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Keyword Research and Niche Mining Tools

After a week long trip from Hawaii, I was eager to try out my new niche finding tool called Keywords Results Analyzer for Wordtracker. This tool does what I want, nichemining specifically for affiliate marketing. The tool does cost money, so if you're looking for something free, another great tool is Keyword Analysis by Cattle Ramp Seo.

The biggest difference between the 2 are the keywords it uses. Cattle Ramps tool is one of the best free tool I've ever used, but it uses Overture to build it's list. The problem with this is that Overture doesn't arrange the words in the correct order and it also doesn't care about plural forms. When creating sites for SEO, it's better if the words are the the right format and order for what a person is searching for. An example of this would be a person typing in "niche finding software" and Overture might return something like "finding software niche." While the user might find your site with this same phrase, google would most likely put the exact phrase your searching for 1st, since it is the most relevant. With Wordtracker, the user could reliably find the phrase in the exact order that a person is searching for.

Cattle Ramp also uses something called CID (Competition Indexed Demand), while most niche finding tools use KEI. CID targets keywords that have less competition. This is highly valuable if you want to target a niche and don't want to compete with the big guns.

With Keywords Results Analyzer the user has several filtering options. You can filter by count, 24 hr. count, root words, competition, and KEI. Although it doesn't use CID, using the 24 hr. count and competition works perfectly for niche mining. The creator of the software uses the strategy of filtering sites with less than 1000 competitors and searched at least 5 times in the last 24 hours. If you site is optimized with these filtered keywords, you'll have a chance of ranking within the top 10. Another strategy used for people who like using KEI is filtering sites with 1000 competitors and using a KEI of 10. This strategy can also be used for finding niches within niches which Keywords Results Analyzer automatically does. Once you open a project, click on this function and the software will search for sub-niches within you project in minutes.

While Cattle Ramp is a great software, KRA for WT saves hours niche mining. With WordTracker, the user can get 1000's and 1000's of keywords on your niche and easily filter through them. Cattle Ramp does have some automated features for this, but you have to pay a small fee for them. I had a niche with over 4000 keywords and I was able to find my best 10-100 keywords for my site in seconds.

So try Keyword Analysis by Cattle Ramp Seo or Keywords Results Analyzer and see which one you like the best.

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