Discover where to get ideas for hot niches and research your keywords for free.
Ebay
Discover current trends, hot stores, popular searches and even drill down into specific categories
Amazon
http://www.amazon.com/gp/movers-and-shakers/
From here you can see the hottest new items gaining in popularity updated hourly. There are also tabs for most wished for items, new items, best sellers, and gift ideas.
http://www.amazon.com/b/104-1396879-7435108?ie=UTF8&node=15372101
See items people have pre ordered from Amazon. Items not yet available but are already generating orders.
See what the hot topics are right now. Enter in key words to discover current comments and twitter streams about a specific topic.
Popular Products on Click Bank:
http://www.cbengine.com/popular-clickbank-products.cfm
Popluar ClickBank Marketplace Products with the highest Gravity, Momentum, Ranking Change, Payout Averages & more.
Trends:
http://www.trendwatching.com – Focused on consumer trends, get a free trend briefing
New York Times Tag Cloud
http://www.nytimes.com/most-popular-searched?period=30&format=tagcloud
Discover the most searched, blogged about articles, most popular and emails topics from the New York Times.
Yahoo Search Trends
http://buzzlog.yahoo.com/overall/
See what the world is searching for. Check out the FAQ on BuzzLog
Google Trends:
Also See the Google Insights tool for more advanced research:
http://www.google.com/insights/search/
AOL Search Trends
http://search.aol.com/aol/trends
Top Squidoo Lenses
http://www.squidoo.com/browse/top
Updated daily to give you the top lenses based on quality, freshness and reader activity
Keyword Phrase Ideas
http://www.Soovle.com – Enter in a keyword and get phrases back from Wikipedia, Google, Amazon, YouTube, Yahoo, Answers and Bing
http://www.UberSuggest.org – Google Suggest Scraper. come up with additional keyword phrases from one root word or phrase.