Tips to Successful Keyword Research

**wryfhk22** · 05-31-2011, 09:17 PM

Great article,let's have a look!!!

1. Define Synonyms: Use "Google Sets" to brainstorm synonyms for your topic or niche. For example, if your topic is dog products, you can go for pet products, pet beds, leashes, etc..

2. Search with "how": Many times people seek for answers when they search online. They use the word "how" while searching. Using the synonyms found in the above method combined with "how", you can get more number of keyphrases with the Google keyword suggestion tool.

3. Note down your action terms: Record the action terms like training, advertising, buying etc.. These are the terms people use while looking for information related to dogs or pets. Use this list to brainstorm synonyms for these terms as well.

Open your keyword tool, enter your action term combined with your topic and find out what people are interested in and what they are searching for.

4. Search count: Generally people go for keywords that have high search count value. Ranking for these keywords takes longer time, from weeks to months depending on the competition of keywords.

Do not neglect keywords that have low search count. You can take 3 -4 low search count keywords and combine them to form a long tail keyword. You can develop content around this long tail keyword and submit in your site.

5. Magazines: Use magazines related to your niche to find what people are looking for. Look for the topic that is posted more frequently and for more number of times in the magazine. Choose such topics, develop content around them and post in your site or blog.

**Zabbiey** · 06-05-2011, 12:52 PM

always good to research your competitors. Not to mention use google's keyword tool to estimate traffic. nice tips here.

**iproperty123** · 06-13-2011, 05:45 PM

These are the best tips for successful keyword research.

**Peterkelly03** · 06-14-2011, 06:00 PM

think of keywords related to your site, list everything you have in mind then run them in google adwords keyword tool and get the result that can help you decide...

**wellstreet343** · 06-14-2011, 11:44 PM

These all tips are really very nice. keyword selection is the first step in optimizing search engine. This is also where most people go wrong. If you choose a keyword that is used by people searching for your product, you will not get traffic.

**emmazones** · 06-17-2011, 03:18 AM

Here are the best tips to successful keyword research

Use a proper tool
Consider local search
Monitor your web analysis
Constantly reevaluate your position
Search count

**DRK** · 06-18-2011, 07:10 AM

If you use Google's KW tool make sure you look at the Exact search numbers. Some keywords can have huge search volumes but when you look at the exact all of a sudden that number can go from tens of thousands of searches a month to a hundred.

You should also be looking at different aspects of competition. Use your keyword in google searches like this to compare:

allintitle:kws (shows you how many times the keywords in different variations are in page titles)
intitle:"kws" (the exact number of pages with that version of the kw)
inanchor:"kws" (links using the kws)

This will give you an idea of how many people are actively targeting those keywords.

**LRE** · 06-18-2011, 09:00 AM

Also important is to check with real people what they type if they are looking for the info that you are offering on your site.

**Clickscape** · 10-12-2011, 12:55 PM

The Google keyword tools have been very helpful for me.

**Michael Wilson** · 10-17-2011, 11:27 PM

Hello, I have Read Your Post and i would like to say you that You have Posted very Useful Article, in Your Article Some Points like Use of Synonyms, Magazine, Use of Lower Count keywords. Really Good SEO Practices you have Posted, Keep posting such a informatics Articles.