Advice please.My mind has gone blank on Keywords

[merlincat]

I am researching a new site startingnewtoday.com, and I will be targeting the self improvement market with a new product.

I have spent hours looking for competative keywords and all seem to have really high competition, such as: I want to change my life (88'000comp), and that's a lower one.

Does anybody have any ideas?

I have used google and market samurai to try to find alternatives, is there anything else i should be using to find longtail keywords?

Thank you for any help you can offer, my mind has gone blank!

[Oxbloom]

The self-help/personal development field is wide open in terms of approaches you can use to get your message in front of an appreciative audience.

Lots of people need help. And without knowing doodly-squat about your product, I'd say lots of people can *potentially* benefit from a site about "starting new."

People who are depressed.
People who are out of work.
People who are looking for work.
People who are having relationship difficulties.
People who are just coming out of school.
People who have self-image problems.
People who have motivational difficulties.
People who are fans of specific authors.
People who are fans of specific speakers.

I find a good thing to do is plug the website of a guru with a message similar to your own into Google Keyword, and see what it lists for keywords they're hitting up. You'll probably find examples of all the above and plenty more.

[merlincat]

I was thinking of the main term:

Change your life - 90'500 searches, 3'610'000 comp! but 2nd site on search only has 27 inlinks

And then breaking the site down to specific areas on seperate pages, focusing on a keyword per page. Adding good relevant content.

Main areas : Wealth,health,relationship,beliefs

[Mark R Carter]

I like wordtracker.com for long tail keyword ideas. It's free.

[lior1970]

I guess you should spend some weeks instead of some hours in keyword research in order to get the golden keywords among high competitive keywords in self improvement market. Unless you are lucky with the ideas

[merlincat]

I have an idea and would like to get working on it while its fresh.

And i'm sorry to sound sceptical but how many people spend weeks doing keyword research and delay their forward momentum.

I've been using Seo Book Keyword Suggestion Tool and that's thrown up some ideas.

[scott g]

I don't remember exactly where I got this list from: Desperate Buyers Questions.

It's basically a compilation of tens of thousands of questions people typed into Google. They are questions buyers are asking Google, so someone like you will solve (product/service).

If you can't find something here.... You're HOPELESS! Just kidding... but seriously!

CHEERS!

File too large to attach (4.28 mb) click to DL .zip file:
Desperate_Questions.zip

[merlincat]

Thanks for that....it's started my mind working again

[scott g]

Originally Posted by merlincat

Thanks for that....it's started my mind working again

I don't think you guys really understand what I've provided you with in my post up there ^^^^