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1) The first step is the discovery phase. Many people use the term "Niche Marketing"  when defining what your market is and isn't. the discovery phase of Keyword research is where yo really define what your website or blogs "Niche" is AND how you intend to exploit that Niche. In the Discovery phase your goal is to be able to answer the questions]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div><strong>Keyword research is the process of determining which keyword phrases will describe your Website&#39;s products and/or services and are actually used in web searches.</strong>&nbsp;Keyword Research&nbsp;is insight into the needs of your customers or clients. Bottom line it is finding out what Internet surfers are actually searching for.</p>
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<p>&nbsp;Doing&nbsp;&nbsp;Keyword Research&nbsp;sounds easy but Choosing keywords or keyword phrases can be very confusing for new site owners. Worse yet mistakes made in this pphase could doom the new website to obscurity befor it even gets off the ground! &nbsp;If you don&#39;t have keyword or keyword phrases optimized on your web site, you will not get the traffic you want and individuals will not stay on your site, read your information or buy you service or product.</p>
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<div><strong>Keyword research can be broken down into a three step process.</strong></div>
<div>1) <strong>The first step is the discovery phase</strong>. Many people use the term &quot;Niche Marketing&quot;&nbsp; when defining what your market is and isn&#39;t. the discovery phase of Keyword research is where you really define what your Website or blogs &quot;Niche&quot; is AND how you intend to exploit that Niche. In the Discovery phase your goal is to be able to answer the questions &quot;What is my Website about&quot;? &quot;Why will people want to come to my Website&quot;? What makes it unique? &quot;What&nbsp; search terms do people use when searching for information, products and services in my Niche?</div>
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<div>In this step of&nbsp;&nbsp;Keyword Research&nbsp;&nbsp;you want to focus on identifying as many keywords or Keyword phrases as possible.&nbsp;</div>
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<div>Initially you need to sit down and brainstorm a list of keyword/keyword phrases that address the topic of your web site. Have a dictionary and thesaurus handy. At this point include every word or phrase that you can think of. <span style="background-color: #ffff00">Note that there are automated tools that make this instant and easy</span>. <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.keywordsoftwareguide.com/goto/Click_here_to_read_our_review_on_Keyword_Elite_2_0/207/1" target="_blank">Click here to read our review on Keyword Elite 2.0</a> it automates this and will generate your highly targeted lists for you&gt; it is worth there asking price times 10. check it out.</div>
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<div>Don&#39;t forget to use multiple search engines when doing keyword research and in the discovery phase. Do searches on yahoo, Google and Bing. See whose Website come up for different keywords and what their content is.</p>
<p>There are several keyword research&nbsp;tools that are available to help you generate a keyword list. Some of these tools are free such as Google Keywords and Google Adwords Tool, while others such as WordTracker are fee based. With these tools you will be able to generate hundreds of keyword phrases.</p>
<p>2) <strong>The second step in Keyword research is the analyzing phase.</strong> This step involves analyzing the popularity and competition for the keyword phrases. The quickest way to perform the analysis is to use one of the fee based keyword tools like Keyword Research Pro or Keyword Elite 2.0 as mentioned above..</p>
<p>The automated tools are able to quickly take your list of keyword phases and give you the number of searches in the past 30 days and the number of competitive web sites for each phrase.&nbsp;These keyword Search tools&nbsp;also supplies aa variety of other features that helps determine the competitiveness of a keyword phrase and this is vital in determining wether you want to pursue that keyword or keyword phrase,</p>
<p>There are plenty of free tools out there but they are not automated and will require you to move the data from tool to spreadsheet to other tools by hand as you try to analyse the keyword list, competitive data, etc.&nbsp; This will allow you to make comparisons between various keyword phrases and do away with any unrelated or undesirable keyword phrases.</p>
<p>3)<strong> The third step is the selection of keyword phrases</strong>. From your analysis phase, you should be able to identify a number of high quality keyword phases that can accurately describe the qualities of your Website.</p>
<p>In your final selection of keyword phases you need to look for phrase that have a high level of search activity, while the level of competitiveness is relatively low. For making your final selection of 15-20 keyword phrases you will want to do a Google search on the keyword phrases and view the top web sites listed for each phrase. Are the sites professionally designed? Can you design a web page that can move up into the top ratings for this keyword phrase?</p>
<p><span style="background-color: #fff"><span style="background-color: #ffff00">When starting a new web site it&#39;s highly recommended to target only one unique keyword phrase per page</span>. With your newly researched keyword list you can write your content with a balanced use of unique phrases that will help generate traffic to your web pages.</span></p>
<p><span style="background-color: #fff"><span style="background-color: #ffff00">Note: You should use that kleyword phrase in the title at the front of the title of the page&nbsp;</span>and when the page is complete and you ciew it online, check the source (Right click the mouse on the webpage and click on view source) and make sure that there is a Meta tag called &quot;Title&quot; and that the title with the keyword to the front is shown there. If not you need to make sure that you either puir it there or if you are using wordpress use a plugin like Keyword Statistics to help you get this right. You can click on this link to go to a website called <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.keywordsoftwareguide.com/goto/www_wordpress_how_to_wp_com/207/2">www.wordpress-how-to-wp.com</a> which gives all klinds of info like this to new bloggers for free.</span></p>
<p><span style="background-color: #fff"><span style="background-color: #ffff00">Note that you should also put that keyword phrase in the Desscription several times in a readable english like manner</span>. Then check the description meta tag as you did the title meta tag above! The title and description are what show up in the search engines when people enter a keyword to search on. So even if you come up first in google, people won&#39;t click on your link if the title and description meta tags do not sound like they have the information they are searching for!</span></p>
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<div>Note that if you REALLY want to do keyword research correctly and dominate your niche, you should take a look at Keyword Software Pro. It is the best Keyword Software system out there and will do more things for you then I can name here.<span style="color: rgb(0,0,255)"><span style="background-color: rgb(255,255,255)"><strong><u><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.keywordsoftwareguide.com/goto/_Check_out_this_software_review_for_Keyword_Research_Pro_by_clicking_on_this_link/207/3"> Check out this software review for Keyword Research Pro by clicking on this link</a></u></strong></span></span></p>
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    * If you rank for keywords with no one searching on them, you still not get traffic.
    * If you choose keywords that are too competitive, then even if they have a lot of searches, you still won't get traffic, because you won't be able to make it to the top of the search engines for people to find you.
    * If you use a keyword that is irrelavant to your Niche, Site or Article, the people that do search on it and find your site will leave in a second once they realize that it is not what they were looking for.
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<div>Keyword research is a vital part of building a profitable website. It brings traffic and with traffic comes sales and profit. Learn how to do profitable keyword research and you will quickly learn how to make more money online.</p>
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<p><strong>1) What is keyword research?</strong></p>
<p>Keyword research is the process of finding words and phrases you can target in your website. These are generally words or phrases that are related to your topic, that people looking for your site would use to find you.</p>
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<div><strong>2) What is a good keyword?</strong></div>
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<li>A good keyword is a word or phrase that people are actually searching for.</li>
<li>The second element of&nbsp; good keywords is that that the keyword phrase itself is not too competitive (meaning that there are too many websites using that same keyword phrase and trying to get traffic to their website for it).</li>
<li>The third element of good keywords is that they are relavant to your Niche</li>
<li>Fourth -And the Keyword or Keyword Phrase is relavant to your website</li>
<li>Fith &#8211; And the Keyword or Keyword Phrase is relavant to the article you use it in</li>
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<p>All of the above require thaat you spend some time and do quality Keyword research!</p>
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<li>If you rank for &quot;good&nbsp;keywords&quot;&nbsp;but no one is searching on them, you still&nbsp;won&#39;t get much &nbsp;traffic.</li>
<li>If you choose &quot;good keywords&quot; that are too competitive, then even if they have a lot of searches, you still won&#39;t get traffic, because you won&#39;t be able to make it to the top of the search engines for people to find you.</li>
<li>If you use a keyword that is irrelavant to your Niche, Site or Article, the people that do search on it and find your site will leave in a second once they realize that it is not what they were looking for.</li>
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<p><strong>3) Why do I need good keywords?</strong></p>
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<li>Doing good keyword research, and finding good keywords is important because you will get organic (free) traffic from those keywords when people enter them in a search engine like Google.</li>
<li>Choosing profitable keywords is important because it assures you will make money with your website. You can certainly pay for traffic, but using good keywords will get your long term, ongoing, free traffic.</li>
<li>You need to do better keyword research then your competitors so that you rank higher on the search results then they do and you get more traffic to your website.</li>
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<p><strong>4) How do good keywords get me traffic?</strong></p>
<p>When someone is searching for information online they generally go to a search engine. They put a word or phrase in the search engine (That is the Keyword or Keyword Phrase) that will help them find what they are looking for.</p>
<p>When the results come up for their search if your site comes up on the first page chances are they may click on your site. Your chances increase the higher on page 1 you are. That is why Keyword Research for Good Keywords is so important!</p>
<a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.keywordsoftwareguide.com/goto/link/203/2"><img alt="Geeting listed high in the search engines is critical! You MIST do keyword research" class="size-full wp-image-420" height="420" src="http://www.keywordsoftwareguide.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/click-distribution-serp.jpg" title="Click results fall dramatically the farther down the search engine page you are" width="451" /></a>
<p>The more keywords with high search volume, or the more long tail keywords that your site shows up high on the search engine search results for the more traffic you will get. period! That is why quality&nbsp; Keyword Research Software is such a good investment. It pays for itself!</p>
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<p><strong>5) How do I start the keyword research process?</strong></p>
<p>First step first, think about what your site offers. Your keywords must be relevant to your content. Once you have figured out some main areas of focus for your site you can begin looking for relevant keywords.</p>
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<p>READ THIS ARTICLE: <span style="color: rgb(0,0,255)"><u><strong><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.keywordsoftwareguide.com/goto/6_Simple_Keyword_Research_Steps/203/3">6 Simple Keyword Research Steps</a></strong></u></span></p>
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<p><strong>6) How do I find good keywords?</strong></p>
<p>There are many tools available that will help you to find profitable keywords. <u><strong><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.keywordsoftwareguide.com/goto/CLICK_ON_THIS_LINK_TO_READ_AN_ARTICLE_INTRODUCING_YOU_TO_5_FREE_KEYWORD_RESEARCH_TOOLS_/203/4"><span style="color: rgb(0,0,255)">CLICK ON THIS LINK TO READ AN ARTICLE INTRODUCING YOU TO 5 FREE KEYWORD RESEARCH TOOLS.</span></a></strong></u></p>
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<div>Whatever tool you choose you want to make sure they provide information about how many people are searching for that term. You also want to be able to find out how much competition your keyword has. Google now offers search volume numbers on the Adwords Tool. You can use it for free. You can also estimate how much money each keyword will make through adsense using the Google Adwords Tool.</p>
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<p>Finding profitable keywords (and this is the true definition of&nbsp; &quot;Good Keywords&quot; ) should be the cornerstone of any online business. No matter what kind of business you are running you need traffic, you need eyes on your page. Finding the best keywords for your site by doing great keyword researchwill get you that traffic. Then you can start working on converting the traffic to sales.</p>
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<div>If you really want to do it right you need a system that helps you and puts it all together for you in a simple easy to use solution.<br />
	<strong><u><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.keywordsoftwareguide.com/goto/CLICK_ON_THIS_LINK_TO_READ_A_REVIEW_OF_KEYWORD_RESEARCH_PRO_/203/5"><span style="color: rgb(0,0,255)">CLICK ON THIS LINK TO READ A REVIEW OF KEYWORD RESEARCH PRO </span></a></u></strong>it is the best keyword research software out there.</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Keyword Software Guide has been getting a lot of questions from new comers about the basics of Keywords, keyword selections and basic Keyword based SEO (Search Engine Optimization). So we have decided to create a series of articles to help people understand this super important aspect of website development.</p>
<p>If you already know the basics, or you just want to optimize your website for the search engines without going thru the long learning curve, we recommend that you cut to the chase and take a look at Keyword Research Pro. Keyword research pro is the best software tool on the marketplace to help you quickly and easily optimize your website or blog for the search engines. Keyword Research Pro automates the learning process and helps you to immediately start to drive targeted traffic to your website.</p>
<p>About the Keyword software guides 3 part series on all things keyword related. One of the problems we are seeing a lot are people with wordpress blogs that have simply included a plugin like all in one SEO and expected it to magically optimize their website for keywords. I hate to tell you but that is not the case. While that&rsquo;s a great tool it does NOT do everything you need.&nbsp; If you have read many of the articles here on the Keyword Software Guide website, you will know that there are a lot of things to consider in Keyword selection:</p>
<p>1)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; What is your theme? What are you blogging about or what is the audience you are trying to reach. If your site is an ecommerce site, then what are you selling and who are you trying to sell to and what are they looking for?</p>
<p>2)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Once you have answered the above you can start using a keyword tool to research what people actually type into a search engine like Google to find products or information like yours.</p>
<p>3)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Once you find the most popular terms you can find a tool to tell you which of those terms have the most competition. For example it may be great that the term &ldquo;Dogs&rdquo; has a bazillion searches a month, but guess what? There are probably a bazillion websites that have been around longer than yours, with 10 times the content, that are ranked highly by Google (meaning that if you type that in on Google search, you come up in the first few pages) &nbsp;for the keyword &ldquo;Dogs&rdquo;.</p>
<p>4)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; So you need a tool or a method to help you determine which keywords you can use that are not so heavily used that you will have a chance to get ranked highly for them.</p>
<p>5)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Here at the Keyword Software Guide You will see a lot of talk about &ldquo;Long tailed keywords&rdquo;. Picture a graph of your search terms in relation to traffic provided. That graph would have a peak for your most popular term, and then get shorter and shorter down to the least trafficked term. The idea of long tail is that the bulk of your traffic is made from these lesser terms, thus the long tail. Optimum Keyword search is not only about gaining the initial conversion, it&rsquo;s about increased visibility to a targeted audience.</p>
<p>6)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; IN addition, the use of combination of words to get at keywords that are specific to your niche but that your competitors are not alreay using!</p>
<p>7)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; So great you did all that, now what?&nbsp; Now you have to design your website and your articles to be optimized for those keywords that you decide to use.</p>
<p>Needless to say that selecting a keyword strategy, or even just selecting the best keyword software tool or keyword plugin, can get very complicated to do right. We mentioned the all in one SEO plugin for word press and this is a great example of where automation on websites is both good and bad. Plugins like this and others are great for helping to make sure that you use all the meta tags at your disposal (Meta tags are places in the websites code where you can insert search if you did not do a good job on the first 5 steps, then your articles may lack the keywords that you want to focus on. If that is the case then the SEO plugin will end up focusing on whatever words you used the most like &ldquo;If and else but or, etc). Really, You would not believe how many websites I have seen whose articles have automated keywords like these and the owners wonder why people are only spending 20 seconds on their website and not clicking on any of their adsense advertisements!</p>
<p>So once again I think you should read articles like the ones here at the Keyword Software Guide and learn as much as you can about keyword optimization. But in the end, you really really really need to get a high quality tool like Keyword Software Pro to help you do everything we have named so far&nbsp; in an easy, automated, assisted process that guarantees success! If you want traffic coming to your website, if you want to monetize it and you want to have success, then a tool like the Keyword Software Pro is the best investment that you can make in your website &ndash; next to learning everything&nbsp; you can about your market and websites in general!</p>
<p>OK, a long introduction eh?&nbsp; In Part 1 of our series on all things keyword we will look at keyword analysis, competition and long tailed keywords. We will talk about a few of the tools out their like the free ones available thru places like Google and some of the purchased systems like Keyword Software Pro and others to give you a taste of the functionality that they offer and how they can help you with the process!</p>
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Keyword research is the process of determining which keyword phrases will describe your website&#8217;s products and/or services and are actually used in web searches. It is insight into the needs of your customers or clients. Bottom line it is finding out what Internet surfers are actually searching for.Choosing keywords or keyword phrases can be very [...]]]></description>
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<div>Keyword research is the process of determining which keyword phrases will describe your website&#8217;s products and/or services and are actually used in web searches. It is insight into the needs of your customers or clients. Bottom line it is finding out what Internet surfers are actually searching for.<br/><br/>Choosing keywords or keyword phrases can be very confusing for new site owners. If you don&#8217;t have keyword or keyword phrases optimized on your web site, you will not get the traffic you want and individuals will not stay on your site, read your information or buy you service or product.<br/><br/>Keyword research can be broken down into a three step process. The first step is the discovery phase. In this step you want to focus on identifying as many keywords or phrases as possible.<br/><br/>Initially you need to sit down and brainstorm a list of keyword/keyword phrases that address the topic of your web site. Have a dictionary and thesaurus handy. At this point include every word or phrase that you can think of.<br/><br/>There are several keyword tools that are available to help you generate a keyword list. Some of these tools are free such as GoodKeyWords and Google Adwords Tool, while others such as WordTracker are fee based. With these tools you will be able to generate hundreds of keyword phrases.<br/><br/>The second step in the analyzing phase. This step involves analyzing the popularity and competition for the keyword phrases. The quickest way to perform the analysis is to use one of the fee based keyword tools like Wordtracker.<br/><br/>Wordtracker is able to quickly take your list of keyword phases and give you the number of searches in the past 30 days and the number of competitive web sites for each phrase. Wordtracker also supplies a numerical value called a Keyword Effectiveness Index (KEI) that helps determine the competitiveness of a keyword phrase. A keyword phrase with a high KEI means it is less competitive.<br/><br/>From Wordtracker you are able to export your keyword list along with the KEI, search and competitive site data. This information can then be entered into Excel spreadsheets. This will allow you to make comparisons between various keyword phrases and do away with any unrelated or undesirable keyword phrases.<br/><br/>The third step is the selection of keyword phrases. From your analysis phase, you should be able to identify a number of high quality keyword phases that can accurately describe the qualities of your website.<br/><br/>In your final selection of keyword phases you need to look for phrase that have a high level of search activity, while the level of competitiveness is relatively low. For making your final selection of 15-20 keyword phrases you will want to do a Google search on the keyword phrases and view the top web sites listed for each phrase. Are the sites professionally designed? Can you design a web page that can move up into the top ratings for this keyword phrase?<br/><br/>When starting a new web site it&#8217;s highly recommended to target only one unique keyword phrase per page. With your newly researched keyword list you can write your content with a balanced use of unique phrases that will help generate traffic to your web pages.<br/><br/><br/><br/><em>By: <strong>Kevin Sinclair</strong></em></div>
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