Brainstorm keyword ideas with the help of the Google Adwords tool

Today is Day 6 in the Adsense 101 Bootcamp and Steve has produced some helpful videos all about keyword research.

I was doing my homework for today and remembered a ‘trick’ I had discovered for generating seed keyword lists. I thought I’d share it here for you.

  1. Search Google for your niche and find two or three information authority websites. Note down their URLs and then head over to https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal
  2. On the left hand side you’ll see an option for Website Content.
  3. Check the radio button and then paste the first URL in the box that appears. Check the box underneath it so that it searches more than the homepage.
  4. Now click the Get Keyword Ideas button.
  5. Up pops a whole list of keywords based on the content of that site.
  6. Use the Choose/Hide column to display drop down to filter the content so you can see the advertiser competition, global monthly searches and CPC.
  7. Scroll to the bottom and select export all to CSV/Excel
  8. Then rinse and repeat with your other websites that you found.

Simple! Give it a try and see how it works for you.

If you have any keyword brainstorming/generation tips you’d like to share I’d love to hear them – that’s what the comments box is for ;)

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I just found out about that trick too. I did use it in another way. I imputted my biggest niche blogs, that makes me the most money. I have around 70 posts live on it, and don't write much about it, because, I thought, there weren't any good keywords left. Well, I'll be damned, with this trick I found 60 more keywords I haven't used to write posts around and all those keywords have between 500 and 13000 EXACT searches and all of those have less then 50000 competition when searched in phrase. I just love that trick ;)

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Great minds think alike - I searched on my own website and found some nice keywords too. I think whenever anyone is stuck for content ideas they should just use the Google Keyword Tool on their own site to generate some!