Sunday, April 5, 2009

Free Niche Market Research

In other posts we have discussed selecting your domain if you
have a business or are "branding" yourself, but if you are not yet
sure how to check hot markets, here are some free niche market
research tips...

Now, the tips are free and it won't cost you anything but time to
do the niche market research, but like everything else on the 'Net
it will require some work and some action.

The idea here is to provide you with the ability to research what
is "hot" right now to give you a system of finding hot niche markets.

We will discuss how to do this research using Google and Google's
Free Tools....

First, go to Google

Next, in the Search bar, type in "google hot trends" (quotes are not
necessary) or just type in: google.com/trends

Google Trends

Explore Google users' interest in search topics. Compare search terms, find out how popular searches are in particular regions, see related news stories, and look ...

Today's Search looks like this:




Examples
spiderman judaism brad pitt, angelina jolie
nytimes.com spaceneedle.com slashdot.org, digg.com




Today's Hot Trends (USA)
1. viral video
2. trace adkins
3. lady antebellum
4. reba mcentire
5. wounded warrior project

6. miranda lambert
7. troubadour
8. heidi newfield
9. sugarland
10. george strait

More Hot Trends »
country music awards
acm awards 2009 winners
Show was on cbs-tv so this dominated Trends today...

Not familiar with a "Trend" phrase? Click on it....
(I selected #5: "wounded warrior project" for this demonstration)

wounded warrior project





Hotness: Volcanic

Related searches:
wounded warrior, cbs, cbs.com, trace atkins, trick pony

Peak:
4 hours ago



How to do further research?
Provided on the Page are "News Articles" and "Blog Posts"

"Volcanic" is the hottest of the Hot Trends

On the original list of 10 above, you can see the Top 100
by clicking on: More Hot Trends »

You could search this list every day or every hour if you'd like....

Explore advanced features with Google Insights for Search

Using Google Insights, another free niche market research tool,
will allow you to do free Keyword Research related to trends.

a) add your niche market word or phrase in "websearch" box
b) change "worldwide" to a country you want to target
(for instance, if you select United States, Insights will also give
you the States doing the most searching for your niche...you can
"drill down" even further into cities and specific county trends).

c) pick a time period. You can select "last 12 months" for a long
view of a niche market or you can shorten the results to only now
cover the results over the past 90 days or even last 30 days only.

We hope this helps you to have at your disposal some good, free
niche market research tools via Google.

Once you have identified your niche market interest...do you know
how to get your domain and hosting set up? Do you know how to
build your online presence and get traffic?

If you need that help, you can have a look at this message from
Erik Stafford, the Faster Webmaster...

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