In order to select good keywords...make sure you are selecting keywords with good search volume at the same time less competition..
Follow these rules 1 check traffic on each keyword 2. make keyword list 3. analyse competitor keyword 4. make best keyword selection
Hey Kajal, here are my rules that I follow when I do keyword research: - more than 4400 global search volume (in Broad) - less than 2 mil results in Google(in Broad) or less than 50k results (Exact) - has a CPC more than $1 - Wordtracker returns a search volume more than 10 /day additionally, I look at the top 30 results in google, when doing a search for my keyword, to see if there are any "user generated sites" in there. By user generated sites I mean sites like Youtube, ezinearticles.com, hubpages.com... etc. Hope this helps
This is what I started doing, I got it from the keyword academy, i find it very helpful to analize keywords and using adsense. I use the google keyword tool I only use global search and CPC, I also use exact. I then export the results to excel and I look at the criteria. From the results I will probably get 25% from CPC, 40% from global search, 5% ctr = potential profits. Once I have the potential keywords listed I look at the competition using Google toolbar from SEO for firefox. If the top 5 sites are PR 5 or more then it's a bad keyword, too much competition. a PR 4 is good if the keyword is not used in the title or URL otherwise it's bad, PR 3 or less I would go for it since with good SEO techniques and backlinks and some patience I could rank well with that keyword.
I don;t look at the site's PR too much. This isn't so important nowadays, and I have outranked sites that had PR 3 and PR4 with a brand new site, just 2 weeks old. So, I don;t think choosing your keyword based on Google PR of the first 10 sites is such a good idea. Instead, I would pay attention to the PR and Age together. An older site is waaay much harder to outrank than a site that has been around for 1 year or so. Even if the older site (let's say it is 7 years old) has a PR of 2 or 3, and it ranks in top 5 of google, you will have a hard time knocking it down from its position.
Good info, so what criteria do you use when comparing the first 30 results, you said PR and age, do you look at page links at all?
When looking at the first 30 results, I look at the age of the site, to see how long it's been around. Then, I look at the backlinks, how many backlinks they have (I don;t do this for every site, and I don't do it manually). I use Traffic Travis to get an idea of the number of backlinks, the age and pr, as well as how well is one site optimized for the keyword I want to rank. You can get traffic travis for free (there is a paid version too, but the free one does the job pretty good). And what I look for when going through the first 30 or 40 results are user generated sites( as mentioned above) as this is a very good indication that I can rank well for that keyword.
Thanks again for the info, going back to the PR, let's say a couple of the first top sites have PR of 4 or above and the keyword is in their URL and tittle tag. Would you go against it? Doesn't that mean that site has been optimized for that keyword? Sorry for all the questions but I'm trying to launch some sites based on this research and I want to have good info.
It is known that having the keyword in your URL is very powerful. Especially if you have the exact keyword only, for example www.mainkeyword.com (or .org, .net) So, if the top ten sites all have the main keyword in their url, have a pr greater than 3, and have been around a while, it is probably hard to get on first page. That's my opinion. And when I said that they are optimized, I mean mostly the on-page optimization, which you can check just looking at the page source . If you manage to get your keyword in your domain name (exactly your keyword) you have an advantage there, right form the start. So look after keywords that you can buy the exact domain name for them.