Researching Your Blog

To keep your content updated and your blog running smoothly, you will need to research properly. This is a major key to making money from your blog. It’s very important that you see where your blog will fit in the already growing and expanding market. Proper market research can help you do this.

Questions to ask:

* Who am I and what makes my blog unique?
* What special skills or products can I sell?
* What other blogs are being published in this area?
* What am I passionate about?

These questions will help you find your niche market. You need to have a unique selling point. As long as you have this, it doesn’t matter what your niche market is.

There are many great places you can do research for your blog. Just look at the world around you, your family and friends, television, the news and other places to find inspiration and ideas. Then of course, there is the internet.

Having the proper keywords related to your topic is also important to having a successful blog and making money. So how do you get the right keywords to use in your blog texts? There are some tools available on line to help you with this.

Free keyword research tools

There are many free keyword search tools out there you can use for research to help you find the right keywords to use in your blogs.

Overture keyword suggestion tool

http://inventory.overture.com/d/searchinventory/suggestion/

Overture has a large network of web portals and search engines, including Yahoo!, MSN, AltaVista, AllTheWeb, Dogpile and many others. Overture has recently become Yahoo Search Marketing.

All you need to do is to enter your search term, wait a few seconds and you will get words, two-word, three-word and longer phrases that relate to your original query.

GoodKeywords

www.goodkeywords.com

Good Keywords is free and easy to use. It uses tools provided by other search engines to do keyword research automatically. It is much faster than searching by hand and will save you time and money.

Google's keyword tool

https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal

This is another popular one and like Overture, it is meant to help clients find the right keywords for pay per click ads. This tool also allows you to search for multiple keywords and phrases at the same time.