Keyword Research Suggestions

Article written by : Internet Marketing Showtime

Google algorithms dominate the search engine optimization (SEO) industry. Every time Google roll out a new update, many online businesses as well as those who rely on the Internet for business opportunities including SEOs scramble to incorporate changes to their effort. This cycle needs to be broken in order to achieve business success.

Here is one strategy you can implement to get ahead of Google; rely less on keyword search. It’s a tall order but you can do it. Many of us emphasize on keyword search. Most of the data and research available also based on keyword search. Reliance on keyword search consumes too much of valuable time of SEOs and become harder every day since Google control keyword data. Instead of trying to master Google keyword process, why not develop your own keyword set? After all you are the best expert in your field of business and you have a ready vocabulary that explains your business better than anybody. You can start to build content around these. Once you develop your own set of keywords back test your data against available resources. This will help you to break the reliance on Google keyword search.

When looking for keywords and using keyword research tools, you will find the most searched keywords are also the ones that are the most competitive.  If you have a new site or very few links, there is no way you would rank for competitive keywords. Instead, focus on long tail keywords that get less traffic and are less competitive.

Top 5 SEO Tool Recommendations

Article provided by Pierre Zarokian from Submit Express.
Here are my top 5 SEO tool recommendations.
1) Majestic – This tool allows to check the number of backlinks and the details about them. There are several other available tools out there such as MOZ and ahrefs, but I like this better as it seems to have bigger database than all competitors.
2) Advanced Web Ranking – This is a ranking checker. I like this tool because it is cloud based. When I was choosing this, I looked at several competitors and I like this the best due to different formats of reports it offers. I specifically like the fact that one of the report views offers competing website reports, which if you do reputation management it can be configured to show results for positive and negative sites on one page with color codes.  If you run an agency, this is also great as you can give your customers direct access to only their own websites.
3) Link Research Tools – This is a great tool to use to find low quality backlinks that may be penalizing your website and to create a disavow file for Google. LinkDetox is a subset of this tool and is also available standalone. This tool can be pretty pricey. Link research Tools starts at $169/month and Link Detox starts at $95/month.  If you need to run only a few reports, I have seen a few people selling audits using this tool for $5 to $15 on fiverr.
4) Google Keyword Planner – There are several keyword tools out there, but I like to use the Google tool direct for keyword research and it has probably the most reliable info.
5) Keyword Spy – This is a neat tool that let’s you see what keywords your competitor is using or you can also type keywords to see what they estimated search volume is and the going Google Adwords PPC bids are for top clicks. The fee version will give you limited info, but if you want more data, you will need to buy a subscription.
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This article was provided by Pierre Zarokian SEO of Submit Express.  Submit Express has been around since 1998 and offers SEO Services,  Reputation Management, Local SEO and Email Advertising Services.  Visit their site to find out more.

Moz a site with best SEO tools

Moz.com (formerly SEOMoz) is a software development company and an online service specializing in search engine optimization (SEO).  Founded in 2004 it earned an annual income of $1.4 million.  However, at the end of 2011, it earned whopping $11.4 million in revenue.  Some of the tools are free with limited datasets; however, there are three different professional in depth and detail reports, Moz Pro for purchase.  Moz Pro shower its members with perks including discount on other related services including A/B testing platforms, social media tools and industry conference tickets.

The site is friendly and provides many attractive reports.  Some users have raved the site as one of the best for keyword search, link building and site analysis.  Moz provides a series of tools including Moz Term Extractor that shows the importance of words or phrases; Moztrust which compares trustworthiness of the Website to others; MozRank, an alternative to Google PageRank; a tool to compare relevance of a page with other similar samplings; YOUMoz, a tool to research popular search trends; and SEO Toolbar that audit SEOs.  The graphics and layout make it easier to drop screen grabs into any report helping novices to the technology.  This makes the site friendlier to those who like attractive reports.

Moz also has a few version of their tool called Open Site Explorer. It will allow you to do a few searches a day for free!