Google’s Wonder Wheel – Increase Web Usability

We at Search Circus, love images and graphics depicting Web usability tools, and Google’s Wonder Wheel is a really cool feature if you need more search term ideas.

Type any search term in Google, let’s use Search Engine Marketing, for an example. At the top of the search results, in blue, is “Show Options.” Click on this and a menu appears on the left-hand side of the screen. Are you thinking, “Looks like Bing”? Now click on “Wonder Wheel” under Standard View. What do you get? A diagram I have seen so many times in schools across the country, a graphic organizer. Yeah, we thought it was pretty awesome too.

Search Engine Marketing Wonder Wheel

Try Googling your name as well, what other terms are linked to your name? Hopefully ones that will lead visitors to your company.

Ok, it’s a cool graphic that also brings up additional search results on the right, which match those additional keywords, but what is the Web usability? Google’s Wonder Wheel is a great way to find additional keywords for your Website, or if you need ideas to write blogs, articles, corporate newsletters and more. Send a Twitter to your followers about one of the search terms to increase Web usability among social network searches, heck, you can put a hashtag (#) next to the term and see how many people talk about it as well.

Stuck on finding a synonym? Try the Wonder Wheel! Want to know which words your competitors are associated with? Try the Wonder Wheel. Google still has its advantages as a super search engine.

If you’re a curious tech geek, or just curious about other features on this menu, try clicking “Timeline.” You’ll get another bar graph of sorts that tracks the history of the search term. See below for “Search Engine Marketing.” As you can see, the earliest recorded term was in 2004 and the associated results are also visible.

Search Engine Marketing Timeline

Search Engine Marketing Timeline

Want to find images for your search term, click on “Images from the page.” A return of all the images related to the search term which are found on the page. Here’s one I found, great circle diagram, which also offers additional buzz words if I wanted to search more on this topic.

SEO Chart for Web Usability

SEO Chart for Web Usability

Try it, have fun with these Web usability tools and see where it leads you! Need more tips about Web usability? Call the certified experts at SearchCircus.com.

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