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If you want to make money online with digital goods, you need something that sells. Here are ten good digital product ideas to help you get started. You still need to do the work, but with this list of ten digital product ideas you're sure to discover a valuable product that you can start selling online.

Before we dig in, let's get a few things out of the way. Creating good digital products isn't about selling the first thing you can come up with, or worse yet bought off some guy on Craigslist for $2. This is the downfall of digital books and information products in general – almost anybody can do it, so there is a lot of junk being sold.

Instead of thinking about this as an added challenge, think about it as an advantage. People have come to expect a lot of bad ebooks and inferior quality scripts floating around, and are very excited when you show them a really good product.

Here's a list of ten digital goods and information products you can create and sell online for some extra cash.

1. eBooks
2. Digital Photo Collections
3. Turnkey Websites
4. Website Scripts
5. Exclusive Access to a Private Website or Mailing List
6. Graphics & Website Templates
7. SEO Research Reports
8. Aggregated Data & Lists
9. Articles
10. Content Databases

When you're designing your own products, don't just think about making money. A good digital product fills a need or provides superior value that just that wasn't there before. The products worth making are the ones that achieve one or both of these things.

A photographer can create nice photo collections and sell the rights to Web designers or publications. A PHP coder can write custom scripts and sell them to other Webmasters. An SEO guru can compile their research into extremely valuable reports and sell them online. Even an amateur Webmaster can turn their time and energy into a valuable product, for example a comprehensive list of social bookmarking sites or blog search engines would be valuable to many Website owners and bloggers.

The world is now filled with knowledge workers and digital products. In an information-driven world, digital products can have great value. Search your knowledge, experience, and interests to determine what you can offer.