Develop a Keyword list

The best way to develop your keyword list is to have a brainstorm session and start writing down everything that comes to your mind until you have a sufficient amount of keywords to work with. Now after your done with your list it is time to remove any words that may not describe your services or product to its fullest, simply put, the ones that are not searched for very often.

How do I find out what keywords are being searched for? Do your keyword research. Go to overture-keyword selector tool that is a free services and type in a general search term, and it will not only give you a keyword list that are related to that term, but it will also give you the estimated number of times that term was searched for the previous month. This will give you a general idea of the terms you’re considering.

Google also provides a keyword suggestion tool at Google adwords: keyword tool to help you choose keyword variations. The system is designed to use in adwords campaign and is provided by Google to help advertisers determine the best keywords for their site. Just type in your general keyword, click enter, and it will come up with a large keyword list.

The search volume list on the lift are Statistics showing the relative amount of users searching for that keyword on Google. The green bar represents a general low-to-high quantitative guide to help you determine how competitive ad placement is for a particular keyword. The list on the right side is the Advertiser Competition Statistics showing the relative amount of advertisers bidding on that keyword.

This well turn up words that would have never come to your mind and at the same time help you sort out what you may have thought of as strong keywords that in actual fact are use only once in a while.Here is another one you may want to consider.

WordTracker is one of the most popular and highly respected keyword research tools. They have an extensive keyword database into which you enter search terms to see how often people search for those terms and how many competing sites are using the keyword.

They have a free trial for which you have to register. After you put in your name and email address a friendly screen comes up that will allow you to start the trial which includes a link to WordTracker’s privacy policy. Click on the link and a screen will come up in which you enter a general keyword. WordTracker will than display 30 keywords related to your keyword, and also tell you how many keywords you would have seen with the full version of WordTracker.

Once you have your keyword list narrow it down to where you want it, with just the keywords that you are definitely going to use. You should take the time to enter each of them into the most popular search engines like Google, Yahoo or MSN, to see what sites they turn up.

What you want to do, is see what the return is, do they have services or provide products similar to your own? Or do they produce the results entirely different from what you have expected? If they turn up sites that vary to a great extent from your own, when people want to find your site, they most likely won’t use those terms. So that means you can remove those terms from your master keyword list.

If your just starting to build your website or just thinking about it. Here is one of the many free tools that comes with it. Brainstorm It! (BI!) is both a creativity-booster with tremendous brainstorming abilities and a tireless tool that saves you weeks of tedious data-gathering and keyword analysis! It has two parts, equivalent to the two sides of your brain. Build your keyword list, build your website all in one place.

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