Do tons of research
Most of us are aware of this; in order to truly find a successful making money program you have to do a lot of research. I mean you research until you know the advantages and disadvantages of the program. In your research you are looking to see if there is a market for the money making program. If there is a market, then you know you can make money with it. The next thing you want to do is research extensively how much competition there is. Don't waste your time with it if there is too much competition. It won't make you any money. Lastly you want to see what keywords cost, you can try all the major search engines, Google, Yahoo, and Msn. The keyword research will confirm if the making money program is viable by telling you how much money advertisers are bidding.
Details on doing research
In order to find out advantages and disadvantages of a money making program. You can do the following: visit forums, Blogs, Articles, Squidoos, Hubpages, Ripoff Report and Social networks. You are looking for what good or bad things people are saying about the program. If you find there are more negative comments then positive ones beware of that money making program. This should not stop your search though, you should continue researching the program to see what else you can find out about it.
Keyword research
You want to do keyword research first when researching a money making program. Even though I mention research your competition before keyword research above. Keyword research will give you an idea of how much traffic is being generated for the program. I would read more articles on how to do keyword research. Here are some tools that can help in the process, NicheBotClassic, Google keyword tool, and digitalpoint, you can Google each one to find the site. Please visit each website and you can type the money making program name or related keywords to see how much searches are being done. If there is a lot a searches on it then keep researching it.
Competition
After doing keyword research go to Google type in the keywords you found to see how much competition there is in the money making program. If you find millions upon millions of competing websites, then I would just move on to another program. What you are looking for is results under 100,000 to 500,000 to determine if you are on to something. Once you do that, read articles to learn how to drive traffic to it.
Those who are looking for a good money making program online can find it. You just have to be willing to do research before you spend a dime. In any money making program especially in the online money maker field you want a product that is universal and anyone would be willing to buy it.