Today is May 18th, 2012.   



If you are thinking of setting up your own tutorial site, the topic and the potential audience of your website is of utmost important. The next important thing to consider is if the growth of your audience is trending upwards. And the best tools that you can use are the top technology blogs like TechCrunch and Mashable. These blogs usually contains blog posts about emerging technologies and also give reviews on their progress. From here, you can then go to Google Trends and type the keywords that your tutorial website will be targeting for. If you plan to set up a site about Android for example, you can type Android and Android tutorial to see if these keywords are trending upwards in terms of search volumes. Obviously a search term that is trending upwards would be a good bet in terms of building a website tutorial. It’s also good to check the global monthly volume in Google’s Keyword Tool to see how many potential audience such a keyword can bring. With these methodologies, these are the keywords that may hold some potential:

1. Android tutorial
2. jQuery tutorial
3. CSS tutorial
4. =P

In theory, technologies that aid in the development of mobile or smart phone apps can be a potential winner. Mobile apps are the wave of the future. As more and more users worldwide surf the internet using their smart phone, chance are these users will be purchasing mobile apps as well. That’s because mobile apps are priced relatively low – some as low as 99 cents! Now that’s truly affordable. Mobile apps can be stand alone or can supplement the services of an existing website. If it’s the latter then it is a potential source of traffic as well. Mobile apps that can do integration between mobile services and a website would hold some value to the mobile user. A tutorial about this would go a long way since mobile growth is set to explode soon. More growth in the mobile sector means more opportunities for developers to up skill which translates to more demand for free tutorials with respect to mobile development.

Cloud applications are also going to be a big hit and any tutorials on how to integrate with them would definitely hold some potential. Allowing a document created in Google docs, for example, to upload to your website for processing just by dragging and dropping would be absolutely fantastic. So any tutorials about this is definitely interesting.

As technology grows and new ones surface, the opportunities to create your own website tutorial about these new technologies are in excessive abundance.

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