Hey digital point friends. How silly of me to start a Guns N' Roses site targeted with the keyword "Guns N Roses," from the start. I've been using the free trial from wordtracker to look for different keywords and I'm starting to see that I was pretty pigheaded to try to dominate "Guns N Roses" from the start. I'm trying to break down certain sections on my webpage into sections that are based around different keywords; however, I have a question When one researches a keyword, I know you have to take into consideration competing websites, thats the whole point of the idea, but if you find a good keyword with few competing websites. Whats a good amount of predicted visitors a day to base a website around, I thought if I have few competing sites for a keyword that gets 32 searches a day (im using the free trial of wordtracker so thats only using MSN which is apparently about 9% of search traffic), thats a good number. Any ideas, when you researched your first niche keyword, how many predicted searches did that have a day? As always, thanks for your help, sorry bout the long post but I wanted to be specific with my question.
Theres so many variables. Are you targeting terms and keywords that will pay a high/low amount from sales/aff. commisions or adsense? Will the site likely get 'sandboxed'? Is the competition strong or weak? Do you expect a growing need for your product or content? Personally I consider anything over 400/month on overture keyword tool as a possibility depending....
Thanks for your reply Simey, I'm new to looking at niche keywords thats why I tried to knock out a lot of potential responses in my post, but apparently I should of given more information. -The terms I'm targetting do not generate high amounts per click from adsense, which I'm using -The site being sandboxed, well on google yes, MSN im doing pretty well for certain keywords -The competition I'm seeing for the keywords I'm looking at is under 200 sites, and when looking at the search engine results for my potential keywords I feel capable I could outrank the top sites -No I do not see a growing need for my content, its Guns N' Roses content, the band is pretty much dead I started the site cause it was an interest
Sorry for the long post, but there are tons of keywords to target. Go for the “long tail†keywords first. Build off the existing content and make the new pages unique. I don't really consider the number of competing websites, but I have a larger site, and by covering all the possible relavent topics, I know that eventallly I'll be up in the serps. PS I use goodkeywords.com It's free gun n roses 374937 gun n roses lyric 4892 gun n roses site myspace.com 4308 gun n roses chinese democracy 3996 gun n roses dvd 3800 gun n roses and irs 3056 gun n roses november rain 3038 gun n 39 roses 2692 gun n roses dont cry 2375 39 gun myspace.com n rose site 2328 gun n roses paradise city 2177 gun n roses video 1973 gun n roses welcome to the jungle 1953 gun n roses patience 1873 gun n roses picture 1269 new gun n roses song 1218 better gun n rose 1158 gun n roses civil war 1133 gun n roses tab 1124 gun n roses sweet child of mine 1093 gun n roses mp3 984 new gun n roses 875 gun n roses guitar tab 740 gun leaked n rose track 727 gun n roses news 724 gun n roses wallpaper 723 gun leak n rose 695 gun n roses official site 675 gun leaked n rose song 672 gun n roses patience lyric 633 gun n roses music video 569 gun n roses slash 563 there was a time gun n roses 539 gun n roses logo 496 gun n roses irs download 477 gun n roses discography 440 gun n roses live 429 gun n roses song 429 gun n roses greatest hit 428 estranged gun n roses 426 gun n roses t shirt 423 gun 39 n 39 roses 396 gun irs mp3 n rose 375 gun n roses new album 361 gun n roses music 355 39 39 gun myspace.com n rose site 354 gun n roses download 354 2006 gun n news rose 351 gun n rose twat 331 gun n roses axl rose 327 gun n roses photo 309 gun leaked n rose 304 gun n roses pic 298 gun n roses album 294 gun n roses you could be mine 290 gun n roses the garden 286 gun n roses civil war lyric 285 gun n roses welcome to the jungle lyric 284 gun n roses appetite for destruction 278 gun n new rose track 245 my michelle gun n roses 237 yesterday gun n roses 237 gun n roses poster 236 gun n roses biography 227 gun n roses concert 218 gun n roses irs lyric 217 gun n roses one in a million 213 gun n roses forum 204 2006 gun n rose 197 better gun lyric n rose 197 better gun mp3 n rose 190 gun music n new rose 189 gun n roses cds 185 gun n roses ringtone 179 gun n roses chinese 177 gun n roses november rain video 177 better download gun n rose 173 gun n roses use your illusion 172 gun n roses sympathy for the devil 170 better gun leak n rose 165 gun n roses shirt 161 gun n roses web site 156 gun n roses tribute band 154 gun n rose track 154 gun n roses layout 152 gun n roses video clip 148 gun n roses official 148 gun n roses mr brownstone 147 rocket queen gun n roses 147 gun n roses reunion 143 gun layout myspace n rose 142 gun n roses garden of eden 141 gun n roses official web site 141 gun n roses history 140 gun n rose t.w.a.t 140 gun n roses night train 138 gun irs leak n rose 137 gun n roses since i dont have you 135 gun music n released rose video 135 gun n roses merchandise 133
I appreciate it corinaw, forgive me for this simple question. Are the numbers next to the keywords competing webpages or searches, or something else? Thanks.
Mong, where do u live its 4:30am in Virginia, where I live, lol you don't have to answer that question.
Hmm, if those are searches per month, I beleive I could peel off about half of them (for the more specific keywords) if I tried hard and created many new pages. Ohh, are they searches for a compilation of many search engines or one specific one.
I am not able to honestly answer your question. as far as I know, it is overture and perhaps one other se. It's not (obviously) the searches on google. Goodkeywords.com has the info. One ineteresting point that I have noticed, (that others might have not mentioned) is possibly inflated search counts, vs actual traffic received. Heres the answer: after 3 months of rank checking, I noticed that, "keyword, location" came up in the keyword results. So when you hear folks complaining about the search results vs actual visitors being skewed, IMO it's all the seo's running search queries. You will not get the same traffic as the tools suggest. Perhaps (I'm not sure) 50% is a good assumption.
Just knowing the keywords is a very good start. You now know the topics to write for! I have a few pages with an estimated/reported searches as low as 24 total searches per month. I'm happy to report at this point, I really don't care. The cpc, is good, I dominate the serps, and I am just building my site to the point it is considered an authority.
Thats a great way to look at things in IMO. Sometimes I'll get down and say James why are you even working so hard on this page if adsense isn't giving you anything for your time. Thats when I say for a while, why'd you start this site, and the reason I started it was because I wanted to share my love for my favorite band with other people. That usually works till I get adsense inspired again.