13 Sites to Jumpstart Your Keyword Research

Posted: October 21, 2008

I recently wrote about the simplest way to jumpstart your keyword research. First, read that post. Secondly, come back and use these sites to examine the results.

Your site
Your top competitors site
Thesaurus.com
Ask.com
The DMOZ page for your category
The Yahoo Directory page for your category
If you’re a location based business, try the local.com search results for your keywords
Is the number one page/site in the organic results related to your keywords?
- If yes, spider for keywords
- If no, spider for negative keywords
Google News or Yahoo News. Do a search for your keyword first (this one might not be around forever. Google doesn’t normally let their results get spidered)
The top authority magazine’s or newspaper site in your industry.
The sites where you get your news about your industry
Any sites you regularly watch for information about your industry
If it’s one of your industry resources, spider it for new keywords

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Written by Brad Geddes aka eWhisper · Filed Under Blog, PPC Info

5 Responses to “13 Sites to Jumpstart Your Keyword Research”

Victor Correa on October 22nd, 2008 10:16 am

I add to the list Amazon.com. Look at the best buys and top 10 or 100 list. I will also check ebay.com and look for the hottest items sold. I also review my spam email box. I look at the subject line… which keywords are they targeting to make us/you open their emails. Look at what these bulk spammers are repeatedly sending you emails on… e.g., debt consolidation; is a topic that I am seeing at a much greater rate than before…

BTW, thanks for the post, it is not the run of the mill items that we see everywhere. Once again, thanks and very refreshing!
Sites to Jumpstart Your Keyword Research | The Micro Marketing Blog... Just Micro Markets! on October 22nd, 2008 11:45 am

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Brenda on October 22nd, 2008 4:06 pm

Good ideas, also consider google trends.
Jon Clark on October 29th, 2008 10:36 pm

MSN also has a nice set of research tools and a common misspelling tool in thier ad labs collection. Great list .. I’ll def. be incorporating a few of these into the mix!
Brad Geddes aka eWhisper on October 31st, 2008 6:22 am

I love Microsoft adLabs. If that’s not part of your research arsenal - spend some time there today.