Keyword Research in Affiliate Marketing

1. Affiliate marketers provide continuous relevant information to a small group of individuals in a niche (part of a larger market).

2. Members of a niche market are looking for certain information to increase their knowledge or to solve a problem.

3. When niche members search for information on the Internet, they use certain words. Words that are used frequently are called keywords.

4. Affiliate marketers search for these keywords using what is called a keyword tool, software designed to investigate keywords.

5. A good keyword tool such as JAAXY gives the average number of monthly searches for a particular keyword.

6. The keyword tool also gives an estimate of traffic for a keyword if it is listed on the first page of Google. This is related to search engine ranking.

7. A keyword tool like JAAXY will provide you with the number of competitive websites for a particular keyword. I prefer to use a number of 300 or less.

8. JAAXY Jackson will give you a quality keyword indicator, green, yellow or red. Those keywords receiving a green light should be used most frequently.

9. JAAXY checks he will also give you a SEO Score based on the overall value of the keyword. This score can be as high as 100, the higher the better.

10. JAAXY checks he will tell you what domains are available for a particular keyword or keyword phrase,.com,.org and.net are most desirable.

11. JAAXY will give you the ranking for any keyword on a particular website.

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John T. Jones, Ph.D.

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