Have I found golden nugget or is my research crap?

[bloggerd]

Hi iv found keyword low completion over 12,000 global monthly searches cpc £2
With exact match domain..

Lowest page 1 is pr1 with 45 links

There is pr2 with only 28 links
There pr4 with 19 links
YouTube video
Wikipedia #1

I'm still learning all this keyword research stuff ...

Do you think this keyword is good to go with
As the said keyword is part of quite popular niche and Iv bought a lot of domains of my crap keyword research skills so now what to double check save throwing money down the drain
Thanks
Ian

[nikomaster]

Global monthly does not help really much. Try exact match. There is a high chance that keyword does not really pay.

[Mike Black]

Originally Posted by bloggerd

Hi iv found keyword low completion over 12,000 global monthly searches cpc £2
With exact match domain..

Lowest page 1 is pr1 with 45 links

There is pr2 with only 28 links
There pr4 with 19 links
YouTube video
Wikipedia #1

I'm still learning all this keyword research stuff ...

Do you think this keyword is good to go with
As the said keyword is part of quite popular niche and Iv bought a lot of domains of my crap keyword research skills so now what to double check save throwing money down the drain
Thanks
Ian

Hey Ian,

It looks like you found a great keyword to work with, if i read what you are saying correctly! 12,000+ global monthly searches is a lot of traffic if you can rank that keyword with not much competition.

If the information you gave is in the order of the competitors ranking, meaning the first ranking site is a PR1 with only 45 links, and the second result is a PR 2 with only 28 links you can most likely easily outrank them.

what you should do is download a free software called seo spyglass, or use whatever you are already using, and look at where they are getting their links.

If the links the 45 links the first ranking site has are all irrelevant links, you will outrank the site easily.

On the other hand, if you scan their links and see that all their links are relevant to the keyword with the keyword in their anchor text, then it may be a bit harder, but still very doable!

Hope that helps!

If you have any more questions regarding this let me know!

-Mike

[Cash37]

My method is check phrase match "". I made this exact mistake. Created a site for a 18k broad site, turns out phrase was in the hundreds.

[bloggerd]

Cheer for your replies Guys going to go and have alook at spyglass and dig alittle deeper also going to go and try phrase match, fingers crossed its going to pull same results and throw me some luck..
Il let you know how it turns out...
Cheers
Ian

[Mosa]

Doesn't sound like the keyword is that great, sorry.

You should be using [exact] match with google keyword tool.

Look for at least 1000+ exact match searches per month.

If you want low competition:
On the Google 1st page, look for PR0 or noPR on at least 2 of the top 10 ranking sites. Check for a low number of Page Links. Also check if the top 10 are targeting your keyword in the Title.

Hope that helps.

- Mosa

[AS2012]

I agree exact match is the way to go. If your keyword has a good number for exact you most likely have a winner. Take a look at the phrase match number if it is a lot higher than the exact match- then you have a good base to fan out your keywords.

[main keyword phrase]
modifier[main keyword phrase]
[main keyword phrase]modifier

The modifiers will be found by people searching phrase match
and the exact will be found by exact searchers- use buyer words as modifiers

you will have alot covered- good luck

[Rough Outline]

Two basic things.

Are you selecting exact match type?

Where is the majority of traffic coming from (geographically)?

[yukon]

Better listen to these guys saying to use [exact] match on those keyword tools, otherwise chances are very high that you'll be having a bad day when you get to #1 in the SERPs & no traffic exist.

[GyuMan82]

From what you said I want to say you didn't click the exact match.

Not a whole lot of EMDs with that kind of volume and competition so I am leaning towards probably not a good keyword.

[adammck]

Agree with everyone else, make sure your using exact.

The other thing is the keyword intention. If you are running an affiliate site or something you may want to make sure your targeting the correct keyword, so you are delivered qualified traffic that want to engage with your site. Getting the right keywords are essential.

[socialbacklinks]

Always use [exact] search for find keywords.

[UMS]

I'll join the mantra about using exact match to check the search volume.

If you want to know why you should use exact match, read my blog post about the biggest keyword research mistakes.

[bloggerd]

Thankyou for directing me to your post it realy helped me understand how to an hopw not to use adwords tool as i sadly admit iv been using it totaly wrong and have probaly waisted fair amount of money on domain and time since starting online.will certainly be bookmarking the site.
Thaks agin

Originally Posted by UMS

I'll join the mantra about using exact match to check the search volume.

If you want to know why you should use exact match, read my blog post about the biggest keyword research mistakes.

[bloggerd]

Thanks Guys Was doing it it all completely wrong but atleast i know where and what i was doing wrong and hopfully not make same mistake agin..

[outwest]

Global monthly = meaningless
Local monthly is the only one to look at

Broad search = crap
its 100 times larger than the real EXACT search number which is the one you want

Listen to all the responses in the thread
these guys know their stuff

expecially
Yukon

[TopKat22]

Well, you learned a valuable lesson that a lot of us go through and that many other newbies can find useful, as well.

The bottom line is this (and you know this now):

The beginning part of making money online is to do really good market and keyword research so that you don't spend a ton of time and a lot of work (possibly a lot of money) going after a market that is too competitive or using keywords that don't get much search volume.

Once you know how to put up websites and get targeted traffic, the main part is this market and keyword research so that you actually are selling something people want to buy and that there is a big enough market but not too much competition.

Then your time will be well spent and you can actually make some money......

hopefully.

:-)

[Russerg]

As you know now, use the exact match. When it comes down to number of searches per month it depends. If your keyword is just a word then look for over 1000 searches per month, but if you want to rank for key phrase that has action verb in it like "buy", "get" etc. then you might be even good with 200 searches per month

[stunt101pmiey]

Alot of good replies here. But I too would like to know what kind of research would be wise. I have heard a lot of good things about market samurai. And I think long tail pro ? What is the difference and why would these work versus just using a free google tool?

[TBInternetMarketing]

Originally Posted by Mosa

You should be using [exact] match with google keyword tool.

Very true. When you do your search in google keyword, are you using the brackets on the left [ ].