Choosing a keyword you think looks a winner is not enough. Even though it meets all the criteria you set including required number of monthly searches and competition numbers, knowing what competition you’re up against is vital.

For example, you may have a keyword that appears to have little competition for you to rank on the first page of Google so you go ahead and create an article or post around it and suddenly find you can’t make it to page one on the search results.

What’s the problem?

The strength of the competition you’re going up against.  What if the sites ranking on the first page of Google for that keyword term are all top level domains with authority. Trying to compete against authority sites who have a ton of backlinks and are well established is going to end up in frustration for you.

So how can you decipher what that competition is and your chances of getting a page one ranking without spending money to do it? In a word…Google. Check out the following video for a quick and easy way on how to analyze keywords for profit and how to determine the strength of the competition you’re up against.

This method is great for building mini affiliate sites when you are targeting a long tail keyword phrase or simply for article marketing purposes when you’re looking to save time on keyword research. The more you do it the better you’ll become at it and you’ll soon find that the analyzation process can be done in super quick time.

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Today, we will show you a quick and easy keyword research method that will not only give you some great long tail phrases “on the fly” but will give you the seeds to grow your keyword list continuously. Honestly, it has never been easier. Yes, there are some great keyword tools out there and I own some of them but the truth is, for real time research, Google is hard to beat and it’s for free!

Google continues to improve it’s search facility and because it’s free, many overlook some of the powerful features it continues to add. Google also is a little lax in letting us know about them so it’s a matter of being aware and alert to them.
Google Is Your Secret Keyword Research Weapon

Have you noticed when you begin to type a search term into the box that a drop down menu will suddenly appear and you’ll get a list of suggested phrases? Do you ignore or dismiss this simply because it’s free and anything that doesn’t cost you you’re hard-earned can’t be too valuable? Well, think again. As far as keyword selection is concerned, this is one of the more powerful tools you’ll come across without outlaying any money.

The point is, Google is the king of search. When they give you these suggestions they are giving you real time data. Many keyword suggestion tools fall down in this area. Just think, Google is actually giving you terms people are looking for and in real time. For article marketing purposes, this is an excellent way to grab searched for long tail keywords on the fly.

Here’s an example. Let’s search for the term dog training. Now dog training itself is a term that gets 36,000,000 results so it’s not a good term to go after. But here’s what happens when you begin typing it into the Google search box. Google starts to give you a list of suggested terms related to the term dogs in the drop down. Google is actually pre-empting what you are looking for and they’ve become so sophisticated at doing this that they can just about read your mind.

I suggest writing down any three word terms that take your attention on the way to writing out the term dogs. Here’s the list I got when I did this exercise for the purposes of this newsletter for the term dogs:

dog training

dog training at home
dog training books
dog training tricks
dog training collars
dog training advice
dog training schools
dog training videos
dog training supplies
dog training collars reviews
dog training hand signals

So we have a list of ten keyword suggestions from Google. These are the five I’m interested in…dog training collars reviews, dog training hand signals,dog training advice,dog training schools and dog training tricks.

So now I have five key phrases to work with. You can either write five articles around each of these terms or do some further analysis. I generally do further analysis and we’ll get into that in the post. You’ll want to check things like how competitive the phrase is and competing pages but for now, I have a platform of five keywords to work with and it took me no time at all.

But here’s the beauty of doing this. With the keywords you have, drill down again and type each one back into the Google search box. Bingo! More search term suggestions from his “royal highness” Google. Also don’t forget to test both singular and plural. What started out as typing one term into the search box suddenly grows to many. That’s why you’ll virtually never run out of keyword phrases to write around.

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Two things I isolated that needed attention was focus and eliminating the issue of being an information consumer. Don’t get me wrong, I was doing okay but there were still some bad habits which needed exorcising.

So this was the plan I devised which I’m hoping that some of you who may still be on the starting blocks will adopt, and get some income flowing into your hip pockets. It’s simple in nature but is going to require a lot of work. Are you up to it? Here it is:

1. Plan to promote two products a month simply using article marketing. Spend a little time researching your niches.

2. I suggest sticking with Clickbank and choosing a niche and then look for a product you can promote within that niche.

3. When you’ve found your niche create web 2 properties at Squidoo, Hub Pages and Wetpaint based around a long tail keyword related to your niche.

4. Then write ten articles which you will submit to the following article directories over a two week period:

http://ezinearticles.com

http://searchwarp.com

http://www.selfgrowth.com

http://www.zimbio.com

http://www.goarticles.com

http://www.amazines.com

http://www.articlesbase.com

http://www.ideamarketers.com

5. Make one of your web 2 properties your money site and point your links to it. Squidoo or Wetpaint are good choices.

6. Bookmark your articles pages and submit your RSS feeds.

That’s it. Sound like a lot of work? It is but if you have yet to make any sort of a move in internet marketing then this will be a great way to “get your hands dirty” and better still, it will give you focus. You’ll be kept pretty busy but remember, once you start to earn income then you’ll have extra money to get some of the writing outsourced.

I mention this system simply because I hear the question of “where do I start?” so often that if you simply did this for a year, not only would you have started but it’s likely you will have developed a decent income stream by the end of it.

Two niches and products a month would give you 24 campaigns by the end of the year. Supposing just six of these prove profitable then you will have income coming in you didn’t have before you started. I’m tipping with good research, you can get at least half of these profitable. Now I have no control in what you come up with but remember, when a niche proves profitable, then the possibilities open up such as creating a review site within that niche and adding other products within it.

And better still, you will have gained a whole lot of education in know how and I’m also tipping during this twelve month period, you’ll have plenty of those a-ha moments to add even extra streams of income to your business.

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