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Pretty much every day I go over to Google News and see what the top stories are–paying special attention to any that pertain to market niches I am targeting on one of more blogs. In many cases (pretty much once a week) I find a brand new topic that is going to generate traffic over the next few weeks.

One example was when John Edwards was accused of having an affair during his presidential campaign. Since I had a blog relating to marriage I put up a post about it, making sure to target search terms likely to used to find information on the supposed affair.

Over the next week I received 93 search visitors for that post.

One way to spot longer term trends that have low competition now is to use Google Trends. Check it out here:

http://www.google.com/trends/hottrends

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