A Quick Guide To Good Keyword Research

[Linda Buquet]

"40,500 hits a month" Depends on what you mean by hits and which KW tool you are using.

If "hits a month" that you are referring to is the KW popularity in WordTracker or Google then that's only half the story that you need to be looking at. The other 1/2 is how competitive a search term is in Google with "keywords in quotes" and with allintitle: "keywords in quotes".

There are 184,000 competing pages for allintitle: "Learn Spanish" and 2.6 million for "Learn Spanish" which is way too competitive for a newbie IMHO. Surprisingly only 689 searches in Wordtracker - so not a good ratio.

As a newbie you would need to find a longer tail phrase or a sub niche within that niche. (That's IF you are a newbie, if you are a pro that 2 word phrase would still be fairly tough to handle when you look at the authority sites that are ranked high.)

[Greendream]

Originally Posted by Linda Buquet

"40,500 hits a month" Depends on what you mean by hits and which KW tool you are using.

The other 1/2 is how competitive a search term is in Google with "keywords in quotes" and with allintitle: "keywords in quotes.are ranked high.)

Didnt know anything about that..thank you

Originally Posted by kbhuffaker

I would however, try for the larger niches were you get from 50,000 to 100,000 searches. If you can find those kind of number with low competition then let me know

Yeah sure.....

Thanks for the good advise

[Sweetestmiracle]

I have never tried the way you mentioned kbhuffaker. I will try it out with my next article

[Linda Buquet]

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