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January 21, 2009 by Jenn Sierra  
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Today’s question is submitted by Ben Hodge, of Kansas Progress. If you have questions you would like answered in upcoming posts, or if you have additional story ideas, please e-mail Jenn.

Q. Where can I find a list of top searches in my area?

A. Remember that to increase blog traffic, you not only want to attract people in and around your home town, but you want to attract people all over the web who are searching for the info you’re writing about.

To do this, check out Google Trends.

You can search by country, state, city, county, whatever. Use the drop-down menu at the top to narrow your search to the last 30 days, or last 12 months. This will tell you the topics most highly searched in an area, and the media sources for those searches. Click on “More Searches” in the middle of the page, and you’ll have a pretty good list of info, that you can also narrow down by date.

Within the next couple of years, as more and more local news media gets their stuff online, this will be more and more useful.

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