Search engines are becoming smarter, at least, the algorithms that are programed into them are better and the spider/crawler programs are faster. Using LSI and no doubt some techniques that I don’t know about yet, they are becoming far better at finding websites that deliver the kind of content that you are actually looking for, rather than the Adsense-Optimized websites that you really don’t want to find.
There are several very excellent programs also available, from IBP to SEO Elite, but making money online shouldn’t always mean you have to BUY software every time you want to try some new method of finding potential readers of your blog.
There are two excellent free programs (no ads…………really free), that work extremely well, and they are both very small, so don’t take up valuable resources on your computer.
The first is called KeywordPad. It is a software for managing large keyword lists used in your Internet marketing campaigns (organic search engine optimization, Pay-Per-Click ad campaigns, etc). Currently it works on Windows systems only, but this may change of course.
The second program is GoodKeywords. This piece of software is great for finding the common words people usually search for.
For example if you type ‘fishing’ the Overture/GoTo search suggestion tool will tell you that during the last month the word ‘fishing’ was searched 452349 (examples only) times at Overture.Com. Similarly ‘deep sea fishing’ was searched 304407 times. Given one word only, it will tell you all relevant combinations of that word (again this is based on ACTUAL searches made by people).
If the word you typed in not a common search term you will not get any results. It simply means that very few people actually searched for that word during the last month.
Give them a try. I use them and they’ve both worked well for me.
Luke
