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Is the topic popular

You have to consider whether those ideas you are passionate about is popular to atttracts readers to  your blog. Traffic is an important element of earning money from blogging. Your web traffic turns into your revenue stream people visit your site, read your content, and click on your advertising.  So, you need to be sure you have a topic that other people are interested in reading about often.  It can be anything that gets people interested, anything that gets them excited.

Therefore, you just need a topic popular enough that some people would like to read about it.

So how can you tell which of your three topic ideas is the most popular?  Well, like everything these days, you can just look it up on the internet.  There are many tools for getting a number to put around the popularity of your topic.

Some of the better tools for getting traffic numbers are: 


• The Google Keyword tool:  You can just type in your topic, and this tool will let you know how many people are searching for that topic on Google and the words they are using to search for it.  These search words are known as keywords, and the numbers shown are from the previous month.
  
This free tool is available at https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal 


• The SEO Book Keyword tool:  While the Google Keyword tool is more straightforward, this tool (also free) will give you an idea of how many searches for your topic are being conducted all over the web.  You can try it by simply entering a word in the box and clicking the submit button.
 The website is here:  http://tools.seobook.com/keyword-tools/seobook/index.php 

As you check out your niche topics in the tools listed above, write down the number of searches that took place last month for information on that topic.  When it comes to deciding what you would like to feature as your blog topic, you don‘t have to necessarily pick the topic that has the most searches.  What this kind of keyword volume research really does is give you a good reality check to ensure that there are other people interested in your niche.  You want a topic that has a regular trickle of search volume, as that will translate into potential future traffic (and revenue) for your niche blog.

The Executive Blogger   For example, consider the keyword phrase ―SUG  election.  In an election year, and probably even the period year before an election, this keyword would seem very popular.

Thinking of this steady traffic test, look over your list.  Which topic have you selected that may meant the steady traffic rule today, but might not meet that test tomorrow?