In combination with the guide of finding a niche and understanding your targetcrowd, this is the thing too read for noobs who have too start from scratch, without any knowledge.

Excellent thread mate! really going to help me get started.

A solid introduction. However, with all the increased exposure such guides have given to the criteria for an ideal keyword, it has created a kind of 'gold rush' for terms that meet those very tight specifications. I notice it has recently become much harder, in many cases impossible, to find keywords with good exact global searches AND $1+ CPC, AND low SEO competition, AND with available major TLD exact match domains, even below the 5000 GMS level.

The supply of such terms are finite, but the searchers have increased tenfold over the months. Users of this research strategy must be ready to modify the criteria creatively, once the well (or goldmine) of usable EMD keywords is completely used up.

Thnks & rep added..

thank you for this great info, much appreciated

Originally Posted by zebrahat

A solid introduction. However, with all the increased exposure such guides have given to the criteria for an ideal keyword, it has created a kind of 'gold rush' for terms that meet those very tight specifications. I notice it has recently become much harder, in many cases impossible, to find keywords with good exact global searches AND $1+ CPC, AND low SEO competition, AND with available major TLD exact match domains, even below the 5000 GMS level.

The supply of such terms are finite, but the searchers have increased tenfold over the months. Users of this research strategy must be ready to modify the criteria creatively, once the well (or goldmine) of usable EMD keywords is completely used up.

CPC of $10+ and over 500 searches would work. There's a simple linear relation showing what's worth it or not. Whatever's above the line, is worth it, and below it, it's not.

Tried, all ecommerce sites with 300+ links Not many 3 word long tails either.

Home depot
Amazon
Tons of Online retailers...

SEED Keywords I just ran off the top of my head to test:

under cabinet led light strips
led light strip
led light bar
dimmable led

What is the aproximate amount of backlinks you look for? I mean, your not gonna be building 400 links to each page of your site. So, If your taking 8 keywords, obviously, some of them arent going to be able to get enough links to compete with what you've researched.... Right now, 400 links for a single page for me is out of the question... I can get maybe 50 per page... So does that mean I need to find pages with 50 ish links to compete with?

Nice share, very elaborate

i use google adwords bt its pro guide dor noobs, thumbs up !!

Originally Posted by zmoney

Tried, all ecommerce sites with 300+ links Not many 3 word long tails either.

Home depot
Amazon
Tons of Online retailers...

SEED Keywords I just ran off the top of my head to test:

under cabinet led light strips
led light strip
led light bar
dimmable led

What is the aproximate amount of backlinks you look for? I mean, your not gonna be building 400 links to each page of your site. So, If your taking 8 keywords, obviously, some of them arent going to be able to get enough links to compete with what you've researched.... Right now, 400 links for a single page for me is out of the question... I can get maybe 50 per page... So does that mean I need to find pages with 50 ish links to compete with?

There are so many factors that depends on what site will rank first. All backlinks are not the same. 50 backlinks from Google's, Facebook's, Adobe's and BestBuy's homepages are going to obviously yield a higher result than 50 spammy blog comments. PR, age, number of pages, etc are all factors to the quality of a backlink. Your site also needs proper onsite optimization.

When I'm researching, I usually take averages of Exact Phrase, allintitle/url/anchor and then compare.

Thanks

macdonjo3, thanks for great share! Rep given.

Since you're guru in this area i'd like to ask you simple but important question.

None of keyword research tutorials i found and saw covers best way to select categories and maybe article titles.

Since we're working on micro niche sites, we're talking about site with 5-10 articles max, so every bit of site needs to be full of relevant keywords.

In lot of cases there is small amount of searches even for a main kw

What's the best way to find those keywords, again thanks.

(I have Keyword Scout)

wow macdonjo3, what an excellent share! thank you very much for your
generosity. This is a good tutorial; a keeper for sure!

i love this guide thank you

It was a nice read, lots of good basic stuff there

Thank you good post.

damn good tut! Probably the best one i seen so far. +rep

i am wondering a thing..

is there a difference in
intitle and allintitle
and
inurl and allinurl

or it is same?

Seriously wish someone wrote this 2 years ago. Would have saved me HOURS and HOURS of my life. I had to figure this stuff all out on my own. So those of you who have never read this stuff you better appreciate it!!!!

thankyou very much

nice post thanks for help dear,,,

You're welcome

Another golden post , +Rep given!

Whats GMS level mean please?

Thx man, great information ! Highly appreciated !

Thanks for the great post macdonjo3! This cleared some of the fog in my head.

this is the one of most elaborate tut on KW research.

ok, the OP gave us his metrics for "good" keywords based on monthly "searches"

but how about "good" metrics on the competition side??

Here's mine:

for phrase search "keyword": not more than 100,000

intitle:"keyword": 10-15 search pages (1000)

inurl:"keyword": 10-15 search pages (1000)

I don't know if this is a good metric and I am getting around $20 to $30 on one website with this metric. niche is technology. (not using any EMD and the platform is blogger.com with custom domain)

Originally Posted by kawain

Whats GMS level mean please?

Global monthly searches.
Thanks!