Keywords, keywords, keywords! A personal rant.

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You know that old saying that goes something like this: "the more you learn, the more you realize you don't know?" Well, that's how I'm feeling. I went into this, like many of you, not really knowing anything, so the first few weeks of training and reading were great. I learned a ton of new things and started experimenting with my own website, got an article published in StreetArticles and was feeling pretty confident about where I was going. I already knew I had to be patient with getting results, and that's okay too, because I kept reading and refining and hadn't lost hope. That is, until this past weekend. I went back and started reading more about keywords based on a couple of blogs and training that I had read. What I realized, is that the results are wildly different depending on what keyword tools you are using. The different results between the WA Keyword Tool and the Google Keyword Tool were simply incomprehensible.
Then I started looking at other keyword tools, including Market Samurai and got completely different results again. When I Google searched Keyword tools, there were a host of others, some free, some very expensive. Bottom line...I just can't figure out where to go and what to believe.
If we're basing our keywords (and ultimately the success of our site) on keywords that have high search rates and low competition, and the results of our research give us vastly contradictory results, I don't know what the next step should be.
I know many of you have very successful sites and presumably have mastered this process so if any of you can shed light on my dilemma I'd love to hear from you. I think I'm right in assuming this is a process and not an black and white situation, but I'd like to get some direction from others who have gone through this and come out the other side of it successfully. Thanks to all.

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Keywords are one thing, and keyword competition is another. You just aren't going to be able to drive traffic for certain words or phrases, too much competition, but if you tweak it here or there, adding just one little word in front of it, you just might catch some more traffic. I've found that playing around with Google Adwords will help show you what's popular and low competition.

For example:
Boxing Gloves (too much competition)
Black Boxing Gloves (less competition)

Seems simple enough but use the concept and you should start seeing better results.

Very good question Neal! Looking forward to some answers myself!

the more you know the less you know because you know more of what you dont already know..........dont you know!!

I know.

It's worth remembering that most keyword tools are an amalgamation of results from various sources, not just Google. This recent post on Jaaxy by Carson may help: https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/carson/blog/jaaxy-com-keyword-data-explained

Neal, it is indeed a problem. I look forward to some well researched solutions. Thanks for bringing it up.
John

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