Comments on: Free Keyword Research – The Smarter Way!

By: Aniket

Aniket — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 08:03:50 +0000

They are pr2 – 3.
Just wanna know, if you are building sites around adsense then what kind of keywords to use high competition or high CPC. And what about no. of monthly searches? Because in many forums people have claimed to earn $2o, $70 or even $150 per month sometimes. I think you can explain the things well.

By: Aniket

Aniket — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 07:51:16 +0000

Hey, Clive can you write a post detailing how to earn using adsense. I have tried most of the things but still not able to make even a $0.5/day. I have tried making sites around high paying keywords, high traffic keywords, high competition keywords, high CPC, long tail, but nothing helps. I used on google keywords tool for this. I have tried using original and spinned contents as well. I have tried various ads placement but all in vain. Some of my sites even got good place on google.

By: Bradley Will

Bradley Will — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 04:32:55 +0000

Love your blog Clive. Looks amazing.

By: Clive

Clive — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 17:59:25 +0000

Hi Karlene,

The quickest way is simply to ‘right click’ on some white space when on your competitor’s site and, from the menu that shows up, click ‘View Source’. This will open a window showing youall the code behind the page ( and is what those SEO Bots see). Look closely at the tag and see what they have titled their page and to see how they describe it. You should be able to work out what keyword phrase they have focused on for that particular page. They might also have a too which will help you analyze what they are up to.

Meta Keyword tags have little or no relevance to SE results these days but most sites leave them in their anyway.

Another good ruse is to go to http://www.SpyFu.com and enter your competitor’s web site and find what keywords they are ranking well for ( intentionally or not).

By: karlene

karlene — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 11:32:28 +0000

Is there a tool that tells you what keywords your competitors are using?

Kind regards

Karlene

By: Morgan

Morgan — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 00:13:11 +0000

This is great information that really helps with organizing your site into a structure that makes sense, not only to your visitors, but especially to Google for SEO purposes. I like how you highlighted the differences between what the AdWords tools suggests compared to what the suggestions are for normal user searches. lots of people miss this!

By: Donald

Donald — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 16:06:40 +0000

This is so awesome to know. I find it harder and harder sometimes to find interesting info to write about on my blog. With this amazing little tool from Google(of course, I can not only find interesting things to write about but also hopefully drive more traffic to my site with specific keywords. Thanks again Clive for helping us out in the web community.

By: Clive

Clive — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:24:23 +0000

Thanks for the comment Ian. My point is that if you want to find out what Google thinks are relevant, associated keywords/phrases to focus on it’s easy to find out just by ‘asking’! Straight from ‘the horse’s mouth’ as it were! BTW I think it’s ‘SKYNET’! (‘Terminator’ film reference right?)

By: Ian

Ian — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:13:39 +0000

Clive thanks for the great post. Google in it’s continued quest for complete world domination is again leading the way in making the web better for anyone who is serious about finding the right words to drive traffic to their site. Google(SPYNET) is incredible.

By: Evan

Evan — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 18:23:04 +0000

Brilliant! As someone who just started a new blog and is trying to decide where to start in driving traffic to their site this is just what I needed to know. I will take any advice I can get and yours is so useful and most importantly easy to understand and initiate. Thank you, Thank you.