ONLINE EARN MONEY

One the the biggest challenges faced by those who want to earn online cash is selecting the right keywordsto use. Some ideas are obvious, such as creating niche sites about things that you know about personally. But, what do you do when you need to move beyond that and where can you get ideas? Let’s take a look at a few sources.

Google Trends

Google Trends shows you the top 100 things that are being searched for via Google at a particular time. The list is currently update about every hour. It is very useful if you want to blog about current trends since you’ll find that most of the big searches are about the hot news and celebrity stories of the day. However, this traffic isn’t always monetizible since people aren’t usually looking to buy something but for information about something. There are exceptions though and those can be quite lucrative.

For long term niche site development you may not find this the best source to use. While you may get trickle traffic and a surge if an item becomes hot again, it isn’t quite what you want from stable niche blog. My suggestion is to save Google Trends for trend blogging or flagship blog traffic unless you happen to catch a convergence of buying keyword and trend that promise more than a quick traffic hit.

Yahoo! Buzz

Yahoo Buzz shows the top 20 searches as well as the 20 searches that have increased in volume the most during the previous week. The interesting thing that you’ll notice on this site are the demographics. Since Yahoo’s search users are a less tech savvy bunch, the kind of people who leave their browser search settings on the factory default or like Yahoo’s mail, the demographics trend both younger and older than what you see on Google Trends. If you’re wanting to target the older or younger crowd you should look here but you may miss the hot 18-30 age trends.

eBay Keywords and Pulse

When you’re searching for the right niche to use with BANS or other eBay Partner Network site it’s a good idea to check out these two tools from eBay. eBay Pulse shows you the top 10 products that are being searched for by eBay’s visitors. This will often center around the most popular products like iPhones and so forth. However, you can drill down by category which can provide you with some great niche ideas. Also check out the most watched auctions since it can provide some insights as well. eBay Keywords allows you to see the top eBay search terms by category which is another way to get at the same information.

Lycos 50

Lycos, a more or less failed search portal, does maintain a life as a free blog provider as well as a few other services. They have a Top 50 page that shows the most searched for term on their blogs. The demographic here tends to be young so expect to see a lot of gaming and young, hip, celebrity topics bubbling up to the top here.

New York Times Most Searched

This New York Times service lets you know what the news hounds are looking for today. As you might suspect, the audience here will tend to be older and into business and political news.

Dogpile SearchSpy

Dogpile is a search aggregation site that features a running feed of meta searches going through their system. This search watcher is a bit addictive and can give you some ideas as you watch the searches go by.

WikiRage

This site shows the most recently updated articles on Wikipedia. It’s a great resource for more informational blogs since it tends to reflect the hot news items of the day.

NowPublic

NowPublic is a ‘participatory news network’ where visitors submit and comment on news stories. It’s great for spotting news trends in a wide variety of areas. You can use it to trend blog or to find ideas on niches you’re interested in.

I hope this list of sites has given you some ideas for where you can search for info to build niche blogs that can help you earn cash online.LINK....