Hows that list coming along? You wll recall in the first part of this series I covered getting a list together of ideas for your site or blog niche. Hopefully you have a good sized list of general categories. The next steps involve narrowing the keywords and then doing some supply and demand research.
There are many keyword tools out there. I like to use Overtures because its free and easy. Keep in mind that the numbers from Overture are usually inflated sometimes a little sometimes a lot. They fudge the numbers by counting like queries fly and flies or affiliate and affiliates get counted as the same query. Remember they make more money convincing their prospective advertisers that a search term is popular.
So plug in one of the general search terms from your list. Im going to try dogs. Here are the results:
Searches done in February 2006
Count Search Term
1104234 dog
225786 dog breed
183180 dog training basics
152056 dog show
139072 dog breeders
98321 dog name
97021 dog training
91172 dog picture
88480 dog for sale
62657 dog grooming
56907 dog gift
I edited a few like snoop...