Are You Using The Right Keyword?
‘Make Money Online‘, ‘Affiliate Marketing’, ‘Work At Home’, ‘Mesothelioma’, ‘Dental Plans’, ‘Car Insurance’
Those are just some of the favourite keywords that have been used by bloggers or webmasters to create their money making blogs or websites. Some people target high paying keywords without even thinking whether there are actually enough people searching for it. Others looking at the most searched keywords without looking at the number of competitors already exist in the WWW.
How many times have you tried building a niche website, only to realize that it doesn’t generate as much income as you have expected? How many times have you sit back and ponder, why didn’t you make money from these websites?
Everybody knows keyword targeting is so important if you want to really make money from your blogs or websites. The sites have to target certain audience to obtain maximum profit. Without proper research, you could be targeting nobody! It’s like fishing in deep ocean without any bait OR fishing with the wrong bait. At the end of the day, wrong keyword selection will just demotivate you from blogging or updating your websites, because there’s either not enough people coming to your site or it doesn’t generate enough money as you expected.
There are manual steps that you can do to make sure that the keywords selected ARE the most profitable that you can go for.
- You can start by looking at their CPC
- Next, look at the number of searches for that keyword
- Then, look at the long tail keywords spawned from the original broad keyword
- Finally, the most annoying and time consuming bit, is to identify you competitors in the market.
Maki at DoshDosh.com has written an article about long-tailed keywords and how to identify your competitors for the keywords you chose. Steps 1-3 can be done easily but step 4 requires a lot of work. You can choose to do these manually. The disadvantages of that are :
- Requires a lot of time
- You sometimes don’t have a clue on where to start (there are virtually infinite number of keywords you can try)
- No assistance in finding the best niche
- Most of the time, you’re just GUESSING again and again for the best keywords.
Using the correct keyword selection tools such as Keyword Elite and WordTracker can easily solve your problem. It just makes your job easier, you spend less times finding the best keywords for your blogs/websites and most importantly, it keeps you on the right track so you’ll be rest assured that you get the best results.
Using WordTracker, you start off by typing in a single keyword that you’re interested in. It then gives you a list of likely keyword phrases related to your original one. When you have decided on which keyword phrase to search for, WordTracker then gives you the number of people actually searching for that particular keyword and other relevant keywords as well. The best thing is when you can identify your competitors when WordTracker reveals how many people searching for that keyword and the number of sites competing for it. You can read all about the process in their product tour page.
WordTracker also offers online trial version for you to get a taste of this excellent tool. For more in depth knowledge about keyword selection technique, you can read their articles at the WordTracker academy.
The good thing about WordTracker, if you plan to buy it, is that it comes with 3 different subscription options; 1 week, 1 month or 1 year. So if you’re in a really tight budget, it gives you some flexibility on the money spent.
Another great tools to use is Keyword Elite, which in my opinion has more flexibility that the Wordtracker tool. In general, it contains more features to play with to get you the information that you’ve always wanted. Most of its features are similar to that of WordTracker but with some extra juice, for example
- Keyword from search result can be sorted and filtered as needed
- Comparing PPC competition in terms of pricing and low cost ads that you can bid on.
- Automatically create Adsense targeted pages according to the keyword selected
- Look at competitors keywords and find out what keywords have been making money for them
- Nicer interface
- Compatible with WordTracker
- 60 days money back guarantee
- One-off payment
You can see it all in action in the videos provided. If you want an all-in-one tool that can do the job without having to worry about subscription fee etc, go for Keyword Elite. I’m sure you won’t regret it.
These tools will help you A LOT in your journey to obtain the most profit from your niche. Getting it right in the first place is so important to prevent you from wasting your time and money later on. And for that, WordTracker and Keyword Elite tools will do just the right job for your internet success.
Good luck!
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