For those that missed this I am repeating permalink 88 in this thread:
I think I should share how we do the KW research.
We choose US as the region.
We choose English as the language.
We do not tick off any boxes that say 'Broad', 'Exact' or 'Phrase'.
I end up with what I have been doing for quite some time and what I use for my own sites for KWs.
How do my sites rank?
My employment sites have hundreds of words on page 1.
My finance sites have close to 100 words on page 1.
My business opportunity sites have hundreds of words on page 1.
Those are all aged sites.
My new sites:
One on Renters Rights in the US, some tough KWs... hundreds or words on page 1 and the site was born in February.
My site on Cancer, about 10 weeks old, as of today, has 81 KWs on page 1.
You are getting the
exact same KW research I do for my own sites and the base of what I do to backlink my sites.
Here is a more in depth conversation about the process:
http://www.blackhatworld.com/blackhat-seo/white-hat-seo/333317-keyword-research-btb-way.html