Having your website up and running is the first step, but one thing that I learned from Michael Cheney is that you need to optimize your website for your specific keywords, so that you can start climbing in the search engine ranking.
Keyword research will make SEO so much faster and PPC so much cheaper. And you can do this research for FREE with the tools I’ll show you!
Here are some of the tools that I use for my keywords research:
- Market Samurai (free!)
- Google Keyword (free!)
- www.spyfu.com (free!)
- www.wordtracker.com (free trial)
- www.hexatrack.com (free!)
- www.KeyCompete.com (free trial)
What you are doing with your keyword research is you are narrowing your market into your specific niche. You are using a laser beam instead of a flashlight.
So instead of a broad market like?computers, you could narrow it down:
Computers → Laptop computers → Apple Laptops → iBook
See how you have just taken a broad market search term with a ton of website and competition, down to a specific niche with fewer websites and less competition.
You are targeting your specific customer this way too.
You are essentially carving your own slice of cyberspace on the internet with your keyword, that you will then create websites, articles, videos and other content around your keywords.
The coolest thing about the tools I’ve shown you earlier is that as you are searching for your keyword, you are arming yourself with a TON of competitive intelligence and know how to set up your website the right way the first time:
- Competition- who is using you keyword?
- Volume- how many searches a day?
- Trends- are they steady, increasing, declining, or seasonal?
- Commercial intent- how likely is someone to buy something from you based on searching for your keyword?
The commercial intent is one of the coolest things for you and me?because who do we want? Buyers!
We want them to buy from us because of the content and the value that we are giving away.
You want to do your keyword research not only to figure out where the niche is.
You want to make sure that as you’re building pages you’re using that keyword research data and figuring out through PPC which ones are converting the best to then go and build out your websites.
This will tell you what keywords to write articles about or what keywords to go build Squidoo pages around.
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How do I stop my keyword research program for returning Google results with Chinese characters?Recently, a keyword research program that I use began returning Google results in Chinese characters. My preferences are set to English and I have no proxy server running (so my IP address shows that I am in San Diego, CA and not Taiwan or something.)
Any ideas how to correct this? I ran a thorough virus scan last night and no viruses were found. I am running an adware scan right now. I just cannot think of any other ways to correct this.
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I was skepic about this service, but wow lol, not any more!
Such a great tip! It is very exciting to give info like that.
Any Time Michal,
Ade
Thanks jelletse. Hope it works out for you.
Ade
Hi. You are rock man
Thank you.
Great tip! I’ve never known this tactic before and very exciting to give it a go.
My favorite tool is Web CEO – http://www.webceo.com/cgi-bin/go/clickthru.cgi?id=fmdeveloper
You can also try wordtracker.com
I am not aware of any keyword research tools that are "very accurate," and at best they tend to be "somewhat helpful."
There are several issues here. First, no tool is more reliable than the data it is "fed," and neither Google nor Yahoo provide their search data to third parties. WordTracker uses data from a pool of smaller search engine sites, and often shows high traffic levels for very bizarre search phrases. (In my experience, WordTracker's data includes "fake traffic" including traffic from other keyword-research bots.)
In addition, even your own data is not complete: you may find that your bidding draws 150 impressions per day for searches for "where dubai" but in fact, your ad might not be shown for 1,000 other searches done each day. (Your data may also be "over-inclusive," as you may be including searches through the Search Network, which aren't done at Google, or traffic on the Content Network).
Second, search patterns change over time; the number of searches for "Santa Claus' address" rises in December and probably zeroes out from January to October. In addition to predictable seasons like that, there are random fluctuations as well as "surges" (when Jay Leno mentions widgets, there may be a bunch of web searches in the next 24 hours).
There are also "cycles" for certain search terms. For example, searches for "porn" peak on weekends (Friday and Saturday night), while searches for "football scores" peak on Sunday and Monday. For some search terms, it's possible that 80% to 90% of the total searches occur on a single day each week ("lotto numbers"), or even a single day each month or each quarter ("Fed interest rate change").
Another crucial factor to consider is the activity of "fraud operators," who use keyword research tools to identify high-bid keywords; when bid amounts rise, those terms attract more fraudulent activity (because fraudsters can make more money from each click than for low-bid terms), increasing volume.
The bottom line is that you should absolutely NEVER rely on any tools to be reliable — not even within an "order of magnitude" — in predicting search volumes for specific keywords or even "keyword families."
Mark Welch
Internet Marketing Consultant
http://www.MarkWelch.com/
It's true that Aaron Wall's tool is an excellent resource, and widely used by search engine optimization (SEO) professionals. I would also recommend Google's Adwords Keyword Tool.
You'd need to have an Adwords account (theoretically the cost is just $5 because you don't need any live campaigns to use the Tool). It will generate long lists of suggestions based on a "seed list" of keywords. Not only that, but they recently added a slew of features which estimate monthly traffic, seasonality trends, etc. It's really unbeatable. However, it doesn't account for the smaller search engines (Yahoo, MSN, Ask, etc) which is why it works well in tandem with the aforementioned.
I also recommend, if you're going to use these tools, to take a crash course in keyword research.
yes, that should be enough/
While I think everyone here has excellent answers I have found it best to spy on what your competition is doing. There are several tools on the following site that can help you with that. Keep in mind that while there are many good keyword generators out there they are only as good as the initial data submitted to them so if you're way off base from the beginning you could end up going down the wrong path.
Look at what others are doing in your niche and you are guaranteed to go the right direction. Make sure you download the FREE eBook as it helps.
http://www.SEO-Power-Tools.com
Its important because you want to identify your target audience and make a website that has content relevant to what your audience needs. Keyword research doesn't place the same relevance as it used to in search engines like google, for spam related reasons.
If you don't do keyword research, you can run into the problem of writing content that promotes your site but doesn't interest the audience. Keywords is part of the battle because, you want people to have a clear understanding of what you are offering.
Keyword Research Reports
Word tracker is one way to go.
How much traffic are you losing simply because you haven't discovered some surprising but powerful keywords?
Finding the obvious keywords for your website pages is simple.
And finding related, high-demand and low-supply keywords which are powerful for your site isn't too hard when you start using Wordtracker.
But what about those keywords that are really surprising? What about keywords you would never think of, but which have the potential to drive tens of thousands of new visitors to your site?
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As a Wordtracker subscriber, you'll immediately get free access to the top 1,000 keywords being used across the major search engines – both short-term and long-term.
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Scan our Keyword Research Reports from top to bottom. Look for wildly popular, or newly emerging words and phrases that could be used to bring in floods of new traffic.
How does this work? You are not looking for the obvious keywords that will bring people in through the "front door" of a particular site. You are looking for undiscovered gems that can bring huge amounts of traffic in through the back door, side doors, or even a new door.
Maybe you will find an incredible phrase that doesn't work for the home page, but could deliver amazing results for a page devoted to a particular aspect of some product or service on the site.
Maybe you'll decide to build special landing pages for those keywords.
Maybe you won't use the exact keyword from the list, but will run it through the Wordtracker tools to find a related high-demand phrase for which you can optimize a very relevant landing page.
Or maybe when looking through the list, you'll find guidance to develop a new product, name it, and understand what content to write to best promote it – whatever communication paths you use.
The results can be remarkable. But you'll never achieve those results without first finding the best keywords in our reports.
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http://tools.seobook.com/general/keyword/
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What do you mean by "Chinese Keyword Research Tools?"
Do you mean online translators or online IMEs (if your computer doesn't allow you to type in Chinese, you can use online IMEs to generate Chinese words by typing pinyin into the input box)?