This is for those of you who have your websites in SEs ranking HIGH for your particular keywords. (with in top 10 of google) so if your website is ranked 1-10 in google for your chosen keywords then please do answer! When you did you keyword research choosing your particular keywords, did you go DEEP into analysing your competition for that same keyword (seeing their HTML code etc) and use SEO Keyword tools for determining your competition for your keyword terms..... or just simply found your keywords, made content for them, and the usual linking to your site.... and then you ranked high for them? did you go deep into analysing your competition? or didn’t bother and still ranked high ? Share your method/strategy if your site ranks high for some of your keywords.
Hey there... You need to undertake a thorough keyphrase analysis... collate all the keywords you can find relating to your topic... then analyse the search volume for each phrase... usually through google's keyword tool or wordtracker... then analyse how much competition you have by performing an allintitle search for your particular keyphrase... apply these two figures into a KEI or equivalent equation to determine their attractiveness... choose the top ten keyphrases taking into account how relevant they are to your business... and then complete an in-depth analysis of the competition for each phrase... i.e. meta's, page rank, backlinks etc... reduce your ten phrases to about 5 or 6... obviously choose more or less dependant on your findings... and hey presto... you have your keyphrases... online marketing gold!... lol... Hope this helps... Nick SEO Angels
I highly recommend that you do thorough research before anything else. You need to see the potential in a niche and its keywords. If you just jump head first into a niche without doing proper research, a lot of the time you will fail. Sometimes you can get away with it, but you may not get the most benefit.
The key is finding high traffic key phrases that have low or no competition and focusing your campaign on these. I use the free Google adwords keyword tool and check intitle: :inurl to see check my competition for any given keyword. If I don't feel like I can own that keyword within 30 days I continue my search and if I can then I get my keyword or phrase and continue my search.