As first step in SEO you need to find the right keywords(also you can check keywords in domain names) to target for your site.

Very important: DO NOT skip this step because the rest of your SEO efforts depend on it.

There are a number of very good free keyword research tools available to help you with this part of your SEO efforts. You can also quickly compare the popularity of up to 5 keywords at once using Google Trends.

Keyword Research is Not Just About Search Volume - It is BASIC STEP IN SEO

Search volume must be weighed carefully against the competitiveness of your keywords - the number of sites already ranking for those terms. The balance between high volume and low competition is the ideal selection.

Keyword research is one of the most fundamental SEO (define) activities, but it’s also one of the least talked about. Yes, personalized search, social media, and SEO for Flash are all very exciting, but without the right keywords, SEO efforts will go astray.

Two helpful and free tools are:

Google’s Adwords Keyword Tool provides a long list of related terms and indicates search volume based on a five-point ranking.

Yahoo’s Keyword Selection Tool provides actual keyword volume for the most recent month it has data both for the term you type in and for related terms.

But you should not rely only on these tools, they don’t provide competitive data - you may have to manually search the engines for each keyword to see how many search results are returned, potentially a time-consuming and tedious task.

In next article we will show you how to analyze and to choose the right keywords!

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