Niche Marketing - Why Keyword Data Comes First
A good portion of my business involves spending hours and hours
using incredibly powerful but difficult to master software to
uncover thousands of the exact, targeted keyword phrases people
in any given niche market are typing into the search engines.
When people new to the internet discover what I do and see the
huge lists of keyword phrases and search data I uncover and
compile, they often ask me what the heck it is used for.
My clients and customers on the other hand, tend not to ask
questions at all. They just pay me, take their lists and happily
disappear into the shadows. Do they know something you do not?
It really all boils down to this - you do not have a good chance
of creating and launching a successful niche website if you are
lacking the keyword data about your niche market.
If you do not know what related keywords and keyword phrases
potential visitors are actively searching on and if you do not
know how often they are searching for these terms, you will
never know exactly what it is they want, how badly they want it
or how you can get that information in front of them.
Good keyword data lists for any given niche market are hard to
research and expensive to come by, but are invaluable to those
who put them to use. Good niche keyword lists serve many
functions including:
They allow you to see the actual thoughts and desires going
through the minds of those in your target market as they search
online. At the very least, these list will give you hundreds of
ideas for different websites, info-products, ebooks and more
that you can create and profit from, knowing ahead of time that
there is a demand.
They are used to launch pay-per-click campaigns to drive
targeted traffic to your site. Savvy web marketers know that
bidding on large numbers of targeted keywords with low bids has
distinct advantages over bidding on just a few expensive
top-trafficked phrases.
They are used for creating content for niche websites. For
example, the keyword phrases are useful for generating article
titles and topics you already know are in demand.
And of course, they can help with SEO. For those with a little
more experience in search engine optimization, knowing exactly
what phrases people are searching for in any niche gives them an
incredible edge and much higher chance of achieving high search
engine listings that lead to traffic.
If you are just throwing up websites without incorporating
professional niche keyword research into your site planning,
content development and search engine optimization, you are
truly taking a shot in the dark.
And if you are not able to afford the expensive software and
time it takes to learn how to use it to do the research
yourself, there are always others who offer their research for
your use.