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About three weeks ago, I posted a blog entries here titled 'How to Use Google to Find a Profitable Niche Market'. The post explained how to use several free tools provided by Google to identify a profitable niche. Besides Google, Yahoo is another popular search engine that can help you to research and find a good niche market. Like Google, Yahoo provides a number of good tools you can use to find profitable niche markets. The Yahoo directory is where you will find a list of all the categories Yahoo has to offer. You can click on a topic and narrow your scope until you find websites that provide information and resources. Other tools helpful for your niche market research are: Yahoo Search Marketing Yahoo search marketing used to be called Yahoo Overture, but changed its name when Yahoo decided to add services to those advertising on Yahoo search engine results. If you want to use the tools provided by Yahoo search marketing, you will have to open a free account by visiting . Wi...

Yahoo is currently offering free $100 pay per click (PPC) ads credit to new sponsored search advertisers. If you have been making money online through websites or blogs but not yet own a Yahoo Sponsored Search account, it is time to open one and test drive Yahoo PPC ads to see whether they can increase your sales, AdSense & affiliate commission, grow your mailing list and more. Sign up for a Yahoo Search Marketing now Yahoo will require a minimum deposit of $30 to open an account to receive the $100 credit. The minimum deposit is partial refundable after opening an account and only $5 isn't refundable. Here is the link to read more about their terms and sign up an account.

If you are making money online using PPC advertising programs, this news should concern you. Yahoo has announced that they will rank ads in their search result based on ad's quality and bid amount beginning Feb 5 2007 in US. This means that advertisers with highest bid amount are not guaranteed to rank top in the sponsor listing. Here's an extract of the announcement that explains more about how Yahoo will rank ads in the future: Example of How Ads May be Ranked The graphic below helps illustrate a scenario that may result from this change: Note: The graphic above is provided for illustrative purposes only, and will not actually appear in your account. What is "Ad Quality"? Ad quality is determined by: The ad's historical performance - its click-through rate relative to competitors and normalized for position. The ad's expected performance - determined by various relevance factors considered by Yahoo!'s ranking algorithms, relative to other ads ...