How To Ramp Up Your Clickbank Commissions By Doing Proper keyword Research--> Step by Step

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Today I want to leave some info with you to help you get those blue and grey bars in your account also!



Once You now know that there is money to be made in your selected market, you need to also know how to get your website in front of your prospects. This means you need to know what terms people with problems, that your product caters, to are searching for.

The good thing about this is that there are numerous tools on the market today that can help you to achieve this. These tools are known as keyword tools and they keep a track of most of the keyword phrases that people uses when they are looking for information on the search engines.

For this we are going to use the free Google Keyword Tool Itself.
(https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal)

The first thing you should do is type in a general term that is related to your market. For example let's use the weight loss market. So you could start with ""














You will notice that the search numbers have decreased drastically. The reason for this is because we are getting more and more targeted to our audience and these terms are the exact phrases that potential customers are searching for.


















So what are you waiting for?

Go ahead and do some work- The quicker you get started the quicker you will see those blue and grey bars coming in.

Hope this post could help someone

have a great eve.
#search engine optimization #clickbank #commissions #keyword #proper #ramp #research> #step
  • Wow thanks for this. My biggest problem is the initial keywords to start running with. Often I think it's good or hard to break into a competitive market. Even by using micro niche finder a few nights ago, it seemed everything was virtually impossible to break in with. Gonna see if your steps help.
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    • Thanks for the comment.

      I know it works because it's what I used to get my articles ranking high even in competitive niches.

      Hope it helps you


    • I agree with you, that finding keywords can be difficult but with Micro Niche Finder you can brainstorm and find hot trends.

      I've recently learned (although I've had it for ages) how to use the OCI properly.

      I'd like to say that this has to be one of the most enlightening posts I've ever read on the WF about keyword research.

      Thanks a lot. Two thumbs up!

      Brian
    • I agree with you, that finding keywords can be difficult but with Micro Niche Finder you can brainstorm and find hot trends.

      I've recently learned (although I've had it for ages) how to use the OCI properly.

      I'd like to say that this has to be one of the most enlightening posts I've ever read on the WF about keyword research.

      I'm putting this to WF pdf

      Thanks a lot. Two thumbs up!

      Brian
  • Thanks Casey,

    I would like to ask something; are Google Adwords Tool's numbers trustworthy? There is a huge discrepancy between Google's values and Seo Book's values. Which should I trust?
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    • I would say yes Google's keyword tool is very valuable. "Which software would be better to give you the number of searches that the search engine's itself?"

      Most of the software also take their values from google. eg Micro-niche finder.


  • Glad you like the info and I hope it will be of use to you!

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    • Not only will the be expensive but they won't convert well because they are not targeted enough.


    • Yeah nice post. Will be following your guide for my next site. At the moment im still doing some research on which niche to use, but whatever it is i will be using your guide to get the best keywords/strings for my niche.
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  • Thank you so much for going to the effort to put together this post! I appreciate that you "drilled down" the steps, like one would for keywords. Too often, people who have the techniques down forget that someone new to it doesn't know a step (or whatever) that is automatic to the experienced. Your post alleviates that.
    The graphics are terrific!
    Thanks, again.
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    • Thank you very much.

      really appreciate your comment.

  • thanks mate


  • Great post. Just a couple of things to add.

    You should not purely base your research on the number of competing sites - you also need to think about the SEO, number of anchor back links, page rank, domain age, keyword in-URLs etc etc of the top ranked pages for your keyword(s). This is why it is so helpful to have good paid keyword research tools like MicroNicheFinder or Market Samurai.

    Andy
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    • I agree. I use Micronichefinder and will incorporate your excellent advice to enhance my keyword research.

      Brian

    • I would agree. I have Jon Leger's webcomp analyst and use it daily. It is a great tool for finding how easy it would be to rank for a given keyword. It works fast too. Information in this post and a good program like that will really help you narrow the keywords you want to try to rank for. Thanks for posting...screen shots too! Nice job.
    • I think this is only necessary when you go for keywords with higher competition to know how tough it will get. But then you really must dig deeper. For long tail keywords with just a few hundred or thousand competing pages analyzing all this is most likely a waste of time as you will rank easily anyway and the time is better spend creating some backlinks for your own pages than analyzing the backlinks of the others.

      Gunter
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  • Thanks, Yesacpow,

    Great step-by-step method. You have done this with the free tools. Are there any fee-based tools you recommend to speed up the process?
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    • I am not too sure about any free based tools. (maybe some other warriors might) but I would say if you can afford to get Micro Niche Finder you should.

      All the steps above and much more can be done with just a few mouse clicks.


    • I use Market Samurai. It speeds up my keyword research, plus it has many more feature that help you analyze the competition for your desire keywords.
  • this is indeed a very nice tutorial, thanks for sharing it with us.

    I am still a little confused about step#9, if you could explain that with more precision I would really appreciate it, or even better you can make a video about it, LOL

    Thanks in advance.

    Moncef
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    • Excellent tutorial....many people forget to tell the 'minor details' of things that they do. They don't do it on purpose; just due to a process being a habit. You have shown and explained the details in this awesome tutorial. This ought to be a great help to many!
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  • Very good post, quite informative and concise.
  • Great post for a newbie!! Sheds some light on things I need to do differently!! Thank you
  • Hmm a very nice tip. Now I just have to find the time to use it.
    Otherwise I believe it'll help many warriors earn their first $.
  • Brilliant! Thank you for helping to focus many of our wandering efforts.
  • This is so far one of the best keyword research explanations I have read. I just finished doing some keyword research using this and I am very pleased with the results I got. Now its time to put my plan into action. Thanks a lot for writing this up for us.
  • Now that's a seriously high quality post. BS free, just clear kick ass facts. i think you just raised the bar with this entry.

    Well done.
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    • Thanks I really appreciate your comment.

      PS. I am blushing away lol

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  • Oy yeah, one more thing I forgot to mention. I will be bookmarking this post to refer to. Thanks once again.
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  • Good post...I think you should also look for long tail keywords that have buying phrases in them. Looking for those keywords will likely yield those people that are looking to buy.
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    • Thanks for the advice,

      You are very correct but at step #1 when you are selecting the keywords you would also see those buying keywords.

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  • Congratulations on a brilliant and informative post.
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    • Thanks man I am really glad that it can help someone. It makes me feel really good to know that I can pass on something that I learn to help someone on their internet marketing journey.

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  • hi yesacpow

    you're AWESOME man! AWESOME!

    your ideas really help me a lot coz i'm still learn where to find adsense learning these days.

    I'm very happy & would like to try it (derired to have side incomes)

    once again thank you for your kindness advice

    what a kind of you

    YOU'RE AWESOME MAN...
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    • Hey Putra77

      You are very welcome. Glad you like the post

      Have a great day.

  • So in step 1 why do you only select the keywords with 3 or more words?
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    • The reason is to minimize competition.

      Also phrases with less than 3 words are not so targeted. Using the example above:

      Someone searching for "how to lose thigh fat" will be more in a buying mood that a person searching for "weight loss".

      Hope that helps.

  • This is a great post - well done on sharing it in the forum. This process can be used as a base for all your marketing campaigns and is often part of over-hyped (and expensive) marketing courses. Follow these steps and you will greatly improve your campaign results.
  • Great post! Learned something new about Google's keyword tool thanks to your post.
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    • Thanks for the post. To all newbie's out there (including myself) this really is a great way to find targeted keywords to market around. I wish I had found this post 3 months ago - I paid $77 for a program that taught the same thing!

      Peter
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    • thanks danger

      glad you liked it


  • Hi...under the Local Search Volume and Global Search Volume sometimes mention "not enough data" what does it mean ......does it means i cannot choose the keyword?
    thank you
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    • I think it means that the keyword has very low number of searches
  • Casey, thanks so very much for this post. I definitely get the feeling that I have just stumbled across one of those "Golden Nuggets" we hear about on the Warrior Forum.
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    • HI

      Wow. I really appreciate you going to such lengths to illustrate how to do proper keyword research.

      Thank you for an excellent post.

      Gary
    • Thank you very much for your comment.


      Really glad I could help.


  • great post man! Imagine what we could do if we combine this with a piece of software that does the search for us. Awesomeness!

    Sebastian
  • That's a great new twist to google keywords tool research. I consider myself pretty savvy when it comes to keyword research and yet these instructions are fenomenal!
  • Very informative and detailed guide. When i first got started my fatal flaw was keyword research so this will be a big help to newcomers to IM. Thank you for sharing.
  • If you want to get a better idea of the # of searches for your keyword then you are better using the [exact] way, using the square brackets around your keyword.
  • Wow, nice post man. This could have been a WSO so it's very nice of you to share it for free.

    Any marketer that has ever used the words "step by step" needs to come and have a look at this.

    High five !
  • Thanks for this informative post. There are tools that could automate this, but they come at a price though.

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    • Hey thanks for your comment and her is the answer to your question:

      When you use [exact] you are getting the number of searches for the phrases as seen in the keyword tool.

      On the other hand, when you "phrase" you are getting the number of times someone searh that phrase in the exact order but with aditional words included.

      for example let's use the keyword "lose weight"

      Broad = how can I lose 10 pounds of weight

      Phrase = how can I lose weight

      Exact = lose weight

      hope that answers you question

  • Very nice tutorial...This forum is great..I learned a lot of things just being spent few days on here.

    I wonder, what about those "not enough data " keyword? Are they worth to bid for adword?
  • WoWoW I never put that much effort into finding keywords but Wow that could help my profits drasticly
  • Hey no problem man.

    Glad I could help

  • Yesacpow,
    Thank you for answering my question
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    • You are very welcome my friend

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  • Neat little trick, and this probably isnt' the thread to start this - however I am finding time and time again that the google keyword tool is the biggest joke when it comes to accurate search volume.

    I know there is no perfect tool out there, but if you guys are serious about getting at least "in the ballpark" results, google tool should not be the one to use.

    Didn't mean to crap on your thread or anything, just warning everyone about it =)
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  • Awesome Post. I'd had messed up if not for an informative post like this. And you did all with free tools, unlike some gurus who'd recommend this and that... You're awesome man! Olatunde.
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    • thanks for your comment man

      I am really glad I could be of help to you.

      have a great day

  • Aha! Light. After wondering around in the shadowy darkness of IM for weeks, someone shines a torch and provides focus.

    Many thanks. I'm just waiting for a domain name to propagate, and I will be using this excellent step by step tutorial to get my keywords done properly for once! (Thankfully, my main keyword is in my domain name too).

    You're a star!
  • nice post,thanks for sharing this.
  • thanks so much, definitely appreciated
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    • Thanks for the post and starting this thread.

      I am glad someone brought up the fact about buying keywords and your response.

      Having all the keyword tools and using them are great. But don't forget common sense and looking at the words you choose. Make sure you ask yourself if were searching using that phrase would you buy the product you are selling

      This was a mistake that I made for almost a year. I took the data and the theory and applied the knowledge. I have many high ranking pages with keyword phrases that don't convert visitors into buyers.

      However some of those keywords may not attract a product buyer, but they can be great for CPA programs where no credit card is needed.

      Paul
  • An extremely helpful post. I do keyword research from the ground up when I design a site, but you take the actual research further than I do. Thanks for the advice.
  • Yes, quite useful post. Also good to do it all at least several times to get the idea, before getting any software to automate the process. That said, one can save some time with a good software :-)

    P.S. I also just go by Google's numbers... I know things differ, but... good to stick to one source, otherwise one gets confused.

    Cheers
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    • I have to admit, this is a top notch post on finding keywords.

      I usually charge my clients for this type of information.

      Anybody reading this, PRINT IT NOW! Put it in your archive and use it as a reference. You won't ever go wrong using this approach. I promise!

      I can personally attest a similar strategy of mine made all the difference in the world with my online marketing campaigns.

      A super value added to the Warrior Forum once again!
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  • Good post! This really helps to see more clearly the drill down process in choosing the correct keywords and coming up with good keywords for your niche. Thanks for sharing this valuable information.
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  • I also made this into a pdf so i can easily access it thank you very much!
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    • Glad you like it and hope it really help you.

  • This is a FANTASTIC post and find the keywords to target has been a struggle for me so this has been a great help.

    While following your step-by-step tutorial, I came up with a slight addition which may be useful for some.

    1. Add a fourth column to your spread sheet.
    2. Add an equation into the field (copying and pasting it into the 4th colum of each row)
    The equation to add is:-
    (# of sites)x100/(exact search)
    which should look something like
    =B2*100/C2

    3. The resulting number quickly gives a good guide as to which keyword phrases to target (The higher the number, the better)
  • Fantastic post! I must say it is one of the best and most detailed
    posts I have seen!

    Well done!

    The pictures make it very easy for anyone to do their own keyword
    research and with the right method!

    Thanks alot again and I look forward to more of your future posts!

    Cheers,
    John
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    • Hey thank you very much for your comment.

      I really appreciate it.

      Glad I could provide A "little" value to the warrior forum.

      Since I have gotten so much from it.


  • hello, thank you for this information, i have been doing article marketing for almost two months now, i can write 2 article in one day with more that 500 words. thank you for this information, it will surely help us.
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    • No Problem my friend, glad I can be of help and hope you really put this info to use!


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  • That is a cracking post. Most people tend to fall down at the keyword research phase, unable to think about any other phrases than 'fat loss'. Then they never make a profit because they're paying 25c clicks and the phrase isn't targeted enough, so they give up.

    Thumbs up Yesacpow!
  • excellent post on keyword research. I will definitely try this out. By the way I wanted to find more long tail keywords in weight loss niche. So this example should be helpful for me.
  • Ohh God! This is wonderful. thanks so much
  • Wow.. thats awesome! Thanks so much for that info!!
  • Excellent post. I do agree with others here that strength of competition among the number of competing sites is also a big factor. Tools like MNF can really help in this area.
  • This is one of the very best, step-by-step, guides I have seen for keyword selection. Thank you so much for posting it here. I am doing some screen captures right now and putting this in a safe place for future reference.

    Very kind of you to take the time and share.

    AW888
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    • I've known for a while that proper keyword research was my weak point. Not anymore!

      Thanks a million for a great process to add to my arsenal.
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    • Based on your keywords, write as many articles as you can & submit to EzineArticles.com & other article directories. Also submit them to web2.0 sites like squidoo, hubpages, zimbio, xomba, scribd & more..... In this way, you can get some really easy organic traffic.

      What I would do is..... use these keywords for ppc, after I ensure which keywords convert well, I would would write articles based on those keywords.

      Send your visitors to product reviews or some presell landing pages, squeeze pages would be good if would like to build a list.

      One more thing, you could create related videos, use your keywords as tags then submit them to YouTube.com & some other video sites.
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  • Hi yesacpow,

    I just found this post today. I like the way he outlined the steps for breakdown of keywords. I have microniche finder and have been under utilizing it's potential. This helps me a lot. Now I'll look for better results!:p

    --Jackie
  • this is very well made and shows nicely how to do some simple, but effective KW research in Google.

    However, my problem is NOT finding the keywords..but the pricing of bids in mainstream-niches like "fat loss". Bids which are halfway attractive (say, under $0.25) usually have a very low search volume..and usually bids for the better KW are unsuitable for (most) clickbank products.

    A very good example, i just checked a few of your example keywords, eg. "fat loss exercise" which shows at 1.15 EURO (!) per bid.

    But..your method of course helps to find the cheap ones, even if search volume might be lower.
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    • Hey G

      What's up?

      I totally understand what you are saying. Now I am not a ppc expert so this post was mainly for persons who want to find low competition keywords to rank for in Google. Otherwise cpc can be very high for some of these keywords even when there are little competition with regards to seo.

      However I am glad I could be of 'little' help to you.

      Maybe when I get good at ppc I may post a detail step by step for that as well.

      Have a great day.


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  • Gold. Thanks alot mate.
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    • Hi pal, you've really made my day. I am indeed grateful to you for giving out this info free. You've saved me lots of money. Thanks pal.
  • Excellent. Its like a $100 mini ebook.
    An noob can also do keyword research now.
  • Excellent post.
  • Really great info.. im not a newbie in Im, but this surely will help me
  • Thanks For The Great Info, Not a Newbie But this is information that we should always be going back over before selling any products. To achieve the best results.
  • I am new to the forum...thanks for the detailed info. I am learning there is tons a good free information here (including this thread). I appreciate it.
  • Amazing information is given here.

    Probably the best advice I have been given for free
    in the keywords research subject.

    Thanks for your insiders!


    Peter
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    • No problem mate

      You are very welcome and I am very glad I could help.


  • thank you for you share
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    • You Are very welcome

    • No problem mate, glad you liked it.

  • Hi,Casey

    Thanks for the great post!

    Could you please make a post of how to do this whole process with Micro Niche Finder?

    BTW,do you still keep the keywords with under 100 searches a month or Not Enough Data?

    Mihye
  • Tried downloading your free ebook in your sig. but when I try to open it keep getting a message saying file corrupted, cannot repair.
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    • I am very sorry for that.

      Everything is working fine now.

  • Good clear description! and although i already knew the basics it is good to emphasis the 3 word minimum again.

    tx,
    f.
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    • Thanks for the post! Really informative, I'm going to put it to practise soon! Btw, can i post this on my blog?
  • I even came back to read it again, this is a really usefull post for me.
    Wondering though what the minimum of searches is for you to follow a keyword?

    f.
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    • Hey femkeshe,

      depending on the niche I go for a mimimum of 100 searched per month. It is not much but If you have 10 articles ranking for 10 keyword phrases that get 100 searches per month then that is 1000 searches. So you can see how it all adds up.

  • Thank you for listing the step-by-step guide how to do a proper keyword research. It is a great help to me although I am already a not-so-new newbie.
  • this is a good way to do keyword research - there are also several other good ways too, just remember there is always more than 1 way to skin a cat
  • Hi,

    Nice guide there! I had been using it ever since and it works like a charm. But I not using MNF, instead I use Market Samurai (MS). It still works the same just that you will have all the data in one place.

    cheers
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    • thanks yesacpow you did a really great job. Once we get the keyword research pat down everything after should be easier since "keywords" are the most important part of the campaign.
  • Yeps, pretty straight forward yet when it goes right down to it, its all that is needed.

    When you start raking in some $$, invest on tools such as micro niche finder or market samurai. This will save you half the time to get keyword research done.

    Great post nonetheless.
  • I agree with you. Too many affiliates never do keyword research or go for keyword that they will have a very hard time ranking for. It's important to find the "low hanging fruit" so to speak when promoting anything, and it also works for Clickbank! Terrific post!
  • Great post.

    I'm just starting on this and you just brought me some light.

    Manny Thanks
  • Hey Casey,

    You are really great. I appreciate your tips on how to do proper keyword research. It's hard to believe that you are giving away this information for Free.

    Thanks a lot,
    Chandan
  • Hi yesacpow!
    I've done what you said and I ended up with 2713 keywords from Google's keyword tool, now I have a small problem - how do I speed up the process of checking the number of competing page for each keyword? I have a copy Keyword Elite but it does broad search as I understand and I get not accurate search volume. The second problem I faced is that a lot of these keywords have very strong competition (I already checked some) and the common pattern is a website with a decent amount of backlinks that dominates a large group of keywords. So how do I find these low competition keywords? Even if I select a keyword that has 1000 exact searches it has minimum of 100k competing pages with exact search.
    P.S. You mentioned in your first post presell page. Where can read more about that?

    Thanks
  • Thanks for sharing, think this is the big break i need to get into online biz.very educative.thanks once again, never knew i could do so much more with google free keyword tool.
  • Thanks for this steps and advice. I started my website 3 weeks ago and i sold two time in one day. so its was good to follow your tips. Anyway im still try to rank well on google. im still in page 2.
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    very nice tips, thank you so much


    Candice
  • Hey yesacpow,
    thanks for sharing such a important tip...
    I was looking for this information from last 6 months....
    I have questions---
    When I search on google.com for any keyword with "" it shows result and competitive websites under 50,000 but when I remove "" then it shows results more than 300,000
    whats up with this??
    Should I have to sign in for keyword tool for better results?
    What do you mean by more than one phrases in search box??
    I am total newbie in this field, hope you dont mind for these questions///.............
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    • If you enter a word/phrase without the "" Google assumes you are looking for broad match - this means that Google ALSO takes related words/phrases into account ---> Way broader and more search results.

      If you enter "search term" then Google looks for everything containing the phrase "search term"....and if you enter [search term] it is an EXACT match and searches for ONLY the exact keyword as entered.

      Example:

      You could enter weight loss (without the ") and Google could also use terms like dieting, exercises, lose belly fat since those are all BROADLY related to weight loss. (Non real life example here)
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