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March 15, 2008
Reader Question about Wordtracker
Hi John,
Thanks for all these tips, I enjoy them very much. I am subscribed with nichebot keyword research tool ,the reason is the price 10$ a month vs Word tacker 60$.
I am wondering by using the nichebot am I loosing anything?
thank you in advance.
K.
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Dear K.
Yes, Nichebot is a fine tool and the fact that it less
expensive is wonderful.
The best question to ask yourself is, how is your Web site(s) prospering? Does your Web site make you money or does it
cost you money? Are you finding lots of new ways to continually
improve your Web site.
The bottom line is this. If your Web site is prospering and doing well and giving you advantages over the competition, then you are doing something right. Keep doing what you are doing. But if your unhappy with your Web site's performance and it is not producing the results you want, then keyword research and behavioral research of the marketplace is the single most important thing you can do and the smartest first step (always.)
In our Workshops we believe in focusing on teaching the skills
rather than just comparing tools. Any tool is only as good as the folks behind the tool. I know plenty of friends who swear by Nichebot as being a great tool and so the question I ask is how well is it meeting your specific needs?
I am not only bound to one tool and it is not wrong to rely on more than one tool. Nichebot is a very fine tool.
But Wordtracker is the finest tool that I have ever found, for
giving me huge advantages in exploring search behavior.
In discovering Wordtracker's powerful ability to quickly tap into many user behaviors, I have never found any other tool as effective for revealing the "story behind the user search."
Wordtracker is also extraordinary for exploring the marketplace if you do affiliate marketing. It also has a number of other features that I know from personal experience are genuine and really work well.
Understanding the conditions that exist in your visitors life is
even more powerful than just hunting for some keyword niche. Like a keyword set of terms that is very revealing about what the user really wants.
Try and think of it like like everyone is using the Internet for a different reason (usually based on the conditions of their life circumstances) or their business. There are many amazing things to be discovered and I just never stop finding new trends in Wordtracker. It is not so much about the volume of data, but more about the quality of data.
Read this article:
15 Keyword Research Tips for Finding the Hottest Niches Quickly
Keep in mind that if you have read Wordtracker Magic (which you
should have got a free copy of if you signed up for our free SEO
tip of the day.
That you won't find too much in Wordtracker's free Trial as it limits the data you have access to. It's only just a demo. But in the paid members area, you have trails of gold to discover.
Some people spend literally hours in Wordtracker, but if you know how, you can tap into great trends within just minutes and sometimes even seconds.
I have a new version of Wordtracker Magic 2.0 coming out pretty soon
that is more about how to perform Keyword Forensics and how to tap into the hidden evidence much more quickly.
But here are a few articles that may help a little:
Benefits of an Illogical anything goes approach to keyword research.
How can I learn better keyword research - Let me count the ways - 10 more Tips
Other good tools are http://www.Keyworddiscovery.com which is excellent for its support of multiple languages if you optimize in French, German, Polish, Norwegian or several other languages. The KEI values are set up on a scale of 1 to 10 so that is a little different.
I respect everyone's opinion on whatever their favorite tool is but for me, Wordtracker is the Granddaddy research tool of them all. The Wordtracker tool changed the way I think.
I would not ever want to be without Wordtracker (personally) since it is just like looking through a small porthole on the world's search behavior. I am able to instantly find trends of the user search as well as what is really going on in the marketplace. Watch for those phrase clusters that "tell a story."
It's like anything else in this industry. Tools are as only good as
the resources behind the tool. Continue to focus on building your
genuine SEO skills so that you are flexible in knowing how to make
the best decisions. My tendency for years has been to lean on Wordtracker and so far it has never let me down in all the years I've been using it.
But that does not mean there is no room for other tools too. I highly recommend Keyword Discovery especially if you are handling optimization in other languages. Here is another little interesting free tool as well...
Keyword Map
If you are a member of our SEO Workshop Resource Center, I will be teaching a series of live Webinars later this month so you can come online and watch me working in Wordtracker. The first Webinar will begin this Thursday and they are like our instructional chats, all free to our members.
I wish you the best of continued success in your work.
Highest regards
John Alexander
http://www.SearchEngineAcademy.com
http://www.SearchEngineWorkshops.com
http://www.SEW-WRC.com
Like the only REAL magic - the magic of knowledge.
Posted by John at March 15, 2008 01:32 PM