The Google Series

As the saying goes:

If you research a platform on that platform—using it and singing its praises—you will be rewarded with traffic recommendations.

The reason so many content platforms attract creators is that they are designed to host User-Generated Content (UGC). This strategy prevents user churn, encourages users to actively produce content, and even prompts them to spend money promoting that content—all advantages that work entirely in the platform’s favor.

However, if your content disparages the platform, it will throttle your traffic. Conversely, if you praise the platform—for instance, by describing how much money YouTube has helped you earn or how it has transformed your life—YouTube will aggressively boost your content with recommendations. But if you call YouTube “garbage,” it will restrict your views or even ban your channel.

That is simply the reality of the situation.

The same applies to Google; after all, YouTube is one of Google’s products.

Currently, the Google tools I am familiar with and actively use are Google Search Console and Google Analytics.

Yesterday, I experimented with Google Gemini; today, I tried out Google Trends. Both are available completely free of charge.

Google Gemini

By clicking the “Ask Gemini” button located in the top-right corner of my Chrome browser, I can open a chat interface.

I navigated to my blog and asked Gemini to analyze the site—specifically, to identify its content themes and suggest areas for improvement. The response was quite good; it was able to directly recognize the specific webpage I was currently viewing.

However, when I opened my Google Search Console dashboard, Gemini was unable to recognize the current page. (I suspect this is because Google Search Console requires a login; even though I was currently logged in, privacy policies likely prevent the AI ​​from accessing or reading my specific Search Console data—which is rather frustrating.)

It is worth noting that, unlike ChatGPT, Gemini does not currently support image uploads, so I am limited to providing descriptions via text alone.

The sole advantage is that Gemini offers a sufficiently long context window, and—according to the service itself—it allows for unlimited usage completely free of charge.

My recommendation is to pose the exact same questions to ChatGPT, Grok, and Gemini. This allows you to gather a variety of different responses, from which you can simply select the answer you find most useful or insightful.

Google Trends

I recently came across a post on Reddit where a user claimed they were able to generate $115 in Google AdSense revenue from just 3,000 website clicks in a single day.

The post highlighted several key elements of their strategy:

They used AI to generate content.

They utilized Google Ads to run advertising campaigns.

They employed Google Trends to analyze keywords.

Of course, there is no way for us to verify whether this story is true or not. However, since the post mentioned Google Trends, I decided to open it up and take a look myself. My conclusion is that this tool is best suited for professionals or experts in the field; it is not really the right fit for me.

Summary

The purpose of this article is to document the strategy of prioritizing Google’s own products—such as Google Trends, Gemini, Google Search Console, Google Analytics, and Google Ads—when operating on the Google platform.

By highlighting and leveraging the strengths of these tools, you will naturally be rewarded with referral traffic from Google.