The Secret of Keyword Research
If you want your website found on the internet, keyword research is the first step. Well, actually, the first step is deciding what products and services your website will sell and then actually building a website, but in between those two, keyword research has to be conducted. It means finding out what your potential clients are searching for on the internet.
The thousands of terms people use to search for things related to your industry on the internet will help you target your pay per click advertising and other web marketing, as well as help your SEO efforts (especially so you know what anchor text to use when link building). The wider your subject and more services or products your provide, the more in-depth your keyword research will get, sometimes resulting in lists tens of thousands of words long.
To begin your keyword research, just brainstorm a bit and get into your target audience’s head. What might they search for in the search engines to find your service? From there you can generate short list of broad terms. From there you can take your research in one of two directions.
Most people will use on the internet tools and programs to conduct keyword research. There are programs that’ll search several keyword tools on the net. You can also use the individual tools yourself and figure out which works best. Google’s Keyword Tool generates a list of related keywords as well as suggested terms, also giving you an idea of how often they’re searched for.
If you’re doing keyword research in order to target your pay per click campaigns, there is a way to save yourself some time. You may even wind up saving money in the long run. It’s just a matter of experimenting a bit with your search-marketing program of choice.
This technique involves spending a little cash on for your research, but it often yields superior results than more traditional keyword research. Just take your first general list of keywords and build your text ad campaign around them in whichever program you use. Most marketing programs grant you to selected a broad or exact keyword match for your terms – select the broad option. This means whenever someone searches for a combination of words that include one of your keywords, your ad will show.
By running a test campaign for a week or two and spending a little bit of cash, you can cut your keyword research time in half and actually raise your marketing results as well. As people search and click your ads, you can tell exactly what SPECIFIC keyword terms (long-tail or short) will attract you the most business for the least amount of money. Once you let the campaign run a while, you can begin building a more detailed campaign, and eventually get rid of the “broad” match option and instead spend your ad money on a long list of exact keywords.
It’s really not rocket-science, it just means putting a little money up front. While more traditional keyword research works and definitely has value, for companies with less manpower and time, this method should help lead to higher conversion rates at lower costs. It can’t injured to try!
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