Keyword Research Software Review

If you are anything like me and have decided to make a living writing online, you will have been through a few revelations and epiphanies.

One of those revelations will probably have been that you need to do some research in order to find out the terms that people are using to enter into search engine search boxes when they are looking for something online. The simple fact is that unless people are using any terms you write on your pages to search for things – they are not going to find your pages, unless you are extremely lucky.

It does not matter how wonderful an article you have written on a subject if no one is searching for information on that subject – you are simply not going to get any traffic. And if you are like me and your goal is to make money online – traffic usually (but not always – we will get to that) means money. This is called keyword research.

1. Determining the volume of searches being performed – both for general terms around the subject you are thinking of writing about and specific volumes of exact terms being used.
2. Determining the potential income from these terms by analysing the amount that advertisers are prepared to pay on google adwords for contextual ads displayed on pages relating both to the general subject and specific exact terms.
3. Analysing the publisher competition to determine how likely you are going to be to get your page ranked highly in the search engines in order to attract traffic, and lastly,
4. The commercial intention of the internet users doing the searching.

As you can imagine – or have discovered for yourself – this is extremely time consuming and leaves a lot of room for errors. I have made all the mistakes possible to make here. I have got spent months getting myself ranked highly for a term only to discover it does not monetise well; I have ignored a term because I incorrectly analysed the competition; I have chased down a keyword I could never rank for because the competition is too high. I have paid a lot of money for software that was supposed to do the job for me and proved too difficult and inaccurate to use. You name it – I have made the mistake. Why did I spend money on keyword research software to do it for me? Easy:

I genuinely hate doing keyword research. I mean – I really, really hate it. It is boring, repetitive and gives you (until you get paid) absolutely no satisfaction as a writer. I hate it with a passion. If google ever get their latent semantic search engine working properly (probably never) I will not need to do it quite so exactly but until that time – you don't do it and you are missing out on substantial income.

And even if they ever do - you will still need to analyze the search volumes, income potential and look at the competition as regards quality instead of rankings. So - keyword research is a part of making money on the Internet - whether we like it or not - anyone who tells you otherwise is full of shit.

Whether you are doing keyword research for your own blogs, for SEO, ppc article marketing, whatever - this is what you want to find – keywords that have high search volumes, high earning potential, high commercial intention, high advertiser bids - and low publisher competition.

So, you can use all the free keyword research tools, such as the google keyword research external tool to find these terms and manually check the competition. You will eventually find them and make some money. But – you will discover that for every 500 terms you research, only 10 of them will fit your criteria and 5 of those were mistakes. Trust me – I have spent countless hours doing this to the point I could barely make myself sit at the computer.Eventually you are going to discover that you have had enough of doing that job. In fact - it may not even be cost effective for you - I just hated it myself and could no longer force myself to do it.

So – I started looking for automatic keyword research software that would perform the task for me. Dear me. What a journey that turned out to be. I have said before that 99% of the Internet is garbage. Well – the same applies to the automatic software out there. I have wasted as many hours trying to make some of this software work as I have done doing keyword research.

After much despair, hundreds of wasted hours and literally thousands of dollars pissed up the wall, I eventually found a piece of software I can recommend without reservation. I have recommended other bits and pieces before – but they always only did part of the job, or have ended up being so prevalent that thousands of other people were using exactly the same approach and finding exactly the same niches and keywords.

I once set up four sites – all using exact search terms that I was targeting and discovered no less that 11 people had a similar collection of sites and were doing exactly the same thing as me. I could barely tell the difference between their sites and mine. And they all set them up within a few days of mine. Needless to say – I canceled my subscription to that service immediately.

This is one of the things I like about the software I am recommending here - it is relatively expensive - so it is not going to be used by hundreds of thousands of people - ever. Most people are going to baulk at the cost - which is what makes it so valuable.

It is not cheap by any stretch of the imagination ($197 a month) and I recommend that – if you decide to buy it you have several days – at least three in a row to learn it and start using it. It is a very powerful tool that will analyse the search volumes, potential income and competition – not just for adsense, but it runs different criteria for affiliate sales such as Amazon, Ebay and numerous others.

It then hunts down exact domain name matches, and you can literally find a term, evaluate the competition using another free tool that confirms the first analysis, buy the domain (or write a hubpage – or both - my advice) and be up any running within a few minutes – assuming you can write the content.

If you devote a little time to understanding what it is doing for you, this piece of software will be paying for itself almost immediately. I am not going to fool you – it doesn't do everything for you – you will have to learn it, understand what it is doing, create the content and do a minimal amount of promotional work. Within two days of buying this – I had several domains and hubpages ranking highly for some high paying search terms without building a single link to them.

Having an exact domain name for a search and an exact hubpage title is very powerful – especially when used together.Don't bother searching through my hubs - I have more than one account here.

IMEye uses a completely different algorithm to any other piece of keyword research software out there, has a base of over 5 million (and growing) keywords to analyse and will almost certainly provide you with unique opportunities because - you set the parameters you are searching for and it will tell you what is realistic and achievable - within seconds.

Seriously – go watch their video and take a flyer - spend the $197 – you will never look back.They give you 7 days to trial it and I actually trust these guys - they are one of the few I have come across that actually provide customer service. It works- no messing.

If content is not your strong suit – please contact me for a quote to provide high quality unique content on any subject. No matter your niche – strong, good quality content is vital to your success. There are too many crappy, empty, useless sites out there.

Please do not do that – write content that adds value and you will always do better than adding content for the sake of it. I am in this for the long haul and – barring a few disasters – always try and add value when I create a site or a hubpage. If you wish to make money online, this is one of the keys, and I also offer a number of link building services as part of my internet marketing package.