Free Tools to discover your niche and research niche keywords

Free Tools to discover your niche and research niche keywords

Discover where to get ideas for hot niches and research your keywords for free.

 

Ebay

Http://pulse.ebay.com

Discover current trends, hot stores, popular searches and even drill down into specific categories

 

Amazon

http://www.amazon.com/gp/movers-and-shakers/

From here you can see the hottest new items gaining in popularity updated hourly. There are also tabs for most wished for items, new items, best sellers, and gift ideas.

http://www.amazon.com/b/104-1396879-7435108?ie=UTF8&node=15372101

See items people have pre ordered from Amazon. Items not yet available but are already generating orders.

 

Twitter

http://www.twitter.com/search

See what the hot topics are right now. Enter in key words to discover current comments and twitter streams about a specific topic.

 

Popular Products on Click Bank:

http://www.cbengine.com/popular-clickbank-products.cfm

Popluar ClickBank Marketplace Products with the highest Gravity, Momentum, Ranking Change, Payout Averages & more.

Trends:

 Http://www.Trendhunter.com

http://www.trendwatching.com – Focused on consumer trends, get a free trend briefing

New York Times Tag Cloud

http://www.nytimes.com/most-popular-searched?period=30&format=tagcloud

Discover the most  searched, blogged about articles, most popular and emails topics from the New York Times.

Yahoo Search Trends

http://buzzlog.yahoo.com/overall/

See what the world is searching for. Check out the FAQ on BuzzLog

http://buzzlog.yahoo.com/faq/

 

Google Trends:

http://www.google.com/trends

Also See the Google Insights tool for more advanced research:

http://www.google.com/insights/search/

 

AOL Search Trends

http://search.aol.com/aol/trends

 

Top Squidoo Lenses

http://www.squidoo.com/browse/top

Updated daily to give you the top lenses based on quality, freshness and reader activity

Keyword  Phrase Ideas

http://www.Soovle.com – Enter in a keyword and get phrases back from Wikipedia, Google, Amazon, YouTube, Yahoo, Answers and Bing

 

http://www.UberSuggest.org – Google Suggest Scraper. come up with additional keyword phrases from one root word or phrase.

 

 

Affiliate Marketing Tips

When deciding to get started in affiliate marketing there are four major things to consider. Discover these four major building blocks.

When deciding to get started in affiliate marketing there are four major things to consider.

Interest- is there enough interest in your niche to sustain itself? Doing good keyword research at this point will help you determine the levels of interest in the market. You should consider using tools like Keyword Competitor, WordTracker or our favorite Market Samurai

Traffic potential – When looking at the Google Keyword Tool   You can easily see the search traffic for both Global and local searches. This should help you determine if there is enough search traffic available and uncover new phrases and terms that are related to help you build out additional content ideas and structure for your website. Another tool we highly recommend is WordTracker. Start with a root keyword and let WordTracker find all of the phrases for you that have a high KEI value ( less competition but good potential). Focusing on a long tail search three or more word search term or niche marketing is key to a successful affiliate venture.

Domain availability– When possible you want a domain with your keywords in it. Domains are very cheap as little as 7.95 from GoDaddy

 

Product with affiliate program Start a search for “your keyword Affiliate program’  If you do not find anything consider Amazon of Ebay as viable alternatives.

The next thing to consider is content creation. Can you give the visitor added value with your content ? Content can be video,images, text, a PDF, or audio. Unique content will Give you an advantage not only with your visitors but also with the search engines. If you are having difficulty writing articles we recommend TextBroker.com as a reliable source for creating articles. Provide a good description of the type of article you want for best results.

When building out your website be sure to mask your affiliate links. This has been shown to improve click rates as well as quality score in Google. For wordpress sites we recommend Ninja Links word press plugin to cloak or hide your affiliate links. It will also track clicks and insert links based on keywords in previous blog posts as well as future ones.

Plan a strategy for adding fresh content to your site on a regular basis. Things like fun facts, tips, trivia and general information about your product.