We use Market Samurai to research for keywords. Read the article to find out why.
You can’t succeed in internet marketing unless you get traffic to your website. Highly targeted traffic which converts is the most important thing. It is expensive to pay for traffic, so the best way is to get free traffic to your website from the search engines. Choosing the wrong keywords, those with not enough search volume, or those that are too highly competitive, can result in a lot of wasted time and effort.
An effective tool which can greatly help in targeting the right keywords is Market Samurai, which we have been using to good effect at Melbourne SEO Services. This is a tool which automates keyword research and thus allows you to spend your time more profitably than devoting hours to painstaking manual research. Market Samuari outlines for you what markets are worth targeting, which keywords to focus on, which markets have too high and which markets have too low competition and what your chances are of achieving front page ranking for a keyword. Read More>>
First things first, you’ve got to plan your SEO campaign. It all starts with getting to know the landscape of your market. What searches are your clients typing into Google? Who are you competing against and what are they doing? The aim here is to build a list of potential keywords to further analyse and at this point, the more the merrier.
Start with a common word or phrase that is appropriate to your business. Your starting point doesn’t need to be clever or creative, just relevant to your business niche. For example, a good starting point, if you were a dentist, might be ‘dentist’. Search this keyword using one of the following keyword research tools:
- Free Google Keyword Tool
- Wordtracker
- Market Samurai
These tools are designed to help you expand your keyword list by offering a number of derivatives or suggestions related to that keyword. They will also tell you how often those
keywords have been searched and how competitive they are. Document all those keywords you think are appropriate and run any additional searches on any newly discovered phrases.
Now with a big list of keywords, you need to identify the top ten to twenty keywords to start targeting for your SEO campaign. You should identify those keywords that represent the best opportunities for your niche. You want keywords that are ‘buying phrases’ with a good balance between low competition whilst also being highly searched.
*Buying phrases (as opposed to browsing phrases) are more specific searches that indicate the customer is ready to purchase. For example, a user searching ‘Sony Handycam HDR-SR11’, as opposed to just ‘Sony’, is much further down the buying funnel. They know what they want and their choice of keyword search will reflect this. You want buyers… not browsers.
Watch the video below to find out more about planning an SEO campaign:
