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!!
Earnings for Day 2:
Adsense $1.40
Amazon $0
