How to do Niche Keyword Research

[Linda Buquet]

After you get your list of things you are interested in or passionate about, then use this example to flush out which niches (key phrases) have enough interest, yet aren't too competitive. (Newbies need low competition, if you have more experience you can handle more.)

Step by step Key word research to evaluate niche

This one is fairly similar, using a different niche.
How to: Niche Research, Keyword Competitive Research

[Komal]

hi
Thanks for the information

[Gpower]

This is a huge database for affiliates success in any niche. I will bookmark it and come to it again and again. Thanks Linda for this info.

[mexia]

Thanks for the great info.

[cheery]

Its nice,supportive forum and also provides a lot of information and guidance for marketing research techniques also gives help for accessing most appropriate resources.

[chyneclicks]

Thanks for sharing your knowledge on, Linda. Yes that is true your success on your online business sometimes mainly lays on the right keyword you have. Right keyword research make you compete better on your niche market and even make way for you to gain better online visibility.

[zauberer]

Thanks Linda for that great piece of information and let's enhance all of that and bring out some hard core numbers here so that things will be a lot clearer to beginners.

The obvious or not so obvious deal in keyword market research is that you want to find a profitable niche

Profitable niche = large number of searches in proportion to number of competing websites

But it's not just the ratio you want to be focused on but also the actual number of searches of a keyword phrase per *day*.
You want no less than 80 searches per day for ANY given keyword if you're going to be using SEO to optimize your website and No less than 100 searches per day for any given keyword phrase if you're going to be using Pay Per Click (such as Adwords or Yahoo)

On the other side of the ratio you don't want any more than 30,000 competing websites for any given keyword.


Also keep in mind that one particular keyword phrase = market.
So for example the keyword "golf" is a market just as "golf clubs" is a market just as "irons" is a market.

There are three seperate markets here, even though they are also sub-niches within one large market (which in this example would be golf market)
This is by no means the end all to the final equation of whether a keyword phrase is going to be a profitable niche for you.

Once you've dug out a keyword phrase with more than 80 daily searches and less than 30,000 competing websites, then you'll need to dig deep to find out the quality of backlinks those competing websites have and whether they are listed with DMOZ or other directories.

This can take quite a bit of time but it is worth it, and also now adays there are killer pieces of software that give you information within minutes that would have ordinarily taken you hours or even days. Good luck

[Linda Buquet]

Welcome zauberer,

Great 1st post. Thanks for adding some numbers which is a question that often comes up!

[saphy]

Yes I agree, subniches are the way to go in those competitive arenas. Google trends is a way to get ideas about what is hot and a combo of wordtracker and google keyword search will help hone down your ideas to one that is viable to use as a niche

[Duoex]

Gtends was actually the first tool i used and it helps a lot. Although, if you really want to break down the numbers, i would go for Adwords since it gives a specific number where as Gtends tends to change everytime you refresh the page. Either one helps ,and there are so many niches out there, so just go for it !