If you've been following this blog, you probably know that I like to develop some custom tools to help me with generating keywords or niche ideas.
As effective as they are, the one key component still missing is further analysis. It's very easy to generate hundreds or even thousands of promising keywords using these tools, but you really need an automated way to tell the really good ones from the probably less profitable ones.
For that, I rely almost exclusively on Nichebot - one of the best keyword research services I know. I am working on a separate review of that service, but the key benefits that you get are as follows:
- access to databases of Wordtracker, Keyword Discovery and Google - all from one place
- credit system - if you're not a very heavy researcher, but need a continued access to the service, Nichebot will cost you a lot less than any monthly plan from Wordtracker or Keyword Discovery. And even if you cancel your subscription, you can still use any remaining credits - for life!
- multitude of other helpful tools - you can read more about them here. Even better, you can try the service for 14 days paying just $1 - you get 15 credits, which is enough to generate a list of 15,000 keywords with search counts!
Anyway, the tool that's especially handy in our scenario is called The Count Collector:
You just paste your keywords or upload a text file and hit confirm.
The Count Collector will then use the Keyword Discovery database to check search counts for each of your keywords. You will be charged 1 credit for each 100 keywords checked.
When you have your results, you can also perform a competitive analysis.
If you need to check just the supply (number of competing pages), it costs nothing.
If you also need the CPC analysis, it's a bit more pricey, costing 1 credit for each 10 keywords.
To sum it up, using The Count Collector, you can very quickly get the following:
- search count for each keyword in your list
- number of competing pages (together with all possible ratios of demand/supply automatically calculated)
- CPC values for each or selected keywords (optionally)
It means that you have all information necessary to make a very educated decision regarding your niche selection (or post idea or title idea, etc.).
Your results will look like this:
Competing Pages
Marcin,
I would respectfully have to disagree with this bullet point:
To sum it up, using The Count Collector, you can very quickly get the following:
* number of competing pages
It only brings up Google results but without a refined Intitle"keyword" search which is what you should do to get a general estimate of the actual competing pages you're up against, what is being delivered are mere references which is not an indication of your competition or better said how many competing pages there are that you can use to make an educated guess to decide if a phrase is worth your while.
Also keeping other factors in mind regarding the strength of these pages.
Have a great day Marcin and as always i enjoy to read your blog!
Dear Thor, I share your
Dear Thor,
I share your sentiment towards long, crappy sales letters :-).
However, in this case, it really shouldn't turn you off - you'd miss one of the most powerful tools available in the market right know.
It's beauty lies in the fact that you can use FULL databases of both Keyword Discovery and Wordtracker without subscribing to either. Plus, you get tons of other useful tools for getting even more niches, keywords and processing your results.
Additionally, Nichebot is being actively developed - from my experience, each month brings some new, exciting functionality.
So, I really recommend it
And thanks for the nice comments regarding my site :-).
This might be what I've been
This might be what I've been lookin for during the last few hours, but that mile long sales letter is a real turnoff. To me those types of sales letters signal crap, is it worth it though?
What I'm searching for is a way to quickly get an overwiev of keyword terms demand/supply. I'm in the starting holes of a see and do travel website and since I don't have the manpower in me to cover all or most of the attractions in each place I would like to find the gaps by typing in a list of attraction for each place and quickly get the demand/supply (KEI) ratio so I can narrow down the list.
Only after having done what would I like to take each term through the steps that all Keyword reserach services/tools seem to assume that I like to start with (force me to start with) i.e. find related terms for each.
Nice site by the way, it is bookmarked. I'm also using drupal.
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