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Old 10-28-2006, 11:40 AM
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Default Re: Bigger the Keyword List the Better!

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Originally Posted by CompuGeneration
Start with lots of keywords vs. only a few keywords I would have to choose lots of keywords.

How much you pay for traffic from those keywords is another issue all together.

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Once you have a big list of keywords (hopefully thousands) start breaking them down into very small groups. Somewhere around 10-20 keywords in each group. Once you've done this you'll learn a LOT about what people are searching, therefore what they're looking for. If you feel you currently have a page or category on your website that caters to what this traffic is searching for put up an ad for that keyword group and drive traffic to that page/category. Then measure your return on investment. From there just keep on tweaking.

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Good luck gpconnelly!
What? This approach is both arbitrary & speculative.

1) It is not the case that even seemingly related search terms will require a similar number of keywords; there is no such correlation. For example, those searching for information re. a Madonna concert tour do in fact use far more keywords in their searches than do those seeking like information for concerts by Medeski, Martin & Wood, who use exceedingly few.

2) One's budget is an over-arching concern, not one of secondary import.

3) There can be no "ideal" no. of keywords per "group;" any such chosen number is purely arbitrary.

Better to begin with as few keywords as possible, do research on such using a broad match search, then select the appropriate keyword phrases to be used as exact match keywords in your ad campaign.
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