keyword research, how do you do it?

[wicked1]

Just joined the wf and already got a lot of great info. My question is how do others do keyword research. More specifically, you have a target keyword that your going after, lets say "dog training". (just an example) What would you do?

[Kecia]

I use the Google Keyword Tool and the free version of Traffic Travis. I set the search results for the GKT to exact match. I typically am only interested in keywords with 3000+ exact searches each month.

Once I think I have a keyword, I check the competition with the SEO Analysis feature in Traffic Travis. I will build a site for a keyword whose 10 ten results mostly have a PR of 3 or less, few backlinks (less than 300) and aren't SEO'd properly.

[Tom Byrde]

Depends what you mean really. If you want to extract keywords from a competitors site, then Google Keyword tools is excellent and if you are thinking about following the traditional advice around low hanging fruit i.e. finding well searched terms that have low competition, then the same tool is fine.

Personally, I don't bother with doing the long tail thing. I just pick my main keywords based upon my niche and then go to work ranking them irrespective of what the perceived competition is.

Tom

[gussyboy]

I love using market samurai, but i find using google keywords tool fantastic also. People try to complicate the process and tons of keyword tools have been made because of this. But just pick some good long tail kws and look for buyer keywords. None of the tools really give you the exact info anyways so just go for roundabout figures.

[parth84]

Hi, I use Keyword Tracker to do the same.

[Cool Hand Luke]

Originally Posted by Kecia08

I use the Google Keyword Tool and the free version of Traffic Travis. I set the search results for the GKT to exact match. I typically am only interested in keywords with 3000+ exact searches each month.

Once I think I have a keyword, I check the competition with the SEO Analysis feature in Traffic Travis. I will build a site for a keyword whose 10 ten results mostly have a PR of 3 or less, few backlinks (less than 300) and aren't SEO'd properly.

Are you by chance a Profit Storm user? This is exactly what they teach, and the methods are getting soooo saturated.

[ZealZeal]

Originally Posted by Kecia08

I use the Google Keyword Tool and the free version of Traffic Travis. I set the search results for the GKT to exact match. I typically am only interested in keywords with 3000+ exact searches each month.

Once I think I have a keyword, I check the competition with the SEO Analysis feature in Traffic Travis. I will build a site for a keyword whose 10 ten results mostly have a PR of 3 or less, few backlinks (less than 300) and aren't SEO'd properly.

I agree with you on Google Keyword Tool and Traffic Travis. They are very important tools for keyword research.

[Quasha]

I use google keyword tool to find the keywords. But it is is one of the most important and difficult task atleast for me :P

[CDawson]

Use the google adwords keyword tool (have an account to sign in), find keywords in a niche that have decent searches per month and make sure the competition isn't overwhelming (less than 200,000 competing sites shouldn't be to hard if the first page competition has low page rank).

[Jeremy S]

I suggest a combination of these methods for your keyword research. You have to make sure you leave no stone unturned when trying to rank highly for a specific term.

But finding the keyword is only 25% of the battle in my opinion.

The other 75% is properly optimzing your website to rank for this keyword.

This is done through a keyword rich domain, onpage header, page title, description, etc.

Most importantly you must manually go through and add backlinks to your site that are relative to your keyword. You must overtake your competition by finding their backlinks and obtaining similar ones, and then finding your own.

If you do this consistently day in and day out, you will find that you can pick any keyword and eventually become profitable with it. Just takes patience.

[sagajagads]

nice information

[Justinpage]

I agree with those who suggested Google AdWord tool. This tool is proven to be one of the most effective tools when it comes to keyword research and analysis. You can try this for it is free.

[JSProjects]

Watch this: SEnuke Niche Mastery

It covers a method within SENuke, but you can do it outside of SENuke with the Google keyword tool.

While you're at it, check out his other videos. Easily the best IM related videos I've come across.

[jonnyhardbaked]

I also agree with Google AdWord. Best fit for keyword analysis and research.

[Trent Dyrsmid]

Originally Posted by wicked1

Just joined the wf and already got a lot of great info. My question is how do others do keyword research. More specifically, you have a target keyword that your going after, lets say "dog training". (just an example) What would you do?

Great question. I have a free video that explains exactly how I do it. Just click the second link in my sig and you'll get a bunch of free training videos that go into great detail on how to do it.

Good luck

[kiranraj19]

Try Google adword keyword tool for checking more relevant keywords...

[razorico]

I recommend you to try different services. I started with GKT, and disappointed with it. Then, I started thinking about paid service. First was Demo-verison of Market Samurai - I didn't like it. Second was SEMRush, I found it very interesting, and was satisfied with results. After buying full version of SEMRush, I liked it even more. It's awesome especially in finding keywords, which are using your competitors. There are no trash in this type of research generally.

[Chris Cole]

For me it's Market Samurai.. I do all of my keyword research with this. I do check results in google keyword tool afterwards.

Typically I filter to monthly exact with searches of around 1000 upwards. Then once I pick out the keywords i'm interested in i'll open these up in new tabs and do my SEO analysis on each one individually.

MS has a colored matrix that is returned giving you three colors, green, yellow and red. This is the analysis of the top ten's on page SEo as well as backlink to page and domain as well as the PR etc..

Typically you are looking for alot of green. This shows you the competition might be weak. Another good thing to consider is the actual domains that are ranking within the top ten. They may not even be targetted for the keyword you are looking into, are they forum threads or article directories or a weak webpage?

If this is the case and you are further interested then you can dig further into backlink No's to page with PR etc..

Over time you will get a feel for your research and be able to go with your opinion in selecting a keyword.

Chris.

[lstoops]

Originally Posted by Kecia08

I use the Google Keyword Tool and the free version of Traffic Travis. I set the search results for the GKT to exact match. I typically am only interested in keywords with 3000+ exact searches each month.

Once I think I have a keyword, I check the competition with the SEO Analysis feature in Traffic Travis. I will build a site for a keyword whose 10 ten results mostly have a PR of 3 or less, few backlinks (less than 300) and aren't SEO'd properly.

Yep, I pretty much do this too. I use Micro Niche Finder and usually analyze the first page of Google manually. I think I'll try the SEO analysis in Traffic Travis...have it on the computer but haven't really used it. Thanks Kecia for that tip!

[trytolearnmore]

There are plenty of tools that can help you:

1) Market Samurai
2) Keyword Blueprint
3) Google Keyword Tool

And always check your 1st page competition. There might be a chance that you won't be able to beat them.

[Rukshan]

I use brad callen niche finder to find keywords and analyse. It's so simple