Keyword Picking

The first step before making a website is to find a good keyword to start with. This is also referred as a niche. This is very important because if you try to optimize for a keyword that nobody searches for, you will be very sucessful for ranking first on google but very few people will go to your website. Very seldomly will go search "mysuperrocksnet" on google. If nobody searches for your keyword, you would have just wasted all your time on your work! That is why you will need to find a good keyword. A good resource for doing this is to go to www.goodkeywords.com to find good keywords to use. It tells you how many times in the last month that keyword was searched. Many people make mistakes by starting with the keyword that the most people search because they will never even make it to the top 100! The competition is very brutal there and starters wont stand a chance on the big guys. For now, you should focus on keywords that have less than 20,000 and more than 3,000 searches in the last month. Also, it is important to stay out of the top 10 if possible. After you rank in the top 10 or so for the keyword(s) you wanted, then you will be able to aim for higher searched ranking results. Usually, it is good to target about three categories. If you have not picked a domain yet, it is very important to pick ones related to your keywords you are optimizing for as google will rank a domain with "rocks" in it more than "fascinatingminerals" if you are aiming for rocks.