Find long tail keywords.
Hey, online home business owner. How’s business? Do you get lots of traffic? Are you making money hand over fist? If not, what would you give for these four benefits?
1) know how to best maximize a method of getting free traffic to your web site
2) establish yourself as an authority in your business niche
3) build rank for your site in Google, MSN and Yahoo
4) create the kind of content that sends you traffic from this day forth like the Energizer bunny
Wait, you say. What do you mean what would I GIVE? You said it’s FREE traffic.
And it IS free. Doesn’t cost you a single penny. Instead you expend your time and effort, but don’t worry, there are ways you can minimize the grunt work and maximize your results. What would you give for that?
When I bought Davion Wong’s step-by-step marketing system Article Cash Robots for $7, I finally understood keyword research.
I know I’ve been told time and again what to search for and how, but somehow it never clicked for me. What worked in the guru’s demonstration never worked for me. I’d get bogged down in wrong numbers, struggles and confusion every time.
Without the crucial “money” keywords, what good was my article marketing? Well, A) it was good practice and B) I gained premium status at ezinearticles.com, but my pockets were still empty.
So what two article marketing secrets did I learn for finding the “money” keywords?
First, open Google Keyword Tool External or Wordtracker and type in your niche.
Let’s say it’s golf. Golf is HUGE. No way can you rank with the word golf alone as a keyword. Scan down the list of results for a more specific phrase for what you sell. Let’s try golf lessons.
You want a three or four word phrase with 300 to 500 searches per month. I see a lot of possibilities, like golfing lessons, pga golf lesson, private golf lesson, golf lesson chipping, golf lesson dvd, and more. Grab all the keyword phrases with between 300 and 500 searches.
Second, check each one for competition with a Google search using allintitle: with your keyword phrase.
Like this–allintitle:private golf lesson. Look for numbers between 500 and 1000 because this is where it’s easy to rank for your keyword. Any lower numbers are better yet.
My search today for allintitle:golfing lessons shows 7,340 pages with that keyword phrase. It seems like too many competing pages, but let’s see if that number is true using a trick I learned from Travis Sago, chief bum marketer.
Scroll to the bottom of the page and click on the last page in the list from 1-10 or 1-20. In this case there were 7 pages. When I clicked on 7, I landed on a page that said 301-398 of 7,340 pages. You can’t get past this page, which means only 398 pages show in Google for the phrase golfing lessons.
It’s less than the 500-1000 target, so this is a great long tail keyword phrase even though it’s only two words. I see other people have articles for this phrase.
Let’s try allintitle:golf lesson chipping and see what happens. Ah-ha! Today’s search finds 331 competing pages, and when we verify that, we find 341. I see many videos and no articles. Chipping must be hard to convey in written words?
Check the other keyword phrases from your list. Get at least 30 good long tail keywords and see what it takes to rank for each one besides good numbers. Do your competitors create articles, videos, or what?
Armed with great long tail keywords and this knowledge about what the competitors offer, you can now write articles and/or make videos to boost your online home business and laugh all the way to the bank. You’re welcome.
P.S.
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P.P.S.
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