In the first video regarding my approach to deciding on the best keyword phrases to use, I showed you the free ways to determine:
- the trend
- the number of searches
- whether it ‘sold’ on-line
In this video I share with you another free way to determine the ‘competition’ associated with your chosen keyword phrases. This is the technique most bloggers ignore but it is absolutely crucial if you want to get on the first page of Google.
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Is it just me or is the voice *really low* on this video? I trying turning my volume up to 100% but it’s still low so I’d miss some of the things said.
If you can’t do anything about it, I’ll try to watch it anyway – otherwise I think I’ll wait a bit for a re-post, cause it sounds interesting.
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Sorry about the sound and thanks for letting me know. I use headphones and the sound levels are fine. I shall check my audio input settings in future.
You are right, this is key information which is critical before deciding upon the keywords to use.
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I really liked the traffic estimation portion. I had not been using Google’s traffic estimator. In fact, I thought the only way you could access it was from setting up keywords in Google Adwords. Thanks.
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You are welcome – I hope it makes a difference.
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hey that is great stuff. Thanks. It really is important to do your research before committing to a specific ad campaign.
How do find out if your keyword is too competitive? is their a tool I can use?
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Sheb,
Check out this video:
http://www.webuildyourblog.com/1007/tool-keyword-research-helps-page-google/
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I think your so genius, you answer all the questions in my mind about all things regarding online jobs.When I start working online job, I tried to research the best tools to determine the ‘competition’ associated with my chosen keyword phrases. I want to go over all your videos.
Thanks.
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At the beginning of the video, you have a XCEL doc from which you found all of the keyword you aware interested in using. Where can you get that doc? Interesting video overall!
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Check out the first video in this series:
http://www.webuildyourblog.com/957/keyword-optimization-page-google/
It will show you how I complete the spreadsheet.
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Wow, thanks a lot, this seems to be a nice tutorial. I will give this link to my father, cause he wants to study internet marketing, and I guess keyword research is the first thing you need to master.
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Get the keyword research wrong and all your future efforts are wasted.
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Hey Andrew, very interesting tips on doing competition analysis man
I agree with you that testing the water before we jump in is crucial. Without it, we might face the wall and lose the enthusiasm to continue some days.
Very useful, I will go check other videos as well. All the best!