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Doing Successful Keyword Research in 6 steps

TyphoonBlogger — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 16:32:20 +0000

Most of the people (generally newbies) don’t understand the importance of keyword research. In this article I am going to explain the importance of if and the benefits you could get out of it.

When you need keyword research?

Doing keyword research can be worth or not depending on your way of marketing. If you want to build a long-term business it is a MUST. If you want to use PPC to sell product – it is a MUST. If you are going to use article marketing, you can go without it (sometime I don’t bother doing it though it can help me make more sales).

What are the benefits of keyword research?

Well basically you do it so you can get targeted traffic from search engines. If you want to get automated money from your websites (means after a while you stop promoting it, but you get highly targeted traffic from search engines) it is a must…Who doesn’t want automated money? I can’t think of anyone, lol.

How can I do keyword research?

First of all you need to know which are the main/best keyword research tools (that most of the Internet marketers use):

Google Adwords:Keyword Tool
WordTracker Keyword Suggestion Tool
SEO E-book Keyword Suggestion Tool

now I sometimes use all three of them (lol) sometimes just one, depending on how many keywords I want. Usually 4-5 are a enough. For this example I will use SEO E-book Keyword Suggestion Tool but the process with each should be the same. Here is exactly what I do:

Say that I want to promote an e-book about getting rid of acne. I will go to the keyword tool and type “acne”.
Some of them got my attention like “adult acne”,”acne home remedies”,”how to get rid of old acne scars” and some more, the main thing that you looking for is more than 50 searches.Some people say that you need at least 200 searches however since you are going to have 4-5 keywords it doesn’t really matter.
Now I go to google, and type my each keyword looking how many results I will get. For “acne home remedies” there are 449,000 results for “adult acne” there are 1,570,000 results and for “how to get rid of old acne scars” there are 761,000 results. Now I have to choose my main keyword.
My situation is a little bit complicated. As you see “acne home remedies” and “how to get rid of old acne scars” have similar results . At my keyword suggestion tool the first one has 114 searches and the second one 95. In a normal situation I would pick “acne home remedies” without a doubt,however, if you look at the keywords which ones audience do you think will more likely buy the product you promote?
People searching “Acne Home Remedies” will most are looking for a free way to get rid of their problem, but these looking for “how to get rid of old acne scars” people searching are probably desperate because they have their scars from long time ago, and they are more likely to pay for a product.
So I would choose “how to get rid of old acne scars” for my main keyword, and find the best secondary ones in the same principle.

If you think that something is not explained well enough feel free to ask it to me on comments

So that’s the whole process I go trough searching keywords for my websites, I hope you liked it and learn something useful from it.

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Some article which you might find useful after you know how to find your keywords:

What Is PPC and How To Do A Successful PPC Campaign?

10 On-Page SEO Factors You Should Keep In Mind

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Choosing A Product To Promote-Clickbank Affiliates

TyphoonBlogger — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 07:54:16 +0000

Choosing a good and profitable product to promote is crucial when it comes to Internet marketing. It is very important to not make mistake doing it because it can cost you a lot of time=money. So…

What Is Niche?

Simply explained that is a marketing category you want to promote. A niche can be “general” for example “acne”, it can be targeted “loose acne” or even more targeted “loose acne with natural remedies” or something like that. Most people think that it’s best first to choose the niche then to choose the product to promote. I personally first choose the product and then target my niche.

Choosing A Profitable Product – Steps:

Here is exactly what I do to find a good and profitable niche.

First go to Clickbank’s Marketplace.
For this example I will choose the Health&Fitness category but the process is the same for any other.
Choose the category and without writing any keywords press go.
There you will find the best selling products of that category. Check the stats of the first product – the more gravity the better. If the first product has more than +150 gravity that means the category can make you some money. In this example we have FatLoss4Idiots at the top and it has more then 700 gravity!o.O…That’s more than we can handle right now,LOL.
Find a product that has between 80-200 gravity. (Reason : If you choose to promote FatLoss4Idiots you probably won’t make a lot of money because there are so many people promoting=less chances that the customer will buy it from you)
Check its sales page-that’s very important. View it from the customers point…would you buy that product from that site? Does it look like scam? Once you are sure that,if you were the customer you would spend money on it then go on.
Find 2-3 product from the same branch.

Are you done? Now it’s time for finding keywords…cool! I will write an article about “How To Find The Best Keywords In Your Niche” next day

If you want to see my guide on How To Make Successful PPC Campaign click on the link!

What is Affiliate Marketing?

TyphoonBlogger — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:13:34 +0000

This article explains what is affiliate marketing and which program you should chose to promote. I will write this mainly for beginners but it can help apprentice marketers as well.

So What Is Affiliate Marketing?

Basically explained that is when you start promoting someones products and when he gets a sale trough the link he gives you, you get commissions. This can vary from 4-5$ to thousands of $. It can be anything from 1% to 90% (or even more)of the total price of the product depending on your agreement. Usually you get less commissions when you promote physical products (cars, motorcycles and everything you can think of) and a lot of commissions from digital stuff (e-books,software’s even pics) . The reason for this is that once you create a e-book for example you won’t have to write it again and again to sell it to many people. With physical products its not like that. They need to be created again and again so they can be sold and they require additional materials that’s why they have low commissions. In my opinion better opportunity is promoting Digital stuff. (Guess Why?)

Affiliate programs :

Commission Junction – This in one the biggest affiliate programs out there. Pays on sale. Sells digital products.

Clickbank – one of the most popular affiliate programs. Sells digital products (Mostly software and E-books).

E-bay affiliate- I am sure that you have heard of e-bay. If you want to promote physical product then they are one of the best.

Paydotcom – Very similar to clickbank.

Amazon – they sell literally everything. Not the best place for a beginner ( Though I am not sure,never used them)

TIP: If you think that you have found a good product to promote while searching on the internet, but you can’t find how you can contact the admin so you can apply for an affiliate usually at the bottom of the sales page there is a section called Affiliates (if the author allows it). That’s where you can get info how to promote that product.

Which ones from these do you use?

I did use only Clicbank before. Though I recently signed up for PayDotCom (I saw that they pay trough paypal) and I am waiting for E-bay approval.

Which one do you think is the best for a newbie?

I suggest you to go for Clickbank. They are literally the best option for you. Also here I will be giving some free info how to generate a lot of sales with ClickBank but they can work for PayDotCom users as well.

How can I make money from them?

There are really a lot of ways. In my blog I will be mainly covering methods for clickbank users but I know some tricks for the other Affiliate Programs as well.

PPC.

Bum Marketing.

Blogging.

there are more ways but I can’t think of them right now,lol. Anyways you can be sure that I will explain all there three methods in the feature.(with details)