Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Keywords and Niches

For the beginner online marketer, one of the most basic and easiest tool to learn is the Google Keyword Tool. This tool allows you to input search terms, and see how many people search for it, or search for the general idea under it. This is how you find a good niche and website name to sell on. Until one gets extremely good at search engine optimization, it's all about

1. Find keywords that has a decent amount of searches, but not too many so that SEO competition becomes impossible. A range of 5000-10000 is usually manageable to get ranked top of Google for, while still bringing in good amounts of visitors.

2. Find keywords that have websites that aren't terribly competitive. For example, the search term "Beds for dogs" may only have 3000 global searches per month, but if the beds for dogs webhosts are randomly SEO gods, then you know to stay away. There are various methods to analyzing this.

Anyway, I hate long entries, so I'll stop here. Thanks for reading.
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22 comments:

  1. Derrick OFebruary 23, 2011 at 10:24 AM

    good information to be had/thanks

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  2. AnonymousFebruary 23, 2011 at 10:42 AM

    Google is all knowing

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  3. ArmageddonFebruary 23, 2011 at 10:55 AM

    This is useful information, never thought about before.

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  4. l33 v4n cl33fFebruary 23, 2011 at 11:41 AM

    interesting. following

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  5. BrendanFebruary 23, 2011 at 11:47 AM

    great info thanks for sharing

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  6. FrostyFebruary 23, 2011 at 1:19 PM

    Useful stuff, adding keywords is a good idea

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  7. mtnFebruary 23, 2011 at 1:34 PM

    thanks for the info! if you can you could eleborate on the technical site, site metatags etc.

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  8. Disser2February 23, 2011 at 1:58 PM

    Keywords are very important. Thats why I use "apps" in my blog name :P

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  9. MattFebruary 23, 2011 at 3:21 PM

    I'm glad you actually quantify your info. Definitely helpful info for me!

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  10. synoptixsFebruary 23, 2011 at 5:56 PM

    oo didn't know how important keywords were

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  11. AnonymousFebruary 23, 2011 at 7:26 PM

    Thanks for stopping by my blog! Yours is interesting so I'm following now.

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  12. Electric AddictFebruary 23, 2011 at 10:26 PM

    Good tip! but there is no girl picture on this post >:( lol

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  13. AnonymouseFebruary 23, 2011 at 11:13 PM

    cool blog, now following

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  14. AkaraFebruary 23, 2011 at 11:37 PM

    will definitely be watching now that ive started a blog

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  15. QfalkFebruary 23, 2011 at 11:52 PM

    good stuff, supporting

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  16. HillDogFebruary 24, 2011 at 12:22 AM

    I took a Microeconomics course. I suppose it falls in the same vein that marketing does. Nice blog.

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  17. UnknownFebruary 24, 2011 at 12:57 AM

    very useful information

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  18. AnonymousFebruary 24, 2011 at 1:10 AM

    I <3 "Googling" saves my butt every-single-time I can't find or if I don't know something.

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  19. obiFebruary 24, 2011 at 5:33 AM

    yeah wish i had known some of this before starting my blog, thx for sharing ;)

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  20. TastyFebruary 24, 2011 at 6:37 AM

    :o tell me more. I hope you talk more about this in your next post.

    *crosses fingers*

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  21. MeltedsnowgirlFebruary 24, 2011 at 7:41 AM

    Thanks for the info :D

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  22. The Evil Bill GatesFebruary 25, 2011 at 8:57 AM

    Super useful info man, thanks!

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