There are several great sources on the web of "popular searches" that help to illustrate the rising trends and consistently buzz-worthy terms and phrases online. These include:

By themselves, these pages can be a fantastic resource for a search marketer trying to find trendy content or high popularity search phrases to target. However, if there were a resource that aggregated all of these sources into one location and enabled one to see the popular searches from the past, maybe even make it available in a CSV format, that would be truly handy, right?

Ask and ye shall receive:

Popular Searches Tool Screenshot

Our latest, completely free tool highlights popular searches from all of these sources, making your brainstorming tasks even easier. There's obviously a lot of uses for this data, so we've also made it available via CSV and given you the ability to go back in time (though right now it only goes back a couple weeks).

Please test it, play with it and let us know what you think!

BTW - I'm in Ashland, OR with Mystery Guest this week, looking at potential wedding locations for next summer, so email & blogging will both be quiet slow. However, Rebecca Kelley returns from a long trip this week, so look forward to more of her presence (along with the rest of the mozzers) while I'm away.