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Best Free Keyword Research Tool Available

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The Free Google Adwords Keyword Tool is arguably the best keyword research tool available. With their latest update, I can now make this claim. This tool now gives you actual numbers from Google itself that tells you the volume of searches that are done on a given keyword. Before this tool would give you a bar with a volume indicator on it, but now they give you actual numbers. These numbers can really help you identify good keywords that you should be focusing on for your website.

How To Use This Tool More Effectively?

One simple method for utilizing this tool more effectively is to type in the main keyword of your niche that you are trying to target, and make sure that “Use Synonyms” is checked. That will bring up potentially hundreds of other keyword combinations that either use that phrase or a similar phrase.

Once you get your results you can find good niche phrase to easily rank for by sorting by the Advertister Competition. Look for the keywords that get some search volume, but have little advertiser competition or no advertiser competition. Once you find these keywords you can go to Google and search for that phrase in there. The logic behind this method is that if people aren’t paying for these keywords in Adwords, than chances are people aren’t trying to optimize for this phrase on their website. Since there is less competition trying to rank for a phrase there is a better chance you have of getting targeted traffic from that keyword phrase.

Now, I am not saying that you just focus on these niche phrases when you optimize. You should optimize for the more broad phrases on the main parts of your website, but these longtail phrases are great for writing posts or for getting good search engine rankings for niche phrases. Don’t get discouraged if a keyword only has 1,000 visitors per month. That is not a bad thing because if you can get 5% of those visitors each month, that is an additional 50 targeted prospects that will see what you offer, and you do the work once to get ranked.

Why This Tool Blows WordTracker Out of the Water

Many of you are familiar with WordTracker as a keyword research tool. I feel that this tool totally blows Wordtracker out of the water because I feel the data is more accurate than WordTracker, and also the amount of keywords that this tool picks up way exceeds WordTracker and their limited resources. The other reason I like this tool better is the price. It is FREE! You can’t lose with it.

Here is a link to this tool again – https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal 

Other Important Notes

Also, when using this tool and considering the volume they show there, remember that these numbers do not represent data from other search engines like Yahoo or MSN. So keep in mind that across the board the volume is higher.

Also, as of the date of writing this the tool is displaying numbers and not volume. The search engines change often, so at any point they may not display these results, but even then this is the best tool out there for keyword research in my opinion.
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Search Engine Optimization: Important or Not?

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Well, as much as this post may make you cringe, SEO is an Internet marketing topic that you should understand if you plan to be successful with your websites. The reason I say this is because understanding Search Engine Optimzation (SEO) can bring you a steady stream of targeted visitors to your websites for free! That means you could receive hundreds or even thousands of visitors to your website that want to purchase the product you are selling, or that want to sign up for your list.

SEO has actually leveled the playing field with small companies and very large companies. For example one of my websites sells pet supplies, and we are in competition with some of the largest Fortune 500 companies online today, and in many cases our product pages come up higher in the search engines. We are doing all of this without paying a dime in advertising! The only thing being utilized is my knowledge of SEO.

Now you are probably thinking well that is great that you can do that with your websites, but what about me?!?! How many of you feel like this?

“I have tried to understand SEO, but it just doesn’t make sense at all to me.”

“I keep coming across articles online which contradict themselves.”

“Some courses on SEO are written in a language that is difficult to understand.”

Well, my goal is to help solve the issues you have with SEO by providing you excellent content on this topic, that you can read, implement, and understand. I am in the middle of writing a pretty extensive course on SEO that is targeted to both the new and the advanced Internet marketer.

For those newbies though I will have content that takes you by the hand and guides you through the all important process, of obtaining higher rankings.  Using my years of research, studying top performing websites, working with clients through my own search engine optimization service company, and also through studying performance of my own websites I can teach you how to bring your website up high in the search engines. Another great case study of the power of the search engines is my website which helps college students find the cheapest textbooks online. That website gets tons of college students each semester searching for textbooks, and that is all through some SEO efforts a couple of years ago! SEO is truly powerful!

Just don’t worry, this course will be easy to understand, and you will actually enjoy it as you go because you will be learning something even if you are an advanced Internet marketer. I just ask that if you are interested you stay tuned with me, by signing up for my free newsletter, as I will be announcing the launch of my course through that medium, and I will also be announcing it on the blog.

I am working as hard as I can on this course because I understand how important it is to your business, and overall online success.