Do You Know Any Guide That Offers How to Do Keyword Research?

[yourreviewer]

Hello folks,
Can you point out any guide or a course that specifically talks about keyword research?

Thanks

[Andyhenry]

It's simple:


1 - Type the term into Google (with and without "") to establish the amount of returned sites focusing on that term and the number of advertisers.

2 - Check out the top 10-20 sites and where their links come from.

3 - Type in related keywords and see if the same sites come up. Do similar related keyword searches and keep those top 10-20 in mind too.

4 - That should give you an idea of what's involved in competing and you can decide what promotional strategies would be appropriate to compete short and long term.

5 - If you want more robust data, use Googles external keyword tool or other tool to get more data.

6 - depending on what your plans are (i.e trying to get organic traffic, using PPC, targeting long-tail phrases etc.) create a plan for building as much relevant content as required over short and long term - and create a link building plan that scales to the required size for the niche based on your keyword research.

Andy
p.s if you're not in a niche and you want keywords that you can monetize - just go to Ebay Pulse, Google Trends etc... and see what's hot and then combine the procedure above with the addition of 'buying' keywords in the searches (cheap, discount, specific make/model searches, best, review, free delivery, etc..)

[Bryan Zimmerman]

Look up Digging For Gold. It's written by Warrior Jon Orana.

[yourreviewer]

Thank you all for the wonderful resources.

[Audrey Harvey]

I can highly recommend Steven Fullman's current WSO on niche and keyword research. I'm not an affiliate, I just think it's a great product.

http://www.warriorforum.com/warrior-...e-goes-up.html

[abelacts]

Originally Posted by Bryan Zimmerman

Look up Digging For Gold. It's written by Warrior Jon Orana.

For your convenience, here is the thread:
http://www.warriorforum.com/warrior-...of-inside.html

[anwar001]

Originally Posted by Bryan Zimmerman

Look up Digging For Gold. It's written by Warrior Jon Orana.

is this a free guide?

[Floyd Fisher]

I know dotcomsecrets has an excellent guide to keyword research. You may have to spend a pretty penny to get access though, because it's part of a larger course.

Using their methods, I cut the research time to hours vs days with other methods I've used in the past. Not too shabby.

[Tony Marriott]

Checkout the Market Samurai website. You don't have to buy the tool just view their keyword research videos. Everything you need to know is in there.

[Manc]

Here is one thing I was wondering about.

Lets make it really simple and assume you have a website for losing weight and you use the keywords "fat loss". You will have checked the amount of searches already etc.

1 - You can go for the "big" (most searched) keywords like that and MAYBE you will get a few visitors, but this way you're competing with the main keywords, you will not get to PR1 in Google anytime soon. In fact this would take years even with great content, probably, that is as long as you don't use any "automated" software, all manually = years.

2 - Then there is the other approach, for example typing in "fat loss" in the G keyword tool, then sorting by competition to see what the lowest competition is for "fat loss" related terms.

3 - From what I have seen it is always a trade off between highly searched highly competitive words, against low searches for low competition words. Of course the "jewel in the crown" here is to find a term that has a high search volume but there is low or even no competition, for the keywords.

This is what people mean by "long tail" keywords I guess? Searches that are unlikely to get picked up by people selling online, but people ARE searching those terms.

I do get mixed up because I start thinking "should fat loss be before anything else? Should the long tail keywords come first?" but I guess it depends on what niche it is and what the keyword tool spits out.

Check some of these out, all have no or low competition and all are fat loss related...

final phase fat loss (4000 global monthly searches, no competition)
cardio fat loss (4000 global monthly searches, no competition)

And so on and so on... I am not doing free research for y'all I have my own business to run.

Although I am not sure about what I am doing yet with these keywords, which would be best.

I guess if you want to almost instantly dominate a niche and you are comfortable enough knowing people that type in "final phase fat loss" will buy your (different) fat loss product, than all is good.

Most of it is obvious, like if you are not running a fat loss forum, then putting "fat loss forum" in your keywords might get you a lot of visitors, but they will ALL leave your site once they cannot find any forum there.

I am not sure there could even be a guide for keyword research, everyone seems to have their own idea about it. There is no "do this" method really, you need to understand whether the people searching for term XYZ are going to be interested in what is on your website.

[Aki Fagno]

See this link for you to find out. This is all about Market Samurai.

Keyword Analysis Tool - Market Samurai

I hope it helps.