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eBay Pulse at pulse.ebay.com allows you to see the most popular searches, largest stories and most watched items. You can view the same results by category as well: This information can help you decide what items to sell on eBay or if you’re an eBay affiliate, it may help you shape the content you create.… [Keep Reading]
Reddit is a social bookmarking site that allows you to what users are bookmarking and content gets ranked by what users consider to be “good” and what they consider to be “junk”. Although it may not give you a true picture of popular trends like a keyword tool could give you, it is a very… [Keep Reading]
Delicious is a bookmarking site that allows users to bookmark pages that they find interesting. The site makes it easy for you to see what is most popular amongst users, what they’re posting on Twitter about those pages and easily view other pages using the same tags. They claim to have the “biggest collection of… [Keep Reading]
Comscore provides information on the behaviors of Internet users and consumers worldwide. The data is based on approximately 2 million consumers who have volunteered to have their behavior tracked. If you navigate to the Products & Services page at http://comscore.com/Products_Services, you can see the main categories of intelligence they provide. Currently the categories include: Advertising… [Keep Reading]
Yahoo News has similar features to Google News and it’s probably just a matter of preference on which you’d want to use. Yahoo allows you to search top stories by category, search by keywords, see the most viewed stories, most recommended stories and displays trending topics. But one thing we’ve noticed is that Yahoo seems… [Keep Reading]
Digg.com is a more sophisticated bookmarking site where you users bookmark and rank content as well. You can customize your experience at the site and you can subscribe for category updates via RSS. You can browse by category down the left side: …and then sort by “Most Recent”, “Top in 24 Hours”, “7 Days”, “30… [Keep Reading]
Clickbank is a marketplace of digital products (software, information, etc.). What’s handy about the marketplace, in terms of generating content ideas, is that they list products according to popularity. Of course, that is not a foolproof way to see what topics are most popular (as opposed to who has better marketing/copywriting), but it can help… [Keep Reading]
Blog Catalog (http://blogcatalog.com) is useful for finding blogs on certain topics, so you can add them to your RSS reader for research and topic ideas. They claim to be the largest user-submitted blog directory. To browse by category, click “Browse” at the top of the page: This will bring you to a category list. You… [Keep Reading]
Amazon allows you to view the bestsellers in all its categories and sub-categories. It’s a very powerful tool, whether you’re looking for physical products to sell or write about. It’s equally powerful if you’re thinking of creating an information product on a certain topic. You can use this to help determine your market or niche.… [Keep Reading]
