How To Find Profitable Keywords In 3 Easy Steps

Each day I go on the hunt for profitable keywords for my sites. I have been doing this daily task for years and have come to enjoy the simple steps I take to find profitable keywords. It has become so enjoyable because I know with each valuable keyword I find I am adding hundreds, sometimes even thousands to my yearly online income.

Keywords power much of the online traffic and commerce onthe web. Keywords are the exact word or phrase surfers type into search engines to find what they're looking for on the Internet. They are the essential elements in your website's profitability and in many cases keywords will largely determine how much revenue you earn from the web.

Finding profitable keywords is not a difficult task, anyonecan use popular online sites and tools to find valuable andprofitable keywords with a few minutes of work. Quick, easy and simple. You just have to know how to find the answers to these three questions:

1. How Many Searches Are Made Each Month For Your Keyword?

A keyword that receives no searches is worthless. A keyword which receives just 10 to 100 searches each month may be very profitable. Your first task is to find out or discover HOW MANY SEARCHES are made each month for your keyword or keyword phrase. You can use sites like Overture (Yahoo Marketing) or WordTracker and they will give you the number of searches made each month and also variations of your keyword phrase. For quick referenceI use this site: http://www.pixelfast.com/overture/

Once you know how many searches are made for your keyword you can determine how much traffic you will receive if your site lands on the first page SERPs (Search Engine Results Pages). The closer you are to the number one spot will determinethe percentage of these monthly searches you will receive. Most of your traffic will come from Google, even if you get#1 spots in all three major engines, Yahoo and MSN willreturn less traffic - at least this has been my experience.

Keep in mind, even keywords with low search numbers may still be profitable. For example, 'unique corporate gift ideas'only has around 400 searches but this may be very profitablefor companies or websites that cater to corporate gifts.Also remember, some keyword searches are seasonal, i.e. the number of searches made for 'valentine gifts' in July will greatly differ from those made in February.

2. How Much Competition Does Your Keyword Have?

You must know the level of competition for each keywordphrase you target with your online marketing. Extremelycompetitive keywords are not worth your time becauseyou will not place for these keywords on the SERPsand you will get no traffic. As a general rule, the most popular keywords with 100's of thousands ofsearches a month will have the stiffest competition.

You can still place for very competitive keywords butit may require months, usually years of content/linkbuilding. Unless you use a PPC (Pay Per Click) advertisingsystem such as Google Adwords or Yahoo Marketing; youwon't get any traffic from extremely competitive keywords.It's best to target keywords with little or no competition.

One of the best sites to use to find out your keyword'scompetition is Google. If you type your keyword phrase 'corporate gift ideas' into Google search you will see there are 7,660,000 pages/listings returned. To get the number of pages that have your exact keyword phrase, you need to search your phrase within quotation marks "corporate gift ideas" and you will see it has around 275,000 pages featuring your keyword phrase.

If you check out the sites on the first three pages of listings you can determine the level of your competition.I use the professional keyword research software Keyword Elite to determine my competition. But here's a quick way to check the PR (Page Rank) of the listings for your keyword phrase. Let's run thru an example.

First do a search in Google for 'corporate gift ideas' and then highlight and copy the return url. Next go to this site http://www.iwebtool.com/visual_pagerank and paste in your Google keyword return url: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=corporate+gift+ideas&btnG=Search This will give you a quick visual pagerank of all your chosen keyword's Top 10 competitors!

3. How To Know If Your Keyword Is Really Profitable?

One quick and simple way to tell if your keywordis profitable, i.e. people are making money frompromoting and optimizing your chosen keyword phrase.

Take your keyword phrase and type it into Google, Yahoo and MSN. Just count the number of Sponsored Links at the top of the page and at the sides. If your keyword phrase is profitable you will see a lot of sponsored links, which means sites/businesses are advertising. Where there is advertising, there is profit!

You can use Yahoo advertising (Overture) to discoverthe amount each advertiser is welling to pay foreach click or visitor to their keyword phrase -this amount can range from $.10 to $10 to $100per click!

I use the keyword software mentioned above to monitor the different sites promoting my keywords. If my competitors are buying PPC advertising month after month, you know this keyword phrase is profitable for them and chances are it can be also profitable for you.

Many savvy Internet Marketers instead of targeting extremely popular keywords, find a niche market and target a whole string of related keywords that have little or no competition.

This Long Tail marketingmethod can prove very profitable. How profitable will largely depend on what you do withyour keyword traffic, how well you can convert thistraffic into a sale or how well you can monetize it with affiliate programs or Google Adsense? Just follow these three easy steps for finding profitable keywords and you will have a simple system for adding valuable keywords to your site or online marketing.

Take full advantage of these little income magnets which powers so much of the commerce done online and you will succeed. Always remember, these little nuggets of gold are yours for the taking.

Copyright © 2006 Titus Hoskins

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Make Money Online Through Blogging Series - Paid Blogging

There isn’t a lot of secret on how to make money online from your blog. Blogs with or with no traffic can be monetized – you just have to know the ways. Here are some of the techniques that I use to make money online from my blog.

1. PayPerPost – Your blog just needs to be approved by their team (which is rather tedious and time consuming if you are not using WordPress or Blogger) and you can start writing paid posts to make money. Generally advertisers don’t really emphasize on traffic but uses PR as a benchmark.Here is an guide on how much you be able to earn with your PR on one paid post:

PR0 – 4 – $5 - $15
PR5 – $20 - $100
PR6 and above – at least $100 - $200 and above

You as well can earn referral fee of $7.50 to $15 when a new publisher signs up using your referral link. You can sign up for PayPerPost here.

2. Blogsvertise – Cool opportunity but you not able to shop around the market place since there are not much advertisers. You’ll need to wait till the admin to give you with a task.

Normally I get paid $5 - $10 on my PR1 to PR4 blog.

3. SponsoredReviews – This is my favorite place. Your blog’s approval is quite fast and simple. After get approved, just browse around their market place and bid for that for your desire opportunity, as many as you want!! If the advertisers agree with your bids, you will get an email for the jobs task.

I get paid $3.25 to $200 per blog post on my PR2 and PR5 (now is PR4) blogs.You can also earn $5 and up to $175 each referral you refer to them.

4. PayU2Blog – This is another place to earn money online through blogging. Similar SponsoredReviews, blog approval is easy, but sometime you wont get any email from them if your blog is not qualify. You’ll get tasks assigned to you weekly and normally you have to complete it within a week.

I get paid $5 to $7.50 for each paid post.

5. Smorty – It’s very simple to get approval by them if you have your blogs get indexed in google. No question ask, just do what they want, and then you can get pay in just 1 week period. Smorty is the fastest payment ever in paid blogging service.

PR0-4 blogs get paid from $6 to $20 for a blog post

6. ReviewMe – They are growing. In the past they just focus on advertising posts on blogs for a payment fees, you can’t choose the advertisers, advertisers choose you. At the moment they have a market place where you are able to choose on these advertisers.

You earn 50% of what you have ask for your premium paid post sales, while you can earn $5 to $7.5 for a PR3 blog in their market place.

7. V7N – PR is more important for them. They do not accept free blog platform like blogspot, etc. V7N suit for you after you have your own domain name.

Normally I will get paid at least $10 for one blog post however I heard that somebody got paid for $20 per post. You are able to negotiate your price with them if you have high PR blog.

There are a lot of paid blogging opportunities but I don’t recommend you go with them due to some reasons. These are Bloggerwave, loudlauch,and so on..

Make Money Online Through Blogging Series 1 finish. I will continue part 2 tomorrow.

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