Googletestad - Profit From Optimizing A Meaningless Keyword

Sometimes, researching for profitable keywords for Search Engine Optimization can lead to some astonishingand unusual surprises.

You may come across meaningless keywords that are:

1 excellent to target; and 2 have the potential to be profitable (in terms of both visitors and earnings).

Take for example, googletestad (GoogleTestAd or Google Test Ad), a term that is not even definedin any English dictionary.

According to the WordTracker Keywords Report (dated: August 9 2005), the top 10 queries from the last48 hours were for the following keywords (the Count in brackets):

1 jessica simpson (3377)

2 jessica alba (3314)

3 music lyrics (2679)

4 daniela hantuchova (1955)

5 paris hilton (1469)

6 playstation 2 cheats (1243)

7 xbox cheats (1231)

8 jokes (1069)

9 googletestad (1048)

10 google (1013)

While I can understand the popularity for the two Jessicas and the other keywords/keyphrases, I was perplexedby the popularity of the term "googletestad". Even when utilizing Overture's free online Keyword ResearchTool, the phrase "google monitor query or googletestad" has 72,161 counts, while "googletestad" has39,436 counts over the last 60 days.

Next, I did a check on its trend - important to verify whether it is only a one-off fad. Checking backon back issues of the WordTracker's top 200 long-term keyword report for the last 110 days (these statisticsare free once you subscribe to WordTracker's keyword report newsletter), the term "googletestad" hadin fact, gained popularity in terms of search queries over the past one month as follows (by date, rank,and count):

August 9, 2005 - 55 (35032)
August 2, 2005 - 64 (32737)
July 26, 2005 - 94 (28793)
July 19, 2005 - 105 (24878

So, what in the world is googletestad?

Given its encouraging trend, I decided to do some research. Firstly, searching through Google, I foundthere are quite a high number of results (i.e., 19,800 as at last check), but most of the web sites areauto-generated web pages or those with content that does not make any sense. Some high ranking web sitesactually indirectly stated that their sites were developed for no reason at all, except "it's a popularkeyword in need of a home".

Indeed, GoogeTestAd.com stated at their site that they... "have been unable to find out how or why ithas become so popular, but rumor has it that Googletestad may be the name of a software that is usedto check the search engine ranking of Web sites related to specific key words and phrases."

Further research showed that GoogleTestAd.com's assumption may be truer to the truth as this term appearsto be derived from Google Monitor Query software, a software basically for Search Engine Optimization.

According to SoftEmpire.com, the Google monitor Query software is "designed for search engine specialistsand webmasters who regularly spend hours of monitoring the ranking of their website at Google. The programwill automatically do this annoying job and will give you good statistics about past searches and websiterankings. It also records the website position of your competitors. It can offer you graphic reportsand many useful export capabilities."

You can download a free shareware version of the Google Monitor Query software at the site if you areinterested.

Why is the term "googletestad" so popular in both searches and results?

There is no obvious reason that I can conclusively find.

Perhaps, for generating Adsense income, you might assume?

Not really. One little check via Google AdWords' Traffic Estimator online tool found that "googletestad" orits variant are not too profitable - the average CPC for the term is still extremely low (once again,this is a free online tool provided that you have a Google AdWords account.

It is also not very plausible that there is a sudden surge in demand for information pertaining to theGoogle Monitor Query software to the point that there are more surfers searching for "googletestad" than "ebay" or "yahoo" oreven "google" itself.

It may even be just something related to webmasters promoting their web sites for high ranking in varioussearch engines.

Whatever the reason, you (or me as a matter of fact) should not try to waste too much time trying tosolve this keyword popularity mystery.

Instead, do a check on WordTracker (or any keyword rank tracker) to find out its KEI or "profitability".You can simply use the free trail edition of WordTracker online.

If it is a good keyword to target (i.e., high KEI or equivalent), then by all means, latch onto its currentpopularity and potential by publishing some optimized content about it.

It may turn out to be a dud or just hype.

But you really have nothing to lose as the statistics don't lie, especially given googletestad's fastascending trend in terms of popularity in the past month, as well as the high number of search resultsfor the said term.

You will most likely end up with some bonus visitors to your web site through the organic search enginesfor a term that you have no idea what it really means, and hopefully profit from this.

Lastly, you would not be reading this article if "googletestad" is not more than an excellent keywordto target (at least at the current time of writing).

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