How 1 Keyword and 25 hours Makes me $2-3K passive income per month

[qrp]

I'm not going to give away the keyword or my sites so please don't ask. This method (if you want to call it that) is to give you motivation.

I do keyword research by sorting through long lists of keywords and seeing exact searches per month for them. I sort out ones that are less than 50,000 searches per month. Now I have a good searched keyword list.

But...

I don't want to spend 24 hours a day doing SEO for a site so now I use Google to see how many results there are for each of the keywords. Anything with 5 million or more results i discard because I dont want to struggle in the SEO game.

Now...

I have a nice list of highly searched keywords that have low competition.

This was the hard part. Most people will ask how I got my keyword list. I will share my strategy...
- Get a list of every word in the dictionary. Use Excel. Combine words into 2 or 3 keyword phrases.
- Scrape articles. Take each word in an article and look it up as its own keyword. Take every 2 and every 3 words in a row and look them up as a keyword phrase.

If you have some cash you can get someone to create a simple app for you to automate this. It is well worth it as it saves you a ton of time.

Ok, so beginning of this year I stumbled onto a very nice find, 350,000 EXACT searches per month and 200,000 results in Google. This is easy money goldmine. CPC is crap, only $0.05 per click, but if you have volume than you will have cash in your pocket soon.

I created a site and had it ranked on first page of Google within a week. I created 4 more sites and had them ranked on first page of Google within a month. Now I own first page of Google. All on different IPs, all on a slightly different focus of the keyword, and all using same Adsense code. My sites are simple wordpress based sites (each has a different theme), with 10 unique articles per site. Took about 5 hours per site to set up and write articles. I only use one adsense box, a 250x250 text box above each article and on homepage above homepage article.

Now, this keyword generates me $2-3k per month in passive Adsense revenue. I have not touched anything on the sites since the first month I set them up. This is not the norm, I am normally happy to set one keyword up to drive $100-150 per month.

Point of post is to share a little strategy but more importantly to help motivate you because with good keyword research you can literally write your own checks. And when you make money, don't blow it on partying and girls, reinvest it to automate the work you are doing and diversify. When you are at the mid $XX,XXX range per month, then you can start spending some on wasteful activities.

~ Q

[yukon]

I don't want to spend 24 hours a day doing SEO for a site so now I use Google to see how many results there are for each of the keywords. Anything with 5 million or more results i discard because I dont want to struggle in the SEO game.

That has nothing to do with ranking a page.

Why would you care who has a page sitting on page #97 in the SERPs?

The #1 guy is your competition, regardless If 1 or 500 trillion results are returned.

[edit]
Here is why those millions of pages mean nothing as far as seo goes.

This search returns 12.3 million results, yet not a single web page is targeting the search phrase (zero keyword competition):

pork chops taste like chicken when it's raining

Google will most times return SERP results regardless If competition exist or doesn't exist, unless you put the search phrase in quotes. The average searcher doesn't use quotes..

[lovboa]

How is your ctr using only that small text ad above the content?
Good? bad?

Is there a reason you only use that small unit alone and not others, and not multiple ad units?

[qrp]

Originally Posted by yukon

That has nothing to do with ranking a page.

Why would you care who has a page sitting on page #97 in the SERPs?

The #1 guy is your competition, regardless If 1 or 500 trillion results are returned.

I agree at first blush with your comment, but then I think about it and realize I very much disagree.

Because if there is a high volume of competition today that means that tomorrow could come along new sites into the competition that are heavy hitters. With a low volume of competition today it is not a keyword that you would anticipate heavy hitters going after in the future. If you are only thinking about who is on page 1 today you are being shortsighted, you need to consider if people will want to be on page 1 for that keyword tomorrow.

Think about it this way, do you want to enter a foot race against 500 people or against 50 people? Because next year those races may then have 1,000 people and 52 people. And year after that it may have 1,700 people and 54 people.

So whoever is ranked #1 today most likely won't be ranked #1 next year because there is always someone else out there working 24/7 to become #1.

[qrp]

Originally Posted by lovboa

How is your ctr using only that small text ad above the content?
Good? bad?

Is there a reason you only use that small unit alone and not others, and not multiple ad units?

20% CTR on average.

I actually believe people are more likely to click on an ad if you only have one Adsense spot versus if you have 3 spots. When you have 3 spots it looks like ads. When you have 1 spot, to me, it seems to blend in better with the site, look more naturally, look more non-ad-spammy.


And I am not ranked #1 in Google. I have #2, 3, 5, and then two more spots that are always shifting between 6-10. I won't ever get to #1 because the #1 spot has so many natural backlinks I won't be able to top it, but that doesn't mean I still can't cash in. And I know due to low competition that I don't have to worry about people in future coming in and attempting to knock me down from my spots.

[MikeFriedman]

Originally Posted by qrp

I agree at first blush with your comment, but then I think about it and realize I very much disagree.

Because if there is a high volume of competition today that means that tomorrow could come along new sites into the competition that are heavy hitters. With a low volume of competition today it is not a keyword that you would anticipate heavy hitters going after in the future. If you are only thinking about who is on page 1 today you are being shortsighted, you need to consider if people will want to be on page 1 for that keyword tomorrow.

Think about it this way, do you want to enter a foot race against 500 people or against 50 people? Because next year those races may then have 1,000 people and 52 people. And year after that it may have 1,700 people and 54 people.

So whoever is ranked #1 today most likely won't be ranked #1 next year because there is always someone else out there working 24/7 to become #1.

You are completely wrong in this. The number of listings has NOTHING to do with the level of competition. "Purple eared elephants" returns over 7 million listings. Must be a ****load of money in there, right? Wrong!

Your competition is page one. You have 10 sites you are competing with. Really the top 3 are what matters.

You need to stop reading silly WSO's that tell you otherwise.

[qrp]

Originally Posted by yukon

This search returns 12.3 million results, yet not a single web page is targeting the search phrase (zero exact keyword competition):

pork chops taste like chicken when it's raining

Google will most times return SERP results regardless If competition exist or doesn't exist, unless you put the search phrase in quotes. The average searcher doesn't use quotes..

This is not valid example. It would have been sorted out in step 1 when i check exact searches.

Show me a keyword phrase with 50,000 exact searches per month where you have 12.3 million results and the competition is super light as in your example? High exact searches will always produce quality results unless you find the golden nugget. Instead of searching for a 10 pound nugget which I may never find, I eliminate the 5 million or more result keywords and go after the 1 pound nuggets because they add up to 10 pounds eventually and I can have them today.

[qrp]

Originally Posted by MikeFriedman

You are completely wrong in this. The number of listings has NOTHING to do with the level of competition. "Purple eared elephants" returns over 7 million listings. Must be a ****load of money in there, right? Wrong!

Your competition is page one. You have 10 sites you are competing with. Really the top 3 are what matters.

You need to stop reading silly WSO's that tell you otherwise.

I think you are wrong. Try step 1 first. Find 50k+ exact searches. Then show me the weak competition. I don't read WSO's. I've been making six figures consistently for 3 years doing this strategy. And I'm trying to share it with people who need some guidance... yet for some reason I'm here battling people who obviously are not as well versed.

If anyone has an intelligent question I will try to answer it. As to foolish comments I'm not responding to them anymore.

[yukon]

Originally Posted by qrp

This is not valid example. It would have been sorted out in step 1 when i check exact searches.

Show me a keyword phrase with 50,000 exact searches per month where you have 12.3 million results and the competition is super light as in your example? High exact searches will always produce quality results unless you find the golden nugget. Instead of searching for a 10 pound nugget which I may never find, I eliminate the 5 million or more result keywords and go after the 1 pound nuggets because they add up to 10 pounds eventually and I can have them today.

It's 100% valid!

My point is those SERP result numbers are totally useless & have nothing to do with seo (any real seo knows this already).

I just showed you 12.3 million reasons why those SERP numbers are bogus. If that's not proof, no other search will help.

[IM Ash]

Regardless of whether or not your competition analysis is right or wrong - what matters is that you are making bank. Your methods are working for you and that's what counts!

Congratulations! I find your methods of keyword research really interesting (definitely something to look into for me).

Thanks!

[MikeFriedman]

Originally Posted by Eleva8

Regardless of whether or not your competition analysis is right or wrong - what matters is that you are making bank. Your methods are working for you and that's what counts!

Congratulations! I find your methods of keyword research really interesting (definitely something to look into for me).

Thanks!

Nothing wrong with that. The point that is being missed is that there is probably a ton of money being left on the table in keywords that are extremely viable but being eliminated using a metric that tells you nothing.

[IM Ash]

Originally Posted by MikeFriedman

Nothing wrong with that. The point that is being missed is that there is probably a ton of money being left on the table in keywords that are extremely viable but being eliminated using a metric that tells you nothing.

What stuck out for me in the OP is the approach to keyword research... I already have a few ideas floating around in my head based on that approach.

The OP obviously has a large list of keywords that fits his criteria and even though I don't analyze comp. the way he does I'm not going to argue with his methods as they have proven effective for him.

[rknuppel]

Thanks for the post. Wow, very motivating honestly. I have some keywords in mind as well that I may try to dominate the top 10 for Good luck to me I guess... Keep up the good work.

[yukon]

Like Mike said, If you based you research on SERP result numbers chances are high your overlooking good keywords that possibly have little competition.

Those SERP result numbers are an illusion, they serve no purpose for seo.

[lovboa]

Originally Posted by qrp

20% CTR on average.

I actually believe people are more likely to click on an ad if you only have one Adsense spot versus if you have 3 spots. When you have 3 spots it looks like ads. When you have 1 spot, to me, it seems to blend in better with the site, look more naturally, look more non-ad-spammy.

Wow ~20% is really great.
I'd love to take a look at your site or at least your site layout

[pauljohnny]

If only my google adsense account wasn't banned, damn!! I missed those days where you can easily earn through adsense as an additional income.

[Andy Hart]

Think about it this way, do you want to enter a foot race against 500 people or against 50 people? Because next year those races may then have 1,000 people and 52 people. And year after that it may have 1,700 people and 54 people.

That makes no sense what so ever??

So whoever is ranked #1 today most likely won't be ranked #1 next year because there is always someone else out there working 24/7 to become #1.

That's the same if there are 30mil competing pages today or just 20.

Do you think the keyword "ipod" was competitive before Oct 2001?? Who knows what tomorrow brings, concern yourself with today.

Bottom line........ number of competing sites DOES NOT MATTER, its just above the fold comp you need to consider.

what matters is that you are making bank. Your methods are working for you and that's what counts!

Really? With the info he's giving out? allegedly making bank

Take Care
Andy

[Alex Barboza]

Do purple eared elephants eat pork chops that taste like chicken when it's raining?

[outwest]

I agree number of competiting pages makes no difference

however
by hook or crook

if what the op is saying as far as how much time he took to make the site
and how much he makes per month is true

he is laughing all the way to the bank

[patrich]

I will stay out of the argument about the keyword research portion of this, because, I am the "If it works for you, then do it" type of person. Everyone has their own theories and processes of how to choose a keyword so it is pointless to argue.

What has me interested though, is that you claim to have ranked for a 350,000 exact match, search term inside of a week and then went on to ranking several other sites for the same term within a month.

Having gone after search terms with this type of traffic in the past, it is no easy task. Generally speaking, the more traffic a search term has, the more competition you have trying to get their piece of the pie, which tends to make them more difficult to rank for, at least in my previous experience.

Would love to hear what types of "methods" you were using to rank these sites in such a short time frame.

[tylerjaysen]

I guess that we have to take your word for it.....as far as the income you say you're making monthly with .....what...one keyword?

I'm guessing that you got extremely lucky on picking this keyword and are getting a ton of traffic..like $100 per day it looks like....with adsense revenue. If it is only 1 keyword then that is incredible.

Below that comment you say that $100 a month is the norm with one keyword....which sounds more believable. And those are the results that I'm used to experiencing.

But hey congrats bro....maybe you should create a product and sell it as WSO.

I've purchased similar WSO on adsense techniques and they are similar in that they teach you how to build small sniper sites with low competition and then have unique articles on them with only a few links....but the main element is having a bunch of sites. On diff C class blocks (ips) and all generating small monthly income each...but when you add them all up it's worth it.

[outwest]

Ya the only thing that gets me is the OP is saying he dominates the first page of google for a 350k per month KW

doesnt sound plausible

However I have found 20k a month kws that have ZERO competition I mean like 5 backlinks on the pages for spots 1,2,3 so I guess its possible but

lot of difference between 20k a month and 350k a month words

[paulgl]

Think about it this way, do you want to enter a foot race against 500 people or against 50 people?

Originally Posted by Andy Hart

That makes no sense what so ever??
That's the same if there are 30mil competing pages today or just 20.
Take Care
Andy

You are absolutely right. If that made sense, then everyone would
want in on the 8 man race for the 200M in the Olympics. After
all, only 8 runners right? Must be a snap. Bring on Bolt! I'm ready!

Thing is, only a handful of runners have a chance at winning the
Boston Marathon, with tons of entrants, and the Olympics with
a much, much smaller field. Total entries is of no consequence.

Paul

[london710]

very inspiring. can i ask which themes do you use to get a 20% ctr? and which link colours of ads?
im struggling to get more than 5-10% ctr with ctrtheme and clickbump themes. Do you think your high ctr is because of the niche, is it a product niche?

cheers,
kas

[oscarmike]

interesting thread, i first thought that the "negative" comments were just made to bash on the TS but watching the thread develop into a very good debate, i realized that each have very valid arguments.

[BigNorm]

I like your approach to keyword research and have been doing something, or trying, something similar where I have a program where I can combine lists. I take action keywords and add them to a long list of dictionary words and just let them run. As of yet haven't quite mastered it but time and perseverance and taking a couple of your tips I'll find an easier way to find valuable niches.

[yukon]

Originally Posted by paulgl

Think about it this way, do you want to enter a foot race against 500 people or against 50 people?



You are absolutely right. If that made sense, then everyone would
want in on the 8 man race for the 200M in the Olympics. After
all, only 8 runners right? Must be a snap. Bring on Bolt! I'm ready!

Thing is, only a handful of runners have a chance at winning the
Boston Marathon, with tons of entrants, and the Olympics with
a much, much smaller field. Total entries is of no consequence.

Paul

I can hook you up with some shoes that will make you run faster.

Let me know, I'll send you my Amazon affiliate link, lol.

[qrp]

Originally Posted by yukon

Like Mike said, If you based you research on SERP result numbers chances are high your overlooking good keywords that possibly have little competition.

Those SERP result numbers are an illusion, they serve no purpose for seo.

Not going to argue this point. If you would rather compete against 25 million sites instead of competing against 2 million sites for a high volumed searched phrase go ahead. I am talking based on my first hand experience which works well for me.

Originally Posted by lovboa

Wow ~20% is really great.
I'd love to take a look at your site or at least your site layout

I already told you exact placement and ad type.

Originally Posted by Andy Hart

That makes no sense what so ever??



That's the same if there are 30mil competing pages today or just 20.

Do you think the keyword "ipod" was competitive before Oct 2001?? Who knows what tomorrow brings, concern yourself with today.

Bottom line........ number of competing sites DOES NOT MATTER, its just above the fold comp you need to consider.



Really? With the info he's giving out? allegedly making bank

Take Care

Concerning yourself with "today" wont bring sustainable passive income so i will concern myself with tomorrow and keep accumulating my passive income.

Yes, i allegedly do well, i am really here to promote the link in my signature and then hype my soon to come ebook that i'll sell. {sarcasm}

[qrp]

Originally Posted by patrich

I will stay out of the argument about the keyword research portion of this, because, I am the "If it works for you, then do it" type of person. Everyone has their own theories and processes of how to choose a keyword so it is pointless to argue.

What has me interested though, is that you claim to have ranked for a 350,000 exact match, search term inside of a week and then went on to ranking several other sites for the same term within a month.

Having gone after search terms with this type of traffic in the past, it is no easy task. Generally speaking, the more traffic a search term has, the more competition you have trying to get their piece of the pie, which tends to make them more difficult to rank for, at least in my previous experience.

Would love to hear what types of "methods" you were using to rank these sites in such a short time frame.

1. Proper onsite seo focused on main keyword, the usual, page title, h1 h2 tags, keyword velocity, intersite page linking, etc
2. Unique articles, not spun, hand written by me
3. Backlinks - good mix - blog comment, forum, article submission, profile, all to money site, and then a round 2 submission pointing to my first set of backlinks (link juice pushing)
4. Facebook likes

Nothing fancy, nothing in depth...

You can get on first page of google sometimes in 2 or 3 days with good building and weak competition in google.

[outwest]

yes but here is a question
this all sounds great

but
what are the backlinks to page for the top 10 sites when you started this, (competition top 10)

that will tell us how competitive the competition really was
saying well this kw gets x 1000 searches per month exact, doesnt tell us much

[qrp]

Originally Posted by paulgl

Think about it this way, do you want to enter a foot race against 500 people or against 50 people?



You are absolutely right. If that made sense, then everyone would
want in on the 8 man race for the 200M in the Olympics. After
all, only 8 runners right? Must be a snap. Bring on Bolt! I'm ready!

Thing is, only a handful of runners have a chance at winning the
Boston Marathon, with tons of entrants, and the Olympics with
a much, much smaller field. Total entries is of no consequence.

Paul

All else being equal you would do better to compete against 8 than against 500... Unless you have more than 24 hours in a day and can assess the strength of all 508 people.

How do you take a list of millions of keywords and shrink it down to a doable target list? I told u how. But have fun alalyzing the seo strength of each competitor for the millions of keywords, cuz by the time you are done i'll have sustainable passive income already hitting my direct deposit for many months.

Originally Posted by london710

very inspiring. can i ask which themes do you use to get a 20% ctr? and which link colours of ads?
im struggling to get more than 5-10% ctr with ctrtheme and clickbump themes. Do you think your high ctr is because of the niche, is it a product niche?

cheers,
kas

My ctr in this specific example relates to the niche.

Let me give you a somewhat abstract tip... If someone lands on your site looking for something, but you don't give it to them (or you do not satisfy them) but there are links (adsense) which hopefully are enticing the person can:
A. Return to google and search again
Or
B: click a link

If you apply this theory you will never see 1% or 2% click through rate again.

[AlphaWarrior]

While I agree that your main competition are the top 10 in serps, I also see a lot of value in looking at the total competition shown on G. I look at it as a short cut method.

The more competition the more likely that the top 10 will be highly seo'ed. The less competition, more likely that the top 10 will not have spent much time on seo, at least not much time for that particular keyword.

Rather than take time to over analyze, qrp can quickly determine whether or a keyword is worth pursuing.

[qrp]

Originally Posted by outwest

yes but here is a question
this all sounds great

but
what are the backlinks to page for the top 10 sites when you started this, (competition top 10)

that will tell us how competitive the competition really was
saying well this kw gets x 1000 searches per month exact, doesnt tell us much

You dont get it, with large keyword lists you need to whittle them down somehow. I choose to do it by the number of exact searches and then whittle down again by the number of results in google.

Tell me how long using the seo competition analyzer of market samuri would It take to use on 50,000 keywords. Probably months.

[qrp]

Originally Posted by AlphaWarrior

While I agree that your main competition are the top 10 in serps, I also see a lot of value in looking at the total competition shown on G. I look at it as a short cut method.

The more competition the more likely that the top 10 will be highly seo'ed. The less competition, more likely that the top 10 will not have spent much time on seo, at least not much time for that particular keyword.

Rather than take time to over analyze, qrp can quickly determine whether or a keyword is worth pursuing.

Thanks, at least one person gets it.

[outwest]

Originally Posted by qrp

You dont get it, with large keyword lists you need to whittle them down somehow. I choose to do it by the number of exact searches and then whittle down again by the number of results in google.

Tell me how long using the seo competition analyzer of market samuri would It take to use on 50,000 keywords. Probably months.

so even today you dont know your competitions backlinks?
on that kw? or those few kws you are ranking on you said you OWN the top 10 on google so that must be for just one kw?

[qrp]

Originally Posted by outwest

so even today you dont know your competitions backlinks?
on that kw? or those few kws you are ranking on you said you OWN the top 10 on google so that must be for just one kw?

Read my prior posts.

[iva]

Can you elaborate on your method of getting backlinks. Do you outsource it or do it yourself.

[Bryan V]

Originally Posted by AlphaWarrior

While I agree that your main competition are the top 10 in serps, I also see a lot of value in looking at the total competition shown on G. I look at it as a short cut method.

The more competition the more likely that the top 10 will be highly seo'ed. The less competition, more likely that the top 10 will not have spent much time on seo, at least not much time for that particular keyword.

Rather than take time to over analyze, qrp can quickly determine whether or a keyword is worth pursuing.

Originally Posted by qrp

Thanks, at least one person gets it.

It makes some sense by that logic, although what the others said about leaving money on the table still stands true.

Even if you whittle your list down this way, you should be doing an analysis of the top 10 results, on and off-page or else you're going to run into a bunch of KW/competition you're not ready to compete with.

[lovboa]

How many times has the same point been repeated over and over in this thread?

[Loloy Diango]

Hi qrp,

I appreciate your intention to be of help to fellow marketers by sharing your method of hunting profitable, easy-to-rank niche keywords.

And so your share wouldn’t be wasted, I want to give your method a try. However, before proceeding, can you please clarify the following:

Originally Posted by qrp

I sort out ones that are less than 50,000 searches per month.

Do you choose keywords with up to a maximum of 50,000 exact monthly searches, or are those the ones you discard?

Originally Posted by qrp

Get a list of every word in the dictionary… Combine words into 2 or 3 keyword phrases.

Which words in the dictionary? If these should be words related to the keywords you have gathered according to the above initial step, that could be a hell of a lot of keywords!

Which words to combine? Those from the initial keyword list and those from the dictionary? Or those from the dictionary alone or the keyword list alone?

Or are you saying you do keyword research INSIDE the dictionary?

Originally Posted by qrp

Scrape articles. Take each word in an article and look it up as its own keyword. Take every 2 and every 3 words in a row and look them up as a keyword phrase.

Is this another way to do keyword research your way? Should I look for articles about my target niche, then scrape them and pry keywords out of them?

Originally Posted by qrp

… I only use one adsense box, a 250x250 text box above each article and on homepage above homepage article.

Does your Adsense 250x250 text box push down your content or does content wrap around it?

Originally Posted by qrp

And when you make money, don't blow it on partying and girls, reinvest it to automate the work you are doing and diversify…

Now, this is something I really like and agree with. This should be the right attitude every internet marketer should have.


I hope you could shed more light on the above issues. Just would like to be cleared on something I want to do before doing it.

Thanks ahead!

[Andy Hart]

Unless you have more than 24 hours in a day and can assess the strength of all 508 people.

That's my point, you don't analyze the 508 people in the race, you just look at the top 3 (SERPS RESULTS) the other 505 don't matter, the strongest rise to the top so that's who you concentrate on.

Your analogy doesn't make sense, the 508 people you are talking about are all obviously in the race but when you look at serp results just because a site is listed doesn't mean they are "in the race", it doesn't mean they are actively targeting that keyword, hence not willingly in the race.

Most of the sites you see in the Serps haven't entered themselves into the "serp race" Google has done that for them, but its clear to see they aren't targeting that keyword so they don't qualify as competition.

Everyone has their own way and if its working for you then good job, keep doing your thing.

take care
Andy

[outwest]

I still say this analysis is completely flawed
I can find a kw with only 10k competiting sites that has horrible competition on top 10

competing sites tells you nothing
Its still walking into a gunfight with a blindfold on

[nickhumph]

Originally Posted by yukon

That has nothing to do with ranking a page.

Why would you care who has a page sitting on page #97 in the SERPs?

The #1 guy is your competition, regardless If 1 or 500 trillion results are returned.

[edit]
Here is why those millions of pages mean nothing as far as seo goes.

This search returns 12.3 million results, yet not a single web page is targeting the search phrase (zero keyword competition):

pork chops taste like chicken when it's raining

Google will most times return SERP results regardless If competition exist or doesn't exist, unless you put the search phrase in quotes. The average searcher doesn't use quotes..

so how do you check for competition then? What's the best way, just looking at the top 10 and beating them with more backlinking, article writing, etc then they're doing?

[outwest]

Originally Posted by nickhumph

so how do you check for competition then? What's the best way, just looking at the top 10 and beating them with more backlinking, article writing, etc then they're doing?

yup.........backlinks to page to top 10 competing sites would be a good start

[GoGetta]

I have to agree with the guys in here referring to analyzing competition with just the "competing sites" look.

The top 10 is the competition. Top 3 for decent traffic!

Competing sites means nothing. You could be trying to rank for "Dentist New York", and by analysing via competing sites only, you could have pulled up results from blogs about parents taking there son or daughter to a dentist in New York.

And they are certainly not trying to rank for that keyword term!

Local example granted, but you get the picture! : )

By just analyzing competing sites, I would be willing to bet you have let a few keywords go that could have been super easy to rank for!

GoGetta

[agmantz]

Originally Posted by qrp

I'm not going to give away the keyword or my sites so please don't ask. This method (if you want to call it that) is to give you motivation...

~ Q

Wow, Now I'm motivated

Thanks for Sharing.

[owenlee]

This method looks cool...real cool i mean...i believe that this keyword is a real gem!!Good luck buddy~

[qrp]

Originally Posted by iva

Can you elaborate on your method of getting backlinks. Do you outsource it or do it yourself.

I outsource any manual stuff I can. But when linking directly to my money site, if you outsource that part make sure it is to someone you have used and trusted, nothing worse than building spammy looking backlinks to your money site cuz if google analyzes your backlinks you'll get deindexed.

Originally Posted by Loloy Diango

Hi qrp,

I appreciate your intention to be of help to fellow marketers by sharing your method of hunting profitable, easy-to-rank niche keywords.

And so your share wouldn’t be wasted, I want to give your method a try. However, before proceeding, can you please clarify the following:




Do you choose keywords with up to a maximum of 50,000 exact monthly searches, or are those the ones you discard?


I only go after keywords with 50k or more exact searches per month.


Which words in the dictionary? If these should be words related to the keywords you have gathered according to the above initial step, that could be a hell of a lot of keywords!

All the dictionary words. Yes, it is a hell of a lot of words, and when you start to combine words it becomes that much more. Which is why you need a method when looking at such a large quantity of keywords to narrow it down.

Which words to combine? Those from the initial keyword list and those from the dictionary? Or those from the dictionary alone or the keyword list alone?

I combine everything. I like using dictionary and articles because a lot of times there are things people say in articles (i.e. slang or abbreviations) which are not in the dictionary but are popular.

Or are you saying you do keyword research INSIDE the dictionary?





Is this another way to do keyword research your way? Should I look for articles about my target niche, then scrape them and pry keywords out of them?

You could do that. If you're only looking at one niche you can use Google keyword tool, you could use Scrapebox and their keyword tool, or niche shark or market samuri, etc... My method is much broader then one niche.



Does your Adsense 250x250 text box push down your content or does content wrap around it?

It pushes down content. Have your ad be the first thing that people read, not your article. I understand there's been news lately that says Google is going to start looking at how much ad space above the fold you have and factor that into its rankings, but i dont think one 250x250 box above the fold would be considered poor.



Now, this is something I really like and agree with. This should be the right attitude every internet marketer should have.


I hope you could shed more light on the above issues. Just would like to be cleared on something I want to do before doing it.

Thanks ahead!

Originally Posted by outwest

I still say this analysis is completely flawed
I can find a kw with only 10k competiting sites that has horrible competition on top 10

competing sites tells you nothing
Its still walking into a gunfight with a blindfold on

Show me a keyword with 50k or more EXACT searches AND 10k competing sites and I will show you a literal paycheck. You keep talking about competing sites, that is 2nd step! First step is 50k or more exact searches. I dont care about purple elephants and pork because nobody is searching for that. Jeez, some of you guys are really dense. If you don't like my method fine, feel free to exit the thread. I was trying to help some people get started with a method that works FOR ME. If you want to put in your two cents repeatedly go and start your own thread and help people with your own methods.

[yukon]

Originally Posted by qrp

Show me a keyword with 50k or more EXACT searches AND 10k competing sites and I will show you a literal paycheck.

I'll make this one easy.

Based on what your saying, your competition for car insurance quotes is only 773 competing pages (way below the 10k you asked for).

Never mind the fact that these domains have ranked pages on the #1 SERP page. Should be an easy keyword right?

progressive.com
nationwide.com
statefarm.com
allstate.com
thegeneral.com
esurance.com

That's a real keyword (car insurance quotes), forget the elephant & pork example. Should be an easy keyword with only 773 competing pages in the SERPs with 60.5k exact search per month average.

My point here is your telling noobs that they should look at a number in the SERPs that means nothing as far as seo, instead of checking first page SERP competition which is the real competition, not some guy on page 77 in the SERPs.

[paulgl]

Originally Posted by yukon

That's a real keyword (car insurance quotes), forget the elephant & pork example. Should be an easy keyword with only 773 competing pages in the SERPs with 60.5k exact search per month average.

It's called debunking parlor tricks. I always had a disdain for
SEO parlor tricks, when they have no relation to the real
search world.

Paul