How I find good keywords without much competition

[seorebel]

Hi Guys and Gals,

I just wanted to share my way of find good keywords with actual traffic but very few competitors, and hear of any ways you think I could improve it.

Here is my method:

1. I find the average number of monthly searches through Adwords KW Tool
2. I find the number of competitors by searching Google for intitle:"my keyword" intext:"my keyword"
3. Now on to some math: numberOfSearches / NumberOfCompetitors * 100 - This will give me a value between 0 and ~ 8000 where the most valuable keyword will be with values greater than 400. I define the value as "Keyword Ranking Potential Index" or KRPI..

I developed a tool to do the actual scraping and calculations.. Here is an example of the report generated for the keyword "weight gainer":

http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=rhN9a9DzALFrqnbgWGL7shQ

Ok.. gimme your input.. rocks or sucks? :banana:

 

[ztws]

Interesting method. What does the intext search have to do with the value? Just curious because I've never really seen that used to determine competition.

 

[seorebel]

The intext simply does a Google search for intext:"your keyword" - It just returns the number of number of pages having the keyword phrase in their text. Alone, the value will not tell you much about your direct competition which is why I dediced to search for the number of pages having the phrase intext and intitle.

Of course you can just do a search for the phrase on Google and get a crazy high number, but most of them cannot be count as actual competitors..

 

[yowies]

Rocks...would make my "job" alot easier..!!
Are you selling this tool at some point.?

 

[mazgalici]

It rocks!:biggthump

 

[seorebel]

Rocks...would make my "job" alot easier..!!
Are you selling this tool at some point.?

Thanks m8

Yeah, that's the idea.. However the challenge will be finding/renting enough proxies to scrape Google, so I might do it as a webservice where I do the actual scraping to ensure quality..
It also costs to use the Adwords API as I do now to get the number of monthly searches.. So a charge per. keyword report would be an option..

 

[skyfox]

Why use the adwords API?

I wrote a custom piece of software that just scrapes from the google keyword tool... sure, it has a captcha, but I just outsource that to decaptcha at a whopping .002 per solve..

Works well

 

[edithhuneycutt]

A good twist to improve your keyword research efficiency. Thanks.

 

[mskerry]

This look interesting I'll try this out...

 

[deth_by_uv]

Sounds like too much work when there's a lot of solutions out there that will help you pick "good keywords" without having to come up with your own formula. But, if you feel like being a trail blazer...good luck.

Remember KEI? No where to be seen these days...

 

[MarkI]

That's pretty cool. Is there some way to incorporate some sort of google insight in there or something like that?

I found a keyword that gets 9k searches per month and only has 760 competitors. But it has dropped so much that the average search volume does not reflect it.

 

[seorebel]

Sounds like too much work when there's a lot of solutions out there that will help you pick "good keywords" without having to come up with your own formula. But, if you feel like being a trail blazer...good luck.

Remember KEI? No where to be seen these days...

KEI will not indicate how easy it is to rank for a keyword, only how valuable it is to rank well once you get there. The idea with KRPI is to identify niche gaps...

 

[doczoidberg]

KEI doesnt matter, the top10 search results does matter

 

[online jobs tips]

hello! Is there any possibility of getting the low competition kW and the high valued CPC budget?? OR the both of them could be scrape at one time??

 

[sunbros]

intresting method!