Peter Wong asked:


In spite of all the good things that most affiliate marketers mention in their reviews of Keyword Elite, I would like to strike a balance by giving a more realistic review of this piece of software. No doubt, Keyword Elite is a piece of excellent software that can be run on your desktop to help you carry out a more extensive keyword research. It surpasses every single free tool in the market, which many people are using. However, there are two major caveats you need to bear in mind before you buy Keyword Elite.

1. The Problem of Current Database

Keyword Elite does not generate keywords by itself. In fact, keywords are pulled from various sources such as Overture and Google. This means that in most of the time, accuracy and speed are depending on these external sources. If the sources are not reliable or their servers are slow to progress, you will have a hard time in using Keyword Elite. For example, at this time Overture database are having problem of speed and stability. Therefore, if you choose Overture as one of the sources to retrieve a list of keywords, you will spend many hours before you can finish the search. Because of this, you may find some users complaining about the slowness of the software and even sometimes they will get N/A results from their research. Another good example is taken from Wordtracker. For instance, the recent update for Wordtracker will cause a captcha appears for every single keyword in Project 2 of Keyword Elite. A captcha is a kind of test adopted by much internet technology to fight spamming. The most commonly used captcha is a gimmick that requires you to put in certain numbers or letters given in a distorted image. It will definitely annoy you if you need to key in repeatedly hundreds or thousands times just to get rid of the captcha for a long list of keywords. To be fair, these are external factors that fall out of control of Keyword Elite. Any keyword tool that depends on these external sources will face a similar problem.
2. The Accuracy of High Paying Keywords

One of the commercial baits that seems very attractive in Keyword Elite is that it enables you to find Adsense high paying keywords. If you are using Adsense on your website to generate income, surely this feature seems to be a killer. How does it work? The answer is simple. Keyword Elite can retrieve those high paying keywords based on the estimation of Adwords cost-per-click (CPC). However, this is one of the features that disappoints a lot of users. The truth is that the CPC retrieved from Adwords only reflects the Google regular search, but not the content search network. In most cases, the Adwords advertisers will bid much higher in Google regular search than the content search network. This means that you may see $5 bid price in CPC that you obtain from Keyword Elite but in real picture, the same advertiser may have a bid price of $0.03 for a similar keyword, thus causing you to get a much lower CPC for your Adsense. This is the main reason why I heard so many users complaining the inaccuracy of Keyword Elite. In reality, this is not a fault that belongs to the software per se, because this is the limitation imposed by Google itself. Be that as it may, Keyword Elite is still a time saver and many of its features can still earn Keyword Elite one of the best keyword research tools in the current internet enterprise.



JACKSON

When I first started doing keyword research for building niche keyword lists, I turned to Overture. With Overture, I could freely type in a keyword and it would generate a list of up to 100 keywords that contained the one I typed in. The problem occured when I wanted to build a list of thousands.

After reading dozens of internet marketing books, I realized that the fee-based Wordtracker was the most reliable and popular one. I’ve used it many times and thought it was the best keyword research tool. I could type in a primary keyword, and then a bunch of related keywords could be displayed. I could then dig deeper into each keyword to build a larger list of keywords. After using Overture and Wordtracker for some time, there were still some features left to be desired:

Automatic keyword digging More keyword data sources Automatic KEI calculations

Automatic Keyword Digging

With this Keyword Elite feature, I could just type in a primary keyword and set a limit to how many keywords I wanted. Overture doesn’t have any automatic digging feature. If I wanted to display more keywords related to one on the list of results, I would have to click on the text link to query more results. With Wordtracker, it was pretty much the same. There was a dig icon that I would have to click on. It would then query that keyword as it did with the primary.

Keyword Elite has this feature built in. It prompts the user to type in a keyword and the amount of results that you want to have. You could select 100 to 10,000 keywords. So based on you primary keyword, it will automatically dig into the primary keyword and then into it’s results. This is a great time saving feature. You could enter and submit the initial parameters, take a lunch break, and then come back with thousands of keywords on your PC.

More Keyword Data Sources

With more data sources, the keyword tool would be more accurate. You would have a larger data sample representing a larger amount of keywords that people actually searched for. Since Overture’s keyword suggestion tool is a product of Yahoo Search Marketing, it’s results are pretty restricted. With Wordtracker, it’s data only comes from meta-search engines. So again, the results are limited.

With Keyword Elite, you have a plethora of databases and retrieval options. The main options are Overture, Google’s keyword suggestion tool, and Teoma’s database (Ask.com). In addition to that, you could even grab meta keywords from websites related to your primary keyword. Having these options are great, considering that Google and Yahoo are the primary websites for browsing the net.

Automatic KEI Calculations

The KEI (Keyword Effectiveness Index) is a popular calculation for determining the supply and demand of a keyword. Although there are other effective ways to determine the supply and demand, finding out how much competition you have is a must when planning out your websites. Overture doesn’t have any KEI calculation. Wordtracker does have it, but you have to do it in bunches of 100. With Keyword Elite, you could select more than a hundred and automatically calculate the KEI. So again, you could calculate the KEI, step away from your desk, and later have the results. I prefer doing this rather than being at my PC just to click a button.

As you can see, Keyword Elite is a time saving tool. You could find a bunch of free tools to do a similar task, but how important is your time? It would be wise to use your valuable time towards tasks that actually make you money. Why not have your computer do the work and speed up keyword research for you?

FREDDIE

Juhani Tontti asked:


When the articles are distributed to directories, other webmasters, ezine publishers and blogowners can use them as their content. This is important thinking about the effeiciency: the traffic and the number of backlinks. When your articles are published, the about the author box will remain unchanged, so you will benefit from the traffic and links.

1.The Right Keywords Bring The Results.

The key to the article marketing success is that the article is optimized with the right keywords. It is wise to use a special software for keyword picking, like WordTracker, to be able to see how many times per month the keyword is searched. Of course the chosen keyword must be related to your site topic.

It is also important to see that the you write the article for your reader not for the search engine. It must be relevant and highly useful content and include the keywords.When you pick the keywords, try to choose first very narrow niche keywords, then you can widen them later.

2.Increase The Efficiency By Using Several Keywords In One Article.

This method increases the chances of the article, because the more keywords you use, the more keywords searched will catch your article. For instance, if you want to get new downline members, one keyword can be for recruiting and another for money making.

3. Long Tail Keywords Work Very Well.

Long tail keywords are multiple word keywords that include several separate keywords. As an example: internet home work income business ideas and oppotunities. You can count how many separate, independent keywords there is. That means more traffic.

4.Try To Use Focused Keywords.

The more targeted the home based business traffic, the better it sells. This means that it matters whether your keywords are focused or not. Because the right angle to watch this issue is the visitor angle. Your target group definition will determine a lot. Do you sell to newbies or experienced marketers.One way to do a small research is to type your candidate keyword into the Google search bar and watch, what kind of sites will appear. Are they for your target group or not. If not, find a better keyword.

5.Select The Keywords Before You Start Writing.

Why? Let me answer. It will conduct your thoughts to the right issues right in the start and it is easier to write the content than trying to put the keywords into ready written copy.

Using appropriate keywords in your articles, you submit to an article directory, you will find that more publishers choose your content. Therefore, as a result of selecting the right keywords for your article, you will get the increased publicity and name recognition that you are looking for, as well as traffic for your home based business website.



GARLAND

Alex asked:


Optimizing your site is more important than any other aspect, you should make it your goal to use the best information, and the best keyword tools, but how do we find the best keyword tools? What criteria do we go about?

Look, I`ve been in the Internet marketing field for more than two years now, I have been marketing in the gambling, health and Internet marketing niche, which most even fear to approach, these niches aren`t suitable for everyone.

Search engine optimization has been my main priority and I have been always looking to improve things in a way or another, search engines always change their complex algorithms, this makes search engine optimization a must for any type of business or website.

Do you even have a marketing plan?

Are you an article/bum marketer, or do you just focus on PPC advertising? Have you even thought of investing some money in software? These are some of the questions you need to answer (taking the right decisions is what we are looking for).

There are lots of keyword tools that might not be suitable for you and your business, I have tried several bad and good ones, here my list of the keyword suggestion tools that do work and proved to give excellent results, best one first :

- Wordtracker

- SEO Elite

- Keyword Elite

- Micro Niche Finder

Invest your money in some good software once, and enjoy your keyword research for the rest of your Internet marketing career. The keyword tools above have been released in several versions, every new version brings new advanced features that will help you be more effective in your search engine optimization strategies.

What separates these tools and makes them rank higher than others?

- Affordable Price

- Easy To Use

- Friendly Interface

- Frequent Updates

- They turn over 10.000 Keyword suggestions on any root keyword, regular keyword tools are not even near this number.

- Guides, Tutorials and Great Customers Support

- And last but not least they are to trust for one good reason, all the top online marketers use these keyword tools, how is that for a change ?

Other good reasons to use a keyword suggestion tool:

If you opt for PPC advertising then you`ll also need to use a keyword tool. The success of your campaigns is based on the keywords you use. Either you choose AdWords, Yahoo Search Marketing (once known as Overture) or any other PPC Service there is no other way to find the most profitable long tail keywords that could be worth a gold-mine.

For a complete list of the top keyword suggestion tools please visit: Keyword Suggestion Tools



LUKE