The Best Way to Find Keywords
If you’re anything like I used to be, you’ve probably created a brand new website, Submitted it to a few search engines and hoped that people would mysteriously show up at your site and buy whatever it is you were selling.
After a couple of weeks go by and only a few stray people show up at your website, you decide to try and “optimize” your website around your main keyword in hopes that you just might rank well in 1 of the millions of search engines. Another couple of weeks go by and still no luck. At this point you probably give up and decide to either build another website around a different target market or just lose all hope and quit. Well, news flash, as you’ve probably figured out by now,
this is not the way to go about doing things.
To do our keyword research we need to visit a very informative website.
The first of which should be
They have a very good keyword tool and best of all, it’s free! Once we’ve downloaded this
software, we can enter the most generic keyword for our website into the software. In our
example, our keyword would be “weight loss”.
The Words column shows the specific keyword that was searched. If you enter “weight loss”, the
Good Keywords tool will bring back the 100 keywords containing the word “weight loss” that were searched for last month.
The “count” column will then show us how many times the specific keyword has been searched for the previous month within the Overture.com search engine. Generally, you can take that number times 3, in order to estimate the number of times that keyword has been searched within Google for the previous month.
Do NOT start off by optimizing for the keyword “weight loss”
Why? you ask… If a keyword is searched that many times in Overture, then 100 times out of 100, the competition you will have to outrank will be extremely fierce. This is not something you should try to take on right away. For now, just take my word for it.
If you go to google, Youll see our example keyword has 19,300,000 search results. That is alot of sites to compete against!
Once we have our list of 3 to 4 of the best keywords for your specific niche, we need to go to Google and check out the competition to see exactly how hard
it will be to optimize for the specified keyword.
When you search google for the keywords you found, if the results are less than 7,000,000 then I suggest you using those keywords.
Throughout my many years on the internet, I have found out that this is the best way to find the best keywords for your site.