Inventive Millionaire

I just thought I’d give you all a list of places where you can find out the most popular searches at the moment:

Ask.com – Last Week’s Top Searches
Ebay Pulse – a daily snapshot of current trends, hot picks, and cool stuff on eBay
AOL Search – Hot Searches
Google – Today’s Hot Trends
The Lycos 50
Yahoo! Buzz
Search.com – [...]

So I’ve just found this tool browsing on Microsoft adLabs, its very useful.  With it you can type in a search term and it will preduct a user’s age, gender and a bit more demographic information.  This is very useful when you are creating an advert for a keyword and want to know how it [...]

So this is a website I just found through a blog from MSN.  It basically allows you to enter a search query and it will return the probability that this is a commercial query.  I’ve had a play around and it seems as though it may be useful.  It could fit the missing piece of [...]

Ok so I mentioned before in my blog that KEI is misleading so I have developed my own version.

Keyword research, you get all the words that relate to the product/service
You find out search volumes of all the keywords
You do a search on Google for allintitle:[keyword] to find out how many people are actually competing with [...]

Google Adwords – Keyword suggestion tool is the tool for search volumes.Google Insights – See search trends for keywords and industries by region, date range. An excellent marketing research tool, also check out Google TrendsGoogle Analytics – One of the best and easiest to use web analytics programs around, plus its free!
Google Alerts – A [...]

Ok so I’m going to go into some detail about SEO here. The Keyword Effectiveness Index is basically calculated by the number of searches for a keyword divided by the number of websites containing the keyword. Its meant to give you an idea of how much competition there is. It does, but it doesn’t help.
The [...]

I’m not sure when Google Insights was started, I’ve been out of action for a while, but boy is it useful. You can see what people are searching for by category/industry, region (including sub regions), and timeline!
I’m very impressed, I’m going to try and find myself a niche…
I’ve been browsing around to find a few [...]

Ok so I’ve just wasted what looks like the last 6 days doing keyword research with Wordtracker through DigitalPoint that came up with the following:- I only found out half way through using Wordtracker that when I put more than one word in I get zero results, so my initial research on martial arts told [...]