Is it good to use a keyword which has high search volume?

Discussion in 'Keywords' started by coffee8760, Jan 5, 2010.

  1. #1
    Researching a keyword. The search volume is high. See below.

    Local Search Volume......Global Monthly Volume......Trend................Sponsored Links
    60100.........................136000..........................Good & Stable.....Many

    Is it better not to use this keyword in my site?
    What is the best cut-off line based on your seo experience?
     
    coffee8760, Jan 5, 2010 IP
  2. jason830

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    If you want to know whether the keyword is hard to optimization, you should check on different keyword tools.Then make sure which word is your keyword.
     
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    Don't get intimidated by high search volume. Use both type of keywords for your website; keywords with high search volume and with low search volume also. You will start getting results for the less competitive keyword early, but the high search volume keyword will get a lot more visitors to your site.
     
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    Everyone goes for high search volume keywords because this is the best way to attract free traffic to your website that comes from the search engines.

    The thing is, sometimes, you will have a mountain of work to reach the first three in the SERP, which are the places that get about 90% of traffic. (SERP = search engine results page)

    This means you have to evaluate if this work investment is worth your while before you start out.

    A great tool to find out about this is Market Samurai. They have a free trial and incredibly good tutorial videos and all of these are available at absolutely no cost at all.

    Just my 2 cents though.

    Theo
     
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  5. coffee8760

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    Don't understand the very last thing you mentioned. Could you or someone please explain to me more in detail as of how & why?
     
    coffee8760, Jan 6, 2010 IP
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    A keyword with huge volume and little competition is awesome.

    If there are a lot of competing sites(more than 400k), or the first results page contains mostly authority sites(msnbc.com, foxnews.com, oprah.com), then you might have a heck of an uphill battle trying to rank favorably amongst those sites.
     
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    Is there a long tailed keyword phase that incorporate the keywords you want? if so, you can make use of the long tailed keyword.
    Eg "how to save money" has incorporated "money", "save money". Even if I cannot rank high for "save money", there is a chance for me to rank in "how to save money"
     
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    yes find a longtail keyword that you can rank for first. Then when you achieve that, you can concentrate on the shorter keyword and your longtail keyword linkbuilding efforts will contribute to this because your keyword will also be found in your longtail keyword
     
    dushhhhhh, Jan 10, 2010 IP