Recent content by Nick Flame

If you plot the valuation of fast growing startups like Facebook and Twitter and Snapchat in the beginning on a curve, they also looked like a bubble. All exponential growing companies fit your bubble graph in the beginning. Many people called Facebook a bubble when it was worth 15 billion...

Check out Ferzy.com as well, it's free for up to 10 searches per day, and provides you with everything you need to do keyword research, exact search volume, keyword difficulty score, long tails, etc..

For up to 10 searches per day, you can try Ferzy.com for free. It provides you with Exact Search Volume, Keyword Difficulty Score, and everything you need to do keyword research.

Almost all keyword research tools offer exact search volume in addition to other features. Depending on your budget, here are some recommended options and their prices. ahrefs.com - starting from $100 per month Semrush.com - starting from $100 per month Kwfinder.com - starting from $27 per...

There are a lot of reports of Google dancing, so you should not worry to much about day to day fluctuations. Google is trying to find the best serp result, by "randomly" placing websites in and out of top 10 and checking their ctr and bounce rate to see how users interact with them.

The "Manual" method refers to you looking at the top 10 results and judging for yourself the difficulty. It still makes use of the keyword research tools, you can't just "look" at a website and figure out how many backlinks it has. So you still need a keyword research tool to tell you how many...

You can try Ferzy.com (full disclosure, i am involved with them). What's different from kwfinder for instance, is that it shows you the age of the domain rankings in top. One of the easiest way to look for easy approachable keywords is to look at the age of the domains ranking in top. Do you...

You should not think about this as a You VERSUS Foogle fight, but more you AND google working together. Basically, if you find keywords where crap content ranks on top and you provide value by writing something more useful, then it's in Google's interest and yours as well, to get that top...

If you only have $100 to invest, you need to be a good writer, because most of the affiliate marketing is based on content, and you can't get much content with only $100. So i would recommend investing in domain and a hosting, then start writing awesome content yourself for your website, and...

Google Keyword Tools is almost useless for SEO keyword research nowadays, since they started providing ranges data instead of exact numbers, and the competition they refer to in their metrics refers to Adwords competition. There are a lot of specialized keyword research tools on the market...

Yes, there are a lot of answer that rely exclusively on search engine traffic, and they are quite big, so that should not be a concern for you. If you are able to do good keyword research, create content, and build backlinks, you should have enough traffic and conversions from google alone with...

It's nice to see that you took action and really work on your journey. Don't get discouraged by the apparently "weak" results in the beginning, as usually earnings increase exponentially, not linear with websites like this, so once the websites gets more authority in google, you will see better...

There is no magic number, and i would strongly advise to check top 10 rankings individually yourself and not rely just on the algorithm of any keyword tool. The number will depen on your type of keyword and your expertise, so it's really hard to even give an estimate.

Your approach is interesting and no doubt successful, but don't you think that if you always start your keyword research by looking at what your competition is already ranking for, you may miss some keywords that are completely untapped? Some of the most successful niches i discovered were...

If you are working in seo, i think you need at least 3 tools for these categories 1- a rank tracker to track your keywords serps- it's essential, proranktracker.com is a good choice, but there are many other rank trackers in the marketplace. 2- a backlink analyzer, majestic and moz are the...