May 06

Keyword research is basically what the name implies.

keywordresearch

It is researching and gathering specific information and data about the words or phrases people surfing the internet are typing into the search engines i,e, Google, Yahoo, MSN…etc, about any particular subject.

Depending on what tool you use for conducting your keyword research, the results you will get back are usually based on…

  • the traffic numbers or the amount of people using a specific search query or phrase
  • the amount of competing websites that already have information about the particular phrase
  • and what the specific time frame the data is collected in, for example, the number of people using a particular phrase in a week, month, or yearly period.

You could say that keyword research is customer research.

There are many opinions and strategies regarding keyword research.

It is my opinion that you should perform keyword research for every peice of web content you create.

I also recomend utilising keyword research when setting up and building your website, i,e,  what you should name your website, catergories and subcatergories.

There are many free tools online to carry out your keyword research campaigns, use these before committing to building your site. If you are going into a small niche market you want to see if you have a sufficient market online already to tap into.

My favorite free keyword tool is the Google Keyword Tool.

another very popular tool is the SEOBook Keyword Tool

and another is Wordtracker Free Keywords.

What are the benefits?

  • Spending some time on keyword research will give you a glimpse and an insight into what your market wants.
  • It will help you to create relevant content for your website, so you don’t get lost in the maze of content already published on the internet.
  • By choosing the right keywords you can start to see a steady flow of traffic coming to your site.
  • It will help you in providing ideas in the way of product creation.
  • and will also help you to get ranked in the search engines, if you choose your keywords wisely.

What is keyword research?

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