Through long-tail demand mining, our first independent site has already reached 1,400 monthly visits.

But as an efficient person, I always want to continuously improve my mining tools.

Currently, the mining tools have formed a matrix. By combining different tools, one can [quickly], [deeply], and [accurately] confirm an independent site demand.

Combined from these aspects:

Demand Mining Part:

1. Follow Google Trends hot terms and new terms

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Based on personal areas of expertise and target countries, automatically push notifications to IM. This way, you can see the latest terms directly in your IM every day. They can also be saved for future analysis.

1. Browse major forums to find trending topics and interest areas

There are many independent sites that can directly monitor major platforms, mainly Reddit, but after experiencing them, there's something that doesn't feel quite right.

If crawling is based on keywords, terms like "AI tools" will inevitably yield a massive number of posts because they are so popular. This makes the posts unreadable. Reviewing posts every day becomes a hassle.

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Now, based on AI and rapid deployment, it is very fast to collect demands in your areas of interest and organize them into a demand list.

(In my opinion, in an era where everyone can understand a bit of code and build their own websites, full automation will be achieved very soon.)

1. Follow the latest news in your field

I'm personally terrible at keeping up with news; I don't like reading it, and I'm tired of the endless fluff and marketing in current news.

Therefore, by identifying your areas of interest and systematically reading a certain amount of news, you might find new trends and directions.

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Similarly, by setting keywords, you can let AI collect relevant news in a fixed format and pre-process it. By removing fluff and marketing content, the news becomes much more readable.

You can also have the AI recommend suitable conversion keywords based on web searches and generate scripts.

Demand Verification Part:

1. Confirm popularity with Trends

Confirm whether the keywords you're following have search volume and what the search content is.

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Display keyword associations and popularity simultaneously to make it easy to quickly find suitable long-tail keywords instead of confirming them one by one.

1. Confirm keyword difficulty

Go to several major SEO tool providers to look up words with certain popularity, including long-tail keywords. Confirm SEO difficulty, click-through rates, views, search intent, etc.

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Batch queuing to check many keywords at once. Checking each word individually is tedious and not intuitive.

1. Confirm landing page and product design

Once the keywords are confirmed and you know what to do, the next step is the overall design and functional design of the website.

Summary:

A complete set of demand mining tools revolves around being [Quick], [Deep], and [Accurate].

To be quick, the most basic requirement is to achieve batch processing.

To be deep, you need to lock into a few specific domains.

To be accurate, you need multi-dimensional data comparison.

So far, I have mined about a dozen effective keywords through this matrix. Feeling good about it.