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Niche/Keyword research time

by metalice
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how many hours it takes you to do a good niche/keyword research?

what are ur sources?


Matan
#niche or keyword #research #time
  • Profile picture of the author RayWhittaker
    The time it takes for keyword research can be short or long depending on:

    1. The niche you're searching keywords for
    2. The method of keyword research
    3. The tools you use for keyword research.

    For me it can take quite a while (several hours) since:
    1. I'm in a competitive niche
    2. I have fairly strict criteria for my keywords

    The tools I use are:
    Google keyword tool (free to everyone)
    Market Samurai (paid version but there is a free version available)
    Micro Niche finder
    Traffic Travis (free version)
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  • Profile picture of the author Chri5123
    Originally Posted by metalice View Post

    how many hours it takes you to do a good niche/keyword research?

    what are ur sources?


    Matan
    I just have a look with the Google keyword tool and then check the competition in Google - if there is enough people looking for help with something or the product then I give it a go.

    It normally does not take me long to do keyword research, what takes me the time is testing and getting traffic.

    Chris
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  • Profile picture of the author webfighter
    I only have two websites in two different niches and I don't really put much time into keyword research. I already have a huge list of keywords related to the niches and I just pick one random keyword from them everybody and write an article or two.

    Luckily enough, traffic is building up but I'm not sure if this strategy would last (since I'm not actually going towards low competition keywords or optimizing hard).
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  • Profile picture of the author Chris Paterson
    It's an ongoing process. Don't make the mistake of generating a huge keyword list and then relying on it as you build your site. As long as you're building a site that you'll be adding content to regularly, you'll want to do keyword research as you go in order to find new keywords to target for your posts/pages.

    Things will change....

    Maybe a keyword is much more competitive than it was 3 months ago. Or vice versa. Bottom line, don't make it a one-time thing!
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  • Profile picture of the author nicoledeal
    metalice,
    Your keyword research will determine how competitive you will be for free search traffic. A previous poster stated they do not spend much time on keyword research, and they pick random keywords. Your keywords will determine how people find the solution that you have to offer to their need. You either compete or you don't. Your keyword research needs to be narrow and well defined. Ignore this and you are not likely to suceed in driving search traffic to your site.

    PS: I devote a full day to picking a keyword, if I get it in just a couple hours, I go shopping!
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  • Profile picture of the author IM Godfather
    My advise would be this: be careful of analysis paralysis .. researching in place of action is a dangerous thing for success.
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    Is that backlink worth your time? Try out the Page Juice Calculator and find out fast!

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    • Profile picture of the author scruffy77
      when doing a keyword search, how much approximate CPC is good?
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      • Profile picture of the author IM Godfather
        Originally Posted by scruffy77 View Post

        when doing a keyword search, how much approximate CPC is good?
        Depends on traffic. If the CPC is $10 .. but you only get 1 visit a day, vs a CPC of $3 and gets 100 a day...

        So use this for ROI calc:

        CPC * Traffic Estimate = Value per visitor, then sort on vpv

        this is a rough calc obviously, but it gives you a real starting point.
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        • Profile picture of the author outwest
          Originally Posted by IM Godfather View Post

          Depends on traffic. If the CPC is $10 .. but you only get 1 visit a day, vs a CPC of $3 and gets 100 a day...

          So use this for ROI calc:

          CPC * Traffic Estimate = Value per visitor, then sort on vpv

          this is a rough calc obviously, but it gives you a real starting point.
          $10 bucks ya good luck finding one of those

          highest I see is $5 and change (course I look in Contextual tool , not the
          other CPC that adwords tool normally displays)
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  • Profile picture of the author John Williamson
    Look into Keyword Sniper Pro 2.0 - definitely cuts the time down...
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  • Profile picture of the author Will P
    In most cases it takes me 30mn to an hour to research a niche. As far as the tools go I use Google, MNF, and NF keyword research tools.
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    • Profile picture of the author JettH
      I use Niche Sensei.

      Used to be available in a WSO but now available at niche-sensei dot com
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  • Profile picture of the author razorico
    Originally Posted by metalice View Post

    how many hours it takes you to do a good niche/keyword research?

    what are ur sources?


    Matan
    I usually divide keyword researching process on two parts, which I perform during two evenings.

    First evening, I'm choosing main keywords, and brainstorm them with my friends or on forums. At the end of the first evening I have a list of different keywords, related to my niche.

    Second evening I research this list with semrush to find long-tail keywords, with low competition and high search-volume. My list becomes bigger, and I finally check all these words with google tools.
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  • Profile picture of the author outwest
    You guys talking 30 mins to an hour?
    thats a pretty thin kw research

    Mine takes me at least a week for one niche
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