I thought I would go ahead and post the reply to a comment I received in my previous post about “The Low Hanging Fruit” which may help some of you get over the keyword research hurdle.

Sorry I should have clarified.  The keyword research bit is to find keywords that you can easily rank high for in Google, not for PPC purpose (although you can, and it won’t hurt).

Here is what I do for keyword research.  I look around the house, or think of a topic in my mind, then I type that word in Wordtracker tool.

Then I go down the list of keywords that it came up with and click on the rightmost icon which will pop up a competition/Google trend estimate for that keyword.  You can use the < 30,000 competition and > 100 searches/day guideline it gives you as a starting point.

So, if you want to follow along, I’m looking around right now and I see computer speakers in front of me.  I type “computer speakers” in the keyword research tool, and it came back with this list (partial):

1,328 searches (top 100 only)
Searches    Keyword    G
1,328    total searches
418    computer speakers
73    wireless computer speakers
70    best computer speakers
43    bose computer speakers
31    speaker computer
20    computer speaker reviews
18    computer speaker
17    klipsch computer speakers
15    logitech computer speakers

Start going down the list and click on the icon in the “G” colulmn.  You will see that “computer speakers” gets searched over 3,000 times a day, but it also has over 3,000,000 webpages that are targeting that keyword!  So it’s very competitive.

Let’s try another one.  How about “wireless computer speakers”  Nice!  This is a good “low hanging fruit” keyword with over 130 searches per day, and 17,000 webpage results.

The next keyword is also good, “best computer speakers”

I would actually like someone to actually go out and register a domain for those keywords, and either monetize it with Google Adsense, Amazon, or eBay auctions, and see how it goes.

More to come later…

Wouldn’t it great to be able to see if a link on any web page has a “nofollow” attribute to it? Well, fortunately a plugin is available that will give you exactly that information.

Whenever it comes across a link with “nofollow” tag in it, it simply strikes a line through the link denoting that it’s a nofollow link:

The plugin (available for both Firefox and Internet Explorer browsers) can be downloaded for free here: http://www.seoquake.com/

Once you have the plugin installed to your browser, you should see the plugin’s icon located at the bottom right corner of your browser window:

By default the nofollow link indicator is not turned on, so what you will need to do is RIGHT-CLICK your mouse button on the icon, and check the ‘Line-through “nofollow” and “noindex”‘ menu item. Refresh the page that you are viewing and it should put a line through any hyperlinks with nofollow attribute.

If you are into SEO or Search Engine Optimization (optimizing your website to rank high in the search engine’s result page) then you know the importance of obtaining links from other web properties (especially true for Google).

Beside all the web 2.0 properties (social bookmarks, social networks, etc.) there are many webmasters who run WPMU, or Wordpress MU websites. WPMU sites allow users to create their own blog with their own unique web address. This presents an excellent opportunity for Search Engine Optimists to go out and seek for these WPMU sites, create a free blog, and start posting content with a link back to their websites.

Currently, my brother (who is an excellent programmer, by the way) is putting in the finishing touch for an automated submission tool that will help you submit content to your WPMU blog accounts. He had 280 WPMU accounts created, and is now using his own submission tool to post articles (with link back to his site) to his blog accounts. It is a HUGE time saver to have the software post articles to 280 blog accounts, and he is seeing amazing rankings.

Would you be interested in such software tool if he should decide to make it publicly available? If so, please put in your name, email, and a suggested price for this software and I’ll let you know when it becomes available (ETA end of March 2008).

Do a search in Google for “passive income” and tell me if you see this blog in the search results - see how many results turned up. Do another search for “internet passive income” and see where this blog is ranked - also see how many results came up, and where this blog stands.

Most people over-complicate search engine optimization.

If you want to rank high in Google, you only need to be concerned of 3 things. A good domain name (with your keyword in it), an optimized content page, and good supporting links to your page.

Most people can master the first 2, but have a lot of trouble getting good supporting links to their sites.

Have a look at this service that I provide:
http://www.netpassiveincome.com/blogWSO

This will give you an “unfair advantage” to ranking high in the search engines. This is also the only way for you to get 1-on-1 help from me, personally to you, for you to succeed in your online business.