Magazines.com as an online research tool

Magazines.com is a huge website where you can browse and purchase a variety of magazine, journal, book and newspaper subscriptions. This site can be a handy tool for researching niche markets with the theory being if there are magazines or other publications in a particular topic and advertisers paying to be in those publications, there is money to be made.


For example, let's say I am working in a health and fitness niche. I can go to  Magazines.com and browse the magazines available. 


Prevention Magazine caught my eye.

Here are just a few article titles for one issue: 1. More energy and less stress!,  2. Doctor approved natural cures, 3. Turning her back on Botox for good,  4. Vitamin Shocker - what works and what doesn't.


If I was looking for blog topics, these headlines alone from just one magazine would be enough to fuel some research on a single topic. See how that works?

In addition to finding topic ideas, you might also explore the publications so you can submit your own articles, press releases or seek out advertising opportunities. In short, Magazines.com can be a very helpful resource for an online business.

The top categories are listed on the left side of the page, but if you navigate to http://www.magazines.com/browse/ you can access all the categories and use a more powerful search.

You can browse by publication type and category. Below we’ve chosen hobby magazines:

Or you can scroll down further to view all the categories and their subcategories:

Once you click through, listings are automatically sorted by “Bestselling”, but you can sort alphabetically, by price, and more.

Greg Cryns
Work At Home Profiles