- Okay, so in this video,
you're just gonna learn
a super simple and easy way
to find keywords for your website
and your niche that you can actually rank for.
Because I know, when it comes to keyword research
if you've never done this before,
if you're just getting started,
it's very difficult to find keywords
that actually rank because, you know,
there's a lot of competition.
You don't know which keywords have volume,
maybe you don't know which keywords
are difficult to rank for and which ones aren't.
Well, whatever the case is,
this video is gonna help you a lot.
This is exactly how I find keywords
for my own affiliate websites, okay?
So whether you're in affiliate marketing,
or e-commerce or whatever niche you're trying to rank,
this video is seriously gonna help you.
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So let's begin with the keyword research
and the tool that we're gonna be using for this
is Ahrefs.com, and the reason I recommend this is that,
it gives you a breakdown of keyword difficulty.
It's fairly accurate.
It also shows you monthly search volumes
and that sort of thing,
which is all the sort of data you want
to learn how to rank for a keyword
and to pick which keywords for your website.
So yeah, ahrefs is really good.
The other thing is, well you can subscribe
for like a few days at first,
so it only costs like a dollar, or something like that.
Then, you know, you could technically
just do all your keyword research,
cancel the subscription,
and it's only cost you a few dollars.
So this is definitely a tool worth looking at,
if you're interested in keyword researching,
you just wanna get set up for your site.
So let's jump into it, right?
Now, what you're gonna do,
this is the keywords explorer section here
and you can find it on the menu right over here.
Super easy to use
and all you're gonna do is,
type in your niche here.
So let's say for example,
you're in the gardening niche.
You type in gardening.
Or if you're in the make money online niche,
just type in that, right?
And then you hit the search button here.
And I would also recommend choosing which country
you're based in, so whether you're in the United States,
or wherever you are.
Okay and what you're gonna get on this dashboard here,
is a keyword difficulty rating, right?
And this basically estimates how hard or easy it is,
to rank for a keyword.
And it's incredibly useful because,
instead of just picking out keywords from,
you know, thin air,
you can actually look, okay and see right,
certain keywords are difficult to rank for.
Certain keywords are easiest to rank for.
But at least you're putting some science behind it
and working out and using data to help you do that.
And also, yeah, you'll get a breakdown of search volume,
clicks, the cost per click, which is more about advertising,
but it shows you how competitive it is
and the global search volume by country, right?
Now obviously, let's say if you're in the gardening niche,
then, you know, just trying to rank for gardening
is gonna be extremely difficult in itself,
like this figure is based on one to 100.
100 being the hardest and one being the least difficult
for a keyword.
And this is 60, so it's pretty hard.
It's pretty hard to rank for and there's no point
just going for that one keyword,
because it's so competitive, right?
But what you can do is find keyword data ideas,
so the branch off from gardening,
so they're still relevant to the topic,
but maybe you can find some hidden gems
that are easier to rank for, right?
So let's click on having same terms over here.
And what this is gonna do is,
generate a long list of keywords.
You can see like this, there's 173,000 keywords here,
around gardening.
So all these words contain gardening.
Now when it comes to keyword research,
you wanna pick your battles
and find the keywords that you can actually rank for, right?
Because, there has to be some science,
kind of strategy for it and what I usually do is,
filter down key words, to find ones
that are low competition.
But have a decent level of search volume.
And you can easily do that with this tool.
So here, what we can do,
is keep the minimum on zero.
But then we can play with the maximum as 10, right?
And that'll filter down the number of keywords
from like 173,000, which is kind of overwhelming,
to 4,000 keywords.
But that was probably still a little bit too many.
So how do we filter down that even more?
Well you can actually apply the search volume
so that the minimum number is 100 monthly searches, right?
Because obviously, you don't wanna create content
and spend your time paying for content,
that's based on keywords nobody's looking for, right?
And if there's less than 100 monthly search volume per month
you're just kind of wasting your time
and no one's ever gonna find your content, right?
So let's click apply here.
And that'll filter the number of keywords down
from 4,000 all the way down to 859.
And that gives us a decent number of keywords to go on.
And then, obviously, not all of these keywords
are gonna be relevant to your niche.
So obviously, like sims 4 gardening
it probably doesn't have anything to do with your website,
if you're in the gardening niche.
But gardening gloves, it's a pretty good one to go for.
Let's have a look here as well.
Yeah, gardening shoes, like that.
That could be quite a profitable keyword,
because, people are looking to research products here.
So if you're in the e-commerce industry in gardening,
or if you're writing an article about best gardening shoes,
then that could match the search intent.
So what you can do next is,
filter these keywords down even more, right?
So maybe you wanna look at the business value,
or find keywords where,
people are looking to buy something, right?
So that could be like a review article, right?
What you can do is,
in the include section here,
is type in like best.
And that will find all the gardening keywords
the load competition, have a decent volume
and where people are looking for products, right?
So, best gardening books.
Best gardening gloves.
Best gardening apps.
These are all potential money making keywords,
that could have a decent business value
for your website.
And yeah, just keep going through the keyword list.
Keep filtering it down and keep trying
to find keywords where there's a decent volume.
A decent level of competition.
And, you can actually generate some revenue
from that keyword.