Freddyjames
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- Jul 4, 2011
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I've had a few people mention the keywords for depression are too difficult to rank for, so I've decided to give a short tut on how I do KW research.
Basically, what I do is this:
1: Enter a list of 10 niche keywords I can think of associated with the product (ie depression, anxiety, ptsd etc..) into the Scrapebox keyword scraper. Scrape keywords. (If you don't use scrapebox, just use the Google Keyword Planner to get a BIG list instead and skip step 2)
2: Copy the list that is scraped to the left hand (transfer) side of scrapebox. Scrape keywords gain. Once that's finished, remove duplicates. This will give you a massive list of keywords to look at.
3: Copy list (or part of it - it will be a huge list so you may have to do it in sections) and paste into Market Samurai. Analyze keywords. Make a coffee because this might take a while.
4: Use MS filters to filter anything with less than 100 searches a day or high competition etc. Open each KW in another tab (must be a $ keyword) and check "SEO competition" for each of them.
It honestly took me 30 minutes to do the above, and within 5 minutes of checking competition for each of the hundreds of keywords I had in MS to check, I found this:
Keyword - "how to overcome depression" (No doubt this will get saturated in about 10 minutes, so it will be wise to find your own)
Exact Searches - 487 per day.
Title/Competition - Just 2%
SEOC - 135,000 (anything below 250k is good)
On checking the SEO Competition, #1 is a helpguide page (in my search results in MS) and has a LOT of backlinks, however none of the others have more than 100 links to the page, and most have less than 10 links.
2 of the top 10 are news articles.
1 is a wikihow link (#3)
None have the top10 have the KW in all of the Title/Desc/Head/URL, and most have none of these done.
That keyword is honestly perfect, and took me less than an hour to find - it even starts with "how to" so is obviously a buyer ($) keyword. It would not take much to rank for this in the top 10 very quickly. If you were smart, you could add another word or two on the end of the keyphrase and get traffic from even longer keywords that start the same as it.
If you follow the above, it shouldn't take long to find 15-20 keyphrases to build a 15 page MNS around, which should be easy to rank for with the minimum of investment in SEO packages.
Keyword research can be a laborious process if done manually and can be frustrating, the above should help automate the process a little. The key is to think outside the box for your seed keywords, then use tools to help speed up the process.
For anybody who is new to this, try to look for keywords in the 3k-15k exact searches per month (100-500 per day) range with low competition. I recommend using Market Samurai as it has a 15 day free trial period - if you search BHW there is a way to get this trial over and over for free.
Watch all the videos in the MS dojo and pay attention to the golden rules of keyword research - the "SEO Competition" tab in Market Samurai is very useful to find out whether a keyword is saturated or not. Basically, red is hard to break into the top 10, green is easy.
Make sure your on-page seo is good too before you start any off-site seo package purchases. Build each page on your site around a keyword - if you are using wordpress, "SEO YOAST" is a very good free plugin which guides you through the process.
Very soon, our top affiliates will be those who built a site and got it ranked for low-medium competiton keywords using the above or similar processes. This will take much longer of course than direct sources of traffic, however the rewards are sure to be far more. The product is still ony 4 weeks old on Clickbank and is gathering momentum, so now is the time to be building niche sites while competition is still low.
A good Niche site will have a minimum of 5 pages of useful info and be targeting keyphrases on each page - although we recommend a minimum 15 pages to help with ranking.
Hope that helps.
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