I have a few keywords for you this week. Not because I have lost the plot, you understand, more because some of them go together so well.
First up is: Hello Kitty Pictures
I wasn’t sure about this being a buying keyword, but the hello kitty craze seems to be growing bigger and bigger across the globe and there is a stack of merchandise available to back up the fans, even in Amazon.
I’ve been using my new “patented” technique for finding these keywords, so they have a good search volume for both exact and broad matches…..hopefully that way, there’s a chance of getting close to the traffic numbers in the new Google tool.
As a result, “Hello Kitty Pictures” gets 6,600 exact searches and 12,100 broad in the US every month, there’s a decent TLD available and as a complete freebie, I’ll tell you that you can also get a TLD for “Hello Kitty Pink” which also gets some good searches and has a load of physical products that would match perfectly. Link the two sites and see what happens!
The second, more serious idea for this week is “formal dresses and gowns”. 4,400 exact searches and 8,100 broad in the US every month – maybe you could tie this in with Christmas parties, but actually the demand is pretty constant across the year.
Traffic Travis says that both of these keywords are a relatively easy 4/5 stars, so as usual, snap ‘em up and let us all know how you get on.
If you want to know more about my way of finding these keywords, dive into the comments and let me know. Who knows, I may even reveal all.
Today is the big payoff for those of you who have watched the last two short videos (if you haven’t, shame on you, look here for the start)
Now that I’ve found a load of keywords and organised them according to my admittedly random criteria(!), I can now go and look up if any domains are available. Watch the video to see me reveal a couple of available domains that come straight out of this test run….and then go and register them quick.
The little trick in there with removing all the apostrophes and full stops will help the whole process run smoother. If Godaddy finds one of these, it gives an error but also expands out all the .com, .net and .org domain names in full in the search box……that means you have closer to 1500 names instead of the 500 you started out with and so the next search fails too.
Anyway, go out there, try it and grab some domains. Let me know if you find any really good ones (just the finding, not the name itself you understand.)
Back in the more mundane world, earnings for day 17 are as follows:
Adsense earnings 6c
Amazon UK earnings 37c – this is why you need to go for big ticket items….this small one paid me £0.25
I promised a second video today and after a bit of work, here it is:
In this one, you’ll find out how I bring the information from the previous video back into excel and where I go from there.
In a bit of great news, shareasale approved my application super-fast and so I have a new way to fill a couple of my niche websites. Ezinearticles also gave me some approvals, so it’s off to the races in the other article directories next and I even managed to get another niche article written and filled with spintext.
The one thing I really know about myself is that I’m not a good finisher/completer. I think the Myers-Briggs test told me I was an owl or something daft like that because I like to think about things and strategise.
Well, yesterday was an owl day. I sat down to write my articles and got completely side-tracked into generating more keywords for my sites. Now in a way this is good, because I now have a load more topics I can add to my sites and use as articles in the outside world, but in another way it sucks because I didn’t get on with the work – lousy finisher/completer!
The upside to this is that the keyword research made my smile grow bigger and bigger throughout the process. I was using a little technique I’d seen before to ramp up the number of my keywords from an initial few seed words. Now, I know that these already form the basis of a good few sites for use with Amazon but I couldn’t believe how many keywords I was finding.
It looks like my little niche has turned into a monster market (with relatively little competition across the board).
If you haven’t tried it yourself, what I was doing was building a keyword list using the Google external keyword tool. You may need to switch to the old interface using the link at the top right of the new page. This version gives you suggestions for more related keywords in the results – not to self….must investigate what the new version really does!
What you can do, is “add” all of the suggested keywords. This moves them to the right hand side in a kind of temporary storage. From there (on the right) you can click to get more suggestions and that copies all of your saved keywords back into the search box and goes rond again. It greys out any words already found, so you can just select any new ones, or you can just hit add all again since it eliminates duplicates.
The difficulty with this technique is that eventually you get too many keywords to put back in the search box and it blows up. So, what you have to do at this point is to export all your saved keywords to a file and then just cut and paste them back in manually 50-100 at a time. I recommend staying with a lower number as the suggestions from the first few of your pasted keywords will fill up the 200 keywords limit and you may never see the suggestions for the last of your pasted words. This sounds long-winded but will give you a stack of keywords in the end that you can use for months.
As I said, the greying-out of keywords gives you a good idea if you are nearing the limit of what can be discovered….eventually it will all be grey. The reason I got so excited was that this didn’t happen to me for a veeeery long time yesterday. What that means is that I kept finding new untapped avenues for new keywords and just kept going and some of those keywords were monsters.
I’ll try to put a short video together to illustrate all of this stuff in case I have described it poorly, but in the meantime I have some articles to write!!
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