Keyword Research Information
Every webmaster has one thing in common, and it is that they want top listings in search engines. Choosing the right keywords is very crucial to your success on the internet. Doing keyword research is a very important part of starting an online business. If you pass up keyword research in the beginning, you will find yourself passing up a lot of cash.
There are many inexperienced website owners that claim that you should use keywords that are long tail. If you use long tail keywords from the start, you may be actually wasting time. Majority of long tail keywords won’t get searched at all. If you optimize for some long tail keywords, it doesn’t matter if you are first or last, you won’t see any traffic.
You should focus on finding keywords that get a decent amount of search traffic, but rarely anyone is optimizing for them. You should not base your keyword choice on whether it is long tail or not. The length of a keyword does not indicate how competitive it is. Some five word keywords are more competitive than one word keywords, and they would be considered long tail.
I will let you know exactly what I do for keyword research. First, I examine hundreds of keywords and pick some that apply to my website. Secondly, I use a keyword research tool called Keyword Elite and I find how much each keyword gets search per month. I do not use the Google Keyword Tool because I don’t think it’s very accurate.
After that, I search the keywords that are getting a decent amount of visitors. I use Yahoo to examine the websites that have the number one position for their inbound links. I check to see if the website has a lot of anchor text backlinks with the search keyword.
If the website does not have the keyword in their links, then I know that the website owner is clueless. I come to the conclusion that the website owner can be easily outranked with links and time.
New website owners get scared of competition and don’t realize that it’s actually not that hard to rank well. You have to realize that majority of website owners are ranking off of luck, and they actually do not know much about optimization. It is very easy to gain the number one ranking for many terms and start making money.
