6 Squidoo Traffic Strategies You can Used to Make Money Online

Are you wondering why people keep on recommending Squidoo.com? Well, it is because Squidoo.com is one of the powerful and fast growing Web 2.0 sites available free for web publishers and marketers to make money online. Squidoo allows you to create web pages called lenses which can be posted with whatever content and information you want to share with the world.

By being part of Squidoo, you will be able to use Squidoo lens as the marketing tools for your online business. You don’t have to worry about the rules and regulations of Squidoo as it is perfectly OK to promote your affiliate products, business website or anything else you like to promote on your lenses.

To make your Squidoo lense work for you, the lense has to be attention-grabbing so that it can attract traffic constantly. Those visitors come to you lense not just will read your content but also will click on your affiliate links or business website to find out what you are offering. As a result, you may end up turning these lense visitors into paying customers.

Below are a few strategies you can use to attract attention and traffic:

Create an Impressive Profile
Building a Squidoo profile that appeals others isn’t very difficult. Squidoo lets you upload Youtube videos, Flickr images and much more. These features are great help for making your profile attractive. And the bio photo of your profile, make sure you upload a quality one.

Include Your Target Keywords
Your lense have the ability to attract search engine traffic. So, the content in your lense should contain your main keywords to let the search engines better understand what your lense is about and send you the most targeted traffic. But, don’t overuse keywords in your lense as this could cause your lense blocked by Squidoo staff.

Tag Your Lense
During the process of building a new lense, Squidoo lets you add a title and suggest some keywords. Those are actually your tags. For the entire lense to be effective, you need to tag your lense appropriately which means you should add tags (keywords) that are directly relevant to your topic.

Add in Interesting Images
If you browse on Squidoo lenses, you will find that most of the lenses have the similar format and look. This is a good chance for you to make your lense look unique and interesting. You can do this by placing images and photos to your lense. The images you use must be interesting and have a relation to your content. This way you will make your lense different from others, giving you advantage of drawing more attention.

Network in SquidU
SquidU is much like a bulletin board created for members (Lensemasters) of Squidoo to learn everything about Squidoo. SquidU can be very helpful to you as you can connect with people who know more than you. They can help you optimize your lenses, create attractive profile, and guide you on the effective way to use Squidoo to market your business.

Struggle to Become Lense of the Day
Every day the chief of Squidoo editor will pick a lense that stands out from the crowd and feature as Lense of the Day. The Lense of the day probably will experience a great increase in traffic and exposure. So, you may think about getting your lense to become Lense of the Day. I know this doesn’t sound easy, but you should set a goal to make it to Lense of the Day and struggle to achieve it. One marketer shares a method which is to target topics that are of current interest, such as Olympics. Big news items or clever lenses can end up featuring on the Lens of the Day in the Squidoo blog and gain a lot of traffic overnight!

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Openx - The Tool that can Increase Your Revenue from Online Advertising

No matter what type of online money making venture you are in, there are always certain software tools that help can you.

In this blog post, I like to introduce you a popular, free ad serving software called OpenX. OpenX is basically an online ads management software which provides everything you need to manage your ad campaigns. It will help you make more money from online advertising.

If you are selling online or promoting affiliate products, you are going to start ad campaigns to make sales. Openx enables you to target your ad campaigns to the right people based on locations, keywords and more; track and compare the performance of all your campaigns so that you know what ad campaigns are best for maximizing your revenue.

If you are selling ad space on your website or blog to generate income, Openx can help you manage all your ad space effectively and also it will generate ad campaign performance report for your advertisers.

You can learn more about Openx at http://www.openx.org. Do give it a try, I'm sure it will give you better control on your online advertising.

Anyway, you might need some practical tips on how to use Openx to make more money in your online Business, here's the link to a free training by Jeff Johnson from Underground Training Lab:

http://www.undergroundtraininglab.com/113/openx_call/

In the training, Jeff shares with you how he has actually used OpenX to increase his affiliate business revenue.

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Free Resources Helpful for Making Money Online - 20th Sep 2008

Today, I have a few free resources to share with you:

Internetmarketingrush.com
Do you need somebody to show you in step by step on making money with Internet marketing? Guido Nussbaum has put together a 30 day step by step marketing course in which he will show you the exact same Internet marketing Techniques he has personally used to build up a big list and earn a consistent income of about $5000 every month.

AIDA Profit Formula E-Book
This e-book is about affiliate marketing. Peter Yoon, author of this e-book is going to share with you his AIDA formula which has made him thousands of dollars in affiliate profit. AIDA stands for Attention, Interest, Desire and Action. You will understand how AIDA formula can be used to make money from affiliate marketing.

Outsource2success.com
When you online business grow bigger, you may find that you don' have the time and energy to handle all the works. This is the time to outsource part of your works to others. You got to know what tasks to outsource, how to find the right persons to do your work, how much you should pay, and etc. So, there are things to learn in outsourcing. The site Outsource2success.com has plenty of study materials about outsourcing where you get free access to and learn how you can make more money while working lesser.

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Make Money Online with Domain Name in Three Ways

In the real estate industry, there are three common ways of making money with housing: flip it, rent it out, or live in it while waiting the value builds up and sell it in future for great profit.

For domain name, you can make money exactly the same three ways as applied in the real estate industry.

Flipping
These days, it is hard to make money by flipping real estate. But flipping domain names is in different case. Flipping domain names works pretty simple. Just like reselling business. You purchase inventory then resell it to the market for profit. The domain names are your inventory or product. You will be buying domain names and sell them out quickly for profit. You don't intend to keep those domain names to develop a website on them, nor will you part it on a domain parking site.

You can buy a lot of domain names from prices $7 to $15 and sell them as quick as possible. These domain names generally have very little or no traffic at all. Thus, they aren't a valuable piece of cyber real estate that will net you thousands of dollars of profit. But, if you have bought some good names, you probably can find buyers willing to pay you $20 to $100 for a domain name.

One of the good places for selling your domain names is eBay.com. By running auctions, you gain the advantage of pressuring the buyers to fight over your domains which will drive up your prices.

All the domain names sale auctions are listed under Web Domains & Services – a sub-category of Computers & Networking category in eBay.com.

One type of domain names that often sell well in eBay.com is those four letter acronyms domain names. They don’t have to make sense, as long as they are good to pronounced, people will place their bid to buy. To know what other types of domain names are attracting buyers, you need to do research.

Browse the auction pages to find those domain name auctions that attract bids, take a look the domain names, how the sellers set up their auction and write their sale description. This can give you hints and ideas of what domain names you should sell in eBay.

Another marketplace helpful to your domain flipping business is Sedo.com. You not only can buy your inventory (domain names) there, but also resell your inventory for profit in the same place. Sedo allows you to list your domain names for sales. There are two options to choose when listing domain names in Sedo.com which are “Fixed Price” pricing option and “make offer” option. Using the “fixed price” option means you are setting a price that you want to sell. But this option isn’t recommended because most buyers prefer to negotiate when buying domains. So, it is best to use the “make offer” option. Let the buyers make an offer to you and state the price they are willing to pay will increase your chance of making a sale.

Sedo wouldn’t charge you for listing your domain names for sales, but you need to pay at least 10% commission if a sale is resulted. The minimum commission you must pay is $50 if you sold a dot com, dot net, dot info and dot org domain name in Sedo. So, you would want to use Sedo only when you have high potential domain names to sell.

Some other trusted marketplaces for selling domain names are snapnames.com and tdnam.com and etc.

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Make Money Online with Domain Name in Three Ways

In part 1, we have discussed about the first way which is by flipping domain names for quick profit. Now, this article will share with you the rest of the two methods you can use to profit with domain names.

Parking
Maybe, you don’t like domain flipping because it involves Internet selling. You are wondering if there is any other way to make money online with domain names. Yes, there is. You can park your domain names into the domain parking websites and earn a share of advertising revenue.

The parking service websites will generally set up a page on your domain name. You get the chance to select a template and the niche of your advertising. They will place relevant ads on your page and you will earn a share of the ads revenue generated through your page. The advertising models are either cost-per-click (CPC) or cost per thousand (CPM). If the ads appear on your page are CPC, then you will earn money for each ad click. If CPM, you will earn based on each thousand of page views.

Some well known parking services are Namedrive.Com, Parked.com and Whypark.com. Each of these parking websites has their own rules of website parking. Make sure you read and understand the rules before signing up for a parking service.

Developing
Now that you know both flipping and parking domain names can make you money. Let’s discuss the third choice of using domain names to make money online, which is site developing. Site development will require a lot more investment, effort and time; and of course the return will be high.

You will buy a domain name, keep the domain name and then build a website on it. You are going to grow the website and make your domain valuable so that you can sell it for a great price and reap in lucrative profit.

Here are the things that can increase the value of your site and domain:

• Google PageRank – Most websites in the index of Google gained a Google PageRank (PR). It can be PR1 to PR10. The higher the PR, the better the value of your domain name.
• Existing Traffic – If you have put hard effort in marketing your site and achieved some success, your site would have gained high amount of traffic / visitors constantly. People just like this kind of website because once they take over; they will immediately start enjoying traffic and earn revenue without put in effort. So, it is easy to sell a high traffic site for a good price.
• Site Revenue – Another interesting factor that buyers want to look for. Buyers are eying on sites that generate consistent revenue every month.
• Inbound Links – Inbound links also help. The more your site gaining inbound links, the more they will help in appraising the value.
  

For the site design and look, they don’t play a very important role. A website with standard design will do. If you are a web designer, you can build the site by yourself using software. For those who don’t know how to build website, don’t worry, there are good website builders like Xsitepro you can use to create website. There is no HTML code you need to add in, just be familiar with the software, follow instructions, click your mouse and you can put up a brand new website.

As you will need to make your site sellable, you will probably have to work a lot in marketing and promotion to build up your PR, traffic, site revenue and inbound links.

While marketing and promotion can build up your traffic and PR, content writing shouldn’t be ignored. The content must be unique and offer value to the visitors. This is to keep you visitors coming back to your site often.

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Eliminating the Roadblocks Holding You Back from Making Money Online

The two big names in the Internet marketing field, Jay Abraham and Rich Schefren have planned to do a teleseminar in Wednesday, Sep 24th. The title of this teleseminar is Constraint-Buster. It will be focusing on helping you eliminate the constraints (barriers) that blocking your from success.

You may have worked very hard on your online business, but your business just don't make much money for you. You want to give up. No, don't give up. Jay and Rich are here to help.

In the seminar, they will provide you the proven ways for eliminating your constraints and subsequently achieve the business success you dream of. You will also get an insider's look at how Jay and Rich have helped thousand of people who want to make money online to discover the hidden factors stopping them.... and watched them get rid of their barriers and make load of money on the Internet.

Register now at http://www.strategicprofits.com/gps/jr to join Jay and Rich in live this teleseminar at Sep 24th.

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Tips of SMO for Internet Marketing

Internet Marketing is the process of promoting products online. Thousands of companies and small business are making their way to success in selling services or products through their website online. One of the most helpful Internet Marketing Strategy they used is SMO. It stands for Social Media Socialization, which increases the traffic ability of your website from social networking sites and receive high search engine rankings.

If you want to increase your ability to receive thousands of sales each month, studying SMO strategy helps a lot. The most important techniques you should consider is to learn more about the process. Here are some tips to help you:

Good Content
Learn to write content to help increase the knowledge of the readers. The title should be catchy and write content daily to help readers get update. Remember that no one will love to read non-sense content.

Social Networking sites
Your target market is social networking sites so you need to look for those with high Ranking. They are already searchable and have thousands of users so you can have the assurance of many visitors.

Target Specific Audience
Every Social Networking sites have their specific target of audience. You need to submit your content according to information like this content 6 tips of SMO for Internet Marketing, which can be submit to the following Social Networking sites:

• PlugIM- is a Social Networking sites for internet Marketing topics. You can bookmark content, which you find very helpful for you.
  
• Sphinn - is a Social Networking sites for Internet Marketing Professionals. It helps you to share your content and receive vote from other users.

Summary of the Content
Online Readers read very fast. They do not stop to look each of the summaries submitted to Social Networking sites. The summary of your content should be interesting. Never write summary with confusing information like “Internet Marketing: SEO and SMO”. The main purpose here is to give idea of the whole content, not to confuse the readers.

Make bookmarking and voting easy
Social Networking sites offer free quick buttons. You can put it on your content for easy access of the readers to bookmark and to vote. It helps to increases the popularity of your content. Remember that many readers need to have reminder because most of them forget it.

Reward Readers
Many readers will continue to read your content, if they receive important information and reward. Letting them to link in your site or allow, “Do follow” for their website whenever they comment is a good strategy.

Social Media Socialization provides big impact because everyone is receiving benefits. As the process of SMO continues, the ability of internet marketing will continue to be successful. Right attitude, Right Knowledge and Right Strategy is necessary!

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Want to Know the New Techniques of Making Money Online with Affiliate Programs?

Anik Singal, founder of Affiliate Classroom did an interview with a guy who has earned more than one million in affiliate commission. This guy was $20,000 in debt for the last 3 years but now he is making $7,000 per day by marketing affiliate products only. He has come up a system which involves the use of pay per click (PPC) advertising to make money with affiliate marketing.

Anik has asked this guy to talk about how he did it in the interview and yes this guy is willing to share his business model and his PPC strategies. He gave some new and advanced PPC strategies that you may also apply them to your affiliate business for achieving better result.

The whole session of this interview was recorded. If you like to get access and listen to this interview series for interesting strategies and tips, you may sign up at:

http://www.ppcclassroom.com

There will be a series of interview and this is just the first one. Anik will send you more upcoming interview videos once you sign up.

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What are the Easy Ways to Make Money Online?

I actually wrote a few articles about how to make money online the easy ways and published them on this blog and article directories for the past couple of years.

Because not everyone likes to start an e-business or learn Internet marketing to make money online, some people just prefer to make money online in simple and straight forward way; So, in this blog post, I like to again write about the easy ways of making money on the Internet with up-to-date info to help you find out what are the choices you have if you want an easy method of earn money online.

Sign up Cash Offers
There are companies that want more and more people to try their product or service from time to time. To attract people to try and test their products, these companies offer cash incentive to anyone who sign up their offer or try their product. And the good news is, it is not difficult to find these companies thanks to those free service websites that list paid offers.

One of the best free service websites now is Treasuretrooper.com. Treasuretrooper.com has few hundreds of cash offers in their database. The payout of these offers rank from $0.50 to $50 which means you can earn $0.50 to $50 for signing up or completing an offer in Treasuretrooper. All the offers are available only to residents in US, Canada and UK. If you aren't living in these three countries, you wouldn’t be able to sign up the offers and earn cash.

However, there is a referral program that everyone can join in Treasuretrooper. This referral program can help you earn some extra money constantly. By referring new people to join Treasuretrooper and complete offer, you will earn a percentage of referral commission.

The opportunities in Treasuretrooper wouldn't be able to replace your employment income but they can provide you an extra source of revenue like $20 to $50 per month if you keep on signing up offers and referring new members.

It is a real program that truly pays. I have been a member of Treasuretrooper more than a year. I received their check from month to month.

Search Yahoo
I come across a quite popular site, Homepages-Friends.com which offers to pay people search on Yahoo. I did an investigation; this site has no relation to Yahoo actually. They are just inviting people to sign up and search Yahoo to get paid.

It is completely free to join. All you to is search and search Yahoo. It has been discussed in a lot of forums. So far I find no proof of this program is a scam. A number of people are commenting positively about this program and some even posted screenshots to prove that they have been paid for searching.

So, it is worth a try if you are looking for an easy way to earn cash. But this isn't a program that can provide you full-time income. If earning a couple of extra bucks monthly sound good to you, the program is right for you.

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Free 116 Page Money Making E-book for You

Here's is an early Christmas gift for you:This is a new e-book with a lot of good content inside. It is a comprehensive guide that can help you to start a low cost online business to make money on the Internet. You will benefit from reading this e-book whether you are a beginner or already started an online business.

You need to know and understand the basic fundamentals of online business in order to get started. This e-book will help you learn the basics as fast as possible.

You don't have to invest a lot and create your own product because you can take advantage of affiliate programs and resell rights (promoting other people products). You will learn it in step-by-step.

Other important aspects like setting an effective website, choosing the right domain name, strategies and methods to profit from your online business are also covered in this book.

Download a free copy of Mining Your Fortune On The Internet now and find out everything you need to know in order to start your very own money making online business.

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Make Money With Small Business Ideas Online

Making money with a small business has long been the well trodden path to personal and financial freedom for years. The shift in sheer numbers of people starting a small business in the last decade has been astounding, to say the least. Why?

People who have been employed in a particular field for a decade or more begin to understand that, in order to make more money, they need to make a change. In the past, arriving at this realization has been a painful one, but more often today, the arrival is a launching place.

With information being much more accessible today, starting a small business and implementing a money making plan is on the table, a realistic option for millions of Americans. The culture of "Get a Safe Job" has retired along with the millions of baby boomers and aspiring success minded people are evaluating small business ideas instead. Using the Internet and web based tools to automate many of the common business practices and processes saves a ton of time and the need for face to face selling, this is a huge attractor for the business minded person who wishes to maintain time freedom.

Small business online are becoming more and more popular especially among first time entrepreneurs and small business owners looking to expand their businesses. Some online small business ideas include publishing Information, membership websites, matching consumers with merchants, web design, online publications and blogging.

These are just a few of the many online small business ideas the people are making money with currently. Some of the benefits of starting an online small business cost of entry, and the low cost of overhead. Imagine starting a business without the cumbersome costs of real estate, equipment, employees, employment taxes and workers compensation.

Just a few of the common costs associated with starting a small business that are virtually erased when you start a business online. The Internet serves as a powerful marketing tool for many entrepreneurs and connecting with customers across the globe is commonplace in the online small business world.

Author Bio
For more information about small business ideas and tips to starting a successful home based business without the costs usually associated with a small business start up, Visit Create Liberty online by following a link above.

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Learning Search Engine Optimization (SEO) - Where to Start?

Search engine optimization (SEO) is one of the important things you need to do when making money on the Internet. SEO will improve your website and blog performance and rankings in Google so that you can get more targeted traffic and generate more online income.

There are many free guide, ebooks and reports about SEO. Some are good and giving accurate information and other are just promotional e-books offering limited content. It is going to take you a lot of time to find out which one you can rely on.

However, there is one SEO e-book that can't be wrong. It is the SEO Starter Guide released by Google in last month. Google is the one who set the rules on how to rank websites and blogs in their search engine. So, definitely, their SEO Started Guide will provide you the precise information and tips on how to optimize your website to become Google friendly and improve ranking in Google.

SEO starter Guide teaches you to effectively change and optimize your website for improving Google ranking. Whether you are beginners or an experienced web publishers, you can follow the tips on SEO started guide when optimizing your web pages for SEO.

SEO involves on-page optimization and off-page optimization. The SEO Started Guide covered all the aspects of on-page optimization. on-page optimization is necessary and will help increase your Google ranking but not enough for getting your website ranked on first page on Google.

You need to do off-page optimization if you want a top ten ranking. Off-page optimization is about building relevant backlinks for your website. You need as many relevant backlinks as possible. It takes time and works when building links. But once your website reached top in Google, you could be getting a lot of free targeted and making decent amount of cash from the traffic.

There is one SEO expert teaching off-page optimization. His name is Brad Callen, the creator of SEO Elite software tool. In his sale website of SEO Elite, he is offering a free 7 day SEO cource. You may sign up for the course anytime at http://www.seoelite.com. The course teaches you about off-page optimization but also covers on-page optimization at the beginning.

SEO forums also are also helpful to you. If you have questions or need advice, you can ask it in SEO forum like http://forums.seochat.com and http://www.webproworld.com

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Duplicatable Systems Are a Must Have For Network Marketers

It's an unfortunate truth that a person cannot be duplicated. Your unique blend of personality, skill, expertise, and persuasion makes you a successful salesperson. But you can't clone your traits and pass them on to your protégés. Instead, you have to find or develop a duplicatable system that can be used again and again for repeated success for all of the network marketers in your downline.

Why is a duplicatable system so important? Think of the outdated network marketing model that began with your friends and family. Marketers were advised to recruit the people they knew and loved. But this made for some awkward and uncomfortable moments on both sides. What if the marketer's friends and family weren't interested in the venture? Would they cause tension by saying, "Thanks, but no thanks"? What if they signed on because they felt obligated, but their hearts weren't in it? Plus, this system is very limited. Once you run out of friends and family, what do you do? Become a salesperson making cold calls, that's what.

Now let's compare that model to a duplicatable system of the past. It used to be a popular strategy to hand out audio tapes at network marketing seminars. Why? Because that approach took advantage of targeted marketing; that is, the people who were being marketed to already had a proven interest in network marketing, or else they wouldn't have been at the seminar. Targeted marketing has a proven advantage over cold calling or other non-targeted approaches.

Secondly, the audio tape tactic was duplicatable. Anyone could record an audio tape full of useful information to be distributed. And anyone could accept such a tape, listen to it, and decide to join in on the action. It was a convenient strategy that didn't turn marketers into uncomfortable salespeople. It worked.

Fast forward to the era of Web 2.0 marketing. If you want to be a success, you've got to have a system with a proven success rate. It's not enough to build a web site and hope that people will visit it; you've got to entice them into stopping by, browsing around, and, eventually, signing up. If readers see valuable content on your site, they'll spend more time there and they will return - with friends. So be sure to give them something valuable as a reward. One popular duplicatable system involves e-book downloads.

Picture it: a reader stops by your site and sees a link to a free download. They read through a quick preview of the e-book's contents and decide that it sounds like a good way to spend their time. They download the e-book, read it, and get blown away by the specific helpful advice they find inside. Hyped up by what they read, they return to your site and leave comments, ask questions in the message forum, or share helpful information of their own. Now you've got a lead on someone who really wants the help you have to offer. Get a dialogue going, get them recruited, and share your system with them.

Doesn't that sound a lot better than hitting up friends and family members? Not everyone can work up the courage to tap a cold market, but anyone can post a link to an e-book on their blog or web site. Your recruits will use the same system to recruit others, building your downline and theirs in a replicating system of income. That's the beauty of a duplicatable system in action, and that's why you need one now.

Author Bio
Greg Mangin is a professional engineer and network marketer coaching a team of profit conscious entrepreneurs to make an income from home. Greg can be contacted through his website where you can get your own duplicatable, branded, customizable marketing system at http://blogs.MLMglobalDomination.com?t=mminfo or personally at 812-582-039.

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How to Use Yahoo to Find a Profitable Niche Market

About three weeks ago, I posted a blog entries here titled 'How to Use Google to Find a Profitable Niche Market'. The post explained how to use several free tools provided by Google to identify a profitable niche.

Besides Google, Yahoo is another popular search engine that can help you to research and find a good niche market. Like Google, Yahoo provides a number of good tools you can use to find profitable niche markets.

The Yahoo directory is where you will find a list of all the categories Yahoo has to offer. You can click on a topic and narrow your scope until you find websites that provide information and resources.

Other tools helpful for your niche market research are:

Yahoo Search Marketing
Yahoo search marketing used to be called Yahoo Overture, but changed its name when Yahoo decided to add services to those advertising on Yahoo search engine results. If you want to use the tools provided by Yahoo search marketing, you will have to open a free account by visiting .

With your account, you will be able to research the popularity of the topics on your list, the average bid on keywords by other businesses, and which markets keywords are used most often. If you have a bunch of very broad topics on your list, you can break them down by creating a list of keywords that best describes the topic.

Begin your search by entering in keywords to see how popular they are by those surfing the Internet.

Keywords that have been searched more than 50,000 times in one month may be too popular to be considered a niche market. On the other hand, keywords that have been searched less than 10,000 times in a month may not have enough interest to be profitable. You should try to find keywords that have been searched between 10,000 and 50,000 times in one month. This means that there is enough interest in the niche and there may be little competition.

Once you have narrowed your topics, visit Google and use their bid tools to see if the results are similar.

Yahoo Buzz
Yahoo buzz is a great place to find ideas for niche by getting a better idea about what people are searching for online. Similar to Google Zeitgeist, you will be given a list of hot topics that can be turned into keywords for your research. Visit http://buzz.yahoo.com for more information.

After narrowing down your list and finding a few niche groups that look promising, it's time to begin putting your product together. Since the majority of those who earn an income sell information in the form of an eBook, or special report, your product will probably be digitally based. This means it can be downloaded directly from your site to the user's computer after they pay for it.

Because niche markets have a limited life span, you will need to act quickly in putting together your materials so you can sell them before the trend wears off or competition becomes too fierce. But if you are unsure as to which products to offer, the following websites can help you find products that appeal to your niche group.

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