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How To Find New Keywords For Your SEO – 7 Tips

January 12, 2010 By Ben Janke Leave a Comment

Finding the right keywords that your prospects and customers are searching for on Google, Yahoo, and Bing is a foundational part of internet marketing.   You may have heard of or used tools like Google’s keyword tool, Keyword Elite, or Wordtracker, but there are 7 other ways to find relevant keywords quick.

1. Misspellings – I can’t count the number of times that I mistype the same word over and over again.   I remember when I used to use Hotmail, and always typed “Hotmal” instead.  Oops!  Someone was capitalizing on that because I got sent to a porn site.  That was way back in day.  There are some great tools out there to find common misspellings for your niche that you can capitalize on.  Here are a couple places to search

http://adlab.msn.com/Keyword-Mutation-Detection/Default.aspx

and

http://tools.seobook.com/spelling/keywords-typos.cgi

2. Technoriati

Technorati is a search engine and gathering site for blogs of many niches.  They track the most recent tags and mostly commonly used keywords.  You can find some great keywords that people are using and searching for at http://technorati.com/tag/

3.  Twitter

I actually found myself seaching on Twitter this past year for up to the second information instead of using Google.   I think this is the new trend and Google seems to realize it too.  You can see what is being searched for on Twitter and what is popular with the following services

http://www.tweetvolume.com/ and http://trendistic.com/seo

4. Facebook Lexicon

Facebook Lexicon is a great place to see some recent keyword activity.  They have graphs and more so you can see search trends at

http://www.facebook.com/lexicon/index.php

5. SeoBook

I have used SEObook quite a bit over the years to find out some of the volume of keywords being search in the search engines.  They have a great keyword tool at http://tools.seobook.com/keyword-tools/seobook/

6. Google Wonderwheel

Google’s Wonderwheel is part of the Google search page.  After you search at http://gooogle.com you can click on “show options” and then scroll down to “wonder wheel” about half way down on the left.  This is a way to “drill down” and follow a vein of keywords to find what people are looking for.

7.  Your own site

I have looked on my own stats on my site and noticed that I am being picked up on the search engines for tons of long tail keywords that I didn’t even plan on.  If you see this happening, make sure you capitalize on it and also make sure that the page those visitors are going to is a converting page for maybe an optin or a product.

There are tons of places to find good keywords to go for.  Just make sure you go after some long-tail keywords and don’t be afraid to go after the “big daddy” keywords of your niche too.  (The ones that get tons of  searches).  Somebody has to.

Filed Under: On Page Optimization Tagged With: google, keyword finder, keywords, twitter

Need back links? Read this

August 25, 2009 By Ben Janke Leave a Comment

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I am going to be giving away guidance, training and advice to people who want to create a presence on the web or are struggling with their current web sites, here is why.

Although very motivated at the time I have painful recollections of creating and putting up my first web presence back in 2000. Given the amount of knowledge and skills connected to the web you might dream that someone would have established a high profile web site where novices could visit to learn all of the basics skills to create a successful web site. Setting up your first web site can look really hard if you are not sure how to proceed.

Things like understanding the significance of back links and keywords, how they alter Google page rankings and page authority, and the correlation between these and visitor volumes are complicated and continuously badly explained by the majority of “experts” on the web. I keep meeting people who want to establish a business or do something on the web so I am going to do something about it.

I am lucky enough to have spent years seeking out, collecting, trying out, getting to know and mastering the large selection of different tools and methods for establishing a web site, pushing traffic to my web sites and continuosly improving my ways of doing things. I have decided to start teaching.

Because of my work and fortunes I am fortunate enough to be in a position to do this and devote a substantial amount of quality time to it. Most people who is just beginning or already establishing a presence on the web wants a quick win, I’m no different and therefore whenever I have come across high quality material and tools that work I am going to direct my students at these rather than try and reinvent the wheel.

Everything I have tried and tested that has produced good or excellent results will be incorporated in my training material and where there are gaps I have filled them in. Obviously along the way I have created some techniques, tools and methods of my own that I regularly use which I will be including in the education.

To find out more visit my back links clinic by clicking on any of the links in this article….

PS: If your’e a blog owner then I have 12 new articles heading your way on back linking tactics and strategies….

Filed Under: BenJanke.com Contributors Tagged With: backlink, backlinks, Google authority, keywords