Keyword research is the first step towards a successful search engine optimization campaign. You have to be very careful when selecting keywords, as it can be very tricky to select targeted keywords for a website.

The selection of keywords should always be based on various aspects such as product names, services, brands, or general terms. Often times, people forget about targeting geographical terms when they have global presence.

When doing keyword research, it’s highly recommended to do a very thorough market research analysis to find the best keywords used by search engines to find products and services online – and find out what keywords are targeted by competitors who are doing well in marketing on the internet.

The first step in finding the best keywords is to make a list of the products, topics, and services that you offer. You can also make good use of your website logs to know which keywords have brought you the traffic in the past.

Be sure to select keywords that clearly define your business and products to drive traffic from the search engines. There are some websites which get high levels of traffic through general keywords although they might not end up being sales.

Today, users of search engines are aware of how they work, for searching products and services on the net. Users always look for the better products, locations, etc. Therefore, you should cover all terms for each – products, locatins, etc.

There are numerous tools available which will help you identify keywords that are suitable for search engines. The challenge here, is to determine which keyword is the best to generate traffic.

Keyword Research is a post from: Make Money Online by Marketing Your Business

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Is it me or is everyone seeing an increase of website owners looking for solutions to their decrease in traffic?

It can’t be me.

If you’re an internet marketing trainer or operate an internet marketing website I’m sure you’re getting more emails and blog comments from frustrated website owners than any other time in your site’s lifespan. Am I right?

After a few emails back and forth, this ‘market’ of site owners aren’t the super-savvy, up-to-date, entrepreneurs – but they’re no dummies either!

These are people who had a mini-site that sold a product or two, did their due diligence at launch and used to make between $300-$1000 a month in automated sales (primarily through Clickbank but a few are solely PayPal merchants).

They were making automated sales, but not anymore. This isn’t due to any ClickBank or PayPal glitches overnight. They’re reporting a steady decrease throughout 2007.

They’ve lost their page rank. They’ve lost their traffic. They’re losing their subscribers.

And they’re missing that extra cash coming into the household!

These are the online entrepreneurs who are still working full or part-time, out of the home, and were using their online business to supplement their lifestyles. But the money isn’t coming in anymore and for a variety of reasons they don’t have time to strategize or move into social marketing. (Most promise me that they will in a few month’s time, but right now they just need their free traffic back so they can catch up on bills!)

My Solution to A Fast Return on Profit

I’ve decided to take a step back in time here, with a technique that still works to drive traffic and increase search engine ranking. And offering the best deal I can manage on the training and software that gets those niche site owners back on track with their marketing quickly and affordably.

How quick?

1. 2 hours of reading, 2 different ebooks.
2. 2 hours of implementation (following the guidelines and tips in the ebooks).
3. 10 minutes of submission to over 100 sites (via included software).
4. 7-14 days to see an increase in traffic (no promises, this is my personal experience).

How affordable?

• $17 – see it here.

Not enough traffic, sales, subscribers or search rank increase?

• Lather, rinse, repeat.

Hoping this helps. When it does, promise me you’ll quit your day job and start actively marketing your products, brand, ’self’, on social networking websites. It is, after all, where the lion’s share of the traffic has gone.

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Hi Laura:

I just came across your website and blog by accident following links on other websites.

Brilliant I love it.

I came across your posts and video about building wordpress affiliate sites with data feeds, and I’m fascinated with the whole concept.

I’m one of these people who have been collecting ebooks and software on internet marketing for a while now but have been to scared too actually get anything started until now. And I know now that this is a great way to start and build a network of affiliate sites/blogs using data feeds.

Basically I would like to know where to start with these…

EGJ:

Thanks for writing and for your compliments. I appreciate it as I do work hard to provide valuable information to people – especially those just starting out, but also to those who have been struggling for a long time and not making much money at their online business.

And you are my favorite type of person! The one who has read and studied and wondered…and is now ready to put all that into action! You know that you won’t make a million dollars overnight and you know that there is some thought, research and effort involved to building an income online.

In the last two weeks I’ve been consulting with a woman who is also at this stage. She’s just built a fabulous domain using a WordPress blog and the WP Affiliate DataFeed Script. She had no prior experience with website creation, only knew that she wanted to build a site that was valuable to her visitor, but also attractive to the search engines and had the potential to earn an income.

Now, I’m spewing a lot of information here so bear with me…

The Associate DataFeed Creator is good but tough to make fistfuls of cash on amazon (their prices are often too high for the average online shopper). The Affiliate DataFeed Generator is also good and versatile (not limited to amazon) but has a higher learning curve and truly works better if you own RSS2Blog (which is a pricey script, but well worth the money – something to think about AFTER you are earning a decent income from your site). So hands down of all of the scripts I use the WordPress Datafeed Affiliate Script (the one I created those videos for) is still the best for the money, the easiest to use for beginners, and very versatile for product selection).

However…there is one really cool script I’ve been using this past two weeks – still testing, but it has huge potential and I’m seeing the money coming in from it already. Actually I started with it on one website and since the results were so fast I’ve now added it to three sites I own!

It doesn’t require WordPress, the pages are search engine friendly, the creator of the program is helpful, honest, supportive, the price is reasonable, new features are coming (so it will be even more versatile), a forum is in the works (which means that an entire support network will be at your beck and call with examples and insider’s tricks)…on and on and on.

Now you won’t likely be earning $100 per sale per referral, but who cares? Once these are set up and running they update themselves so the income stream is automated.

The products you’ll be referring are the 25 million products on ebay – narrowed down by your criteria for each site you set up. For instance I have one site about backyard birding and my ebay store on that site only displays birding and gardening supplies. The payout is between (40-60% of ebay’s take on the listing, plus $12-$22 for every new ebay registration – I’ll have to check those figures but they aren’t far off). You won’t make hands over fist on the registrations because millions already have an ebay ID, but you should make a few per thousand visitors. And people love shopping on ebay, they’re getting a deal, the brand is trusted, and, yes 25 million products to choose from.

Well, I’ve typed enough this morning and given you two options to choose from that are perfect for netpreneurs just starting out. The WordPress Datafeed Affiliate Script or the ebay script.

Here’s the ebay page to check out – it’s so nice and non-hyped with examples of sites you could build and even a demo to play on! See the ebay affiliate script in action here.

Drop me a note back anytime and let me know how you’re getting on with your business okay?

Laura

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And today an internet marketing friend shared with me his free report titled: “The Death of Internet Marketing”

I will admit, give the sheer genius of the marketer (Mike Filsaime), I was pretty sure I’d be in for a fear-based, pitch-fest by reading it. “Oh no! My online business will die if I don’t know/buy/practice this!”

It turns out that wasn’t the case.

This free and meaty (59 pages of similar content I received from part of Mark Joyner’s eXtreme home study course) really helped clarify the future of online business in my mind.

This really could be the death of the way netpreneurs currently do business online!

The good news is, the report also shows you what you need to know now to succeed in and prepare for the future.

Times are changing (I’ve been rambling about this for quite some time now) and it would be a shame for any serious netpreneur to miss this report. Mike states on the site he’s only making it available for free for the next few weeks.

Please take a break with whatever is keeping you busy at the moment, get your free training, and clearly see what steps to take next in your business.

Consider your future, go here now…

Laura

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