Wordtracker is generally known as the best keyword generator and manager in the SEO world. Its grand database as well as convenient user interface attracts thousands of SEOers.
There are very detailed instructions and guides provided by Wordtracker on how to build a correct keyword strategy and maintain a highly targeted keyword base. However, what I am going to say here is a little bit different, based on my own experience.
As stated above, Wordtracker is a powerful keyword tool – but few know that it is also a powerful tool to help you start your own business.
As an SEOer, I am employed by a small company to help them grow in the Internet, and the company is too small to decide its own business: whether it is retail or wholesale, shoes or bags, U.S. or U.K., etc.
So I started by asking them what resource they had and what goals they wanted to achieve. And I got a few simple words that could best describe the business and goal. Let’s say they are the following words (to protect this company, the words I’m giving are not what I chose for them):
Chocolate
Chocolate stencils
Chocolate bar
I then turned to Wordtracker and queried said keywords. I got a bunch of keywords as an initial list. I sorted those keywords by KEI (Keyword Efficiency Index, a metric Wordtracker used to help SEO to chose the best keywords) and then by KEI3 to pick out the ones with highest possible ROI (high search, low competition, let’s call them Seeds, as Ken McGaffin of Wordtracker calls it). Up till now, the work is much the same as building a right keyword strategy. The following work is, however, different.
Now, instead of just choosing the right keywords, I looked into the business opportunities that were hiding behind them.
Firstly I dug into the Seeds and find out which different niches were inside. I had seen that chocolate chip and chocolate cake were highly competed for. With considerations to current situations that my company was in, it is not a good idea to squeeze into the said niche and fight with big players.
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