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[Prashant Nayak Contribution Level: 1]

If you are advertising for your business then the single most important aspect of you SEO work is Best keyword research. Keyword phrases that are being used by your target audiences. If you do not optimise for the correct keyword phrases then even the best optimization skills in the world may not result in any increase in your business.

As per me WordTracker is the best option for best keyword research tool. You can have a free version at http://www.freekeywords.wordtracker.com . They have also a paid version that I highly recommend. However to start with you can use a free version. The paid version comes with added benefits like in depth searches, saving the searches etc.
To start with come out with 10 base keywords which are related to your online business. For e.g. online business, home based business, online marketing etc. On keyword suggestion tool page on WordTracker.com when you enter one of this basic keyword and hit you will get 100 keyword searches(in paid version you get more).For e.g. if you enter online business you will get keyword searches like : start an online business, online business from home, automated online business, online business opportunity.... On the left of each keyword you will get a number which indicates how many times someone searched for this keyword across all major search engines. You can go even further by doing keyword research for e.g. keyword research with online business opportunity will give results like online business opportunity, online business opportunities, online business opportunities for women. If you further research on online business opportunities for women you will get about 22 searches. As a benchmark anything below 20 is not a worthy keyword.
For web 2.0 & content marketing you can find out how competitive each of the generated keywords is. For web 2.0 & contents campaigns like blogs, articles, press releases, squidoo your concern is about ranking on the natural searches. First by doing best keyword research you want to find out if the keyword is best keyword people are searching for. Second your concern is do you have a chance to rank in the natural search engine or how competitive is the keyword. For e.g. if you do a natural search for online business opportunity then you will get 22,000,000 results which means people are searching for this keyword. Now if you want to know how many websites are optimised for this keyword then search for “online business opportunity “with quotes. You will get 3, 87,000 results. Your objective of Best Keyword research is get a keyword with results under 5000.
Let us do a search for another keyword – top online business opportunity. You will get 53,000,000 results and with quotes you get 4570.Hurray!! This is one of a best keyword .You can do an article, blogpost, press release, squidoo lens with this best keyword. Remember to save all your best keyword researches for repeated use.
With best keyword research you can drive lot of traffic for your business.
One of my associate has build a 7 fig income from serious debt driving lot of traffic to his business http://www.netbusinessempire.com

[Shane Hunter Contribution Level: 3]

excellent post sir, you should turn this into an article on this site. thanks for the info.

[Landon Stewart Company: ViSalus Sciences Contribution Level: 3]

This is a good looking post. Thanks for the help.

I actually made a video about keyword research. You can check it out. I won't clutter up the post with any extra links, but just go to my profile and it will be in the my videos section.

I do like the angle that you took though. Good stuff!

[David Ogden Contribution Level: 1]

Wordtracker is an excellent tool, but another one to use that is free is Google Adwords Keyword Selector, its not just for adwords but can be used for all kinds of keyword research, I especaily like the regionalised search option to track down niche phrases

[Eric Su Contribution Level: 2]

I wrote two blog posts on basic keyword research training using all free tools.

Check them out!


http://internetmlmunderground.com/blog/ ... ord-tools/
http://internetmlmunderground.com/blog/ ... ls-part-2/

[Eric Su Contribution Level: 2]

BTW guys, I just tested nichebot, and it's one of the better keyword research tools out there.