So you got your blog setup. You submitted your URL to all of the popular search engines, and you’re ready to write. Now it’s easy to blog away, letting people know you thoughts on any given subject, and at the same time maybe informing people. Even if your very knowledgeable in the subject that your blogging about your looking for a large audience to watch you get on your soap box, so you still need to know what is currently popular.
Google Trends:
This would be the best tool out there to get information on what people are searching for. It allows you to enter key words and gives you graphical data on how much those key words get search, and any news items that might affect how people search. This tool is best used for getting the most from Google, so it will help you gain some traffic, but it can guarantee you anything else.
Amazon.com and Barnesandnoble.com
So just about everyone and their brother has an affiliate program with these guys, and they are a great way of making money. The only problem is driving traffic to their site to make that money. These sites both offer a best seller list, which can help you choose a book, movie, music album, or video game to review. Most people want to at least read some reviews online before they go and spend money on a product that they can’t hold first. Though these sites don’t give you exact numbers, they often offer some kind of cheap used book deal that you can still make money on.
Billboard.com and NYtimes.com
Not only do both of these sites offer best seller list for books and music, but also make a good source of reviews and information on writers and artists that you can use when writing in your blog. Often tiems, the most popular books and albums will have a ton of articles about them, and both of the sites are used as a major buying guide for a lot of consumers, so items in the top 10 or so of their category will look much more attractive to the average reader.
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