Keyword Research With a Difference

Hi there and doesn't time fly when you're having fun! Every week I try and set myself my detailed Internet marketing plan and publishing schedule for the coming week. N ot every week goes according to plan but listed below is the kind of achievements and failures in a normal week for me. Why is this important? Well with no plan and no goals, chances are I wouldn't have achieved much and the lack of motivation is bad news in my book.

I did manage to achieve some of my weekly objectives so my Internet marketing activity was not quite what I'd hoped for, the best bit the monthly mentoring call on keyword research, but here goes on what got done.

Article Marketing The most effective marketing, so many say

Yep that went ok, managed to get a load more blogposts indexed so quick re-write etc and onto the directories. I'm still uploading manually which takes a bit of time but as I get going I've been recommended to an article submission service which I'll check out and let you know how I get on.

Also I'm planning to possibly out source some article writing, again having visited some of the forums there's some good recommendations, one in particular caught my eye and again I'll check him out & let you know how I get on.

Writing Blogposts

Yep my minimum was three and I hit that so job done on that front

Auto responders yea looked at it but that's all I did so failure there!!

Hitting Internet marketing blogs and forums

Yes I managed to do quite a bit here, but it just takes up a lot of time. But everyone tells me it's the best way to get noticed' so I'll persevere. I just does you head in when you've registered, then try to post can't then have to go back & get the problem sorted some much time and effort.

Monthly Mentoring Call Excellent!!

Tuesday dashed home from work for the monthly mentoring call from the 2 Neils' in the UK and it was on keyword research. Now I don't know about you but I realise how important it is but I'm never sure I'm doing it right'. The call was great and as usual their take on and strategies for research were refreshingly different.

Their take is to start from a different angle and before hitting the keyword tools. Hit blogs, forums and see what people in your niche are searching for. You're looking for Words and phrases look for three key areas: 1} Problems and finding solutions 2} Action they want information and help and 3} How To the classic. In this way you'll not only find keywords but also long tail keywords and phrases very handy.

Other tools to use

Also visit article directories, check out the topics within your niche that authors are writing about, again you'll come away with loads of ideas.Yahoo Answers again check out what people are searching for.

Also Google Wonder wheel this was absolutely new to me. I won't cover it in detail here but check it out, especially the step-by-step guide which just illustrates what a clever little tool this is. Also check out Google Alerts keeps you bang up to date.

So all in all not a bad week, pretty tired out, but later today or tomorrow it all starts again and I'll be planning my work schedule, this is vital for me because it keeps the pressure on me and I need to set goals, (in my m mind everyone should) so onwards and upwards.

Toby Russell

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