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Three New Ways To Look At Google

Google search results now offer three great ways to drill down on a search and find similar topics with the Show Options feature. Take a look at the standard view for the search phrase "real estate blogging." Most of us focus on the individual search results and skip right over the new link that says "Show options ..."

Clicking on "Show options..." opens up a panel on the left-hand side with several choices, including three additional views: Related Search, Wonder Wheel, and Timeline. Here is the Related Search view:

Here is the Wonder Wheel. Darren Rowse (www.ProBlogger.net) has a great video on his Facebook page showing how he uses this.

Here is the Timeline:

Use these new options as part of your keyword research, to see what others are searching for, and to find additional topics to write about. Your blog (and your readers) will thank you!

Posted by John Novak - Las Vegas and Henderson NV Real Estate on 08/02/2009 10:00 AM

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53 Comments on Three New Ways To Look At Google

AUG

John - yep, you are right, many of us skip right over. Hadn't a clue. Thanks for sharing this - off to play and understand some more.

Jeff

John, good info. Thanks for sharing - and for the helpful pics and diagrams.

Thanks for sharing this, I had no idea.

Wow! I had no idea. What great additional tools...thanks so much for sharing!

Congrats on the feature!

John- Really appreciate your pointing out the added Google searches. Good worK!

Thanks for the post John, I has no idea about this. Take care.

John ~ Looks like Google is really turning up the heat.. Yahoo has a long way to go to catch up

Great google info. Thank you for sharing. :-)

Thanks for the information. I'll have to check out the "how to" video on Facebook on the wonder wheel.

Excellent lesson.

Quality I can use from a name I trust, John! (Think that was a TV ad slogan a million years ago - can't remember for what.)

Hope lots of folks start using the timeline 'cause the hyper-local push has me sitting pretty for non-local terms too!

John - Some great new stuff from google!

I just reviewed the Google wonder wheel video by Darren Rowse. This option has wonderful potential. I know I'll be using this one.

Can't get enough of the techie stuff - thanks!

Thanks for the info on this new feature. I just played around with it and it was very interesting!

John thanks so much for sharing this information with us. I had no idea that was there - I'll bet anything I'll be using it a lot!

Informative post, that tells me that we have to try to be seen in all those other options for the different search methods!

John, thanks for the info. I'll be bookmarking this and checking it out.

John - Great Stuff! I knew it was there I just never checked it out. Now I will Thanks

Great Stuff...

Bookmarked this to come back to . This one had slipped by me.

There is a reason why people make a career doing this and why I keep on getting calls from vendors who want to sell me Google placment for $$$!!! I shall check this out. Thanks for the advice.

Ah ha! A new discovery...I will be checking this out. This is what I love about AR, I learn something valuable every single day! Priceless!!! :o)))

Thanks for this revelation. It is good information for me as a newbie to this site to be able to share info like this.

John - thanks for the reminder... I've looked at this a little, but I have not really explored how powerful this is... thanks for the walk through.

Very interesting, I hadn't noticed the changes to Google but look forward to checking out these new features. Thanks for sharing, I especially like the screen prints. :)

So glad you wrote this - otherwise I probably wouldn't have ever noticed. going to go check it out now!

Ty...once again I prove myself to have been clueless about this one.

Thanks for the information, I'll defintely be looking at a few more things over the next week. Glad there is someone who is always up to date . . .

Michael

Looks like very useful information, I book marked. I still can't get links in my blogs so I better figure that out first.

Google continues to amaze! It really is their world and we're just living in it!

Hi John ~ Wow! Who knows how long it would've taken me to click on that link - and look what I would've missed. Thanks so much for this - I can't wait to check it out - it looks very cool. I'm off to do a few searches.

Liz

i DIDN'T KNOW EITHER. HOW LONG BEFORE JOE PUBLIC LEARNS THAT S WHEN IT WILL REALLY MATTER

Thanks for pointing this feature out!!! I'm on google all day (while not catering to real estate clients) and never noticed it!!!

Thanks for the info, I'll be working on this tomorrow>

Thanks. It's amazing what is right in front of us everyday that we never see.

Hi John - Google keeps coming up with more and more neat ways to conduct search. Thanks for the heads up on the new options.

I had never noticed that button despite thousands of searches on Google. Thanks for making me aware of it.

Thanks John, I went and watched the video. This will open up a lot of ideas for sure!

Oh, Wow. I just asked a question about this very thing somewhere else. Thanks, John, you're a lifesaver!

Hi John -- Thanks for pointing out the obvious. Wait a minute, I would have know if it were that obvious...LOL

AUG

Thanks for sharing this info. I can see how the timeline would be a valuable tool for someone who would focus on advertising.

Thabnks and this was a fun exercise to do.

WOW John - check you out! Congrats on the feature. Thanks for sharing with others some ideas and ways to better utilize google searches. This is great for consumers to read too, it will help them drill down to finding us. Now you need to do a post about setting up preferences and how to use the "Advanced Search" which many consumers are using already. Great stuff!! :-)

Wow, talk about learning something new every day on AR! Thank you so much John, I really try to use the most popular search words and this will really help. I'm out! to Google.

Wow. This really shows how Google regards AR. If any real estate professional needs yet another reason to participate on Active Rain, this would be a great thing for them to know.

John-

Remember when Google users where in the minority? Now that's no longer the case, but the way in which people use google is the next big shift, hopefully. Thanks for this.