Holidays aren’t just a time to celebrate and swap gifts – it’s the perfect time to go get some extra traffic to your website or forum by creating content geared for the holiday season. Be it Christmas, new year or Easter – in the lead up to each of the holidays search volumes for related phrases and keywords go through the roof. This presents a great opportunity for webmasters, bloggers and forum admins to create on-topic content that will hopefully rank highly in the high-volume holiday searches.
Google trends provides a great way for you to see how volumes for search terms change over time and allow you to plan in advance for certain periods of the year. Below is a graph from Google trends for the search terms Christmas, new year and Easter, the search volumes of which all peak at their respective times of the year.
