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Whats your thoughts on this 'automatic' keyword research idea?

by LocoDice
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I am a software developer, and anybody who has read some of my past posts will see I am always on the look out for ideas to leverage my coding skills and IM.

I had an idea earlier today. I'll be out and about and I'll see/think of something for a niche site - then what I'll do is I'll email myself and I have a folder (or whatever they call them in Gmail) and stick all the keyword ideas there, and then at some later point in time I'll run off and do manual research.

I was thinking of an idea for a service where you could:
1. Register an account/email address with the service
2. And then when you have a keyword idea anytime or anywhere send an email with a keyword i.e. "How to pay off your mortgage faster" in the subject of the email to say keyword@magickeywordresearch.com (the address/site doesn't exist yet)
3. You will automatically get an email back saying your request is being processed and estimated wait time.
4. This is where the magic happens - SEO guys on the other end with the right tools (i.e. market samurai, etc) register for their services to do the keyword research at like 50c (or something) each. Obviously for the right person, with the right tools - this process only takes a few minutes. But I'd bet that to a lot of people those few minutes are valuable and are better spent doing something else.
5. You get a standardised report back in email with keyword summary - strength, competitors, etc and then you can work out if it's something you might want to pursue yourself.

So anytime, anywhere you have an idea for a keyword - you can get somebody to do the research for you. At home, or on your mobile phone.

You would have to set the system up where you prepay a certain amount via paypal, etc.. i.e. $10, $20 and each time you send in a request it takes whatever the charge for keyword research off - lets say 50c.

I'd be interested in your thoughts - this is a system I could build from scratch - what I don't have the experience in yet is the best system to offer for keyword research and how to actually market it.

Maybe if anybody thinks they could do that really well we could chat via PM?
#automatic #idea #keyword #research #thoughts
  • Profile picture of the author onSubie
    Hi

    I think there are many keyword research services that provide something like this, although proably not the exact process/interface you imagine. You can find people on fiverr who will do this.

    One problem is that keyword research is not a black and white, cut-n-dried, issue. Different researchers have different ideas about what is important in keyword research and SEO.

    So when you say "the right tools" and use Market Samurai as an example, what faith do I have that the tools "you prefer" are "the right tools".

    For example, I would disagree that 'Market Samaurai' is the 'right tool' for many aspects of keyword research right now.

    Why not create a keyword tool rather than outsource the work manually to "SEO guys who use market samaurai".

    Mahlon
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  • Profile picture of the author LocoDice
    Hey thanks for the feedback Mahlon.

    In regards to the kind of keyword research that could get done, that could be something that could be defined on your account, how precisely you'd like to get the keyword research done, using what tool, etc. I used Market Samurai as an example, but obviously know there are a tonne of different companies out there who do this kind of thing.

    I guess my thinking is simply shooting an email to a predefined email address at anytime is a lot easier than signing into fiverr, finding the guy to do the gig for you and then defining the parameters, etc.
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    • Profile picture of the author JohnMcCabe
      My problem is with the whole idea of standardized keyword research. If you plug the same seed keyword into the same software, you get the same results as everyone else. So you get a bunch of people competing for the same keywords.

      That said, with the almost cult-like devotion to the '4-hour Work Week' and outsourcing everything, you'd probably make some decent money on this idea.
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  • Profile picture of the author LocoDice
    Hey thanks for the feedback!

    What happens if you could choose
    a) The tool you want to use for keyword research
    b) The variables you want to be checked doing the keyword research

    So each time a request is sent in, these are taken into account.
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    • Profile picture of the author JohnMcCabe
      Originally Posted by LocoDice View Post

      Hey thanks for the feedback!

      What happens if you could choose
      a) The tool you want to use for keyword research
      b) The variables you want to be checked doing the keyword research

      So each time a request is sent in, these are taken into account.
      I'm not a big keyword tool guy to start with, but I have played with many of the tools out there. I still believe that a lot of users will specify whatever they read in the most recent SEO course they bought. So you'll have a lot of people specifying the same variables.

      Which, when combined with a lack of original thought in choosing seed keywords, would still lead to a lot of people competing for the same short list of keywords.

      That phenomenon is actually more of a GIGO problem than a flaw in your idea, though.

      I think that the same market force that made keyword research tools popular in the first place will make this idea appealing to a lot of people.

      I do like the notion of structuring it more like the stock photo sites, with a deposit made and credits removed as searches are made. It limits risk in an ongoing way that a monthly subscription with a short trial (like Wordtracker) does not, so more people would likely try it out.
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  • Profile picture of the author onSubie
    I think a lot of people who would use a service like that would not know the best tool/variables to choose.

    When outsourcing to a place like this, part of the appeal is to rely on someone else's expertise rather than keep on top of the latest trends and techniques.

    Rather than concentrate on the implementation details (email, vs a form, vs a login) and the tools to use (market samaurai, users' choice) it might be better to concentrate on the results and service.

    SO:

    "Elite Keyword Service - we give you the dirt no one else will for any keyword so you can dominate the search engines"

    NOT:

    "The Keyword Outsource Shack - we have a bunch of $2 an hour employees plugging the same paramaters into standard tools so you can finish your latte"

    As mentioned earlier there is no "standard" to keyword research. Sell the sizzle not the steak.

    Mahlon
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