Finding Popular Products for Your Amazon Modules

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It should come as no surprise to anyone that Amazon.com carries more titles than local bookstores, and that customers take advantage of that fact. It's curious to me that The Long Tail has generated as much "buzz" as it has by elaborating on that premise.

How does that information help Jo(e) online marketer, assuming that (s)he lacks the resources to put 25 Million pages online? Where does one find the "paunchy middle" between the big head and the long tail?

One way is to link to emerging products before the competiton gets on the bandwagon. The web is great for finding specific information, but trends are set in motion by the one-size-fits-all mentality of the traditional mass media.

For instance, aged video game Dance Dance Revolution hit #1 on these lists after a 10 -12 second product placement on "Ugly Betty." I did NOT see that coming!

I've resyndicated some of this information with the help of Feedburner, and I've found that sometimes a product pops up that I've seen on television, or in the newspapers -- but more often, I have no idea why a particular widget has soared in popularity. I just know that it has, and that I have a link to it.

I love these new Swicki search engines, but Squidoo's ill-advised war on inline frames prevents me from displaying it here.

Swickis are easy to create. The downside to these customizable searches is that it takes a lot of work to get them to work the way you want them to, or you could add this one to your blog

A little-known free service lets you "easily" convert any webpage to RSS.

Once you have an RSS feed, Feedburner will help you publish it to the world.

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