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Internet marketing has many different aspects that can be mastered. One of the most important of those is keyword research. These articles cover some techniques to keyword research.

Internet Marketing Is Easy

Internet marketing is easy!  At least that is what the gurus try to tell you. There is one particular strategy that many of the top Internet marketers teach and that has to do with finding keywords.

The strategy goes something like this:

Find keywords that are searched about 10,000-30,000 times a month on Google’s keyword tool.

Use those keywords as article titles or domain names.

Then get thousands of visitors to your site for free.

That sounds simple enough doesn’t it? It isn’t as simple as that and I’ll show you why.

I’ll walk through the system of finding keywords they use. You want to look for a niche that isn’t overly commercialized like weight loss or make money in the next 5 minutes.    –more

Niche Discovery Tactics Gurus Don’t Teach But Use Themselves

Every internet marketer knows the importance of discovering good and profitable niches. Many internet marketing gurus have a very simplistic way of teaching about niche discovery. The sum total of some gurus’ teaching on this can be summarized as:

1. Choose a topic that you like, have experience or are interested in.

2. Take the main keyword from this topic and plug it into a keyword research tool.

3. Look at the search count. If it is about 30,000 per month, it’s a good niche. If it is below 30,000 searches, there is very little market and therefore it is not a good niche. If it is way above 30,000 searches, there is probably too much competition and therefore it is risky to enter this niche market.

That’s it. Based on those three steps, you are supposed to find a niche. What’s wrong with such a teaching?

Firstly, there is no research into the competition. No step is taken to discover how strong a competition you face in that niche.   –more