IMPORTANCE of keyword research

When using google keyword research tool, which is the best tool for finding keywords nowadays (much better than wordtracker if you ask me), the most accurate report about how many searches a keyword will get monthly is when you use the "exact" option, not the "broad" one.

So basically let's assume you choose a keyword with 9000 monthly searches (exact) , and you rank #1 for it, you can expect to receive at least 300 visitors per day. This is not a presumption or gibberish talk, this is from my many tests that I've been doing for the past years specially with ETD's.. (exact match domains).

Honestly you cant base your whole business around these calculations. While it should be used as a guide they are never going to be totally acurate.

There are many things to take into consideration when doing research like this.

98 visits a month would convert very highly if the keyword is a good buying keyword.

Is the keyword something that will get more popular in the future?

Is your product something that is only going to be sold in your country? If not, then you should be looking at the global count to get a more accurate count.

Why position number three? I always try to get my keywords ranked in the number one spot.

I have targeted keywords before that got as low as 200 exact searches in the google keyword tool. That keyword is now delivering close to 2000 searches a month and google still shows the low volume.

If I thought the keyword was good based on buying potential or future potential I would go for it after researching the top 2 sites. I just wouldnt go for position number 3 though.

Thanks for the tips guys.

I simply picked #3 as an example.
I aim to get as high as possible, of course.

In regards to choose 'exact' search as opposed to 'broad' search.
Where is that option on keyword tools?
I thought I already selected it by clicking "show only relevant (exact) search results"?

days ago i opened a thread and we discussed that and roughly you need to look at your keyword and exact if for example you have 9000 people with that keyword when the exact box is checked you will get ...supposedly 300 people a day but
if you are first page 1st spot 68% say roughly the 70 (NOT THE 100%)percent 210 people and then down if you are at the 10 spot of page one ,consider that you will get 8 percent of those supposed 300 visitors so say 24 visitors,this calculation is very conservative but is right,of course second page or 3 page position a lot less!!!! for this reason i useful also to check how may results there are for a "keyword" when you type it in google search if for example "healthydogfood" written like that in google search (while with exact was giving you 9000 globally searches) ,gives you 900 thousand results the chance that you wil go on the first page with that keyword are very little unless you spend thousand of bucks for a big campaign

Thanks for the input.
Well, from my point of view, I was thinking #10 gets more than #9 because most of the time, people get impatient and scroll to the bottom of the page fast (or maybe they are heading to the next page) and catches the #10 spot somehow. Therefore #10 has more traffic than #9?

Just my opinion of course

exactly, Your title and your Description also has equivalent importance to get visitors to your site.
So keep concentration all Four field if your want to get high pager rank in search engine.
these four are :
Your Title, Description, your Content(content is always king), Used Keywords.

You are welcome.

Well, what could possible make people to scroll fast down? Oh wait, rubbish titles and descriptions of the top 5. Okay that's too much, who would put garbage to convert the precious top positions, right? Let's just say the top 5 shows incompetent or irrelevant metas, this could give a bonus to the 6-10th position.

And let's just say, yeah, sometimes people scroll down without reading the first few results, which means the least in the list is given more of the visibility when the surfer starts to scroll down, yet what makes people click the #10 over #9? By accident? No. People have read something that sounded good for them which made them click through. Who would click a link for no reason? They probably want something, which something might have been uniquely mentioned by any on the list.

Though ranking #1 will give a definite advantage, it doesn't mean you get all the traffic, rather it depends on how you handle the position. From my point of view, being listed in the first page, either #10 or #1, is like 3 feet from gold. If no one takes further steps, no one gets the full privilege of the gold. These steps were obviously given to any webmaster by Google as they allow webmasters to choose the page to rank for a keyword, title for a better click through and description for a greater conversion.

Thanks John.

You could get by just using the GKT, but most times it is handy to have another tool to help you get keywords that the GKT can not find.

If im looking for keywords related to adsense or even physical products I could probably get by on GKT, but anything really popular like some clickbank products I couldnt get by on GKT alone.