For many of you keyword research veterans, this may be nothing new. And if you’ve signed up to get the free gifts, you also have my free Lucrative keyword research Guide. However, I find this to be the best mini-guide to Keyword Research that I’ve seen in a while. It covers quite a few things that even experts forget.

Here’s a quote from Gobala Krishnan’s article Keyword Research 101 : Fundamental Keyword Strategy that talks about the limits of keyword research:

There are some severe limitations to keyword research. The main one is that it tells you what the user typed into the search engine, not what the user is really looking for or the state of mind the user is in.For example, the user typed in “cheap gibson electric guitar” into the search engine and found your site. But, what is the user thinking when he is reading you page? Is he:

* Looking to buy a product – if yes, then your site should be primarily monetized by affiliate programs that pay you per sale. You can find a lot of physical products and digital products that you can sell from your website just by typing in “your keyword affiliate program” in search engines
* Looking for more information – if yes, then your site should be monetized by an advertising program like Google Adsense or Chitika, since the user is more likely to click away for more information rather than buy something
* Looking for bargains – if yes, your site should be monetized by Ebay or Auction Ads, which is based on Ebay but works like Adsense
* Looking for freebies – if yes, your site should be monetized with CPA (Cost Per Action) programs that you can find on networks like www.shareasale.com or www.linkshare.com

Awesome approach to a concept that is often a little tricky to relay.

If you use Yahoo’s Overture (now, technically Yahoo Search marketing), you’ve probably already seen this option. It’s a screencast video from their Resource Center on How to Find More Keywords.

I normally would have del.icio.used this and left it at that, but what’s neat about this prsentation is that it explains some of the “whys” behind getting more keyword exposure that applied to organic search as well.

Anyone can tell you that writing articles will help your search engine traffic if you do it correctly. It’s an easy concept to grasp, provided you have people to explain it to you properly. Personally, I only put my minor keywords in articles that are on other people’s sites – my major keywords are on the pages that the search engines land on.

With the method I’m about to show you, which is similar to the garden path method I showed you earlier, you’ll get an overview of the methods I use to get traffic that buys from my articles and artilcle series.

Back with step one in a few minutes.

In an article published at Site Reference, Merle of Ezine Ad Auction gives tips on finding good keywords. some of it you may have heard before – but he’s got great tips for finding niche keywords.

Note:- Most people are seeing these tips for the first time on Thursday – I’ve been moving and updating several site, and I apologize about the delay. We should be back on schedule on Monday.

Here’s an interesting use of the Google API. RankPulse is following the change in different queries of 1000 keywords in Google. Looks like it could help with seasonal studies and trend spotting.

Welcome back to Google Tuesdays!

Today on Google Tuesday, our featured tool is Nichebot’s Ranking tool. Yesterday I gave you a site where you can look up your Google ranking for each of your keywords. How would you like to do that, from one form, in bulk? Nichebot has your free solution. Hop on over and take a look.

Sometimes, someone else’s words are better than mine when talking about certain tools.

Rarely. But it does happen.

(I kid you! It never happens but sometimes I’m lazy. )

(Okay, I’ll stop.)

Read Part one.
Lisez la partie deux.

Everything sounds better in French, doesn’t it. Both parts of the article are in English though. Promise.