This is the last step in our keyword research process. By now you should have gathered dozens of niche ideas, thousands of initial keywords and you should have filtered the gold nuggets by checking the TAComp in Market Samurai and Average Keyword Competitiveness in LongTail Pro.
Although you can directly go and start building your websites from here I highly recommend checking the competition for your keywords. The tool we will be using is Market Samurai.
Before I was using that tool for my whole keyword research process. You could, of course, do that but now what I love about it the most is the SEO Competition module.
SEO Competition In Market Samurai
We are doing this so we can see first hand what the competition is. Ultimate Niche Finder and LongTail Pro have their indexes but we want to see it ourselves.
The whole idea is to check if somebody else is optimizing for those keywords, are they ranking high and can we beat them. If you see something like that run away:
What we are looking for is something like this:
As you can see the ranking pages have almost no backlinks (do not care too much about the backlinks to the domains) and only three of them have the keyword in the title, URL, description and a header tag. I would describe this a low to medium competition keyword.
I do this with each one of the keywords I’m left with at this stage. Sometimes I drop some of them just because I see it would be way tougher than I initially thought.
Remember, we are going after the low hanging fruit here. Recently we dominated a niche with pretty competitive keywords but the strategy was a bit different. I will be posting about that case study here when I figure out how to structure it.
For now you have everything needed to start cranking those niche websites. The whole keyword research process has been 80% automated.
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Proper Keyword Research 01 – Coming Up With Ideas
Proper Keyword Research 02 – The Shotgun Approach
Proper Keyword Research 03 – Now We Are Getting Somewhere
Proper Keyword Research 04 – Getting a Second Opinion
Proper Keyword Research 05 – Let’s See What We Have Here
Proper Keyword Research 06 – I Spy With My Little Eye…