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Keywords and Making Money
By admin | September 8, 2008
I’m back. Have spent the last few days working through a new product that I am trying out. More on that later.
You may not know anything about keywords. I know I didnt a few months ago. You can read about them in earlier posts. I suppose if you think about it it makes sense because keywords are the words and phrases you or I type into google or whatever and search for the things that come up. For example if you are looking for a garden shed,thats what you might type in. There are keywords which is the singular and what are called longtail keywords, thats the phrases you might type in.
So what relevance do they have to making money on the internet? They are SO relevant! They are the money making engine! You have to look at keywords and get a basic understanding of what they are and where to look for them to have any real chance of making money online.
There are a number of free tools and paid tools out there. You may have heard of Overture and this is certainly mentioned in lots of things I have read over the last 12 months. Dont bother with it. I think its now been taken over by Yahoo but it never seemed to work anyway.
The first tool you can try is the google keyword tool. No money need change hands! Its free. There are at least 2 great ways of getting free keyword ideas there. You might find it useful for brainstorming sessions. I certainly do. Think of a “seed” word or phrase and type it in. The tool automatically defaults to the keyword finder but there is a another way of searching just underneath that which I will tell you about in a minute. I have only just found out what it means but its a very useful addition to my learning curve and it might help you as well.
Anyway, type in the seed keyword and you will get a number of words back showing you alternatives that could be used. If you ticked “synonym” as you should you get even more variations. As I say this is a great brainstorming tool and will give you a good number of keywords you can use.
Whilst researching your potential money making markets, visiting forums etc, you may have come across websites that were already in that market. You can use this same keyword tool to find out what sort of keywords that site might be using. If you click on the website content button on the google keyword tool, you can enter the website address and google will go out and have a look and report back. Great eh?
I’ll give you more ideas tomorrow. In the meantime if you want to have a look at a free trial for a paid keyword tool, have a look at wordtracker
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