How to use Google’s free tools to boost your ecommerce business

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Businesses today cannot expect to attract new customers with the same services or products that have been offered 10 years ago. The only way to keep up with the ever changing consumers’ needs is to constantly analyze what is trending.

Becoming the go-to source for a desirable product is the secret recipe for generating sales leads. For example, if you specialize in health and beauty products, offering exactly the type of products your customers are talking about will set your business apart from the rest.

Don’t realize what you’re lacking only when competitors steal your sales.

If you already have a variety of products on your ecommerce site, a single boost to a particular trending item can improve overall sales. As today’s product discovery and purchasing processes take place mostly on the internet (especially on mobile devices), business owners today can easily access, collect and record data on the customer’s shopping journey.

In this article, we’ll examine the advantages of utilizing Google’s free tools such as Google Trends, Google AdWords and Google Search Console to decide what you should sell.

Google Trends

Google Trends is a fantastic tool for market research. It offers visual graphs of local and regional search queries of your choosing. It collects data from previous years so you can easily see if a market is trending up or down. For example, here are the steps if you are considering boosting skin care products on your site:

Step 1: Observe the customers’ interest for cosmetics in Malaysia

The graph below shows an upward trend for the cosmetics search queries from 2005 till present in Malaysia. You can try out different search terms to get the most comprehensive data.

Step 2: Develop business ideas by looking up related searches:

As you can see below, the top search queries provide wonderful insights on which products or brands that cosmetics buyers are looking for specifically. Korean skin care products seem dominant compared to cosmetics from other countries.

Google Keyword Planner

Google Search Console