Entries from Search Engine Roundtable tagged with 'keyword research'

A HighRankings Forum thread has discussion around an old patent from IBM named Prediction of query difficulty for a generic search engine. In short, the patent describes ways to determine how difficult a specific keyword is. Now, the patent was...

Posted on October 22, 2008 7:44 AM

On the Microsoft adCenter blog, we're informed that there is a brand new "keyword research tool to help you more efficiently find keywords and plan campaigns in adCenter." The tool will provide suggested keywords, the ability to add keywords to...

Posted on August 27, 2008 10:29 AM

While SEO becomes more and more important, people try to find angles that they can exploit or take advantage of so that they can achieve good rankings. In one specific instance, High Rankings forum post asks if there's a minimum...

Posted on June 30, 2008 9:55 AM

A Cre8asite Forums member contends that optimizing for certain keywords isn't desirable any longer. The reason given is that people aren't ever searching for those keywords (even though it looks like a logical search term). He adds that there's no...

Posted on June 19, 2008 10:16 AM

WebmasterWorld member Receptional Andy suggests the unconventional way to perform keyword research: offline with two books. The first book is the useful dictionary. If you do a search for "widget," for example, you may get an origin phrase, and in...

Posted on May 8, 2008 9:57 AM

Want to do some keyword research? Check out this cool tool that Cre8asite Forums member eKstreme found: Search Radar and take a look at it in action: The tool looks like it pulls a variety of resources, so there may...

Posted on May 2, 2008 9:21 AM

A Cre8asite Forums member was very happy with herself when she realized that she hit the #1 position for a search phrase that had over 70 million results. Who wouldn't be? That takes a lot of time and effort... But...

Posted on January 11, 2008 10:17 AM

WebmasterWorld PubCon 2007 Las Vegas Organic Keyword Research and Selection Moderator: Detlev Johnson Speakers: Craig Paddock, Boost Search Marketing Ryan Smith, Lead Systems Architect, Beyond Ink Seth Wilde, Search Engine Marketing Manager, uShip Craig Paddock Developing keyword lists is the...

Posted on December 6, 2007 4:49 PM

Fear not, my friends. It appears that our report last Monday about Yahoo! Overture being dead was a bit premature. According to WebmasterWorld members, the Yahoo! Overture Keyword Tool is back. The optimistic hopefuls have revived the useful tool from...

Posted on September 24, 2007 9:49 AM

A DigitalPoint Forums member reports that the Yahoo! Overture Keyword Tool is no longer providing results. I reproduced this as illustrated below. It looks like the Overture tool is finally gone unless this is a bug. YahooSarah said in January...

Posted on September 17, 2007 9:44 AM

A High Rankings Forums member asks if the order of keywords matters in site copy. Of course, the answer to this is yes. After all, if you create content that doesn't read well for your visitors, they won't stay on...

Posted on September 14, 2007 8:30 AM

Say you were doing some keyword research on a term you felt was widely used and that pertained to a densely populated demographic. You may be surprised to find that all your search terms are coming up empty. A Cre8asite...

Posted on September 4, 2007 9:25 AM

Many people have opted to sell their products on eBay but are wondering the best way to give their eBay store some visibility. Such is the case as illustrated in a Cre8asite Forums post where a person is looking to...

Posted on July 10, 2007 8:48 AM

When you have a website and are looking to market it, which keywords should you target for your SEO campaign? How can you tell which keywords convert? In a Search Engine Watch Forums thread, a member is advised to use...

Posted on June 13, 2007 9:48 AM

Adamap posted a screen capture of Google showing actual search volume numbers in the Google AdWords keyword tool. I honestly was not sure if this was a doctor'ed up screen shot, but I reported it anyway at Search Engine Land....

Posted on March 9, 2007 7:44 AM

A Cre8asite Forums thread asks what should one use as the format for their keyword lists. Let me compile the answers for you into this post. Number of searches (overture, word tracker, keyword discovery) Number of results for google search...

Posted on March 2, 2007 7:17 AM