Keyword Research Tips, and How to Dominate Them!
Keyword research are done in many different ways, and you will probably hear many different ways to do it. For me, I think I have a quite unique way of doing it, since I haven’t read about it anywhere, and it works like a charm.
I usually use the built-in keyword research tool in senuke, as it does most of the work for me, other than picking the good keywords. – Which is quite simple once I have the data.
But the most important thing, is to find the keywords that give the highest ROI, with least amount of time spent. I only focus on keywords I know I can dominate, and I always do. I’m not great a creating websites, but I know how to make a SEO-optimized wordpress blog. Then all I have to do is to include my long-tail keyword in the title of the post,in the tags, and a few times in the main body of the post. I might also submit an article if neccesary. Then I go for dominating the entire frontpage of google with web 2.0. – Which is quite simple. I personally use senuke for this, but it can easily be done manually, and it doesn’t take that long.
But Preben, how about the keyword research?
Yes, I’ll tell you.
I use a combination of wordtracker and google keywords. Then, all I do to analyse the competition, is to use the little-known command in google called “allintitle”. It tells me how many competing websites are using my long-tail keyword in their own title.
It might even be for a keyword phrase that gets 29million results when you do a normal search for it, but only 9 of them have the entire long-tail keyword in their title. If that is the case, I will definately go for that keyword.
Another thing I look at, is if there are any web 2.0 sites in the search, and how they rank.If there is a digg post with the entire keyword in the title, and they have claimed the 78.th spot in google, I might think twice. But unless that is the case, I’ll go for it.
Once I have gathered a list of good keywords with little “title” competition, I’ll start writing blog posts with the keywords in the titles, and submit several unique stories to digg, propeller,furl etc. with different titles, but still keeping the keyword phrase intact. That will give me several spots on the front page of google, for each post. And it goes fast too!
So to sum up how to find keywords and dominate them:
- Gather a list of long-tail keywords with a good number of searches on wordtracker and google.
- Analyse the degree of competition in google, by using the “allintitle:yourkeyword”(without hyphens) command in google, and sort your list after the number of competing websites with your keyword in the title.
- Register a domain with your main keyword in it. Use .com, .net or .org, as I have found them easiest to rank well.
- Install Wordpress, tweak it as you like and create a blogpost for each of your keywords with your “weak-competition” keywords in the titles, and write a blogpost like you would have written an article. (With tags etc.)
- Optimize your blog for SEO, and ping it at pingler.
- Submit each of your blog posts to social media sites with unique titles and content, still keeping the keyword phrase intact in the title.
- Submit the RSS feeds for all of the posts to loads of RSS feed aggregators.
- Submit articles for the posts that doesn’t make it to the degree of domination you want.
- Enjoy your traffic!
P.S. You might want to spread it out to avoid getting sandboxed by Google.
Now, which technique do you use?
April 16th, 2009 at 7:11 pm
I use the inanchor command for a similar purpose – to find keywords that have low incoming link text, i.e. they will be relativly easy to rank in most cases.
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April 18th, 2009 at 8:39 pm
I am new to the blogging and keyword search, I never knew about the pingler, so I used it just know. I hope everything I am doing will give me the benefits I need.
April 19th, 2009 at 5:49 pm
Keyword research is essential, and especially for niche marketing. Blogging is what you make it.
It’s easy to get started, but it can be harder to see the results you expect. So you need to have patience.
Pingler is an awesome tool to add to your arsenal, as well as you should use findmypagerank.com to see how you are doing as well.
If you want, I can make a short guide about what I usually do when I create a new wordpress blog, regarding SEO etc. As google really loves wordpress blogs. One tip for now, would be to change permalink text to %postname%, and install the “All in one SEO pack” plugin.
Remember the 20/80 rule. (20% of your work provides 80% of the results) So always keep track of what you do, and focus on what works best.
– Preben
April 19th, 2009 at 5:51 pm
Great tip David! Thanks for sharing. Definately a must for my technique arsenal!
Great blog you have there btw.
April 20th, 2009 at 3:24 pm
I wasn’t too sure how exactly keywords work, but I think I’ve got the hang of it now. I like when people to tutorials like this, because it makes things so simple to learn
May 9th, 2009 at 7:16 am
Excellent tutorial for finding competition for keywords. Many webmasters just look at high competition keywords and spend years trying to get to first 5. But they don’t realize that the gold lies at the bottom of the pyramid. Most of my individual pages get lot of search engine traffic because I follow the principal of keyword rich blog titles, just like you mentioned.
May 13th, 2009 at 4:56 pm
I have realized just how powerful the “long tail” can be. One of my blogs has been getting quite a few hits from this kind of traffic. So now every time I post I mix up some keywords to try and score a long tail search.
I don’t research it, though. I just make guesses. A lot of the time it doesn’t work. But every now and then it succeeds brilliantly. And traffic from those searches just keeps on keeping on.
But the approach you describe is taking it to whole new level. Will try and apply something like this from now on.
May 13th, 2009 at 5:00 pm
Yup, keyword rich titles have a MAJOR impact on your rankings. – So if you find a low-competition long-tail keyword, any blog can get the top spot for it. Even if it’s new and have NO authority.
However, you should always try to hit a few nerves as well, and work towards it as well. – It might go if you have patience.
May 13th, 2009 at 5:02 pm
You definately should!
I also do a little of that. Randomizing search phrases that I think will get more searches over time.
It works some times, but it’s safer to use the ones you already have. I only do this when I need more keywords than I have in my list already.
May 26th, 2009 at 5:52 pm
What I have seen is that I get lots of natural links if I can get the site in first 3 results. Ranking for long-tail keywords should also have the same effect (though I don’t have any proof).
June 1st, 2009 at 8:33 pm
Great tips on how to do keyword research. Too many people crash and burn with PPC because they immediately run for the keywords with the most traffic. Best to find those keywords where people are actually considering spending some money!
June 12th, 2009 at 1:12 pm
Thank you for sharing.
but it is worth to spend so much time? I much do I earn, if find a keyword, register a domain with this keyword. install wordpress, write one post for each keyword and submit them to social media sites?
June 12th, 2009 at 1:32 pm
Keyword research is one of the biggest reasons people fail in internet marketing their first time, so yeah.
How much you can earn really depends on the niche, and the keywords. Not only that, but you must also be able to get at least one of the top 3 spots in google for that keyword to get the best effect. I would recommend reading a bit in this thread at the WF: Set it and forget it article marketing
As for how much you can earn, it won’t be that great in the beginning, but eventually people will start linking to you, and you will start to rank on other keywords as well. Plus, you can optimize your site to convert better.
That being said, I would say it’s possible to build a full-time income this way, if you are persistent and don’t give up.
July 2nd, 2009 at 12:51 pm
First, thanks for the tutorial. I’ve found your post quite informative. Keyword research is really essential. The point about long-tail keyword is good. Thanks also for the tipp on this “allintitle:yourkeyword” command in google.
July 7th, 2009 at 11:31 am
Thanks For sharing great tips , I have create a new blog yesterday but after seeing your post , I pinged them and just checked that Google Crawled all my posts
July 8th, 2009 at 9:40 pm
Hei Preben, fin blogg. Ser du har god peiling på det du driver med.
Med hilsen
Harald
August 2nd, 2009 at 9:33 pm
Thank you for the nice post, do know if there are any tools for persian and arabic?
August 2nd, 2009 at 11:51 pm
@Valy – You can still use Pingler, rss aggregators, as well as I’m pretty certain you can use the google keyword tool and search command as well.
And it might be possible to use it with senuke as well, although you would only get backlinks(if any) from english websites.
Also, wordpress will most likely work fine. And I would suggest searching for persian and arabic web 2.0, or persion and arabic social bookmarking in Google. You most likely have a few over there as well ;o)
– Preben
September 19th, 2009 at 10:12 am
Just one question: is there a point of “extra” pinging your blog? It already does that automatically..
And second question: is there any point in using rss directories? Like all news sites, are full of spam and they have less authority than a website like digg, for example?
Thanks
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September 19th, 2009 at 5:51 pm
Pinging:
Yes it does, but only to one pinger.
If you ping it many places, the new content will be indexed faster. And personally, I feel it ranks better as well, although that is not documented yet for what I know.
RSS:
Yes, submitting your rss feed to aggregators gives you backlinks, as the content gets published on their site, with a link back to the original post on your blog.
You are right many of them are full of spam and bad content, but if you submit your feed there once, you will get a new backlink from them every time you make a new post.
Not only that, but they tend to rank well in google themselves too, which works in a similar way as an article. – You get a kind of “resource box”, as they link back to your site. If the reader likes the content, they will click through to your site to read more.
Submitting to websites like Digg is great too, but it has to be done every time you make a new post, unlike with rss feeds.
I hope that helps!
– Preben
September 20th, 2009 at 3:25 pm
Hi Preben
Thanks for the extra information. Will see if I can find a decent list with RSS directories.
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September 30th, 2009 at 4:33 pm
Until now, I still don’t know how to really make a SEO rich article. I’m still confused about recommendations of other experienced bloggers or site owners. Obviously, I need to read more to learn more.
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October 14th, 2009 at 5:17 pm
Interesting tips. espesially about ping.
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October 19th, 2009 at 11:47 pm
Thank you =)
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