Keyword research plays a major role when you begin with a new blog. It is the keyword research that would decide the future traffic to your website and would form all of your current stuff.
Now the choice is yours. That is whether you would prefer keyword research or pay hundreds of dollars to SEO website design services. If you wish to begin yourself, given below are some ways to help you begin with your blog.
Keyword Suggestion Tool- Google AdWords
Suppose you wish to create an immediate traffic at your blog, in such case you would have to pay for every advertisement. The keyword suggestion tool Google AdWords would guide you for the relevant keywords to be used for your blogs.
Once you enter the keyword, this suggestion tool would provide you with all the related and other suggested keywords. This tool also offers you “Global Monthly Search Volume” that helps you to know the frequency of a particular keyword being searched in a month. So, that is for sure that if the keyword which you have selected is not used so often then there is no sense in optimizing your blog content and website as it would result in very low traffic. The tool is non paid or is free to use.
Word Tracker
This is also free and very simple to use. The drawback of this tool is it mostly highlights the keyword searches done in USA. However, you could try this tool if you think your business market to be in America.
This is simple to use as just type your main keyword and click the submission button; it would open the list of all the related and main keywords being researches in the past few years.
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Word Stream
This keyword suggestion tool is also free and online but not so simple to use. The benefit in using this tool is once you search any keyword this tool offers you the entire list of the related keywords and mails it to you. This gets quite handy if you wish to create an Excel sheet for future analysis or you wish to continue your research in other program.
Word Stream does not provide result in raw numbers but in bar graphs according to the keyword popularity. So it is best to generate keyword ideas with this tool.
Google Wonder Wheel
This is the keyword suggestion tool that shows all the related keywords in an easy graphical format. Just type the keyword you are looking for in the Google search bar and click; you would see this tool on the side of the page.
You can see that the main keyword forms the centre of this wheel and the related keywords surrounding the main keyword. If you click any of the related keyword, it will form another wonder wheel branching from the original tree. In this way it helps to know the relevant keywords.
Both Google Wonder Wheel and Word Stream are mostly preferred to generate keyword ideas as they do not give you any idea regarding the number of monthly searches. The drawback is you cannot email the list but have to note it down using a paper and a pen.
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