Hi, it’s Wayne Liew again.
You face the problem of starting in affiliate marketing, site flipping or creating your own products because you fail to find a good set of keywords to target in the search engines.
Now, you will have no more excuses. Keyword research can now be easily dealt with the keyword research and suggestion method that I am going to show you.
How about making existing strongholds tell you what are the good keywords to target?
To make sure that you are really serious about learning this tip, I put a little barrier here. All you need to do is to click the READ MORE link. Trust me, you will benefit from this.
Keyword Research Step 1: Main Keyword
Think of a main keyword that is relevant to your niche. Start with something big, even if it is already saturated with 1 billion competition. Just give me one keyword.
For this case study, I am going to use "weight loss", which is so saturated that everyone is asking you to leave the niche. Is that so? Let’s look.
Too hard for you? It should be because it is impossible for an "SEO Expert" like me as well. Don’t target it and don’t target any one of the long tail format of the keyword "weight loss" (shown below) because the competition is stiff.
Keyword Research Step 2: Seek Competitors Help
In the first image, I have shown that you need to copy the URLs that appear under a major keyword.
Now, fire up Google AdWords Keyword Tool.
You need to paste the URLs that you have copied earlier into the box shown from the image below.
Yes, you need to go through the fuss one by one but my experience tells me that after pasting in three URLs, I should be getting enough keywords to target.
Keyword Research Step 3: Appreciate My Trick
Google will show you a large list of keywords that you have never thought of before.
For my "weight loss" case study, Google showed up the following set of keywords, which I then choose "vegetarian weight loss" because it is receiving a huge amount of traffic.
Now, run the SEO Book Keyword Research Tool. Type in "vegetarian weight loss". What you can see are some long tail keywords for it that have really low competition. TARGET THESE!
Amazingly, "vegetarian weight loss" only has competition of around 341,000. Viola! A golden keyword that can be easily optimized! By the way, anything below the 1 million mark is achievable for me. It all depends on your SEO and link building abilities.
Why Does This Work?
Using this keyword suggest method, Google actually tells you what they think an authority site is targeting. However, authority sites might be optimized for a highly searched keyword with high competition only (for example, weight loss), not keywords like "vegetarian weight loss".
Keywords like "vegetarian weight loss" might not get as much searches as the primary keyword "weight loss". However, it is much easier for you to climb up the rankings. Trust me, if you get a number 1 position for vegetarian weight loss, you will get at least 100 uniques a day from the search term.
Find a few more of such keywords and you will be getting 500 unique visits a day very soon.
Your Opinion on Keyword Research
What methods of keyword research that you use? Does the above method add something or two to your knowledge database?
Tell me what are your opinions and your difficulties faced in keyword research. Do not think too much when it comes to keyword research. I would rather focus on link building and SEO more because I believe any keyword is scalable.
Hoping to help all those who want make money online,
Wayne Liew
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P.P.S.: I do use some extra tools that automates my keyword research, making the task much easier.
SEO Elite and Keyword Elite are two of my recommended softwares if you want to take your keyword research and competitor sniping to the next level. Climbing search engine rankings became much easier for me with them.
