I have a question Greg. What about for local keywords? I'm going insane trying to find keywords with things like "optometrist in NYC" for my clients who are looking for local business. Google's keyword tool doesn't seem to pay attention when input location based keywords, it just reverts to national keywords.
Whatsayyou?
great idea, hadn't thought of that before, had been using custom scripts which are a bit slow sometimes, i will definitely try that, thanks for the share both yourself and btb!I then dump those high volume keywords in godaddy's bulk domain name checker to find out any EMD's available to match those keywords. And surprisingly, you will find a few EMD's with high exact searches too.
Actually it is both... the reason they are paying more per ad is because the KWs they are targeting harder to rank and thus more expensive.
I just see that as the law of diminishing returns; I know I can get a .80 KW ranked but at what cost?
I could spend a lot of time/energy/money but the return, to me, isn't worth it.
I would rather hit my target KWs with less time/energy/money and grab more of the lower hanging fruit.
Thanks for the great information. I'm also looking at buying market samurai to help
Great post, many thanks for some expert advice on Keyword research.
Do you do anything else to see what the competition might be, i have been using things like intitle: and inurl: to see how much competition there is for certain words.
Quick question Bass,
When you write your articles (or order them), do you group keywords? Put together 3 or 4 similar keywords, related to the same subject, to be able to write a bigger article (1000 - 2000 words) instead of writing 4 different articles (300 - 500 words)?
NY might be a little weird though... LOL
Just kidding, I love NY as long as I don't have to go near the place..![]()
I wear the the shoes of a guy born in NY... I may have to send 2 finger Louie to Butte to have a chat with you.