Business at Home Income

by Arika Lewis

If you’re like many mom bloggers, you may run out of things to talk about on occasion. Or maybe you just get tired and don’t feel like chatting some days, but you know you need an active blog if you’re going to make money — and many bloggers rely on their blog income to feed their families. So, how do you attract more readers and the search engines to your blog on a daily basis? Easy! Add a recipe of the day to keep your blog fresh and tasty. But, where do you find recipes that you can use? Before I tell you the answer, let’s get the legal stuff out of the way.

To keep from breaking the copyright laws and getting yourself in a bit of trouble, you can not just copy and paste recipes or type them in. They are not public domain. Both collections of recipes and recipe instructions may be copyrighted. I recommend that you search google for “recipe copyright” to read the full scoop. But suffice it to say, you can’t just use other people’s recipes legally. You have to use other methods.

Now, let’s talk about 4 ways to find recipes that can be used on your mom blog.

Your Recipes

Do you have recipes that you make for your family? It could be meatloaf with a special ingredient or salsa with a twist. Take a look at all of the meals that you have personally invented (or altered).

If so, get them on your computer and use them on your blog.

Friends & Family

Does your mother have a special chili recipe that everyone loves? Ooh, and that spicy dip that your sister always brings to football parties.

Start passing out blank recipe cards around the Thanksgiving dinner table to collect all of your family recipes. Then, hit up your co-workers and friends.

Find a Ghostwriter

The second way to get recipes for your blog is to hire a writer. You can usually find a ghostwriter who will create recipes for your blog. If you don’t want to look for a ghostwriter, hit up the local culinary school and see if you can find a foodie who is looking to make some money on the side. Hire that person to type in his/her favorite recipes and you’ll be set.

PLR Recipes

The fourth (and my personal favorite) way to get recipes for your blog is to purchase PLR recipes. The great thing about PLR recipes is:

• You aren’t stuck coming up with all of the recipes yourself.
• You don’t have to pay someone else to write them for you.
• You can edit the recipes as you wish or leave them just like they are.
• You can reuse the recipes on multiple blogs.
• You can do almost anything with them, even create your own cookbook that you can sell.
• You can get a lot of PLR recipes for cheap. Some PLR sites sell them for less than a dollar each.
• Of course, every PLR site has its own rules so be sure to read them before you buy.

One last tip:

• For best results, edit your PLR recipes to personalize them.

An easy way to do this is:

• Change the directions slightly.
• Make the title sound more interesting.
• Give the reader some additional tips.
• Maybe a favorite side disk or a way to speed up the preparation.

You now know just how simple it is to add a “recipe of the day” to your blog. I hope you get started right away so your blog bring in some hungry readers.

About the Author:

Get tasty PLR recipes each month. Just compile them and Viola! You’ll have a ready made cookbook that you can sell from your blog. Need a way to make more money with your blog? Check out the Menu Planning Affiliate Program

Try Blogging Lessons Part 1

By: Barry Smart

Face the fact - your blog needs to be regularly updated to maintain its readership! Hence, you must always find fresh topics to write about, and we’re going to discuss how to brainstorm content for your blog in this article.

We have discussed how to write attractively, so now we are going to discuss what we are going to write on. The very first option that I think a blogger should write on is a topic that he or she feels passionate and interested in. You’ve chosen to make blogging your career because you want to escape a mundane job - forcing yourself to write about something that you’re not interested in is as torturous as as your mundane job!

The other reason I ask you to write about something you’re passionate about is because your feelings and emotion shows through your writings! If you feel indifferent to a certain subject but still write about it just for the sake of it, your readers will notice it. Remember the advice about writing with a personality? Forcing yourself to write will not establish a welcoming style at all.

Once you have chosen your main theme, start posting to your blog about it and make it a habit to post at least once every day, even if it’s only a comment on the newspaper article you read today. Think of yourself as a gigantic train. It takes a lot of effort to get you moving. First, you might just budge an inch, and later trudge slowly on until you finally reach your full speed. Then, it’ll take a lot of effort to stop you instead!

However, no matter how well you know your topic, your brain is bound to get exhausted over some time, so here are methods to brainstorm content for your blog.

1) The very best way to brainstorm content for your blog is to see what other bloggers have to say about stuff happening in your field of discussion. And the very best way to find related blogs is to use http://blogsearch.google.com/ or technorati.com. There are other decent search tools too, you just have to look around. From other blogs, you can gather more knowledge on your subject and you can also comment on what others have to say on your own blog!

2) Once you’ve established contacts with other bloggers in your field, you’ll have quite an inexhaustible “conversation” ongoing, so you’ll not need to actively search for content to write about. However, if you’re still stuck, search for news articles related to your niche in the local newspaper or online through sites like http://news.google.com and http://news.yahoo.com.

3) You can also have conversations with people with the same interest as you in the particular niche you choose, so you will eventually build up a bank of questions and answers and interesting discussions to write about in your blog. To do this, join forums related to your niche, but don’t join every forum there is out there. Stick with one or two with the biggest number of members or the one which is most focused on your niche. This will also come in handy much later in gaining traffic and generating profits.

Remember to keep up your momentum of posting at least once per day (or more if you have a lot of content to write about) so that the major search engines will know that your blog has fresh content everyday. This will attract the search engines to spider your page on a more frequent basis, hence gaining you extra traffic.

Don’t worry about the paragraph above about generating traffic and search engines, because we’re going to talk about that in more detail later. For now, remember to keep a consistent effort everyday and build up momentum like that of a locomotive!

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Blogging Lesson Part 4 SEO

by Mark Taylor

Once you select a niche that viewers on line are searching you are on your way to making money in the blogosphere. You will draw targeted traffic to your blog and sooner than you can say 1-2-3 money will be pouring in to your Google Adsense account, for example. It might be a little longer than that, but you get the idea. However, it won’t take long.

Ideally, you as a blog owner and creator should select a blog subject for which you are passionate and knowledgeable. But, there is so much information on the internet until you can research your chosen subject and become an expert in no time at all if you are interested in learning about he niche. Also, don’t forget to make sure there is enough interest in the topic.

When starting a new blog consider your personal interests. Make a list of things to which you have a passion and information. If you are passionate about your subject it will come across in your writing. Your readers will notice you know that subject and you can drive the point home and show a great deal of enthusiasm. This will translate into a successful blog and you will be able to market the information to all those who arrive at your site.

Keep your blog posts at 300 to 450 word as much as possible. Readers on the web have a tendency to skim a lot of your content. They will read the information they need to know and move on. If you are paid for a click you just made money. If you are paid for a lead or sale the reader would need to follow up at the affiliates site for you to get paid. It’s a numbers game.

Check on your competition but don’t bother with a niche that is extremely competitive. You want to be found in the search engine on the web. Use Google’s keyword search tool to locate key words and phrases related to you niche.

As a final point, it’s important to choose a niche that is capable of driving traffic to your blog. That means that the niche should be popular enough but not saturated. Your blog will not rank high enough and you won’t get the traffic if it is an extremely high ranked niche with loads of competition from other publishers competing for the same keyword phrases.

Once you are selecting your profitable niche for your blog and doing all of the things needed to make it profitable you will be churning them out one by one and be on your way to belonging to the club of the Internet marketers. Try to jot down notes on how you go about achieving your goal. Once you reach a comfortable level of success write YOUR E-Book so you can help someone else and profit at the same time. Remember: “Practice makes perfect.

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Millions of dollars are up for grabs globally in profitable blogging.

by Scotty P Hagen

Finding your blogging niche should be one of the aspects of blogging which the blogger carefully considers before starting a blog. This is especially important if the blogging is being done for the purpose of financial compensation. Ideally a blog owner should select a blog subject about which they are passionate and knowledgeable. However, bloggers should also carefully consider the direct competition as well as the purpose of the blog before starting their blog.

This article will discuss these considerations in greater detail in an attempt to assists bloggers in choosing a subject for a new blog. This information is applicable to both bloggers who are completely new to blogging as well as experienced bloggers who are considering starting a new blog.

Categorizing Your Interest

The advantage of starting out with something you’re knowledgeable and passionate about is that you’ll have plenty of ideas to blog about. One of the biggest failing points for bloggers is finding something to continually blog about. This is why it’s important to choose something you know and have interest in. It doesn’t matter all that much what the niche is. Perhaps you love to Cook, sew, work with wood, play Soccer or watch professional football. Any of these niches can be profitable. If you’re truly passionate about a subject, you’re more likely to turn out interesting and informative articles. This will keep the traffic to your blog coming in, thus making your niche a profitable one.

Do not get discouraged if your interest is not a wildly popular one. As long as you dominate your niche, you can be profitable. If the niche you choose isn’t a hugely popular one, then start another blog on another interest of yours. I have a friend who blogs about working on his Muscle Cars. With the price of gas these days, you’d think there wouldn’t be much interest. But on an average day his blog receives over 2000 unique visitors. His income from this blog is about $1300 per month and steadily climbing. Did he start the blog to make money? No. He started it because he likes working on old cars and wanted to share his knowledge with others. This is the secret of successful blogging!

Evaluating the Competition

You should now have several specific ideas for a blog. Now you need to go out and see how much competition there is for each interest you have. Start by going to Google and searching for other blogs on your interest. See how many other websites and blogs there are about your interest. This will allow you to see who your competition is and whether or not the niche is saturated (like the make money online niche).

Considering the Purpose of the Blog

Another consideration the potential new blogger needs to consider is the purpose of the blog. Blogs are created everyday for one reason or another. Maybe someone’s ticked off at a company and starts a negative blog about the company. Perhaps an activist starts a blog to recruit other like minded people to their cause. Those are all well and fine. However, if you’re starting a blog to make income from, you’ll want to first make sure there is enough interest in your niche to drive traffic to your blog. Without traffic, you’ll just be blogging to be blogging!

Now having said that, I can’t tell you how important it is that you choose a niche that is capable of driving traffic to your blog. Don’t think that just because a topic is popular, that you’ll be successful. Many new bloggers in the make money online niche end up failing miserably because they never took into account the difficulty in getting their blogs ranked high enough to generate traffic. This is probably one of the most saturated niches on the Internet and I continually see new bloggers waste time and money on it when they could have already dominated a different niche and be making money from it.

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Creating income online can be a challenge. That’s why it’s important to learn from someone who’s been doing it over 10 years. There are many opportunities you can start from home. Visit the site by clicking on one of the links above for more information.

by Tony

It is seldom that an e-book is published on a certain subject, which clearly shows just how useless others already available are.

With the publication of WordPress Goldmine this is just what has happened. Where most of the other affiliate marketing guides ask you to focus on finding the right product through Clickbank and then creating blog in order to market it.

With WordPress Goldmine you will find that this is not what you need to do, and there is something better.

Instead through this book you will get to learn about different aspects concerning not only finding the right domain names abut also the right products to promote on your sites.

This e-book takes an in-depth look at not just the processes but also the different kinds of sites one can build.

It also provides you with live examples that actually provide the value in this e-book unlike any other. What seems to make this book so special is that those who have already used it have found it easy to follow because the author has broken it up into five separate sections.

Section one of the book looks at the ways of using WordPress for building blogs and takes you through the various phases of not just setting up but also running your blog in the shortest possible amount of time.

Included within this section of the book are some bonus videos that will further help you to understand the whole process of making blogs from the beginning to end.

Whilst in section two of the book you will learn about the different kind of content you can use in your blog. In this section of the book, the author covers everything from using PLR articles to original content. In here, you will also find out how to get unique content posted to your blog regularly and completely for free and which will help you to develop yours in no time at all.

After reading section 3 you move onto section 4 and in this part of the book the author will explain the different methods that can be used to promote the sites that you build.

There is an easy to follow diagram in this section which lists the kinds of sites that one can utilize and which will in turn help to make yours a success rather than a failure.

Again this section is value for money simply because it is not often you will be provided with details of a traffic generation system for your site that is easy to master even for the beginner.

In the final section of this book, it helps you to take your website promotion to a completely different level when building your site.

Although some people may find this section a little daunting, the author has included several sound warnings at the beginning of it stating that you should have in fact mastered the other sections of the book before you move on to this section.

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Are you already using Wordpress to profit the online traffic? If not, do not wait. Read about it at WordPress Gold Mine. More about online profit at Commission Blueprint

Our guest blogger Dave Jones is so right his recommendation hits right on target. You do not need to be a rocket scientist to design and build your own money making website or blog.

If you want to design, build and maintain your own website using the best software available then use WordPress. Despite being the most popular blogging software on the planet you can use WordPress to build websites too. It is super easy to use and it is free! You can quickly create any design of website you need.

Because the Wordpress code is open source everyone can use it to build a blog or website for free. So if you want to create a great looking website, or blog, then there really is no need to research other software or tools to do this as the WordPress cms is now all you need for site building.

Wordpress is design for ease of use for everyone including those that do not have special technical skills. If you can use the software in Microsoft Office you will have no problem with the WordPress Content Management Software.

You do not need to learn or code html or employ a programmer to build your website for you as with WordPress you will be able to it all yourself. No more wasted time or money as you can get WordPress today for free and start building your new site instantly.

One this amazing content management and site building software is installed on your web host’s server you will need to find and choose a Theme to use with your site. The theme you choose will determine the layout and colors of your new website and can be changed with one click of your mouse so it is very easy to try different themes until you find one that you like.

With WordPress you change the theme you are using at any time so if next year you decide you website needs a face lift then just find a new theme and use the one-clink install to totally change the look of your site. Top professional magazine type themes are also available but you will have to pay for these. But whichever theme you choose you are going to get a stylish website.

To add different functionality to your site you have access to thousand of WordPress Plugins. These are small packets of code that you can seamlessly add to your website or blog that perform individual functions to enhance your website and make it do what you want. Again most of these are free to download and use.

WordPress has special a built in syndication software facility called and RSS feed that means your site is easy to promote in the search engines so potential visitors will find your site more often and so they can also subscribe to all new content you add to your website. Because search engines like Google respond to this type of syndication so well you will quickly see your site ranking higher in the results pages.

If you need a great website that is easy to build and manage yourself then there really is no other choice. Do not waste your time looking at alternatives as WordPress already does everything you need. WordPress is the best software for building websites and it is free!
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For more on WordPress and building your own websites visit the Wordpress Affiliate Blogger website and checkout our Build A Niche Store review for information on how to use this free software.

Mr. Jones provides some great tools to help you get started selecting your niche and building your site with the steps to make it easy. Another great resource my Wife and I are having some great success with is WordPress Goldmine Mark’s videos and step by step guides are second to none. Mark also provides some Q&A via his forum in helping you reach your goals with your websites.

A fantastic tip provided by Mr. Skinner-Martin. The main stream has moved into the Web 2.0 technology getting the word out a lightning fast speeds. Social Networking is a hot magic bullet in getting more eyes on your content.

You may not be aware but the new advertising king is web 2.0. Web 2.0 is basically the sharing of information through collaboration between internet users. Everyone knows the best form of advertising is networking. The internet allows us to network with people all over the world about certain niches. The problem is it takes time. This is why you are able to outsource offshore staff to network for you. Outsourcing offshore staff is almost like having team members telling people about your product but in the biggest market place in the world.

Social networking encompasses many different aspects. Some forms of social networking include forums, blogs and social sites such as Myspace and Facebook. This is a relatively new form of advertising but is proving very profitable for many small to medium companies. Outsourcing offshore staff will give you access to this form of advertising at very affordable rates and saving you time.

If you are relatively new to internet advertising then the thought of professional forum writers and social networkers can be very difficult. These professionals are marketing writers who can create one way links to your site as well as provide people information about your products and services. This will provide sales to you by referral or improve your search engine ranking enabling more people to your website.

Business is about relationships. Social networking is about developing and maintaining online relationships, which can assist your business. You must be perceived as the expert in the field you are blogging or writing about. This can be achieved by writing valuable information about the topic as well as subtly mentioning your products and services. If you just advertise everywhere people will generally not read it or care and you may also find yourself banned from the forum for spamming.

Blogging is almost essential for businesses trying to develop and create traffic. There are thousands of blog resources and websites available. It is a powerful tool as it provides new pages and links back to your website. Search engines love new content on your website. By writing a high quality blog with good keywords you can increase your traffic and search engine rankings.

There are both short term and long term advantages to outsourcing offshore staff as your social networking sales people. The short term advantages is the word of mouth referrals as well as the people who stumble upon your articles, blogs or forums. The other major long term advantages is the links it creates for your website. These links assist by improving your page ranking in search engines like Google. Social networking will create more traffic both in the short and long term.

Sometimes new ideas and methods create mental stumbling blocks but the reality is if you are not prepared to change, then one of your competitors will. Do you really want to be sitting on the side lines while your competitors get all the rewards? Social networking is the Internets future marketing tool.
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This is part 2 of how to identify your niche market when blogging.  Here’s part 1 of the post.

We left off with our term “harley davidson megamotor harness boots”.  We looked at the phrase (in quotes) in Google and found that there were only six listings.  Now we want to think about this for a second.  In quotes, it’s a cinch you will be on the page 1 of the Google listings.  But what about the flip side?

You’ve got the demand, you should be able to reach page 1 of Google.  But is there anyone selling these boots that has an affiliate program?  I took a quick look and didn’t really see any.  So if you planned to monetize your blog by selling boots as an affiliate, this phrase doesn’t seem to work.

Another Example to Identify Your Niche Market

OK, now you’ve seen that for a successful blog (for traffic and monetization) you need:

• Niched-down (long tail) keyword phrase.
• Sufficient demand.
• Able to be monetized.

Let’s take another example.  I’ll use acne as an example.  I happen to know there are a couple of good Clickbank ebooks that I could sell as an affiliate.  Now I need to know a decent keyword phrase to use!

Over to the free version of WordTracker, and put in acne.  It’s a bit of a tough one, because it’s such a hot topic, but the phrase “acne blackheads natural treatment” merits a closer look.  Sure, at 5,020 supply it’s over the numbers I usually use, but I want to see how strong the competition is.  In other words, are there 5,020 pages that I could blow past, or are there a lot of well-optimized pages already?

Still in Google, type the following into the Google search bar exactly as I have it shown: 

allintitle: “acne blackheads natural treatment”

This returns us 154 listings.  What does this mean?  Why should you care?

This particular search tells me how many pages are optimized, with the phrase “acne blackheads natural treatment” in the page title.  Now I really look at the results; these are the people and pages who have at least marginally optimized their pages.  Can I do better by optimizing the title, the links and the URL?

Which leads me to a quick talk about optimizing your blog.

Optimizing Your Blog

Yes, I’ve told you how you can get a free blog on blogger, wordpress.com and some other services.  But I also have to say that none of them optimize your posts very well.  And when you’re up against other blogs and websites that are optimized…you may be fighting a losing battle if other blogs are optimizing.

I know it’s kind of scary, but if you honest-to-goodness want to optimize your blog for the best possible search engine inclusion, you need to use the self-hosted version of WordPress (wordpress.org).  I’ll talk about this more in another post, but it’s something for you to think about now.

Blog Experiment Update

Yep, more entries for David’s and my great blogging experiments.  David has had a really cool success.  He created a 2-post, 1-page blog for a niche he found.  I think he made his posts yesterday (Sunday, August 17th) and today…he’s right up at the top of Google today and is getting lots of traffic!

I made a post to one of my blogs a little while ago (one of the ones in this experiment) and went to make dinner.  After dinner, I sat down in front of the computer and checked — I was already listed in Google, page 1 (with quotes)!!!  I’m #21 without quotes.  But that was in a space of about 45 minutes!

So, I am still a firm believer in this truly exciting blogging tool — it’s awesome!

Here’s the next post on how to identify your niche market before you start your blog (or even afterwards). I started to talk about this in my previous post on how to make money blogging with the right keywords, but now let’s talk some more.

Choosing a Niche

This is probably the most important step; choosing your niche.  There are two main considerations here. 

First, do you care about search engine traffic, or do you just want to express yourself?  If you’re writing a blog because you are passionate about a subject, but it doesn’t matter how many or few people read it, then write about it.  Don’t worry about choosing a niche; your subject will take care of itself.

On the other hand, if you do want search engine traffic, you need to be a little more careful in choosing your niche.  And that brings up two points.  Do you want people to read what you have to say, but don’t care about monetizing your blog…or do you want it to earn a regular (even if small) income?

If you’re wanting search engine traffic but don’t care about monetizing, choose the method I described in my last post.  Find words in the free WordTracker tool, then check the two supply numbers in Google.  As a very general rule, keep your in quotes keyword under 1,000.  Now you can go over this at times, but I wouldn’t normally look higher than 2,000 — just too hard to climb to the top of the heap (i.e., page 1 of the Google search results).

How to Identify Your Niche Market to Monetize

Most people wouldn’t mind making a bit of money from their blog, and some want it to earn a regular income.  Indeed, some want it to replace their current income!  Here are some tips for this for you, if it’s your ultimate goal.

Pick your niche carefully.  For example, maybe I wanted to be an affiliate for shoe sales.  Well, “shoes” is a mightly big topic.  So I’ll winnow it down some.  Do I want men’s shoes?  Women’s shoes?  Boots?  a specific brand?  Well, how about boots?

Put the word bootsinto WordTracker and see what comes up.  Hmmm, it’s a really big list, but maybe harley davidson boots?  Click on that, because we want to winnow it down even further.

As a very general rule, we want more words in the keyword phrase; less likely to find other pages that have all these words.  The phrase “harley davidson boots” (in quotes) turns up 157,000 for a supply — far too much.  Keep looking…

Whoa, here’s a term — “harley davidson megamotor harness boots”  In quotes that has a supply of just 6!  Now that could be a winner!  Especially because people searching on that term know exactly what they want, and are far more likely to have a credit card in hand (so to speak) before they get to your blog!

This post has gotten a bit longer than I wanted, so I’ll continue this topic of how to identify your niche market when blogging on the next post.  See you then!

How to make money blogging with the right keywords is what I’m going to discuss right now, and it goes hand-in-hand with the blogging experiments Dave and I have been running.

Choosing the Right Keywords

First, for you to have a decent chance of success, you need to select keywords that have demand, but very little competition.  We’ll use this post as an example.  There isn’t a ton of demand for this keyword phrase, but there is also very little supply.  So the chances for me getting to the top of the search quickly are pretty decent.

Now, that’s the example for just this post — what about an entire blog?  I mean, this particular phrase “how to make money blogging with the right keywords” certainly isn’t worth a blog in its own right.  But it makes for a great post!

Supply Versus Supply

If you do a search in Google using the keyword phrase in this post’s title (without quotes) you’ll see 2,680,000 records returned.  OK, put the quotes around the phrase and the number goes down to 326.  Quite a difference, right?  So one supply figure is wildly different from the other.

You want the keyword phrase in quotes to be as low as possible.  I try to keep it under 1,000.  I’m even happier when I can get it under 500.  And I’m ecstatic when it’s under 100.

So know your supply numbers!

How to Make Money Blogging With the Right Keywords - Update

This is still the grand blogging experiment that you can read about in the previous post.  I have an update from this morning.

David and I decided to play hookey today and spend some time away from the computers, so we went to lunch, took a long leisurely drive, then grabbed a smoothie for dinner.  We came back home and I checked my newest blog.  Yay!  The traffic has started coming in.  Then I decided to check my standings in Google by typing my keyword phrase into the Google search bar, with and without quotes.

With quotes, I came up in the #1 and #3 spots!  And even more exciting, without quotes I was in the #4 spot (I was at like 9 or 10 this morning)!  This, mind you, for a blog that was just born a couple days ago!

How did I manage this?  One, it was by checking both supply figures and making sure the search with the keyword in quotes was as low as possible.  Two, it’s making sure the demand for the keyword is worth the effort — if the number of searches is too small, it’s not worth (to me) making a blog on.  For my keyword tool, I use the free version of WordTracker.  The numbers you see in this tool are the number of searches on a daily basis.

Normally for a single-product blog (if I have a specific product for sale as an affiliate), I want to have a keyword with at least 1,000 unique visitors a month.  That’s roughly 33 people a day.  If it was for an informational website where I was featuring Adsense instead of an affiliate product, I’d want that number much higher — at least 5,000 people a month.

The other way I managed it was with the exciting blogging tool I found last week.  Keep in mind that I’ve been writing online for several years (mainly full-blown websites), but I have never, ever had this kind of search engine success before!

I’ll keep you posted as to how the blogs do.  Meanwhile, go out an check the free version of Wordtracker and run some phrases through, see what kind of demand shows up.  Then pick some keyword phrases from the list WordTracker returns and drop them into Google search, both with quotes (“how to make money blogging with the right keywords“) and without quotes (how to make money blogging with the right keywords) and see what kinds of numbers you come up with.

There’s another tool you can use once you’re familiar with the way WordTracker works.  Unfortunately it’s something that costs money (although it’s pretty inexpensive), so that’s why I recommend the free version of WordTracker for now.  Get used to doing those searches, and being aware of what the numbers mean.