Five Thousand Dollars A Month - For Real! - Keyword research
Hello there, where and when ever you may be and welcome to the 2nd in the series of 5 Thousand Dollars A Month - For Real!
Today's topic is keyword research for my Astronomy site as I discovered it in my last post
This has to be THE most important part of creating a website for an online business - get this wrong and the site will NOT be as good as it could be.
Let's go!
I'm going to use 8 tools to produce my keyword list - that might seem to be a bit of an overkill but I want to produce the longest list of potential words and phrases at the beginning so I have something to whittle down later in the process. So, my tools of choice are:
- Google's own Autofill Suggestions - where you type in your keyword and Google adds extra words where it tries to complete your typing for you
- Google's 'Searches Related...' - this is the list found at the bottom of the search engine results.
- Bing's Autofill
- Bing's Searches Related (if they have it)
- Duckduckgo's Autofill - This is a much smaller database than either Google or Bing but their autofill suggestions kick a$$
- Jaaxy
- Alsoasked
- Answerthepublic
But first, I need to discover my 'seed' keywords - these are 1-2 word key words that I'll type into the search engines as roots to find longer keywords - these may also end up as my Categories in my website.
So, my seed words could be: Astronomy, Star Gazing/stargazing, Telescopes, Binoculars, Sky-watching, Astrophotography, Solar System, Stars, Planets, Galaxies.
Yes, let's run with those, to begin with.
Now, I'm going to open a spreadsheet and do my workings in that and I'll make that spreadsheet available as a Google Doc once I'm done.
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Extensive list of tools you've gathered there. I'm looking forward to the outcome. Please do keep us posted.
thanks for this Dom
as you say keywords are important
and if you don't konw the niche that well how do you come up with hte seed keywords
i tend to now use
relatedwords.org
reversedictionary.org
and
describingwords.io
looking through these there are a load of words you could have as tags and use as categories.....
and as you say answerthepublic and alsoasked will gove you the questions peopel in your niche ae asking...
not forgetting ot search the forums to see what others need to know
have fun
phil
I agree Phil - there are no end of words I could be using - I think this keyword spreadsheet will be a 'live document' for many months to come.
could i suggest a seperate sheet for each category
list ideas for posts - keyword possibilities and who to beat
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Interesting process Dom. Staying tuned.
Hugh
Good to have you along Hugh - it adds some 'authority' to the comment section