Brainstorming New Keywords Trick

The hardest part for me with creating new sites is breaking down to the basics of it and brainstorming new keywords. If your like me and are not a SEO expert, and you don’t have a lot of money to spend on programs and software that will help do it for you, finding the right keywords is part luck and part strategy. To pick the right keywords what it really comes down to is picking a keyword that is both obscure, and yet something everybody wants.

I stumbled apon this trick for brainstorming new keywords awhile ago. It had become second nature to me as part of my keyword selection process and I didn’t realize till recently that many people just don’t know about it. So, I’ll share.

This trick will actually work for anyone that is having a hard time trying to come up with new keywords. Whether it be for article marketing, BANS sites, Google Adsense sites. Whatever. I’ve been doing this as second nature and ya know I’m always on the look out for new ways to help me “brainstorm new keywords“

First, you want to get into Google Shopping. This link takes you to Google Product Search. the opening page lists a few keywords for products that have recently been searched for. There just might be something to lead you in the right direction here on the first page, and by all means if something strikes you run with it. For the purpose of this tutorial, we are going to be looking deeper.

My method is to choose any word. I look around at my surroundings. I think about my day. I pick random words that pop into my head.. We went swimming today, WATER. I used Lawry’s black pepper seasoning (love this stuff) on my green beans for dinner, PEPPER.

Just grab random words. Then run a search. What is on the bulk of the page is going to be the most relevant results. But we are not interested in this. What we want to look at is what is at the bottom of the page at the relevant searches option. here is an example I did for the word WATER. I find at the bottom of the page the option for related searches.

Once you’ve found this part, click on MORE >>

This is going to open up a new page and at the bottom you are going to find about 20 related keyword results to your search. These are just relevant keywords that people are searching for that contain my generic keywords.

Interesting, tankless water heater. I’ve never heard of it but there is a high demand for it by people who are interested in tankless water heaters. So, I start my process of checking how many results there are for this keyword string. Wow. There are actually a lot. When I am considering a keyword I like there to be at least less then 500K results back. With that I am usually pretty confident I can get on the first page so long as the other results are product pages for places like amazon, ebay auctions and such. For this one I would move on.

In this related searches results I see the keywords “water filter”. FILTER. For my next search I might try the word filter and see where it goes. If from these results you don’t find something that strikes a cord with you, you can either try another search, or borrow a keyword from this list and try that.

This may not be the “best” way to find keywords, but for me, it’s been a great source of inspiration when brainstorming new keywords.