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There are tools available to help us with this, some are paid and some are free, so for the sake of this article we are going to focus on the free tools, which are going to be all we need to get the job done.

The first step is to figure out what keyword we want to examine.  After you pick your most promising keyword, were going to go back to our old friend Google and just type it in to the search box.

After you type in your keyword were going to look at the amount of search results which is displayed in the top right hand corner of the page before any of the listings.  You should see something that reads “Results 1-10 of about (number) for (keyword term).

The total results is going to be one of the numbers that we look at to determine the competition.  It’s not the most important, however it does give us a general idea of how many websites have that term on their site.

The more important result that we want to find is going to be using an “exact match” search.  To do this type in your search phrase into google, just like you did last time, but now put quotation marks around it.  So if I’m going to search the term: beginner guitar lessons, it’s going to look like this “beginner guitar lessons”.

What this type of search tells us is how many website are targeting this term.   Without quotes, google will display a website as a result if that term shows up in any variation anywhere on the site.  When you use quotes it tells google to only display websites that use that specific term in the exact order you tell it.  This gives us a much better idea of how many sites are actively trying to get ranked for this specific term.

At the time of this article, beginner guitar lessons returned 12,500,000 results. That’s a huge number and if every one of those sites was trying to rank for that term, the competition would be fierce and not worth the effort.  However when I search for it using “beginner guitar lessons” it returns 130,000 results.  Although this is still a high number, it gives me a much better idea of the amount of websites that are targeting this term.

As a basic rule of thumb, anything that has an exact match result of 10,000 or less is going to be quite easy to rank for.  100,000 or less will most likely be moderately difficult and anything above 100,000 is going to be difficult and time consuming.

The last factor to determine your competition, and possible the most important, is to literally just go to the website and check it out.  Visit the top ten listings for your keyword term and get a feel for how well optimized these pages are for selling products or services.

You would be surprised to find some niches where the top results are there just because no one who truly understands SEO has gone in and dominated the keywords.

Before you disregard a keyword or think that it will be too hard to rank for, make sure you do all the steps listed above to determine your competition.

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Remember that the main goal here is to find action words that describe a person in need and wanting to solve a problem.  The first thing that you will most likely want to do is get rid of any terms that have the word “FREE” in them.  As you can imagine, if someone types into Google “free guitar lessons”, it’s not going to do me much good to try and focus on them as a person who is going to pay for my product or service.

As you go through your list try and find phrases that are as descriptive as possible and micro target your potential customers.  Remember that broad terms are not going to do you much good because they are #1 hard to rank for and #2 hard to turn into paying customers.

See if you can put together a list of about 30 or so words that seem like good action phrases.  Some good examples of action phrases would be “need guitar lessons”, “learn to play guitar fast”, “ease back pain”, “how to plan a wedding”. You can see how these phrases promote action and show a need to solve a problem or find a solution.  A good example of keywords that would NOT be good would be: “electric guitar”, “back pain”, “weddings”. As you can tell these are too general and don’t promote any specific need.

After you swift through the keywords that are not going to do you much good, the next step is to determine how much traffic is there and how much competition is there.

The answer to the first question “how much traffic is there” is a pretty easy one.  The search volume number is going to give you a pretty accurate idea of how many people typed that phrase into google during any given month.

If your wondering “how many searches is a lot?” we’ll that depends on what your looking for.  If your trying to target a local segment for a physical business or service that you offer in your town or city, having a low number is not a big deal.  If your promoting a product or service that can be distributed anywhere, such as an information product, then the more the merrier.

Generally speaking if you can work with keywords that have search volumes in the tens of thousands, your in good shape.  A big factor though in deciding which terms to focus on is what were going to talk about next…

Determining your competition.

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Like any skilled trade, Keyword Research has it’s own set of tools to get the job done.  Some are free and some are paid however the free tools that are available will provide you with PLENTY of information to get up and running.

In fact, our friends at Google, the very big machine that we are trying to beat, provides us with all the information were going to need, and it’s FREE!

The main tool to get acquainted with is the “Google Adwords Keyword Tool” and you can find it by using this url: https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal

The first step to take is to type in your main keyword in the box in the middle of the page.  Although you will want to go back and do this multiple times with different keywords, it’s good to start out with a more general term at first.  This is because the keyword tool will give you many different variations and other phrases that you might not have thought of that are relative to your niche.

After you hit the “Get keyword ideas” button, you will then see all the keywords that the tool finds along with information on search volume, advertiser competition and estimated cost per click. It’s important to note here that one of the main reasons this tool was created was for people who advertise with the Google Adwords system.  Although it’s a good thing to use, we are not going to talk about it in this article.

The main data that we want from this tool is the Search Volume numbers. You have two results to look at, Local Volume and Global Volume. To keep things simple, take the two numbers and average them out, this will give you a basic idea of how many people typed that term into Google in any given month.

Before you get the overwhelming feeling of data overload and the intimidating feeling of “what do I do with all this information”, take a step back and relax.  The next step to take is to save all this info so that we can analyze it in the future.  At the bottom of all the results, you have the ability to download the list of keywords into an excel document.  This is a great feature and will allow us to use Excel to keep our information organized.

Now what you should do is go through your list of phrases that you created earlier and get results for each term.  Yes you are going to have a lot of keywords to look at but don’t feel overwhelmed.  First of all there are going to be a lot of duplicate phrases because all our terms are going to be relative to eachother so it’s a good idea to go through and delete any duplicates.

To keep things focused, just go through your list and collect data. In the next article we will talk about how to analyze the data and find our golden keywords that we want to target.

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