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Keywords
Best Free Keyword Tool?
Aug 5th
Keywords are the fuel that drives the online world. They are used by anyone who is looking for something online. As a marketer, it’s essential to find the keywords that you can use to get visitors to your sites and offers. We all want the best keyword tools, and we would like to get them for free.
So the question that comes up time and time again is:
What is the best free keyword tool?
Right now, the number one source of keywords is Google. They have a free keyword research tool that you can use, and a lot of successful marketers recommend using it as well. You can access it at: http://www.google.com/sktool
Google’s free keyword tool is useful, and it will give you search count as well as related keyword lists. What you don’t get are the number of competing web sites. This is a real problem if you are looking for keywords with high search volume and low competition. The other disadvantage of using the Google site is that you have to save the keyword lists to your computer.
What will save you a lot of time is to have a keyword tool that will get the keywords from Google, get you the number of competing web sites for each keyword in the list, and let you filter and save the results, all in one operation.
There are a lot of choices when it comes to keyword research tools that you can buy. What we’re looking for is a keyword tool that will do everything we need it to do, and do it for free.
There IS a keyword tool that you can use to do your research called Market Samurai. It gets its data from Google, and it will also get you the number of competing web sites for each keyword.
Market Samurai does a lot more than keyword research. It comes with modules for tracking your site’s rankings, SEO competition, monetization, finding content, publishing content, and promoting your site. To get all of the tools that come with Market Samurai, you have to purchase it.
The keyword research module of Market Samurai is FREE. It never times out, and you can use it for as long as you want.
Once you get Market Samurai, you can generate as many keyword lists as you want. You can filter the keywords, search related keywords, import keyword lists from another source, and save the results.
Using Market Samurai is the best of both worlds. You get the keyword data from Google, and you don’t have to waste time filtering the results in a spreadsheet or manually. Market Samurai will help you to do effective keyword research.
For me, Market Samurai is the best keyword tool you can get. The only way you’ll know if it is everything I say it is, is to install your copy today. Get your free copy of Market Samurai here…
Keeping Up With Keyword Trends
Jan 16th
So you did your keyword research and got a nice, big list of keywords and keyword phrases. You selected keywords that had a good volume of monthly searches. The competition looks easy to beat, and you get to work creating your site. The thing is, you’re not done – not by a long shot.
First of all, markets change all of the time. What’s hot today may not be hot tomorrow. New competitors are going to try and do to you what you did to your competitors. You have to make sure that you don’t make a big marketing mistake. And that mistake is to do your keyword research once and never look back.
There’s no way to be sure that the search volume you saw when you did your research a few weeks or months ago are the same now.
A timely example is right in front of us – Valentine’s Day.
Try getting a lot of traffic for anything related to Valentine’s Day in November and December and chances are that you wouldn’t see a lot of searches or traffic. Now that we’re less than a month away from the big day, the search volume is getting really hot.
Would it be a good idea to target this market? Of course it would.
Should you go all out and put all of your efforts into a site centered around Valentine’s Day? For the short term, maybe. To make a lot of money all year long? No.
That may be an extreme example, but it points out that markets change all of the time.
What that means is that keyword research is never done. You do initial keyword research to find profitable markets. You keep doing keyword research to keep up on markets that are heating up. And you keep doing it so you make sure that you are targeting the profitable keywords.
A free tool that you can use to get an idea of what a market has done in the last few months or years is Google Trends. It won’t give you exact search volumes, but it can give you an idea of whether a market goes in cycles depending on the time of year, and if it has been gaining in search volume or if the volume has been going down over time. There is also Google Insights For Search that will give you similar data.
If you have a list of keywords that you created a few weeks ago and haven’t gotten around to creating content, take a little time and update the results. If you’ve got a site that you’re driving traffic to, go back and revisit some of your main key phrases to make sure that they’re the best ones to target. You’re also likely to find a few new keywords that you missed the first time around.
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Getting Relevant Keywords In Any Market
Aug 9th
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.
