Getting Started
This is a step-by-step keyword research guide. I am going to show you the best keyword tool, a great method for incorporating the keywords into your articles, and I'm going to make sure you don't put all of your eggs into one basket.
What I mean by that is, I don't want you to let the fate of your article pend on one keyword. You should target between three and six keywords that are all very closely related. This way, you're likely to benefit from traffic from more than one source for each article.
The first place to start is the Google keyword tool. This is a free tool by Google that gives you everything you need to figure out which keywords you want to target and those you want to avoid.
Don't think that because this is a free keyword research tool it is inferior. The reason Google has provided this tool is because it benefits them to have well informed marketers. We are, after all, responsible for pretty much every bit of content on the web, without which Google would not exist.
There are some different paid keyword tools and these can be very helpful but I really recommend starting with the free one. I see people spending money left and right for different things and these tools are great but wait to buy them until you're more comfortable with what they are and how to use them.
Okay, let's get started, shall we?
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OK -- the "Tools and Analysis" tab you are talking about in this particular instance is found in google adwords. To get to google adwords, follow the link in the directions after carefully reading the directions on page 2 of 5.
In other words, this particular training is no longer relevant in the strictest sense. You will want to look into using "Keyword Planner" to perform similar analysis.
Perhaps the OP should edit this "classroom", or maybe it should be reviewed and removed.
I will say this though.....I have had a much better experience researching keywords using the Keyword Tool inside the Wealthy Affiliate system than the Keyword Planner by google.
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I want people to understand that guidelines for KW research is just that, guide lines, don't be afraid to fight for KWs with higher competition, if it's getting 10k or more monthly searches.
At he same time don't be scared to use a low competition KW, that gets very little traffic, not every KW you use has to be with in a specified range.
If you look at the photo at the bottom of page 3 of this training, "Exactly How Much Competition Is There?" you will see what I mean, if you read what it says closely it will says
"In order to show you the most relevant results, we have omitted some entries very similar to the 438 already displayed.
If you like, you can repeat the search with the omitted results included."
The reason they omit those results is because basically the rest of the websites competing for that KW are junk.
So 438 is the number of competition you are dealing with.
I hope that made sense, but if you are still confused let me know, I will keep explaining it till it does make sense =)
