I was hoping that the details would be uber thick and rich, and I am not disappointed. I have a godaddy account and I haven't used the bulk domain search the way you suggest. Brilliant idea! I need to find some help.....there is much work to be done and I need to get busy! :-)
Keep up the good stuff, John. You're kicking Garry's butt so far, just in the quality of the sharing alone! Thank you.
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You sure know how to sweet talk a cow with words like...
Keep up the good stuff, John. You’re kicking Garry’s butt so far, just in the quality of the sharing alone! Thank you.
Jorge
· 1 year ago
The Chow book is less informative thant these Cow tutorials. Thanks Golden Cow! :wink:
John Cow
· 1 year ago
Cool... do not be shy to spread the word about that too :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:
shanejonas
· 1 year ago
thanks for the post!
lawton chiles
· 1 year ago
John, you are still my hero but I am confused by all the numbers. It's not your fault. I just thought this would be simpler. For the "less than 1000 competitors" part, do you mean looking at that in Google Adwords tool or in Affilite Elite?
I thought I could use Ebay Pulse and Google Trends but most keywords don't even show up on Google Trends. :(
Those tools are great for finding top level niche words and I do use them. We are going to be sharing a clarification post on this as the last lesson about traffic numbers posed some questions. Trends is actually what we use :)
The thing is this is not good for long tail phrases, which is what the content is focused on.. and now we are going to have to explain long tail ;)
The less the 1000 competitors is with the allintitle search... we will clarify that in the post.
Roo
· 1 year ago
Great, John. This one is my favorite post so far. I never really had a good way to separate valuable keywords from junk ones; it was always just a guess-and-check procedure that wasted a lot of effort. I'm sure success will vary per niche, but any kind of method -- especially one that you've proven -- is enough reason for me to try, so I promise I will!
Make Money Talks
· 1 year ago
Beautiful tutorial! Thanks man i love keyword research tips! :wink:
I have officially made your blog a regular stop for awesome info! This has been a fantastic series, and I've learned a lot...(And I'm one of those geeks with like a million keyword tools :cool:)
Anyway, thanks for the tips, especially the one about using Google's 'Website Content' option to get things rolling. I honestly never even tried that, but it's amazing!!!
Also: I've been considering Affiliate Elite lately, but I don't want to have the ongoing payment for it when it feels like the best feature is already in Keyword Elite. Do you recommend getting AE, even if I have KE?
You can get the limited version of affiliate elite that is a one time payment. There are some restrictions with it though.
Jim
· 1 year ago
Thanks for the tip, I'll definitely look into using that traffic travis software. I've heard of it before, but was also turned off by the utter-cheesiness of the pitch :razz:
john, I picked up Affiliate Elite will that work just as well as Traffic Travis?
John Cow
· 1 year ago
Yes, you can use affiliate elite without TrafficTravis but you will have to filter through a lot more words.
We will go through affiliate elite in the next keyword lesson.
Terry
· 1 year ago
Thanks for taking the time to show us how its done. I have learned a lot from this and have a clearer picture of how I can research for the best keywords. This is just Great, I hope you keep doing this. Very Informative. :grin:
Noobpreneur
· 1 year ago
Hi,
Traffic Travis surely a catchy name and a good service - I'll look into it :)
Finally - I've noticed in the past strange results from Google in terms of allintitle or allinanchor searches. On one particular day, I may find that a keyword looks really competitive as it returns maybe 10,000 results. A week later I find that it gets 200,000 results. Any idea why this would happen?
John Cow
· 1 year ago
Yes you want to use the quotes, that is our preference. As for the keyword, yes try the .net and .org
Our preference is to always go .com because it is the easiest to remember for people from a branding stand point.
As for Google, ya they never show the same results... it depends on the data center you might be referencing and the fact that they are always moving their index around. Google's data is NEVER to be trusted as exact... they are simply estimates and guidelines.
Snowrider
· 1 year ago
Hey Cow, Great course! Thanks so much for providing all of this great info. In this post, your "Bonus Tip" about getting a domain name leaves me with a couple of questions: 1. If you're building an affiliate money site with other feeder marketing sites, is it best to get a domain name for the MONEY site using your best top level keyword or should the money site have a domain name with your best long tail keyword?
2. Is it better to get a domain name with a top level, lots of searches, but highly competitive keyword (e.g. 99,000 allintitle), or a domain name with a long tail keyword with less than 7,000 allintitle competition?
John Cow
· 1 year ago
1. It depends on whether the product name itself will be highly searched. For example when a large product launch happens then people will often search for the product name by itself. So in that case we would use something like "productnamereview.com"
If however the product name is not brand new and has a lot of competition already we would focus on the keyword that we think people very targeted to that product would look for. So if we were promoting the Mac Air for example, and the word macairreview.com was taken we might use a word like compactmaclaptop.com (as long as this was a phrase we uncovered from our research).
So we guess the answer you are looking for is the long tail term that has the best traffic potential.
2. We would find something a little more in between but that depends on the traffic potential. If we have a word that has 7000 allintitle and 500 clicks a day versus one that is 15000 allintitle with 600 clicks a day, we will take the lesser.
Dennis Bjørn Petersen
· 1 year ago
Great post, but what's the software alternatives for Mac-users?
Love it. Will give traffic travis a try. Where does it get its data from?
bogdan
· 1 year ago
Belive him, this software will make your life much easy. It’s a well build software very easy to use and it’s FREE. Even if you are totally new to web marketing you will have no problems using Traffic Travis.
It’s great that you can still find very good free software.
I really enjoy using Traffic Travis, it helps me a lot. Web CEO it’s even better but this is another disusion.
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Awesome man!
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You are my Aaron wall,Joel comm and John chow :mrgreen:
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Keep up the good stuff, John. You're kicking Garry's butt so far, just in the quality of the sharing alone! Thank you.
Together, we are stronger.
Vicki Flaugher, the original SmartWoman
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I thought I could use Ebay Pulse and Google Trends but most keywords don't even show up on Google Trends. :(
Frustrated but moving onward!
Thanks COW!
Moo!
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The thing is this is not good for long tail phrases, which is what the content is focused on.. and now we are going to have to explain long tail ;)
The less the 1000 competitors is with the allintitle search... we will clarify that in the post.
Thanks man i love
keyword research tips! :wink:
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I have officially made your blog a regular stop for awesome info! This has been a fantastic series, and I've learned a lot...(And I'm one of those geeks with like a million keyword tools :cool:)
Anyway, thanks for the tips, especially the one about using Google's 'Website Content' option to get things rolling. I honestly never even tried that, but it's amazing!!!
Also: I've been considering Affiliate Elite lately, but I don't want to have the ongoing payment for it when it feels like the best feature is already in Keyword Elite. Do you recommend getting AE, even if I have KE?
Thanks again!
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You can get the limited version of affiliate elite that is a one time payment. There are some restrictions with it though.
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I picked up Affiliate Elite will that work just as well as Traffic Travis?
We will go through affiliate elite in the next keyword lesson.
Traffic Travis surely a catchy name and a good service - I'll look into it :)
Cheers!
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Great posts and just managed to find some time today to catch up.
I've already put in place your advice so far an am now onto the keyword research.
When you refer to the allintitle: results do you mean to include the inverted commas "" to surround the keyword.
I'm hoping the answer is yes
If a particular dotcom name is not available : mypreferredkeyword.com
Would you recommend going for mypreferredkeyword.net or .org or would it be better to choose say my-preferredkeyword.com (i.e throw in a dash somewhere instead?)
Finally - I've noticed in the past strange results from Google in terms of allintitle or allinanchor searches. On one particular day, I may find that a keyword looks really competitive as it returns maybe 10,000 results. A week later I find that it gets 200,000 results. Any idea why this would happen?
Our preference is to always go .com because it is the easiest to remember for people from a branding stand point.
As for Google, ya they never show the same results... it depends on the data center you might be referencing and the fact that they are always moving their index around. Google's data is NEVER to be trusted as exact... they are simply estimates and guidelines.
Great course! Thanks so much for providing all of this great info.
In this post, your "Bonus Tip" about getting a domain name leaves me with a couple of questions:
1. If you're building an affiliate money site with other feeder marketing sites, is it best to get a domain name for the MONEY site using your best top level keyword or should the money site have a domain name with your best long tail keyword?
2. Is it better to get a domain name with a top level, lots of searches, but highly competitive keyword (e.g. 99,000 allintitle), or a domain name with a long tail keyword with less than 7,000 allintitle competition?
If however the product name is not brand new and has a lot of competition already we would focus on the keyword that we think people very targeted to that product would look for. So if we were promoting the Mac Air for example, and the word macairreview.com was taken we might use a word like compactmaclaptop.com (as long as this was a phrase we uncovered from our research).
So we guess the answer you are looking for is the long tail term that has the best traffic potential.
2. We would find something a little more in between but that depends on the traffic potential. If we have a word that has 7000 allintitle and 500 clicks a day versus one that is 15000 allintitle with 600 clicks a day, we will take the lesser.
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It’s great that you can still find very good free software.
I really enjoy using Traffic Travis, it helps me a lot. Web CEO it’s even better but this is another disusion.
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