Keyword Research- How To Start Off As A Keyword Research Pro

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Starting Off As A Keyword Research Pro

Being a keyword research pro enables you to provide content derived articles written to a targeted market. The whole point in article marketing is to get your article on the first page of Google. Being a “keyword research pro” means you go the extra mile to get the right keyword so you can get your article to rank with the least amount of effort afterwards.

First Step To Being a Keyword Research Pro

Keyword research is the most important start and the most abused. Google has given everyone the use of it’s Google Keyword Tool so you can start to qualify keywords. Just search for Google Keyword Tool and its at the top of the list.

• Once you enter the site and do the captcha code to prove you are human ( or sign in under your Google account) you can start your search.
• Enter a keyword or phrase.
• check the box – Only show ideas closely related to my search terms
• click on the Advanced Options and Filters
• select all countries or only those you wish to target.
• then you can use the limit filters to show Global searches >= 100 or 500 or whatever amount you wish. Anything less than 100 searches id wasting time in my opinion though.
• Then click the search button.

Let the tool gather the info you requested and it will tabulate it for you. You can sort the info any way you wish using the headers at the top of each column. I usually just toggle the global monthly searches so it lists the most searches at the top.

Click the download option at the top of the page under the Search button. You can download your list to a CSV format to import into your spreadsheet.

From your spreadsheet you can copy the keywords to a textfile.

How To Use The Results

Ok now the Keyword tool has created a list of keywords for you. Now what?

Well now we have to filter the data. Don’t just go down the list for a low competition keyword with high search rates. That’s where many people stop and think they have done they research. This is not how you qualify your results.

SEO Quake is free add-on for your browser that allows you to qualify your leads. This is the tedious part and it is why most beginners skip it and end up writing an article with a keyword that leads them nowhere.

Using SEO Quake allows you to get behind the scenes info on a website that is ranking for the keyword you are looking for.

Using your list do a Google search for each of the keywords on your list. Look at the top 10 or first page of Google. The only place you to be. SEO Quake (a browser add-on) lists pertinent information under each of the listings. PR or page rank, Links, Alexia Rating, etc.

Now you can quickly see if you have a chance to rank. If your competition has low PR, high Alexia rating and few backlinks then you stand a good chance of ranking your article.

Check also for sites you too can submit your article to. If some of the top ten are articles posted on sites like squidoo.com or ezinearticles.com then you can also submit your article there, further increasing your chance to get your article to rank higher.

This manual method costs nothing but time to qualify keywords.

How To Use The Results Like A Keyword Research Pro

Instead of taking the time to do all this stuff manually, there are tools out there to help to do keyword research like a pro. Most of the tools I have found on the net are in packages so you are buying a bunch of tools because you need the one.

I found one tool the other day called Stealth Keyword Competition Analyzer. It does all the grunt work for you and leaves you to write the articles. instead of running down your list manually just import the data you downloaded from Google Keyword Tool and press go. Depending on your list it takes 15 – 20 minutes to go through 100 keywords.

The Results: Awesome.

It categorizes each by number of searches, competition, real page competition, PR strength of competition, whether it is commercially viable, the number of ads on the search page, and more.

All I read is the last column where is says terrible, bad, good, great or amazing.

You bet I use only the amazing one now.

That’s how you become a keyword research pro. You get the tools to help you along. If you never get passed Google Keyword Tool you can see why you don’t rank or don’t rank as high as often. Get the right tools.

To Your Success

PS: I do my best to be a keyword research pro because I believe in the Empower Network. Join the Adventure and be a keyword research pro with me.