Cool way to find hot niches

I’ve found a nice little way to find what are the hottest articles on ezine articles. Go to Google and paste the following -

site:ezinearticles.com "This article has been viewed 1000..100000""Article Submitted on:" ".2010

This will show you all the top articles so you know whats hot. Obviously you can change the numbers. Another tip is to add a keyword before the operator. ie -

DIET site:ezinearticles.com "This article has been viewed 1000..100000""Article Submitted on:" ".2010

You can use a similar operator for articlesbase -

site:articlesbase.com "views: 1000..100000"

Hope you like this little tip, It’s one of my faves. make sure you subscribe to my blog cos I will be sharing some more awesome stuff with you all over the coming weeks.

Crafty little forum link

I have recently joined a high PR forum in my niche with the aim of dropping a few links to one of my sites. The moderator is a pain in the ass though and kept removing them.
Then I hit upon the cunning plan of hiding my links behind emoticons. Seems to be working so far, just a shame that they have no anchor text!
Take that you dozy moderator, I beat ya!
It my be that some of you folks have been doing this before, but it’s the first time I thought about it.