has become a big thing online. Almost every marketer follows it in the hope of latching onto a hot one that will earn them a bit of money, whether from AdSense, Amazon, CPA or some other affiliate program. However, in case you haven’t noticed, the Google Trends chart has recently dropped from 100 to 40 and now to 20. What happened? Why did it happen? Is this a good or bad thing? This article is going to try to provide you with some answers.

Let’s start with why the chart has been cut down to 20. As with anything in life, there were people out there who were abusing the system. They were artificially creating these trends through some rather devious means. So many of the top 100 were what I call garbage trends. They didn’t really exist. So spending your time trying to monetize them would have been a waste of your time.

But it’s worse than that. See many of these folks also put up sites for these trends for the purpose of infecting your PC with some deadly Trojan or other virus. Thank goodness for my anti virus software or I would have been in some serious trouble. So when you combine these two factors, the uselessness of the trend, along with the virus attacks, Google had no choice but to crack down on these false trends and remove them from the chart. What we have left now is 20.

Okay, but is this a good thing or a bad thing? Many people seem to think that because there are fewer trends to choose from that it is a bad thing. However, this is not so. For starters, most of that top 100 was garbage anyway, so you’re not really losing anything. Aside from that, now that there are fewer trends to choose from, you have a better chance of picking one that is actually going to perform for you. My own results have improved from a 40% success rate to over 70%. That means 7 out of every 10 trends I now choose result in my earning some kind of income from them.

As with anything else, it’s not the quantity but the quality. With fewer trends to choose from, not only don’t you have to worry about picking bad ones or worse, picking one that infects your PC with a virus, you now have a better chance of picking one that will actually perform for you.

In my mind…that makes this a win-win for everybody.

To YOUR Success,

Steven Wagenheim

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