To be successful and have a profitable blog the first thing that must be done is to decide what subject you are to cover in your quest to build a profitable business online.The first question to ask yourself is what do you like to do or what are you an expert in. What information can you share with your audience that they will be interested in and what do they want information do they want you to supply, what problem do they have that they need a solution to.
In this series of post i will discuss the tools and the procedure i use to find a niche i think will be profitable.Most of these tools and other resources are free, others are not.I have found several sites that i like to use to find a niche that is hot and has a reasonable amount of searches and dos not have to much competition.

Resource list:

Shopping Top Searches

MSN

WordTracker Free Keyword

Google

Google Keyword

Google Trends

Google HotTrends

Google Labs

Snap Shot

Internet Archive

Yahoo

SitePoint

Amazon

SeoBook

ebay Pulse

DMOZ

Oprah

GoRank

I will cover how and why i use each site in later post.

Here is the software tools i use:

Search Automator
This is a free tool that i rally like it makes searching several sources much easier .
Hot item finder
This is software that finds hot items on ebay , not free
Micro Niche finder
A really great program that gives related searches on a keyword gives search volume , exact phrase count and strength of competition plus more Keywords also
Ad word analyzer
this tool does the same research plus will show ad word ads from competition and cost per click. really useful if you are using ad word ppc.

more to follow in part 2, be sure to check back.

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