Finding profitable keywords to work a marketing campaign around has become a heck of a lot more difficult than it used to be. If experienced internet marketers find it tough then what hope do freshman online marketers have.
Using expensive keyword research tools can certainly cut down a lot of time and effort but are you any better off for using them. Yes, that sounds like a strange statement but it’s aimed at the new guy or gal coming online wanting to get a grasp of what internet marketing is all about.
Make no mistake, keyword research is important and if you are new to this business one of the best ways to learn is to simply “get down and dirty” with it.
One of the best tactics in finding a potentially winning keyword to either build a site around or write an article on is to check the forums on that topic. This means doing a check online to see if there are any forums relating to the term you’ve chosen.
For example, let’s choose bamboo. By doing a search for bamboo forums in Google we get a return of almost two million results. We’re obviously not going to check each one of these results and will concentrate on the first few. In fact, for the sake of keeping this article to a reasonable length let’s just check the first one in the results.
What you are aiming for is to look for terms bamboo enthusiasts would use and which are familiar to them. The term bamboo itself is very competitive with almost 38 million results while an “allintitle” search yielded 1.2 million. Too competitive.
Looking through some of the forum posts and one quickly picks up on some of the lingo. Words such as bamboo furniture, bamboo water fountain, bamboo flooring, bamboo sheets and classical bamboo jump out at you. There are many more but you get the picture.
This type of keyword research will yield some good results. When you have a list of words and terms, do an “allintitle” search and if the results return a figure of less than one thousand, then you have a potentially profitable term.
There are plenty of other factors which determine your final choice following your initial keyword research but this method is great for those who are just starting out, who can’t afford an expensive piece of software and who like to become familiar with the topic. Remember, you still need to write content so becoming familiar with a topic is vitally important.

Should I Exploit This Niche?Thats the question. Answer that and your work is not in vain. AND..you might make some money.But unfortunately I, nor anyone else can tell you which niche to choose, but rather help you to determine whether a niche can be profitable. For you to find a niche it will take a little guess work and some common sense discovery.I can say that if you use Clickbank , you can look at things like Gravity and popularity. Also , check out the Sales pages. Would you buy the product? Does the sales page excite you?You can also check out resources like Google Zeitgeist to see what people are currently searching for. Check out Lycos and Yahoo Buzz as well. Another resource to keep track of is Amazon. See what the most popular sellers are.(You can click on the “bestseller” link)Skim over these resources if you need a few ideas. See what is currently listed at the tops of these lists and sites. See whats commonly searched for.After you have and idea or 2, here is how to determine:If the niche is profitableWhich keywords you can profit withWhich products you should sellAnd how to rank with the selected keywords

Best Article SoftwareResearching KeywordsThis is not going to be the same old guru , in depth , take all day, research method. This is gonna be your quick time niche keyword research method. Nail this down, and you will be able to identify solid niches and keywords , without using too much of your valuable time. Just make sure you follow this method EXACTLY the way its presented. Its crucial to your success.Step 1Go to EzineArticles.com. Find the Ezine Search box. Enter a relative keyword from your niche. Try something a little longtail.Now, open up the first article that is listed. Place the mouse pointer anywhere within the article, Rightclick, and you will see a list of options pop up. Click the “view source code”.What opens up next is the complete article html code. Look for the code that looks like this:


NOTE If you cant do this, go ahead and click on the “publish article” link within the article. It will show you the keywords that the article is ranking for. (But, that will increase the article’s popularity and ranking.)

Now, look at the keywords listed at the end of this code. Write them down and then run the first keyword through the “word tracker” free keyword tool.

freekeywords.wordtracker

This will show you the number of searches per day. Take the number and multiply it times 30 to get the monthly searches. Simply write the number next to your keyword.

Now check out the keyword competition in Google. Type the keyword in the search bar like this, “keyword” – with the quotes. This will tell you the exact number of sites that are using this keyword.

The numbers vary on whether or not you have a good chance of ranking for certain keywords. For the most part, if the competition is less than 8,000 or so, you should be alright. Honestly, most of the exact matches for the quoted keywords aren’t doing that much to be ranked. It might be a bunch of articles, blog posts, and website pages. With very few of these links holding weight in the Google search results.

Write this down with the daily keyword search results.

Do this with all the keywords. If you have to open up a few more articles, then good. You want atleast 10-15 different keywords to work with.

If you want to find out what kind of products are being sold, just click the links at the bottom of the articles. Follow them until you see a product for sale. Trust me, you will always end up at a product sales page, even if it takes a few clicks.

Also, make sure you keep track of how many AdWords campaigns are running for each of the keywords. On the side of the page, where the AdWords ads are, click on the “more sponsored results” link. It will give a list and number of AdWords campaigns that are running for the keyword selected. Keep track of this. It will tell you if people are spending MONEY for this keyword and niche. Thats probably the most important info you can go on. If someone will pay to advertise for that keyword, than, most likely is making money.

Hopefully the number is at least 10-20 Campaigns.

So now you have data for your keywords. You know the competition, the search volume, and whether or not keywords are making money.

Make sure you list your keywords in order of most searched for keywords.

So whats next?

Now its time to analyze the competition. What are they doing to rank? How can I take over there spot on Google search results? And how many back links does it take to get ranked on page 1?

What you need to do is leave the Google search open. Then open a new tab and open up the Yahoo search page. We are going to find out the number of back links to these sites. (If you have your own way to find out this number than feel free to do so)

Here is how we accomplish our little mission. First, take the first site listed on Google for your 1st keyword. Open it. Then take the URL and copy it, so you can paste it on the Yahoo search page.

What you will do After you paste it in the search bar is this:

original url = http : // www . url .com/ productnew url for research = link: http : // www . url .com/ product .htm

Once you have set up the url, click the search button. This will list the exact number of incoming links to the site. We don’t want sites to have 1,000′s of incoming links, that could be tough to overcome. But observe where the links are coming from. Many times , sites will have 100′s or even 1,000′s of “internal” links. Meaning that the links come from inside the actual website. If most of the links are internal, thats good. We can overcome this with some real back links.

You don’t have to look at every single site. But make sure that some where within the first 4-7 sites, there is a real ability for you to rank. If the 3rd or 4th site only has around 20 incoming links, you should be alright.

Make sure you do this for ALL your keywords. If you skip these steps, or don’t fully investigate the keywords and site information, you could end up wasting a whole lot of time. So make sure you stick to it. It will be well worth it in the end. Not to mention, it really does get faster after you do it a few times. When it gets down to it, your really just copying and clicking. It takes a few seconds for each sites info to pop up.

After you have checked out these keywords, you should have a good idea of their profitability. 10 – 15 keywords of research, really wont take long.

Here is what we should know after our research:

This is the information you will use to determine your niche profitability. If these numbers make sense to you, then you can feel confident that investing your time in the niche will be wise. And thats all we can ask.

Daily Searches + low competition + many AdWords ads = Profits

Its that simple. Good luck to ya. Leave a comment if you still need some help. 

 

Niche research – how to find profitable niche. Deciding on what product or service you will promote in a niche market should be based on a simple principle. There should be a demand for your niche product or service.

Once you have chosen a niche product or service to market, researching to find the right niche for your product or service is the next most important part of beginning a niche marketing program. The things that you need to know are where they spend their time online, and what makes them tick from a personal and business point of view. There is niche marketing software out there that can help you learn these things about your potential niche market.

The next thing you need to learn as you research your online niche market is what you can reasonable charge for your niche product or service. The best and most effective was to do this is to visit sites that advertise products or services similar to what you have chosen to sell. It should be easy to see if they are giving away a service or selling the product at a price far lower than you would have to charge.

If you can determine that there are people out there who are willing to spend money to buy what you are selling and you can identify those people then you have a niche marketing niche product or service that can make money on the Internet. Sometimes it takes reframing your niche product or service to make it more attractive, better or just different than what others are selling it for.

Niche research – how to find profitable niche. Deciding on what product or service you will promote in a niche market should be based on a simple principle. There should be a demand for your niche product or service. Research is the key to successful niche marketing.

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