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Doing Keyword Research Right
Will Make You Money!
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If you’re serious about getting quality targeted traffic to your
website, then you will need to take your keyword research very
seriously. Some people consider that if they just make a page and
slap some subject up on the website that they will be able to get
a ton of traffic. It used to be that easy many years ago.
Unfortunately, the Net has grown by leaps and bounds.
There
are more and more people making sites every day. Which means your
competition can grow by leaps and bounds every day.
How are you going to make sure your site is found and you get good
traffic? You have to prepare and do good keyword
research. While
it may be tempting to try and position the keywords that get a lot
of searches per month, this isn’t the best tactic to use.
The
sites that are ranking well for very competitive keywords in all
likelihood have been around for years and have a lot of backlinks.
When you’re doing keyword research, it’s important that you
keep in mind not only how many searches per month the keyword
gets, but also how much competition there is for that keyword.
You
may think that it’s not worthwhile to target a keyword that only
gets a few hundred searches per month. However, if you can
identify a few keywords that get anywhere from a few hundred
searches to a few thousand searches per month, and rank on the
first page you will do quite well.
For example, let’s say you uncover a keyword during your keyword
search that gets 10,000 searches per month.
However,
there are 2.5 million websites who also target this keyword. While
the traffic is lucrative, your chances of making it to the first
page of the search results are very slim. Unless you put a lot of
time, work, and effort into getting first page ranking for such a
competitive keyword phrase.
Now, let’s say you reveal Ten keywords that average to about
1,000 searches per month. Each one of these keywords has minimal
competition.
If
you create content more or less those 10 keywords, you will then
achieve the same goal. It’s just instead of one keyword for
10,000 and fighting tooth and nail to get a good ranking, you
spread it out to 10 pages of quality content which would equal
roughly 10,000 searches per month.
You may think that creating content approximately 10 keywords is a
heap more work than creating content for one keyword. This much is
true. However, the time and effort you would save in trying to
fight the competition with the one keyword more than makes up for
the additional effort you have to spend on creating the extra
content.
There are many free tools to do keyword
research. However, these
tools don’t usually offer important and critical features that
paid keyword tools have to offer. For example, you can find
keywords with decent search volume with little to no competition
with free tools. However, be prepared to spend a pile of time
doing this.
Most
paid keyword tools, are made specifically to help you find low
competition but well searched keywords. It’s extremely suggested
that you look into some paid keyword research tools. They will
help you to get better search engine rankings much faster.
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