Wednesday, January 31, 2007

Keyword research

When you are looking for help promoting your site, using keyword research may seem like a good idea. Your keyword research will ultimately dictate how (and if) visitors find your site. It's impossible to ignore the importance of keyword research in the design stages of your website. There many online keyword research tools, and many of them work differently and provide you with different data.

There are tools available which help your identify keywords suitable for your business, such as WordTracker, Overture and other various free tools to assist you in keyword research. The Dowser is also agreat free tool. The first step in your keyword research is to identify keywords. The second step in your keyword research is to find keywords that people actually use and to organize your keywords by their popularity.

If you are just throwing up websites without incorporating professional niche keyword research into your site planning, content development and search engine optimization, you are truly taking a shot in the dark. While doing keyword research it is always recommended to do a thorough market research and competitive analysis to find best keywords used by search engine visitors to find products and services online and what keywords are targeted by your competitors who are doing well in online marketing. Then drill down and find the niches within them to mine the best keywords for what you are targeting.

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