When I start a new site, or blog in a new niche market, I look for profitable keywords before anything else. The right keywords effect your entire campaign, so you always need to choose the right ones before you waste time on useless ones.

You need keywords that are getting many searches a day, with little competition.

Now the best way to do this, and the tool I use daily, is Market Samurai. This is a pricey tool at $150, but it is one of the last internet marketing tools you’ll ever need.

Instantly rank in the top slots on Google by targeting keywords with lots of searches without much competition. You can drill down to 2-3 keywords phrases from broad keywords and phrases that will make you more money. You can choose a phrase that has just as much competition as you want. Find a keyword phrase that has over 500 daily seo searches with less than 150,000 competing pages and your golden! Then analyze the seo competition and find out exactly how hard it will be to rank highly for that phrase! It just doesn’t get any simpler than this. But this is only the top of the iceberg for all the features Market Samurai has to offer.

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The Googe Adwords Keyword Tool is an amazing free keyword tool for those that can’t afford Market Samurai.

Also, after using Google’s keyword tool, go to Wordtracker’s Free Keyword Tool, and your all set! You now have the 3 best tools that all serious internet marketers use for their keyword research.

(none of these are any kind of affiliate link……just very useful resources, so enjoy!)