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Knock your socks off tool for your writing and SEO - Google's Wonder Wheel

Are you ready for a SUPER tool to add to your SEO toolbox? Take a look at the Wonder Wheel.

What is it?
Wonder Wheel, right there hidden on Google search results page, is great and easy to use VISUAL Search Engine Optimization tool. The Wonder Wheel shows your search results in a visual format - wheel - with your search term in the middle and terms that Google sees as related on the spokes of the wheel.

Why wheel it?
To improve your blogs, posts and sites. You can optimize your content with keywords/terms whether it is within a post, a blog or a website. You could also use these related terms when doing a Pay Per Click campaign.

How do you find it?
The wonder wheel is there, hidden in the Google search results. Here is how.

I did a Google search for Miami foreclosures (as an example) - below is the typical search results page

google search page options

Click on Show Options...

... and you see the left hand column

google search page showing options

Look at the left hand column and find Wonder Wheel - click on it...

... and this appears

google search page image

Nice Visual!

You can see that each spoke has a search term that Google sees related to the term in the middle.
If you click on any of the terms on the spokes another wheel opens up with related terms to that particular term - in the example I clicked on the spoke/term Miami Beach foreclosures

google search wonder wheel

How do you use this information?

If you are writing a blog post you could add one of two of the related terms as your secondary keywords. You could also add links to other posts that you have written about one or more of the terms on the spokes. Or you could write about your main term and each of the terms on the spokes in your same blog.

If you were looking for a content for a website this could be a great starting point to see what types of pages to add to your site.

Once you have written a few posts or pages you can start linking them to each other and voila there you have some SEO in action.

From one term you can write up to EIGHT other RELATED posts or pages - if the terms make sense. I did a few other searches and some of the terms would not have worked as they mentioned some companies by name, even ours - hope that is a good thing.

I am such a visual person so I love how easy it is to use the wheel and just keep adding related content. There certainly are many, many other ways to tackle SEO, keywords and such, but as simple as this is to use and implement, you might find that adding this to your toolbox is a great addition.

Rita

I use the word "term" here to mean keywords.

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Posted by Brian Burke Luxury Prop. Spec. Denver Metro Luxury Real Estate on 03/01/2010 12:40 AM

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192 Comments on Knock your socks off tool for your writing and SEO - Google's Wonder Wheel

MAR

2010

Nice. I am about to launch a new business and this is great info.

Wow, great post! I hadn't noticed that feature before, and it's a great tip!

Google has so many amazing things that just fly under everyone's radar. Thanks for pointing this one out to us!

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Hey Rita, this is very cool. It's a button that's in front of our noses every single day we search Google, yet so many of us don't bother to click it and see where it takes us!

Kudos to you for pointing it out to us! Now my only question is,,,,, if you're in Colorado, what are you doing searching Southeast Florida? Do you miss the beach????

;)

Scott Miller, Realty Associates, Boca Raton, FL

Outstanding, Rita, thanks! I have been doing the related keyword thing for some time, but just guessing.

i'm loving this feature!! great post

Rita - What a cool post. I will start using this feature right away to help me as I blog. Thanks.

I am going to tey this immediatly!!! Thank you so much for the helpful information.... I was perusing Google the other day and never saw this...

Google keeps coming up with great toys tools don't they. ★★ Congrats on the Feature ★★

Helping you help others live their American dream...

Great tech tool tip. Already reblogged and thanks for posting something so useful!

Rita, that is very cool. I just checked it out. It's amazing the things that you can learn on here in an instant.

Thanks for sharing with us Rita --- Google does have it all!

Hi Rita - This is an awesome tool. I didn't know it existed. Thanks for sharing and Happy Wheeling.

great information.....I never knew suck a thing existed...thanks for sharing with us.

great information.....I never knew such a thing existed...thanks for sharing with us.

Excellent post Rita. This is exactly why I use AR for my daily mind exercises. Thanks for sharing.

Rita this is the best SEO tip I have seen in a long time! Thanks so much and congrats on the feature!

Very nice feature from Google, thanks for sharing it with us. I have to already spend a few minutes using it. . fascinating!

outstanding info Rita, thanks for the tip

What a great tip, thanks for sharing that.

This is a wonderful tool! I too, am a visual person! Google never seizes to amaze me! Thanks so much!!!

That is very cool. I will try to utilize the wheel more later. Try to uitlize some of their responses in my blog.

Thank you

Rita this is a great tool thanks for taking the time to demonstrate how it works.

Excellent work Rita! Often times the brain does not come up with all the keyword combinations. This is a really helpful tool.

Good morning Rita,

Wow..great information and find! This is a very useful tool for us all and thanks for sharing!

Thanks Rita, Fantastic post and a real help!

Great tip. items like this make it worth logging on to AR every day!

Wow, I hadn't seen that -- thanks so much for sharing this info -- I'll be trying it out asap!

Rita:

Great discovery - I had no idea that the wonder wheel even existed. As you said, for a visual type of person, this could be extremely useful.

Rita...

I've seen that tool a thousand times but never looked at it. Thanks for this super explanation, and I know what I'll be doing all day!

Wow! Great find. It should give us some insight into how Google thinks and how they see things as being related. Thanks for sharing your find.

We learn something new every day here in the Rain. Thanks for the tip. I'm off to do some searches with it.

Thanks. Neat tool.

Tom

Rita - Sounds like a valuable tool. I'll have to check it out. Thanks

Howdy Neighbor! Great post Rita! What an awesome tool. I must say you can never know tool much when it comes to Google and Real Estate. Thanks for sharing such great information.

Rita, thank you for being our "eyes" and sharing this. Why re-invent the wheel, just put it to another good use.

I flagged this post as a feature. I felt you deserve it.

Thanks, Rita, for pointing out that tool. There is so much on the Internet today, who could possibly find it all?

Rita,

Thanks! Headed over to use it right now!

Rita--Thank you! This one is a keeper--bookmarked!

Interesting stuff here. Geez, the things I learn on AR never ceases to amaze me - and I am not easily amazed! Thanks!

The maddening thing is I knew about this handy-dandy feature but had l-o-n-g forgotten! What a great tool and I love the wya you explained it! So much easier to implement. It is not easy to remember to blog around keywords. I usually blog about things that interest me! <grin> I haev to try to be a bit more strategic!

Rita ~ New information and I love it! Thanks you and I will re-blog this awesome post!

Rita, thank you very much for the tips. It must have taken a while for you to put this together - thank you for your effort.

Excellent information and right in keeping with the shared mantra of sharing information on AR. Many thanks,

What a cool little tool. Off to test it out-thanks.

Rita,

Thanks for sharing and for giving such a wonderful demonstration/instruction. I am going to go check out this "wonder wheel" now.

This is why I love Active Rain, the information is incredible. I had no idea!

I just keep learning more things from everyone on Active Rain, this is so cool.

Thanks

I just keep learning more things from everyone on Active Rain, this is so cool.

Thanks

Great Info Rita. Thanks! Now if I can just figure out what to do with the keywords/terms...

Rita - this is way too cool! I'm starting to get into google apps more and more and this is another one I can add. Thanks for sharing!!

Thanks everyone for you comments. Hope you are putting the wheel into good use. I will be writing more tips soon.

Scott - yes, I'd like to be in Miami right now :) - however I used the term because all the other terms were perfectly relevant.

Rita - very cool wonder wheel, and that will definitely help with SEO and adding additional terms to your post. I use Google analytics regularly to help guide me.

Rita,

Thanks for the tip. I will make certain to use it. Anything to move us forward and build business. Thanks again for introducing me to Brian. He is a really great guy. Hope you have a great week.

Chuck

Rita,

Great post and great tip. Believe it or not I am just now getting into SEO and it's importance in my business. These types of posts are very helpful to tech wannabees like me.

Keep them coming!

Bart

Great post Rita. Fantastic visual to help us understand. Now I have something else to help me implement the right keywords when I post!

Oh My !!!! Now THAT IS something to spend a little while learning - LIKE IMMEDIATELY !!!!

Cheers Rita - nice heads up !

Wow, my ActiveRain notes binder keeps getting larger...and larger...so much to continually learn! Thanks for sharing this information.

Sheldon - the nice part is that it's easy! Easy to see the related words and easy and quick to implement.

Awesome. Learn something new every day, but this one will be implemented immediately. Thank you

Carol - comment #51 - you could take any of the terms you see on the spokes and write a post e.g. Miami Beach foreclosures, and using the same "Miami Beach foreclosures" a few times throughout the blog post. Pick another term and repeat. :)

amazing. Google has such depth who knows what other hidden gems lie within. Thanks for sharing

This is a goldmine. Thank you so much. It's just one more tool for my arsenal.

Great post Rita and great info.

Kenna - is this tool browser specific or does it need to be enabled? I just did a search and while I can click on options and see standard results etc, I don't have a wonder wheel choice? Any thoughts?

That would be it - wonder wheel does not show up in firefox but it does with IE??

I, too, am inspired by visuals, and this is truly a fun and easy way to connect the dots. thanks for bringing this to our attention!

Kate - I use Firefox and it shows on mine - I did read that some ff users had problems displaying the wheel and it seems to have something to do with firefox add ons you may have installed. One of the add-ons that was causing the wonder wheel not to work correctly was FF True Knowledge add-on.

Rita -- This is so cool. I'm putting it right into my toolbox. Thank you so much for bringing it to our attention.

Great post, Rita! When I search Jacksonville Property Management, of the 8 spokes on the wheel, 6 of them are competitors. And, I don't see Step One Realty on there. Although, if we've been at the bottom of page 1 and the top of page 2 in recent weeks. I guess I have some work to do with my SEO. LOL Thanks again! This if valuable info!!

I never knew this existed! I'm a visual person as well, so I appreciate you showing this info and providing screen shots. This will be very helpful for writing blogs and make them more Google friendly. Thanks again!

Have bookmarked, and am going to sit with your post instructions...thank you for the tip!

Pretty cool, thanks for the tip!

Thanks for the cool tool Ms. Rita.

Wow, I learn something new everyday! Thanks!

Rita -- Thank you for the wonderful post and tip. It was so nice of you to share with all of us. Now lets see if we can all put the tip to good use. Thanks again! --Krystal Knott

It's like having Google type your outline for you. This is cool! Thank you!

Awesome..I never knew this existed! Thanks for sharing.

Love the liitle nuggets of creamy, chewy google that you can find when you look hard enough.

That is so cool.. Thanks for point out this neat feature. I'm gonna use it right now to inprove my blog entry. Thanks again

WOW! Thanks so much for the post. I'm ON IT! Isn't Active Rain THE BEST!

Eric - comment #71, I looked around and if you click on the spokes and poke a little further you see some other terms - other than other companies that you can try using e.g. residential property manager, apartment property manager etc. I did see your company come up in a couple of those secondary wheels. :)

I am going to get started on my homework, to expand my contend on my blogs that I post. Thanks.

Rita, thanks for the post and the amount of information on this tool.

Thanks for your post. This is great information for sure.

Wow! That was great - thanks for sharing!

Rita - thanks for the post and detailed information on it. I've bookmarked this even though I'm heading over there now to check it out. Thanks!

This is incredible....I really don't know these sorts of things. I'm bookmarking it and going to have to spend time on your blog.

Very cool Rita! So many Google tools to try out!

You do such a great job at explaining, teaching, demonstrating the latest and greatest tools Rita, it is so appreciated!

How cool is this. SEO to the top!

Thanks so much....I'm always looking for good advice/tips! Yippie...

Patricia

Rita - Good find and very cool... I too am a very visual person.... Gonna have to look into this one for sure... Thanks for sharing.. :-)

Wow. That's a neat tool. Thanks. Now all I need to do is learn how to write a blog. lol

What a great catch Rita - Thank You for taking the time to share and explain the Wonder Wheel.

Great tip, never heard of it before. Thanks for sharing!

Another great tool to help us. THANKS Rita.

Rita, great post and looking forward to a test drive.

What I want to know is whether those "related terms" are terms that have high monthly searches.

I am looking forward to making good use of this new tool. Thanks for sharing Rita. You're the best. Great post.

Rita, this is very cool and you've explained it in a way that even I can understand AND use. Thanks!

That's kind of nifty... It might also be a great tool to brainstorm. It is sort of like a mind map.

What can I say that has not been said here. Thanks for bringing this to our attention. It looks like a highly useful tool.

That's amazing - I never would have found it on my own. Thanks!

Thank you. I can always follow instructions and a graphic makes it that much better!

This is great information and you did a great job illustrating it.

Eric - apparently my reply got lost in the proxy error. From the limited amount of searches I ran using the wheel many/most of the terms I saw were higher search volume terms. Of course if you concentrate on long tail keywords they don't have that much search volume to begin with.

NICE RITA! I knew about that but I keep forgetting! Thanks for jogging my memory ladybug!

Renee - Hey there girlfriend :)

MAR

2010

Kenna, you are SUPER! this is the kind of stuff that helps a lot. I immediately went and did a quick search and followed your post, and played with the wonder wheel. Fantastic tool, we owe you big... If you ever want to learn to TANGO, call us! we'll teach you.

Antonio

Hi Rita,

That is such great information. That's one of the things I love about Active Rain--there is so much to discover and encourage forward business momentum. It is so pro-active (and NOT an acne treatment--sorry, couldn't resist)

Rita - nice job in explaining the wheel. Coming to AR, you always learn something new and valuable. Thanks!

Great info - thank you!

Thanks for the info. I am going to try this. This is what I love about AR

Very cool! Thanks for the information.

Thank you Rita. What a fantastic nugget of SEO information. I'm off to try it now!

Rita, you're amazing! It's been right under all of our noses for who knows how long - but, you found it!

Thanks, this looks like a great tool that could pay big "SEO" dividends - ssshhh, let's keep this just between us, okay? :-)

Have a great day!

 Mike
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Rita,

This is awesome! I have experimented with link wheels before, but never heard the term wonder wheel being able to get this kind of visual is great stuff, and can make setting it up so much easier. Thanks

Mike - yes that's what I was thinking - now don't go using my keywords either LOL. :)

Great Rita!

Next thing you know you will be telling them about making a Blog or mini site for each Keyword or about Google Insights!

Good Post!

Excellent information! I've seen the Wonder Wheel before but didn't put the puzzle pieces together with respect to how to use the information it provides.

But now I do!

Thank you!

Great info! I just tried it and really like the information it provides.

Perfect!! Excellent new tool. I use Power Point presentations for all of my listing appointments. Consumers are all abut "visual" now. The do not want to read. This will make an excellent insert to my presentation to visually show where I stand on the net! Thank you so much. Chad

GO FOR THE GOLD: This post is voted the most useful of the day. I had never clicked that button. I just love AR for the new tools you all share. Thanks. I am going to get found on the wheel.

Great info! The uses are endless.......................chris

Thanks for sharing. AR is such a great community for helping each other out.

WOW Rita, this is HUGE. Thank You

Hi Rita- thanks so much for sharing this information with all of us! Now I am going to have to get busy!

Terrific, thansks for sharing.

Thanks for sharing this very useful information. What a nice hidden gem! Looking forward to using it to fine tune my posts.

quit giving away my secrets, lol, I love this tool. If you are not using it is not too late

Hi Rita -

It's a shame how many SEO "advisors" don't know about this simple tool to get your listings, blogs, and website content shown in exponentially more places than by ignoring this tool.

I think the folks who write all of the "dummy" books should add the Google Wheel to their table of contents.

Thanks for sharing this to the masses.

Rita,

Wow that is great tool to have! If a picture is worth a thousand words then this tool would fill the Congressional Library! The possibilities are endless.

Rita, Thanks for sharing!!! I will have to borrow this from you.

It's hard to stop once you start. Thanks for this very helpful tip!

Thanks, Rita!

Dave (#133) - oops, sorry :) didn't mean to spill all the secrets :)

Ben (#122) - well yes, you could make some mini sites or specific niche blogs depending on how much material you can put in it.

Wow, this is great info! Thanks for sharing.

Thank's Rita, knowing about tools for building your business is always helpful!

Awesome Rita! How did you ever find this? Great tool!

Debi

Rita, what a great Google tool! Thanks for posting, I had no idea this existed.

What a great tip!! Thanks!

Awesome post! Extremely helpful information! Thanks so much!

Debi - I spend a way too much time researching about all this kind of stuff. Sometimes it pays off :)

Awesome! I had no idea -- thanks so much for sharing! I look forward to using it.

This is incredible and probably the best tool I have learned of in a while. Thanks for the help.

Thank you for sharing !!!

Great idea! We are definitely going to start using the Wonder Wheel. It's good to note that it doesn't work in Firefox. It only works in Safari.

Wow ! A diamond of a tool. I'm off to put it into play. Deserving of 2 stars. Thank you

I use firefox and the wheel works just fine - there are a few ff plugins that may be causing an issue for the wheel not to show up correct - see one of my above comments about this. Also confirmed to work on IE.

I was just talking to someone about SEO and Google today. I'll pass this on to my friend too! Thanks for the info!

Thanks Kenna! Look me up if you ever get up to Steamboat and I will hook you up with free skiing.

Rita, Congrats on the well-deserved feature...that is a cool tool and will definitely check it out!

Rita,

Great information. Thanks for sharing.

Nifty tool although for the keywords I used I got mostly very vague keywords like "condos and townhomes" when I searched for "Oak Lawn real estate". I also got some other crazy keyword combinations that would not bring my site up but it did give me one link that I could optimize for (although two of my sites already came up in the top 10).

Thanks for sharing as I've never seen this before.

Rita - You are good at what you do! Thank you for the wheel know-how.

Rita

Thanks...One more tool for the SEO kit!

Wow, I do so much in Google I feel like I live there, but I never noticed this before. Just goes to show you, you learn something new EVERY day! Thanks Rita!

This is a fastastic post! I really love it when "rainers" create posts such as this one that help improve grow our business

Great post. I'm not sure I would have ever found the tool and I too rely on visual information. Thank you, Rita, for this great information! -Bud

Rita, this reminds me of those little wheels we had to use when learning creative writing. You know, write ideas around the wheel, then start writing sentences - only this is a wheel of keywords! Brilliant and thanks so much for paying it forward and sharing with us.

What would make it ever better would be if the keyword search results would also be below the keywords! Google, are you listening?? lol

Great post, Rita. Thanks for sharing.

I just got back into town today. WOW, 164 comments Rita! You rock on! The wheel is a great tool but agents to do a spin off of their seed keywords. Katerina

MAR

2010

Every time I hear the word "Wonder" followed by any other word, my visual automatically goes to "Wonder Woman." LOL

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Thanks for the information. Plan on writing my first post this weekend and this will be very useful. Thanks again

OMG! I never knew this existed. Now I will have to search before composing my blog posts.

THANX!

thanks for the heads up - had no idea.

Russel - maybe I can rename it Wonder Woman Wheel :) LOL

Super Cool Rita!! Well thought out blog post!! Thanks for sharing!

Thank you so much! Just wish it worked in Firefox, which is my browser of choice. I'll definitely use IE for this though.

Great information !!!

Thanks,

Thank you so much for this enlightening post! I will definitely use it!!!

The wheel does work with firefox. I use firefox and it works well. There are some firefox apps that may be messing it up. :)

Rita, sorry to be repetitive, but THANK YOU! Tremendous post!

MAR

2010

Thankyou Rita, this is a Great tool! I will definitely use it.

Shucks I almost missed this one!!! Thanks for sharing!!!

MAR

2010

Good Stuff! Thanks for the Post!

-AC

Forget all those other terms! I am search for "Wonder Rita" because that is what you are my friend!

MAR

2010

Google. The inventor of the wheel. At last we know.

And here some thought it was Microsoft.

George - LOL

Great tool, Rita. I had no idea but it looks pretty useful. Wonder what else is hiding behind the scenes?

Thanks for letting us in on this.

Jeff

Rita - and interesting thing to do...Google yourself and see what Google associates with your name. :)

Jeff

Rita,

Looks like you got comments in double here, probably proxy errors when they were posting. Good info.

Jeff - I did google the company name and got some other related companies, not really areas though - oh, well I guess we are not that famous.

Steven - hmmm, I thought I got rid of those - LOL - I mean the duplicated not the proxy errors - I wish...

APR

2010

Wow! This is good stuff. I will start to use it right away. Thanks.

MAY

2010

Google constantly amazes me with the cool stuff they come up with! Love this and will start using it right away! Thanks so much for sharing!

AUG

2010

that is so cool thanks for sharing

JAN

2011

Rita,

Thank you for this tip I can see that this can be a big help when writing some of my posts.

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