Profitable Keywords - How To Find Them?

As you know, keywords are very important part of marketing, and one of the tasks, you have to perform here is to identify profitable keywords. I often see people on forums asking for converting keywords, but obviously, no one is going to tell you anything. Come on guys, if you would have found some decent keywords, would you share them with someone? I am sure you won’t.

Internet marketing is tough, and you have to rely only on yourself and do your own research. If you want to find good, profitable keywords, the only advice I can give to you is trial and error. Sometimes publishers give out some keywords for their affiliates, but usually those are not optimized, and you end up wasting your time, or even money, if you are doing PPC.

If you don’t want to be in that situation, then stop waiting for someone to tell you everything, and start thinking of how you can do it yourself. The good thing is that, you already have the keywords, you just need to do a bit testing and tracking to see, which keywords are profitable. Simply start off with keyword tools, like Google Keyword Tool, or Wordtracker, and search for your general keyword, for example, “make money online”.

Then once you got the results, filter them. There are always some stupid keywords, which don’t make sense or they are too long. Long tail keywords are good, but don’t go too far, like 8-9 words. I don’t think those keywords get even searched. So make a note of the keywords, which you think can be profitable (just use your common sense), and then start testing them. Paste all of them in Notepad, or MS Word, for example, and write an article for each. Take your time, don’t rush, and make sure you proof read your articles. I often find some silly mistakes, when I read my article again, after finishing writing it.

Article directories like EzineArticles and ArticleBase provide analytic features, so you can see, which article brought you the traffic. Look at the articles as the keywords. If your article is written based on a specific keyword, that means, you can tell whether that keyword makes you money or not. Simply check the clicks in statistics, use Clickbank tracking, and you could also use Google Analytics. These three tracking features will definitely help you to find profitable keywords, and eliminate the waste.

Eventhough, free keyword tools are pretty good, but I always suggest using something more professional. There are many paid keywords tools, but one of my favorites is Keyword Elite. The developer of that great software is Brad Callen. He’s a well-known person in Internet marketing industry. If you want, click here to read my review of the tool.