Lucrative Keyword Research Step Three

Okay, time for the home stretch.

You can forget about the group thing, we’re done with that. We’re all going to do the same steps together.

For this step, you either need to

1- take a free trial of Wordtracker, or

2- go to Nichebot or another Keyword Suggestion Tool.

Once you’ve logged in to your chosen keyword suggestion tool, we’re going to drill down into less competitive terms to focus on. Then I’ll tell you my suggested process for using the tool, and what you’ll need to read to make sure you get in Google, stay in for that term, and then leverage yourself into the best position to take a crack at ranking for harder terms that will get you more traffic.

Okay. Now we discussed earlier why you need to forget about the highest traffic terms for now.

We’re going to go through this process twice, once for your alternate keyword that you picked today, and once for a subset of the keywords you wanted originally.

Type the keyword you picked today into your keyword suggestion tool.

You’ll get a list of related keywords to that term. Select the second or third one down on the list (on the left side if you’re using Digital Point.) Remember, you don’t want the one with the highest traffic yield yet.

Next, you should be able to click on the hyperlinked term and see an even smaller list of terms. Save all these terms in Notepad or some other text utility. Even better, email them to yourself for save keeping.

Now, you’re going to take those keywords and analyze them using Search Guild’s Keyword Difficulty Tool. You need your API tool for this.

Now this takes your API key and uses it to access Google’s database. It then analyzes it with their program to tell you the likelihood of you getting that term.

Analyze each one, and save the result with your keywords.

In that list, you should have some that are ranked as easy or intermediate. Those are the ones you want to target your site towards.

If you don’t get one that is easy or intermediate, go back and put those keywords in the keyword suggestion tool you were looking and find subsets of that group. For example, if you picked “internet marketing” and got the result “practically impossible” from Search Guild, then you want to try the subset term “internet marketing services”, which is ranked as intermediate.

Save the ones that are easy or intermediate for now. Then go back and repeat this process with the term you originally wanted before you started these excercises.

Now you have a list of keywords to use for your site.

So now you can use these keywords and re-target your site. You’ll want to improve your site architecture, correct your meta tags to target one term for each page, get one-way links back to your site that are themed to your topic and optimize all the images on your site.

Sounds like a lot of work doesn’t it?

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I’ll be back later on today. I’ve been up 36 hours and I’m exhausted….