What Is Keyword Research?
The current situation of web world is truly saturated with lots of websites on any given topic. Search on any topic returns thousands to million search results making it difficult to push a website to the viewer without keyword research. So, what is keyword research (also look into Which Keywords Are Driving Traffic To Your Site)?
Before moving to the topic, let us know actually, what is a keyword? Suppose you want to buy a nokia mobile phone, say XYZ GSM and want to know about its features, price and user experiences. What should you do? Definitely, you will open your favorite search engine and search writing “XYZ GSM features”, “XYZ GSM price” or “XYZ GSM user experiences”. The quoted words are called keyword.
It is a term that is used to search anything. Now finally, what is keyword research? Okay, Keyword research is a process specially used by web masters and search engine optimization experts to find out the most relevant keyword that people use to search everything in search engines. A comprehensive keyword research results into good search engine ranking and hits (you can checkout both Optimizing Your Site for Google and Optimizing Your Site for Yahoo).
It means, finding out keywords that are most commonly used by the people. From the previous example, some people may write “XYZ GSM price features user experiences” in a single search or it may be “XYZ GSM specifications” in short. Some might even use the word “user opinion” instead of “user experience.” The goal of keyword research is to find out which keyword is used by most people.
Therefore, the optimum keywords are imposed on the site with some techniques to decrease the number of results, because of fewer results increase in the ranking. Some times, long keywords are used to focus on a specific topic. This helps to show the page to small but targeted visitors.
Another example may clear the doubt completely. Suppose a Second hand car dealer want to optimize his website, then he needs to find his website on first page. Most of the people would search by writing the term “Second hand car.”
Now, if the keyword researcher optimize with the keyword “Second hand Car,” it is practically impossible for a new site with a fewer back-link to get place on first place. However, if the researcher optimizes the site keyword “Pre-owned Car” with “pre-owned car,” the result is not changed, but increment of number of hits should be expected. No site or a very few site will shown in result and it will be easier to get the first position (you may also be interested in How To Get Top Rankings In The Search Engines).
Some tools and sites provide information on search volume and keyword list based on the specific topic. Keyword researchers use these tools to find the correct keyword for focusing on targeted visitors. Google ad word tools are good example of keyword research tool that provide the search data of Google search engine.
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