# Google Trends

Google Trends is a free Google tool that charts relative search interest in a topic over time and by region, useful for checking book niche seasonality.

- Canonical page: https://kdp123.com/t/google-trends/
- Official site: https://trends.google.com/trends/
- Categories: Book & Niche Research, Keywords & Categories
- Price: Free
- Platforms: web
- Outputs KDP-ready files: No
- Touches your KDP account: No
- Official Amazon product: No
- Last checked: 2026-11-09

## Summary

Google Trends shows how interest in a search term on Google rises and falls, scaled 0 to 100 relative to all searches for the chosen time and place. A KDP publisher can use it to see whether a niche is growing, fading or seasonal (for example planners or holiday books) and to compare candidate topics. It reflects Google searches, not Amazon searches or book sales, gives no absolute volumes, and shows low-volume terms as zero.

## Pros

- Free, no account needed
- Shows seasonality and long-term direction for a topic

## Cons

- Google search interest, not Amazon or book sales data
- Relative index only, with no search volume numbers

## Alternatives

- [Pinterest Trends](https://kdp123.com/t/pinterest-trends/)
- [Publisher Rocket](https://kdp123.com/t/publisher-rocket/)

## Sources

- https://trends.google.com/trends/
- https://support.google.com/trends/answer/4365533?hl=en