The Key to Finding Good Keywords

If you know anything about optimizing your website for the search engines, you know how important it is to choose the right keywords. If you fail to pick the words that you want your site to be found under, you risk untargeted traffic -- or at worst, no traffic at all.

http://dictionary.reference.com/ If you find yourself falling short of ideas, look up your competitors online and do a view source on their pages. I'm not telling you to copy what they have; but to study what they are using, as you might see some words or phrases that you hadn't thought of, which you can add to your collection. Remember,stay away from using Trademarks. You don't want any trouble from a high priced Attorney down the road. If you're trying to target a certain geographic location, make sure to include your city and state in your key- phrase list. This is especially important right now, as many of the search engines have branched out into offering "local search" and you want your site to be found when these types of searches are conducted. Now that you've got a good solid foundation, I'm going to introduce you to some other online tools that you should find helpful in your quest for the right keywords. Some of these resources are free. 1) WordTracker: 2) Good Keywords: http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/suggestion/ This online tool will show you the results of your keyword search from both Overture and Wordtracker. Find out how often a phrase is searched for and get suggestions for alternate words as well. Free. 4) Overture Search Term Suggestion Tool https://adwords.google.com/select/main?cmd=KeywordSandbox This online tool is courtesy of Google AdWords. Type in your phrase and you'll be shown a list of other possibilities. A slightly modified version of this tool is available at http://www.espotting.com/popups/keywordgenbox.asp Not to be left out, Espotting also offers their own online research tool which will also show you how many times that phrase has been searched for in the previous month. If you're interested in creating "niche sites" and want to see the words people are searching for check out these: Lycos 50 Daily Report: http://kanoodle.com/spy/ MetaCrawler: http://tinyurl.com/3ovca If you don't have time to do your own research for keywords,this is an excellent service that will do the hard work for you:

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