This is great news for everyone who does business online and needs to do Keyword Research because now Google Adwords Keyword tool generates actual numbers for the search volume of any keyword.

Previously, Google’s Keyword Search tool only showed a small graphic to depict the actual search volume for any keyword that looked like the graphic below:

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This is how the tool use to show it’s search volumes, which to be perfectly honest, it was not very helpful from a research standpoint and we had to use other keyword research tools in order to see the actual keyword search volume numbers.

That has all changed now and Google is now showing actual search volume numbers for the keywords along with the graph view as shown below:

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It’s not perfect yet since a lot of the keywords still don’t have Search Volume numbers, but I’m sure that every day that goes by, we will begin to see all keyword terms populated with the keyword Volume numbers.

This truly is great news for everyone since you will no longer need to pay for accurate keyword research volume numbers through any of the paid keyword search tools.

This of course may not be good news if you are in the business of selling keyword research tools, but for the internet Marketer, it’s great step in the right direction.

You can check out the new tool format here at the Google Adwords External Keyword Tool

Thanks Google!!

So what does a Keyword Research tool do for you?  Well this subject is pretty lengthy but in short, it will allow you to identify keywords and keyword phrases which are getting searched on within the search engines, but may not be getting the attention they deserve from website owners, this allows you to find not only cheaper PPC keywords that you can create ads for, but also help you identify Niches that could earn you lots of money because there is very little competition.

One of the most powerful things about Keyword Elite is that it also gives you the capability to covertly see what your competition is doing.  This is extremely powerful and makes it well worth the price of this software.  It also allows you to spy on your Adwords Competitors so that you have a huge advantage over them in beating them at the keywords in question.

I won’t go into all the features of this awesome software because you can check out Keyword Elite’s link above and get the full scoop on what this product can do for you.

If you don’t know what any of this all means, don’t worry, I will be covering PPC and Keyword research in depth real soon so that it’s something you can all have an in-depth knowledge of, bringing you not only more traffic to your websites, but also more sales for whatever niche your business is involved in.

Well, you will probably get 20 different answers if you were to ask 20 different people. This particular subject is so broad that there companies who spend all of their time doing only this for their customers. One of the things that makes this particular subject so difficult to manage is that each search engine has their own set of rules for optimizing against their algorithms, so if you setup your pages to be optimized against one particular search engine, you may not be optimized for the others. This doesn’t mean that you won’t be in a good position in most of the top search engines, it just means that there are differing rules for each. For example, some search engines rely on Meta tags, where others don’t put very much weight on them but you should still optimize your meta tags simply becasue some do use them.

Although I’m going to discuss specifically how to optimize for Google, I will be recommending other areas of optimization which will help with all the other search engines as well. You may be asking yourself, “Now wait a minute, we haven’t spent time talking about website development?”, and you’re right, but this was by design because a big part of designing your website has to revolve around Search Engine Optimization. If you know anything about SEO, then you know what I’m talking about. If you’re new to all of this, don’t worry, I’m going to explain this in as much detail as I possibly can over the next week or so. There is a saying in the internet marketing world and that is, you need to follow the 80/20 rule. What does this mean? It means that if you intend to be successful in marketing any product or service online, you need to spend 80% of your time driving traffic to your sites and only 20% on the details/technology/website design etc.. Spending to much time on website design (the way it looks) is one of the biggest areas that most new people stumble on and you should instead focus on adding great content to your website and then make sure to drive traffic to your site. One of the best ways to do this early on is to make sure you follow the things we are going to discuss here on SEO.

Following are some of the areas which we will discuss over the coming week(s) concerning Search Engine Optimization:

• Optimizing your websites for Search Engine Optimization
• The top Search Engines
• Submitting your Websites to Search Engines
• Submitting to Search Engine Directories
• How long does it take to see Search Engine Listing results?
• What are the most important areas of SEO to concentrate on?
• What are keywords and why are they important?
• What is keyword density, frequency, prominence and proximity and how do they affect my rankings?
• What are Meta Tags and how should they be used?
• What is Linking and how does it affect my Search Engine Ranking?
• Domain Names and SEO importance

And much much more…

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