When you are trying to determine what kind of site flipper you want to be, it helps to have plenty of resources which show you how to find a niche. Depending upon the hottest searches and products, it may benefit you to alter your strategy occasionally. A short-term flipper might find success on recent trends or upcoming products while a long-term flipper might be more attracted to trends which have remained steady over a longer period of time. Fortunately, there are plenty of free resources available to you which can help you determine which strategy to pursue.

Amazon.com

No doubt about it, Amazon.com is practically where you can buy anything and everything online. If you use Amazon's comprehensive database on what items or commdities are selling the fastest, think of the vast amount of useful information that you can gather. The Amazon site even allows the user to narrow his search to more specific categories so you can further filter the data to particular products and brands.

Buy.com

Buy is another massive ecommerce site much like Amazon. But there are a couple things that make it worth checking out in addition to Amazon. First, Buy.com is the single largest online store operating through eBay. That means they not only get traffic from customers on their homepage, but they are also pulling traffic from eBay as well. This gives you an even broader range of hot keywords to find. Their site also lets you find the most popular items on their site, broken down by subcategory. A cross comparison of Buy and Amazon can give you a wealth of information on what is currently popular.

Flippa.com

If ever there was an "official" marketplace for website flipping, that would be Flippa.com. For anyone into or wanting to do business in the virtual real estate market, Flippa is a site that should not be missed. This is where you can get reliable data on the sites that are currently selling and how much they are going for. And while you're there, it's also best that you find out what type of websites are not that popular. This is to help you avoid buying or creating sites which could just be major flops.

Ebay Pulse

Pretty much anyone who has ever done research on hot topics, especially product keywords, has hit up eBay Pulse. It gives you a quick glance at what people are buying, and more importantly what people are searching for, on eBay.

PayPal Shops

PayPal has become the largest online company for handling monetary interactions online. Many stores use it as one of their primary methods of payment right alongside a credit card. PayPal allows you to search for what companies are using them the most, meaning that you can find who is currently selling a hot product. You can then visit that site and pull more detailed information about their sales making this a valuable tool.

The tools available at these sites are great resources for anyone flipping websites. While each one offers a useful service for researchers, utilizing them all can help you build a tremendous database for your research. You can find the top companies and find their top products and keywords, all of which will help you to best determine how to go about building websites that will bring in plenty of traffic and increase your sale value.