[Method] STEP by STEP Keyword Research for Newbies

(FROM BHW )

I have decided to do a quick over-view on how I do my own keyword research.

There are many ways to do keyword research, but its all about what you find works for you, and all method works to a degree so don't be too worried.

METHOD STEP BY STEP

1) Go to Google and type in your main keyword.


2) Press on your keyword and a new window should open with google and your keyword typed in it. Put your keywords in quotes and press enter, you should now see a figure, this number is showing you how many people are you competitors.


3/4) Put &start=990 to see how many pages google is showing with your keyword.




5) Insert intitle:"keyword" and press search to see how many of the competition have done on page SEO and have the keyword in the title on their page. (part of on page SEO).



6) Insert inurl:"keyword" and press search to see how many of the competition have put the keyword in the URL. (this is part of on page SEO and helps alot for ranking)



7) Insert inurl:"keyword" inurl"keyword" and press search and you will see how many people have done proper SEO and are REAL competitors for your keyword.



8) Lastly you want to go and see the PR and Age and links to see how tough the competition is for the real competition (on FIRST PAGE).

ALMOST DONE NOW....... ONLY 1 STEP LEFT......... GO AND TAKE ACTION AND FIND KEYWORDS UNTIL IT BECOMES 2ND NATURE TO YOU.


Cheers

love your post! :)
can u teach me seo?
em new to it!
but a pro at cpa ;)

lol..im not pro with seo and still learning seo..i hope i pro with it :)..you can build a site and use admin Simple Traffic Exploit to drive traffic to your site.

Hey Freelander, how do you make that screen shots where it has the arrows and annotations with them boxes? I use Window Vista...

this tut is from BHW :)
anyway, thanks for your effort buddy..

yah. I've seen this before.

Good concise tut!

One thing that I would omit is step 3/4... IMO it doesn't matter how many Google pages there are showing - What matters is the first page, that's where you want to get. Especially the first 3 results as they get the majority of all clicks (60% if I remember well, 37% of clicks for position #1). So I would rather assess the strength of the first 3 to 5 sites and see if I can beat them.

good tut thanks

ya, there is lots of new information about keyword research thank you.

Thanks for the post. BTW the dude asking for how to do it...can do it with Onenote or paint.net.