Yesterday I was having trouble with my keyword research. I have just gotten my copy of Market Samurai and was doing some basic keyword research. But I kept getting error messages, and couldn’t get any search or competition numbers.

I spent over an hour going over the support videos, and still couldn’t get any numbers. So I went to my Nichebot X account, and did Google LSI keyword research on 7 different keywords.

I went back an hour later, and found out that the searches had failed. Thinking that there must be something wrong with Market Samurai and Nichebot X, I decided to do some digging.

I went to the Market Samurai forum, and to my surprise, I found out that I wasn’t the only one having problems. Apparently Google was doing maintenance and the site wasn’t returning any numbers.

Hard to believe that Google would ever be less than perfect! If you had any trouble yesterday, now you know why.

Speaking of keyword research, I want to share something about keywords that has made my life easier.

The problem I have with keywords in a new market is that I’m just guessing what terms people are searching for. I need seed keywords so I can start digging deeper into a market. But if the niche is new to me, I’m not sure what most people are searching on. So I have to give it my best guess.

There is a really useful feature on the Google search page that takes the guesswork out of it. Almost every time I enter a search term, at the bottom of the results are a list of clickable related links.

You can do two things with this list. You can copy the list and then go to a research tool and plug each keyword in. Or you can click on the link and see the related sites, along with more suggestions at the bottom of the page.

It’s better to do both. This way you can get a list of related keywords right from Google. And you can keep drilling down until there are no more suggestions.

This is a quick and easy way to get a relevant set of related keyword in any market you’re interested in. It’s information from the biggest search engine, and it’s free.