Use Google’s Own Code to Find Smoking Hot Niches in Seconds

I stumbled upon this gem doing my daily surfing over at the WarriorForum yesterday (as a side note: if you aren’t already a member of that forum you are definitely missing out on some great information and opportunities). Member "Jack Duncan" posted this method for finding niches and even micro-niches using Googles own code. The first step you do is figure out what general niche you want to target; lets say "gift baskets".

Open a new tab or browser window, go to Google and type in gift baskets followed by site:ezinearticles.com "This article has been viewed 2000..199999" "Article Submitted On: * *, 2009".

Now the first thing we want to do before we get into what results will be returned is to go through and break down the actual code so that it makes sense and you can better understand how it can be modified to better suit your needs.

gift baskets - Obviously this is the niche you are trying to do more research on.

site:ezinearticles.com - This is telling Google that we want to access only pages found within the site ezinearticles.com and not the entire internet.

"This article has been viewed 2000..199999" - If you look on any Ezinearticles.com article at the bottom you will see how many times it has been viewed. 2 very important things to take note of here (as this variable will more than likely change if your are trying to query a site besides Ezinarticles.com) is that number 1, this portion of the code is in quotes. The reason it is in quotes is that it is the exact way it appears on Ezinearticles.com’s site at the bottom of the article; you will see "This article has been viewed 2516 time(s)."

The second thing to take note of here is the ".." between the 2000 and the 199999. In this part of the query we are telling Google we want to see all articles that have been viewed between 2000 and 199,999 times. The Google numeric range option is the ".." between 2000 and 199,999. Knowing the syntax here means you could alter it to return different results. For instance, lets say you want to see only articles that have been viewed at least 5000 times instead of 2000…you could change the above syntax to "This article has been viewed 5000..199999".

Finally we need to look at…

"Article Submitted On: * *, 2009" - On Ezinearticles.com, right below the "article has been viewed 2516 time(s)" statement you will see the publishing date. Here you will see two "*" before the , 2009. These "*" are known as placeholders or wildcards and represent the month and day of the year. The syntax listed here is basically saying we want all articles published in 2009. If we wanted to see all articles that were published since May of 2009 you would change the syntax to "Article Submitted On: May *, 2009"; replacing the first "*" with "May". If you wanted all articles submitted since March 2nd, 2009 you would change the syntax to "Article Submitted On: March 2, 2009".

Once you have entered the code this, hit enter and you should see something like:

The screenshot above is of the first 6 links found on Google by doing the gift basket search query listed. The first thing you should notice is that if you take a look at the URLs being returned you will see that all of them are from Ezinearticles.com. Next you can see the number of views as well as when the article was submitted. With out even going to Ezinearticles.com you can take a look at the information provided and see things like what titles the authors are using which should give you a clue as to what micro niches are being targetted.

Hopefully this will help you in your searach to find the perfect micro niche within your chosen niche without having to spend a ton of money on some of the fancier tools that are available.

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