You probably wanna use google adwords keyword tool. It can provide you with a good estimation regarding the search volume of the keywords you choose.
It is good but when I search words it give me a lot of words about more than 100 thousands search a month. When I search these words in google it give me more than 10 million results. How it is possible to become on the top.
Do Combine two things, the one that come with tool and the another one with your own one and opt out a word that gives less competition means less results
Wordtracker is one of the industry standards for keyword analysis. Think you can get a week membership which should give you enough time to work out all your keywords.
I too used to have some or the other problems with google keywords tool that's why i have now switched over to a better and quite reliable keyword tool , its free as well. find it out here http://www.serpanalytics.com/tools/top_keywords
Well, that's all fine with the keywording tools, but your website is specific - it is a directory - so you will be able to use specific keywords only for pages without user content. Other pages will have a quite random semantic core as they fill with user info..
I am new to all this and I will try all of the above, does anyone know if there is a step by step guide on how to use these tools - I am just struggling to get my head around it all...
Adwords Keyword Tool I think is the best there is simply because it is powered by Google where we go to mostly for our searches. For starters, don't go lower than 1,000 searches per month. However, there are keywords that get only a few thousand searches (even less than one thousand), but it is better than "No Enough Data" IF it shows some Advertiser competition (sometimes these are the keywords that get the most competition (60% - 100%).
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