Comments on: How To Do Keyword Research http://www.tracey-edwards.com/how-to-do-keyword-research/ My blog about money, writing, blogging and general ramblings Tue, 24 Jan 2012 19:39:36 +0000 hourly 1 By: DesDrec http://www.tracey-edwards.com/how-to-do-keyword-research/#comment-3323 DesDrec Sun, 12 Jul 2009 06:49:42 +0000 http://www.tracey-edwards.com/?p=191#comment-3323 Great post Tracey. There's so many keyword tools out there at the moment, both free and paid for but nothing beats the Google Adwords Keyword Tool. One of the websites I found quite helpful for related keywords was http://kwbrowse.com. It's a clever site that gives you a keyword tree of the keywords most relevant to the original keyword you entered. If I'm writing articles I sometimes look at Digg and YouTube for popular articles and videos giving me even more ideas. Great post Tracey. There’s so many keyword tools out there at the moment, both free and paid for but nothing beats the Google Adwords Keyword Tool. One of the websites I found quite helpful for related keywords was http://kwbrowse.com. It’s a clever site that gives you a keyword tree of the keywords most relevant to the original keyword you entered.

If I’m writing articles I sometimes look at Digg and YouTube for popular articles and videos giving me even more ideas.

]]> By: Brent Hodgson http://www.tracey-edwards.com/how-to-do-keyword-research/#comment-3244 Brent Hodgson Thu, 09 Jul 2009 02:06:29 +0000 http://www.tracey-edwards.com/?p=191#comment-3244 From experience - what you have is a solid way for doing keyword research. :) We used to use a very similar process. We added a few things to it to improve our own results - like Adwords Cost Per Click figures (because lower value traffic generally wasn't worth as much)... Then we created some metrics that worked out the market value of the traffic (cost per click x traffic = a good indicator of market value)... ...THEN we realized we were over-estimating traffic to a site (only a percentage of traffic ever goes to any one site) - so we created a tool that we could use to do those calculations. ...THEN we realized the word-order of some keywords out of the Google keyword tool were a bit fudgey... like "business earn money online opportunity" - more people search for "earn money online business opportunity" but Google often messes up the word order. So we created some tools that we could use to check word order. etc etc etc etc. The problem was, it became very time-consuming to get all of this data. (Eventually we automated the process, and later released the software - but that's another story). Have you used Google's Search-Based Keyword Tool (SKTool) yet? If you're after long-tail keywords, it's a fantastic resource. And unlike the Google Keyword Tool, there are no captchas to type in ;) Brent From experience – what you have is a solid way for doing keyword research. :)

We used to use a very similar process.

We added a few things to it to improve our own results – like Adwords Cost Per Click figures (because lower value traffic generally wasn’t worth as much)…

Then we created some metrics that worked out the market value of the traffic (cost per click x traffic = a good indicator of market value)…

…THEN we realized we were over-estimating traffic to a site (only a percentage of traffic ever goes to any one site) – so we created a tool that we could use to do those calculations.

…THEN we realized the word-order of some keywords out of the Google keyword tool were a bit fudgey… like “business earn money online opportunity” – more people search for “earn money online business opportunity” but Google often messes up the word order. So we created some tools that we could use to check word order.

etc etc etc etc.

The problem was, it became very time-consuming to get all of this data. (Eventually we automated the process, and later released the software – but that’s another story).

Have you used Google’s Search-Based Keyword Tool (SKTool) yet?

If you’re after long-tail keywords, it’s a fantastic resource. And unlike the Google Keyword Tool, there are no captchas to type in ;)

Brent

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