--- title: Google Trends Data for SEO description: Meagan sat down and wrote out the important things you need to know around Google trends data for SEO. 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The report shows the top searches, news, people, games, movies, and more, based on Google’s interest rating. The nice thing about this is you can explore any of these areas further. This can be a useful SEO tool for companies trying to keep track of their competition and general interest in their market category. To demonstrate this, I wanted to look at one of the top trending searches for 2022- ‘Wordle’.  ## Some Background on the Data By now most people know about the popular New York Times word game. However, there’s more to the story related to [how Wordle was created](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/03/technology/wordle-word-game-creator.html). The game was first released in October 2021 by Josh Wardle, a software engineer in Brooklyn. At the time, he designed the game for him and his partner to play during the COVID-19 Pandemic. It wasn’t until this year that Wardle sold his game to the NY Times and since then popularity has surged. I pulled the Google Trends data for 2022 for Wordle and I took a look at the overview.  ‍ ![](https://uploads-ssl.webflow.com/60db9d86d4f97c74536c1c05/63a06e05e57aa2b04a12b57f_lGDw2Ka7VJrnsWtyt-qK5h-yn-beo1U7ZRxWopxhr-VnTuK45ptRu_jfIbtkoDqxI3GIZSA0Wk4kOmQmKVP9IWajMwMghmnwyDoCcgPzRP23PqkYjyxqd3WENaj7vqqSzBH_PmgtkAClB7W1MQ9Siec0HIrdxG9w1V0sH8UOvrZXJ_Zl9OVyvLYWNHY1Rg.png) ‍ Something that stood out to me was the interest by subregion. The state with the highest interest in Wordle for the year was Vermont. Since Wordle was developed in NY, I was surprised that I didn’t even see NY on the list of the top five states by interest. That’s when I decided I wanted to dig into the data. ## Wordle: NY vs VT The first thing I did was export the search interest data for Wordle in NY and VT. Once I had the data in a neat excel file, I was ready to look at it closer. ‍ ![](https://uploads-ssl.webflow.com/60db9d86d4f97c74536c1c05/63a06e0588734f1b37481db4_0Uf76275X_Bqoumjq9YbvfCV2NCYYPa2AIc3P8nu1bdPz0D5kxM7KwC9umukpCBIEoyEV9A_ZM7jPc010zKeh5xK8LmB6FliXk_EYmUlOXvhsc36QfHaJkmToRD52xzByCi6-VE6V89QafZCe7tUbe4mYT-xlG3WW8mE5LvJm2SYiKbtG_OQVLC_muTFFA.png) ‍ I’m a data nerd, so I had some fun visualizing the data with Python. Basically, I created a line graph for the year and plotted the interest level for NY and Vermont. The graph is shown below: ![](https://uploads-ssl.webflow.com/60db9d86d4f97c74536c1c05/63a06e058d27938290e66763_fV-iOs0QJmz-KF8HeuTk6KK94kH4omX6rlZt0mBxoA_3a5dXyO-rcmNvScBmSIFwqZ0TVCNux2KnhPmidt55eIDp2hOKe-YR1miETqFjbRUuVyvqyrJ3MnxIiad5jCjdBHzdLmVYt-m8IJ4GdfhC4KlwcY-B7pm69PTfDrfY3RETiA_bHLi2WgVWxfBUwg.png) I added a couple of quick annotations to make it easier to see my callouts. First, NYT acquired Wordle on 1/31/22. Not surprisingly, the highest spike in interest occurred first in NY, which can be seen on the blue point shortly after the acquisition. What I found interesting is that the trends for NY and VT were similar up until about May 2022.  I searched for ‘Vermont Wordle May 2022’ and found a ton of news articles… ![](https://uploads-ssl.webflow.com/60db9d86d4f97c74536c1c05/63a06e05d4fdce70abd79c6f_MKsQjDVpy9hpltmpjC0RriVYL4BmhIANyJDGvcxL5z7dhFzzMAbnv-I6cZbWQ2m0cnPHPxr8UyBS6Fd9rQm_Hm2zW4fkpRjapkRS6nq8yx3te8RdZRXuFVVVUNTS5Pz0S3NKFf5Kizh03nl00QXbDO9umOrrBVqRvNjkpShXXncLFV0VbjgOcf_ywJSEow.png) It appears that an analysis was completed around that time which found that people from Vermont were searching for Wordle answers more than any other region. The thing is, the previous analysis doesn’t tell the whole story. The study by WordfinderX focused on which states searched for ‘Wordle answers’. However, this doesn’t account for the difference in the baseline interest in Wordle. Based on my findings, VT’s general interest in the game (not just the answers) is trending above even that of NY. This means that even though more people from VT searched for “Wordle answers” in May, their interest in the game remained higher than average for the remainder of the year. ## What Does This Mean for SEO? You might be wondering what this means for SEO–as you should. There are a few takeaways from this that can be applied to SEO analyses: 1. **Baseline differences can change the results of an analysis** 2. **Making predictions is the key to staying ahead** 3. **Don’t be too quick to draw conclusions**  If you’re looking for trending search terms in your area, you need to account for other factors that impact the starting point. For instance, one might look at the fact that VT ‘had the most cheaters’ for Wordle in May and think that generating content around that topic is a sure win. 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