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What is the Best Way to Research Keywords?

by EdFriedrich
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Hello all,

I know this is going to be a thread that is going to grow to be extremely long extremely quickly, but I need advice. I recently purchased Google Sniper and it suggests a program called Keywords Elite 2.0. This application, however, is currently have technical difficulties, not to mention since 2009 there have to be better options.

Google Sniper 2.0 is supposed to come out on February 14, 2011 and one of the new features is that "researching keywords is easier than ever." I'd rather not wait another week before creating my first sniper site, as far as I'm considered, the sooner I begin raking in the cash, the better.

Thank you in advance,
Ed Friedrich
#keywords #research
  • Profile picture of the author naji
    Hi Ed,

    I like your urgency it will take you a long way in this business.

    I'm sorry but I haven't heard of those tools. The one that I know of is Market Samurai and from what I have used of it, you'd never need another keyword tool after that.

    All that being said you can do keyword research without any software, Try this for keyword resarch. Make sure you're using firefox and that you have the extention SEO Quake installed. This method is tedious but free and effective. Keyword research tools just automate most of these tasks.

    1. Go to the Google Keyword Research Tool and put in a few relavent keywords and let it find the related keywprfds.
    2. Choose keywords with decent searches (personally I ignore everything below a 1000 monthly searches).
    3. Now go to Google and start entering each keyword in the search box in " " and start noticing the SEO Competition (exanple: About 290,000 results (0.13 seconds) ).
    4. If you are just starting out I recommend staying around 50,000 sites for easier and quicker results.
    5. Also the other important thing to keep in mind besides the number of competing sites is the nature of the competition. Here SEO Quake will help so you can see the Page Rank and Backlinks (you should even see the PR of the backlinking sites) of the competition. Also check if the keyword is being used in the the anchor text of the backlinks, in the domain, in the url and in the title.

    So if for a particular keyword the top 10 Google results consists of sites with tons of quality backlinks and with the keyword in the domain and the title, then you know what they are targeting and how dedicated they are to it.

    Of course Market Samurai does all that in a few clicks , never the less I think iy helps to understand the process so you can interpret the results better.

    Hopefully you didn't find that confusing. Hope it helps.

    Warm Regards,
    Naji
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