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Keyword Research

by bevasllanaj
10 replies
Hi
I am busy doing some keyword research using some advice from an Ewan Chia course. He suggests using the google keyword tool to find keywords in your niche that fit this criteria: More than 1000 google searches per month and less than 10,000 search results. I have gone through pages of keywords and have only found 2 which meet this criteria and they are only 2 words long each.
Is there a better way of doing long tail keyword research?
Is this something you can do yourself for free?
And if paying is the only option, which is the best way to go?
As I was looking at a couple of options, one was wordtracker and the other was keyword ninja software that I saw on this forum.
I'm a bit confused, any advice would be appreciated!
Thanks
#keyword #research
  • Profile picture of the author tnbig
    Check out Market Samurai, it has what you are looking for. It also has a free trial for you to test it out before you buy.
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  • Profile picture of the author Shaun Lee
    It depends on if you want to invest in a good software, but doing keyword research with Google Keyword Tool is a great, free method.

    If you want to get a software, then go for Market Samurai. A little expensive, but worth every penny.

    -Shaun
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  • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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    • Profile picture of the author Shaun Lee
      Originally Posted by Alexa Smith View Post

      I don't care, myself, if there are 10,000 competing search results or 10,000,000: I'm only really competing with 10 of them, and those are the 10 on the front page. I need to know a little bit about their sites and SEO to see if I can beat them. The rest of the results have no relevance to me at all.
      Agreed, the only real competition is the Top 10 listings.

      -Shaun
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      • Profile picture of the author butters
        If you are following someones course who mentions the amount of search results as a factor when it comes to ranking... Demand your money back, I don't know why newbies think this but it is a real shame and you are passing up on LOTS of opportunities because of this BS fact. Lets make this clear, search result play no role if you can rank for a word or not. The only thing it does is tell you how many pages there are for that keyword, that is all, those 1000000000 pages could be random and not on topic, it is just a number (which is normally wrong anyway).

        There are free tools you can use to do your Market Research, google keyword tool being one. You need to focus on the top 10 listings and their onsite SEO factors and the quality of their off-site SEO. If the top 10 have awesome on-site SEO and awesome off-site SEO, forget the keyword. If they have mediocre on-site SEO and horrible off-site SEO (and the traffic is there for the keyword) you got a winner.
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  • Profile picture of the author SaSeoPete
    Yep I always look at the top 10 domains and see if I can beat them. Look for non top level domains in the SERPS, i.e. pages on peoples sites. then if I can get a domain with the keyword in it I'll go for it.

    Alexa mentioned KateD who does keyword research, another great service is a Dan Jensen
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  • Profile picture of the author Paul Barber
    Try Market Samurai, watch the training video's which are great for help you to analysis the top ten and how many links etc you need to get to yourself on page 1. takes the guess work out of it. I think if you sign up for the 30 challenge with Ed Dale etc and then get sign up for the free trial with Market Samurai you get 40 day trail instead of 10.

    Hope that helps.
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