Google Health Provides some New Keyword Research Data

Posted by Martin Jamieson | May 22, 2008 .

If you’re interested in anything to do with the health sector (and judging by adwords prices there are some very profitable niches in there), then Google Health, which has just been launched to the public can give you a quick little boost to your keyword research.
Google have put together an extensive amount of reference data […]

Keyword Intent - Web Search Classification Study

Posted by Martin Jamieson | April 11, 2008 .

Penn State University have just released a paper that studies the keyword intent of web searches over a sample of 1.5 million searches.
You can read the entire research paper “Determining the informational, navigational and transactional intent of Web queries” (PDF), but here’s a quick summary:

Queries were divided (programmatically) into three categories: Informational, Navigational, Transactional.
The study […]

Keyword Resarch Tool Review: Keyword Discovery

Posted by Martin Jamieson | April 8, 2008 .

Keyword Discovery is probably the most comprehensive keyword research tool available on the market today, so I thought I’d put together a review and show you my thoughts on where I think it shines or struggles against other keyword analysis tools that are on the market.
1. The Interface

Keyword Discovery’s interface is clean and simple, some menu choices […]

Keyword Research Update and Ramblings

Posted by Martin Jamieson | April 5, 2008 .

The KeywordSEM.com blog has been live for about six weeks now, and I just wanted to take this opportunity to thank all the new subscribers that have climbed on board during that time - without a readership, a blog is nothing, your support is greatly appreciated.
This week saw the conclusion to my six part series […]

Putting your Keyword Research Plan into Practice

Posted by Martin Jamieson | March 31, 2008 .

This is the sixth and final part of my series on comprehensive keyword research for bloggers and niche marketers, part 1 deals with defining your keyword research goals, in today’s article we’re going to look at what it takes to bring all your keyword analysis together and make it into a useful plan for going […]

5 Keyword Research Tips to Finding the Questions Your Readers Want Answered

Posted by Martin Jamieson | March 27, 2008 .

This is part five of my series on Comprehensive Keyword Research for Bloggers and Niche Marketers, which started with Defining your Keyword Research Goals. Today’s topic is how to find the questions your readers want answered.
One of the more important goals for bloggers doing keyword analysis is (should be!) finding questions that are being asked in their […]

Keyword Themes and Grouping

Posted by Martin Jamieson | March 24, 2008 .

This is part 4 of my series on Comprehensive Keyword Research for Bloggers - if you’ve joined us part way through, you can find the start of this series here: Defining Keyword Research Goals.
Today I’m going to cover Keyword Themes and Grouping - depending on how your setup there could be quite a bit of work involved, […]

Query Types - Figuring out Keyword Intent

Posted by Martin Jamieson | March 20, 2008 .

This is part 3 of my series on Comprehensive Research for Bloggers, if you missed the first two I suggest you have a quick skim through Defining your Keyword Research Goals and 8 Tools for Keyword Research that should be a Part of your Arsenal.
When a user enters some keywords into a search box, they […]

8 Tools for Keyword Research that Should be Part of Your Arsenal

Posted by Martin Jamieson | March 19, 2008 .

This is part 2 of my series on Comprehensive Research for Bloggers, it continues on from my previous discussion on defining your keyword research goals, and today I’m going to have a quick look at some of the online tools I use for keyword analysis.
Most of these are pretty standard – if you’ve looked into keyword […]

Comprehensive Keyword Research for Bloggers - Part 1 Defining Your Goals

Posted by Martin Jamieson | March 17, 2008 .

Blogger’s have unique needs when it comes to Keyword Research, ones that aren’t typically covered in most keyword analysis articles. Over the next two weeks I’m going to share my keyword research strategies with you and show you how I approach this task from a few different angles.
I’m keen to hear your experiences and ideas too, […]

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