Comments on: How to Choose Low Competition Keywords

By: June@windowtreatments

June@windowtreatments — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:59:30 +0000

The same thing happened to me. I actually started to cry! I told my husband about it thinking he would be really angry that I banned us from Google, but he just laughed. He said he did the same thing too. He said not to worry and next day it was alright! I have to admit that I didn’t sleep too well that night.
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By: Jackie

Jackie — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 23:28:55 +0000

ha ha I had the very same fear! Wondering how I was going to live without access to Google. Fortunately they let you back in relatively soon!

By: Julia@recessedtoiletpaperholder

Julia@recessedtoiletpaperholder — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 23:24:10 +0000

Jackie,

Thanks for article. SEO for Firefox is really a neat little utility. At first I forgot to turn it off after doing initial keyword research and when Google “banned” me…I paniced! I thought I was now banned for Life! Luckily, I wasn’t

By: David

David — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:58:51 +0000

Hi Jackie

Just wanted to say thank you for the informative internet marketing articles, I`ve some experience of keyword research but theres always room to learn more and I`m adding this one to my marketing toolkit. Thanks again.

By: Jackie

Jackie — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:14:55 +0000

The google keyword tool defaults to broad search, which means it looks for the query in any order all around the page. So for ex. you may search big red shoe ~ for a broad search you may end up with a page that is talking about a big dog, a red house and a great looking shoe ~ but since all the keywords are on the page it counts. Exact would bring up just the pages that have big red shoe.

MNF uses the google keyword tool ~ it just uses the exact search ~ and a bunch of other tools/pages get pulled in to find the rest of the information. If you’re going to use MNF there’s really no reason to use the google tool.

By: Jolene

Jolene — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:03:25 +0000

One last follow up then. If the exact search isn’t showing any results, but Google keyword tool does, how would you interpret that?

I know keyword research isn’t an exact science, but learning more about these variations should be beneficial to my marketing expertise. If I have MNF, would it be best to just target keyword with that software and forego the Google Keyword tool? If they go hand in hand, how does that work? Right now this thought applies specifically to the Christmas Blueprint.

Sorry, this question may need it’s own blog post. Thanks.

By: Jackie

Jackie — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:06:37 +0000

Hey Jolene! The default setting on Micro Niche Finder is exact. You can see it in the top right hand corner. Just above where the keywords are listed. RE incorrect spelling I think it's fine to do them, just don't go overboard with the incorrect spelling. Use the correct spelling most of the time in your content or Google will know what you're doing and will hit you for it.

By: Jolene

Jolene — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:29:29 +0000

Jackie,

Just purchased Micro Niche Finder. I’m so excited to really get into it. I think this tool is going to be a huge time saver. Couple questions. I’m trying to do a search on an exact phrase but it isn’t coming up in the listings. It’s listed in the Google Adwords Keyword tool with searches so I think I missed a step. I just typed in the phrase and clicked search. Any suggestions.

Also, I was checking on a product and found that while the correct spelling of the product title had too much competition, the incorrect spelling had several searches and good SOC. What do you think about promoting a product using the incorrect spelling?

Thanks Jackie…You Rock!!!!

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By: Jackie

Jackie — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 23:18:29 +0000

Does she have the google toolbar installed? You can go to each of the sites on the front page and check the PR using the google toolbar.

If she doesn’t have the google toolbar you can go to google and put your keyword in the search box in quotes ~ ****this is NOT a very accurate way to gauge competition*** but if it’s all you’ve got ~ it’s all you’ve got. Look for keywords with less than 30K competing pages ~ the lower the better ~ 10K is best. Find the # of competing pages by looking at how many other sites there are ~ it will say 10 out of ______ that’s the number you’re looking for. Just make sure you put your keywords in quotes when you do this.

Good luck and if you can finagle the other it’s a better gauge of competition.