Walk me through your research process...

[Fender963]

I'm looking to expand upon my small network of sites and was wondering how everyone goes about researching a nice/keywords. How do you do it? What tools do you use?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Kyle

[Chris]

for me its more about inspiration. I don't come up with a list of ideas and decide which one is best to pursue, I try to pursue all my ideas.

Generally though, when I have an idea, I scope out the competition of course, I see how they're making their money (might tip me off to a good paying affiliate program) and I check word tracker traffic statistics.

[Ben]

for me its more about inspiration. I don't come up with a list of ideas and decide which one is best to pursue, I try to pursue all my ideas.
Oh how I wish I had the time and money to do that :p

Usually I just see if the domain I want is available, if it is I continue otherwise I just give up. I don't like using domains I don't like. But after that I scope out the competition. If they have public statistics I check them out and see referrers and what not.

After that I start development