A Google A Day: Was It Worth It?
My last blog post here was rather cheeky. I was making the claim that people could and would game A Google A Day for traffic.
A Google A Day is a new daily quiz from Google which encourages people to search. With just a little bit of poking it's possible to see what the questions (and answers) will be ahead of time. Google's not daft. They tweaked the A Google A Day engine to cut down on the real-time signals to obscure any answers being surfaced by people attempting the quiz on that day.
My post took a stab at answering the question for the next day. It seemed to have worked.
![](//4.bp.blogspot.com/-w-ju9290vd8/Ta8ImKRmq9I/AAAAAAAAB4s/PPFul8FAiVk/s400/google-a-day.png)
What does this prove? This little academic test was to illustrate how more attractive keyword forecasting is compared to keyword research. I don't care that lots of people searched for [laptops] in 2010. What will people be searching for in 2012?
A Google A Day is a new daily quiz from Google which encourages people to search. With just a little bit of poking it's possible to see what the questions (and answers) will be ahead of time. Google's not daft. They tweaked the A Google A Day engine to cut down on the real-time signals to obscure any answers being surfaced by people attempting the quiz on that day.
My post took a stab at answering the question for the next day. It seemed to have worked.
![](http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-w-ju9290vd8/Ta8ImKRmq9I/AAAAAAAAB4s/PPFul8FAiVk/s400/google-a-day.png)
What does this prove? This little academic test was to illustrate how more attractive keyword forecasting is compared to keyword research. I don't care that lots of people searched for [laptops] in 2010. What will people be searching for in 2012?
Even better; what will people be searching for just after I can can publish some content and use my influence to attract attention to it? If I can crack that combination of forecast-influence-attention then I'm in the twin heavens of SEO and Social Media delight.