Am I programming a Revoluntionary keyword research tool? Feedback appreciated
I'm new here so please treat me kindly. I've been doing SEO for quite some time now. After a while I became pretty fed up with the current "all in one" keyword research tools out there (e.g. wordtracker, wordze, etc, etc).
So I've decided to make a tool of my own, I have a working version but its not yet in a state where it could be sold as a product, thats what I'm working on now.
I've been coding it for quite a while, but getting a bit bored of it now and finding it hard to keep myself motivated, I wondered what you guys think of it and whether it would be something you would buy.
Here's a screenshot of a campaign overview.
This screenshot shows some test keywords I decided to research, this 20 of them, the tool actually collected and researched over a million keywords in the end.
The seed keyword was "make money" and the tool went to ask.com and collected the related keywords and then the related keywords to those and then the related keywords to those and so on until it built a list of a million keywords, in fact it could get even more, I just left it running for a an awful long time thats all.
Then we have the "search volume" column, you'll notice that they're all marked 0. But soon that will be filled with the 'exact' search volume for each keyword according to google's external keyword tool. I chose to collect it from the external keyword tool because I believe it more accurate then the kind of estimates that something like wordtracker spits out. The data is coming straight from Google, its going to be a lot more accurate than any estimate extrapolated from a sample of ISP records.
Next we have the Yahoo columns. The tool goes to google types in each keyword and pulls the first 3 domains that come up (those domains aren't shown in the screeny, but you can change the options so they're shown if you like). It then does a link query on Yahoo for each of those domains and calculates an average number of links pointing to the top 3 domains for each keyword. This gives you a view of the amount of link building you'll have to build if you want to get a similar rank. I find that this is a much better way to judge the 'rankability' of a keyword then simply looking in google at the number of results that come up (which is what wordtracker currently does).
The tool will also check to see if an exact matcing squidoo lens is available, for example in the screenshot above "Ways for kids to Make Money" has a tick under the squidoo column, this means that Ways for Kids to Make Money is available (it might not be now, been a long time since I checked). This is useful if you wanted to rank for that particular term since squidoo often makes it easier to rank for a term if you can get the exact matching lens.
The tool does the same for domains as well, for example, checking to see if WaysforkidstoMakeMoney.co.uk, WaysforkidstoMakeMoney.com, WaysforkidstoMakeMoney.org.uk, WaysforkidstoMakeMoney.org, WaysforkidstoMakeMoney.net, WaysforkidstoMakeMoney.us are available (you'll notice at the moment only .co.uk is being checked for). This is incredibly useful as getting the exact matching domain in my experience can get you first page listings without much link building at all, I've done it many times and others have also demonstrated it.
The tool has 3 primary uses.
1) Cast a net see what I can get. You enter a few seed keywords and tell the tool to grab an infinite number of related keywords (e.g: it never stops looking). It will scan and analyse thousands of keywords. Then all you do is filter the results to get promising niche ideas e.g:
I like to filter keywords to only shows ones where the average number of links is below 4,000, there are more than a thousand searches being performed every month and there's also a .co.uk domain available.
Then I sort by the number of searches and scroll through the list. All these keywords will be easy to rank for and have enough searches to make them profitable. I just buy the domains for the best ones and make a site built around it. In this way you can find a lot of overlooked keywords where there's simply very little competition but a tonne of searches being performed
2) The second is very similar to the first except you only filter for keywords where an exact domain is available and the sort by search volume. Then buy the domains that get the most searches and sell them. I think its good for a domainer who wants to automate their research.
3) Finally you can put in a few hundred keywords all based around a certain niche and tell the tool not to get any related keywords but just show data for the ones you've entered. This way when a client comes to me and says "I want to rank in the dog niche" I can put in a few hundred keywords and based on the data I get back I can say, "well, I know I can rank for this keyword, and this one because the competion is below 4,000 links and there are exact matching domains available. This is how many searches are being performed." Or I can use it and find that there just aren't any keywords that look easy to rank for and simply turn down the job.
Based on my personal experience I know I can rank on the first page if the average number of links is below 4,000. There is a notes section to the tool where you can write down your results as you go. You can start off with low competition keywords and the better you get at ranking for keywords the harder the keywords you can take on.
So what do you guys think, is this something you'd personally find useful? The idea is it would run on your hosting, so the data you collect is your own and not shared with others, there also would be no monthly fee, just a one off purchase of the script. If it's totally poo, just tell me, or maybe if there's any features you want that you just can't find elsewhere, tell me so I can add them.
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