article finder

Hi, This is quite a simple project and is based out of my frustration. I am trying to make money writing articles for selling other people's products as an affiliate. I spend a lot of time looking for keywords that have enough searches per month, but without loads of competition. So as an example, if I wrote an article to drive traffic to a site selling "left handed putters for children" and I wrote about just "golf putters" my article would get very little traffic as it's too general. I need to search directories manually at present to see if my keywords for an article stand a chance of good rankings. I will use it myself and if it works well I will sell it to other marketers. With this in mind, would you be able to make improvements as customers ask for "Can you do.......?" improvements I am looking for a means of automating the search of the top article directory sites to find out how many articles are there on a given subject. The idea is to be able to type into a search box a keyword or keyword phrase and then to have shown the number of articles related to that keyword or phrase shown by the top Alexa rated sites. I am thinking in terms of a minimum of five sites and a maximum of ten. The software needs to be easy to use and follow. Any questions please feel free to ask, or if you have any ideas for improvement please feel free to suggest as well? Thanks littleian ## Deliverables If you have any suggestions of how to improve my initial idea then please feel free to discuss it with me.