Researching For Content

If you plan to set up a website for your home based business, you will need to get original content for your site. After all, you don’t want to rehash material from ten or twenty other work-at-home business sites. So start here…

Google

Google has lots of tools besides web searches. You can check the news. (http://news.google.com)  

Google also has "groups" where many people like to discuss different subjects. Yours could be one of them. You’ll learn what people are interested in, what problems they would like solved and you just may be able to put together an article or even an ebook from this valuable information.

(http://groups.google.com/)

University research. You can get research info from universities through Google. Start here: http://www.google.com/intl/en/options/

Next method: Using horticulture as an example, do this search on Google (keeping in the punctuation as written):

+horticulture +free +filetype:pdf

What you get here are free downloads in PDF format about your subject.

You cannot copy and use the reports as your own. You’d be violating all sorts of copyrighting laws. You have to rewrite them in your own words. But there's no law that says you can't summarize what you find in other people's works. You could even give your work the title of: "Survey Report: Latest from the Horticulture Front!"

Alexa

Do a similar search for the ‘horticulture’ subject. You will get the same results as Google because it's powered by Google. So why use Alexa? Because Alexa provides “value added” information.

When you do the search on Alexa, don't click the link that takes you to the listed site. Instead, follow the link that says "Site info." That will take you to a section entitled "People who visit this page also visit:”… This can be very valuable because it shows you potential markets that you may want to explore and you can then tailor your information product to what people want.