Some Researching Tools

OK, so let's say you either want to create a website to put Adsense on, or find affiliate products that are really being searched for... I have a couple tools here that will help you find good keywords.

The first of these is Google Trends. In Google Trends, you can type in words and see what the search volume is for the past few years, or however long they have data for. Unfortunately, unless I'm just not seeing it, they don't have actual numbers. So once you find a good keyword that's working for you on a website, you may want to type that in next to future searches, to compare, and go with words that have an equal or greater amount of searches.

Second is Wordtracker. Wordtracker has a free version and a paid version. With Wordtracker, you can type in a keyword and get related keywords that are also being searched. They will analyze the words you choose and show you which ones have the most competition. You want to pick words with high KEI numbers, although sometimes there are exceptions to the rules.

Now, say you found a product you think people will buy. Before you sign up to become an affiliate and go about promoting it, you may want to check the adCenter Labs. Here, they have a form to detect online commercial intention. How cool is that? They have a little explanation of it on the main page, but basically you're looking for a number over 0.5 .

That's it for today!