How do YOU do keyword Research?

Hi Caratima, good practice

May be you can refine like this:
"web design tutorial", "web design template", "GUI web design"

-- just to share

 

We don't offer neither tutorials, nor templates, so that's a No-No.

Great insight with GUI, we'll use this for the future. Thank you.

 

Use Keyword suggest tool to do the research

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Kam

 

There are practically number approach in formulating a set of keywords for your site. I would advice to brainstorm with your business line and create a data that will show all the relevant keywords as possible. You can also create a small survey if your site is a very large one. After gathering the said data, you can now filter your list until you arrive to a set of keywords that you think the most appropriate for your site. Testing the set of keywords is part of the process...

ArdRigh

 

Used the keyword tools such as keyword density, inventory overture, keyword traffic and keyword discovery tools. First is to identify the keywords that is related to your site, then for keyword relevance or keyword that usually used by the audience, check the keyword density and promixity, check also the keywords searches per month and keyword traffic

 

think of something that is related to my site...then checked out its search per month and its competition...and think like a visitor, asked myself which will i used on searching this or that stuff...

 

Also, looking at your log files you'll discover the "real keywords" used by people to find your site.
Sometimes are keywords you have not expected, mainly for sites with many pages/content.

 

Free tools are good to get a rough idea ... overture keyword tool for instance does not report on plurals and congregates them all together along with search figures.

If you're dead serious about keyword research then Trellian is awesome and worth every penny

 

overture keyword suggestion is not upto date i think.. adwords is somewhat better..

But many people seem to recommend WordTracker

 

i use good keywords ver 2.01

 

http://www.googlerankings.com is very cool

 

First List Targeted Keywords That Drives you traffic...

then Brainstorming for your main targeted keyword. because it is very important to know if your targeted keywords convert.

 

I check keywords that is related to our site and I do the following strategies
Keyword relevance - www.keyworddiscovery.com
keyword density and promixity - www.ranks.nl/tools/spider.html
searches per month - inventory.uk.overture.com/d/searchinventory/suggestion/
keyword traffic- www.webfooted.net/keywordstats.php

 

1. read up on news, what is popular. go to googles zeight... somethin to find out what is top 10 queries.
2. overture to enter those top 10 queries, and anything similar that has demand exceeding supply by a large enough amount for me to invest time into.

 

Keyword research is the core of any SEO campaign, since the keywords you pick during the research will be included in your website copy, into your PPC campaigns and any other website promotion campaigns. In a sense, keyword research is similar to customer research, because you are studying what words your potential clients use when searching for your service or product.

Here is what you need to do to run a solid keyword research:

pick valid initial keywords
use a variety of sources
search from the point of view of your potential customers
get the most possible amount of keyphrases
keep the keywords that will attract the target audience
pick the small-medium competitive keyword phrases
spot the topics for your content (site pages, articles, blog posts, press releases, etc)
use keyword research data
write website content