Keyword Research

Can you find another website that is similar to yours or what you hope yours will be like? Same niche, same topics and similar content etc. If so, input the URL of the site into the Google Keywords tool in to the website search line. This will bring up a list of keywords that should be useful. Go for low competition, high searches if possible. And you may also benefit by turning on the [Exact] match function. Best of luck.

This is the hard and traditional way of sure shot success with your keywords research. Use software as tools to assist you, not to act like push button software to not work yourself. These methods beat any software including Market Samurai (I have that too). Though nothing wrong in using them as tools to assist you. Zero investment except your time though.

1) Choose a niche (as targeted as possible), preferably a long tail keyword.

2) Go to Google Adwords Keyword Tool. Select Exact search only. Choose the buyer/traffic location, usually United States regardless of your nationality because that is where most affiliate sales will probably happen.

3) Enter the selected keyword.

4) Download the list of keywords with all details. Now input related keywords suggested as primary keywords as well to get more lists. You can also try parts of the long tail keyword(s) or variations of the primary keyword to get even more variations to find as many lists as possible some of which may have high searches and low competition as well.

Once you have several lists with keyword variations and related keywords ready, then:

Primary Keywords

5) Ignore the competition according to Google Adwords (at least during the initial stages.) Put the list in Excel and sort according to local (usually global for some international Adsense niches) searches. Highest on the top, lowest t the bottom.

6) Then filter the keywords with minimum monthly traffic around 1000+ visitors for your website's main keywords and 100+ searches for those primary keywords which are meant to derive long tail traffic streams. For Adsense websites the minimum desired CPC should be at least $1-2+. To make the process easier and quicker, try to keep competition below 0.2 as far as possible but that isn't really compulsory but may save time.

Now comes the difficult and time consuming part.

The 7th step is optional but might help.

7) Search each keyword in quotes in google. Although this is debatable, but it is better to make sure the exact searches are below 100,000. And ideally below 20,000.

If you pass this step with a keyword, then the next step is the single most important step which will either make or break a keyword.

8) The only competition that really matters is the first page. You need to displace at least one webpage (of a website) to make it there. So without quotes search for each keyword in Google.

9) For positions 1-5 check their page rank (of the page, not website home age). Use prchecker.info for that. It is free. If there are too many results from websites like Wikipedia, YouTube, About.com etc then it may make more sense to target some other keyword unless you are already an expert. So check the page rank for each of them. We need at least 2 or 3 of the web pages to be a 0-3, preferably 0 or 1 only but up to 2/3 is manageable with some effort.
If 3+ out of 5 pages have PR 3 or higher then leave that keyword without wasting more time.

10) For those web pages which have made it to the next round, check their individual backlinks. Although this isn't very necessary because quality is difficult to access, but it does play a role. Use backlinks.in as a free tool. Web pages with less than 300 backlinks are preferable but difficult to find.

Do this for each and every keyword which makes the above criteria and which you find relevant to your niche.

Rinse and repeat.

Secondary Keywords

11) Choose a few variations of the primary keyword, single parts of that keyword, singular to plural etc. Short tail keywords which are related etc. These will boost your LSI score and make your content look natural.

12) Choose a few long tail secondary keywords which are very specific and have a monthly search count of 25-250 searches according to Google. Preferably around the 50-100 count. Use them 2-3 times or so if possible in your 1000+ words article or blog post or review. Some variations may have even less traffic but no harm using them naturally. In fact it will boost your primary keyword I think.

You will probably need around 30-60+ minutes for every primary keyword including secondary keywords. However, no software comes close to this. Software can be used as tools to make the manual part quicker and simpler, but no software is this thorough and none of them will get these results.

Here are some keyword research tools that you might find useful - http://100kresources.com/free-keyword-resources/

Follow David's recommendation. That's what we do, too. In addition to that, we're using SEO Spyglass (not an affiliate). We just enter the competitor's URL and it analyzes it already (keywords and backlinks).

Hi, When I used your method with my keyword it returned monthly search of 800 for exact, while its 110,000 for broad.

Could you please tell me why that is? and what that means as I that is one of my main keywords?

Danny

Broad is irrelavent. Stick to exact.

example
keyword you choose: raspberry ketone
exact match 800 so it means 800 searcher that type raspberry ketone with google
broad match 110,000 it will count searcher that type raspberry ketone diet, raspberry ketone benefit, etc as long the searcher type text that contain the keyword

Not every long tail keyword needs to have 1000s of monthly searches. You can target primary keywords with 100-500+ monthly searches and long tail keywords with any number of searches, as part of your lsi keywords group.

My useful tip is that you can get most all of the Market Samurai keyword research tools in their free Domain Samurai tool! This (in conjunction with Google's keyword tool) is how I started.

Build large lists of relevant keywords with the Adwords tool then run them to domain samurai in batches smaller than 1000 kws at a time. Their tool has the 'Golden Rules' setting and 'Long Tail' and use these default settings to help you narrow your list of 1000's to 10 or 20 of the low hanging fruit.

Honestly, I do this exact process for offline businesses with Market Samurai and charge $150 for the final report that takes me about an hour to produce.

Great entry level product for marketing consultants!

use adwords keyword tool.. or you order the same from fiverr?

Use Google Adwords Keyword Tool. Select Exact search only. Choose the buyer/traffic location. Most effective research tool for keywords.

What keywords are your competition focusing on? Start with focusing on the sites on the first page of search results. You only need to knock out one, so find the weakest site and focus on beating it. You figure this out by knowing what the top three sites are doing that the number ten site is not doing.

For indexing purposes you want to focus on low hanging fruit (the least competitve/less traffic keywords). Using LSI keywords for article writing is a great way to get indexed quickly--and highly--for your low traffic keywords). How do you intend to promote your site? How is the number ten site being promoted? Feel free to ask for additional suggestions...

You can also find some keywords with Google Instant.

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Hi,

What I not understand;

Why I should ignore the adwords competitors in external tool?

Which is best method to monetize niche keywords with less adwords competitors? With adsense???
or better with affiliate products- so with adsense you not make money when there are not advertisers (competitors) there?

marco005

Use keywords that are unique, and not mainstream. Adding mainstream keywords will risk of chances of getting covered with other websites using the same keywords. I would advise using keyword softwares/tools.

Ok, but are these keywords right to monetize it with cj or clickbank products when they not have adwords competition?

marco005