There are many places on the net the help you find the most popular items being purchased. One such place I recently discovered was on eBay. It’s called eBay Pulse.

On pulse you can find popular searches, stores, and products (to name a few). You can select categories as well and find the top ten popular searches for each category. What’s great too is that as you select down the category tree, you can further narrow down your search by the various subcategories listed.

As an example, say you want to know what are the most popular cell phones being searched for on eBay. The pulse lets you drill down to All Categories->Cell Phones->Phones Only. You can also see the most watched items as well.

This is just one more tool available to help you find popular items you can target with websites or an Adwords campaign.