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By ChelseaBaldwin

23 Places to Find the Best Keywords In Your Niche (& 29Screenshots Showing You How to Get Them)

Filed in Keyword Research, Ultimate Guides & Resources on May 14, 2015

I don't know about you, but every time I have to come up with a list of keywords for acontent campaign using only my brain, the results are pretty lame.

For example, if I had to create an ad campaign for a game development company, I'dcome up with some real gems like 'get a game developed' or 'turn my game idea intoan Android app.' Genius work there, Chelsea. (Hopefully you're a little better at thisthan I am.)

Needless to say, it usually doesn't take long for me to realize that I've got to startlooking elsewhere to see what keywords other competitors are having success with orto see what words and phrases the target audiences actually uses when they talk online.

To top it off, I usually don't work with companies or projects that are ready to buy into Google 's AdWords tool rightaway, preferring to beef up their organic SEO to see what truly works before dropping their hard-earned bucks onadvertising.

And as a solopreneur niche site owner myself, this is the approach I take in my own keyword-building strategies.

I want my new site to be a huge success and all, but the fact that it isn't yielding five figures per month yetmeans I've got to watch where I spend my money... which is not going to be on keyword research.

Fortunately, there's loads of places online where you can uncover the truly valuable keywords you'll want tointegrate into your content strategy so you can beef up your organic traffic.

Some sources are great for potential customers doing research-based searches, and others will provide you withthose golden keywords that belong to searchers who are ready to buy and already have their credit cards out oftheir wallets.

That being said, you might not want to thoroughly investigate every single one of these 23 resources...

It'll take you all week and the point is to create a keyword strategy that's actionable, not one that freezes you inyour tracks.

Read through the list and pick 2-3 sources that resonate with you and get going. (And if you don't mind, come backand let us know how it worked for you.)

Here's what you'll learn:

Where to uncover keywords from Google, even if they don't hand them over in Google Analytics anymore

How to find purchase-ready keywords from leading eCommerce sites

A Chrome hack that'll show you the exact keywords your competitors are highlighting

Where to find high-emotion key phrases

How to use electronic versions of old-school tools (MetaGlossary and a thesaurus) to your advantage

1. Google Auto-Complete

When you go to Google’s home page, or even from a browser’s search bar, Google starts to automatically fill inwhat it thinks you want to know almost instantly after you start typing.

The idea is to help users search faster and get to the information they need quicker.

But Google tells you two things as a niche marketer: what phrases your target audience most commonly searches,and what Google perceives to be some of the most profitable keywords from an AdWords perspective. (Hey, they'rein it for the business too.)

By starting with a single keyword that’s central to your site’s mission, you can get an entire list of long-tail keywordphrases that have a higher purchase intent than phrases you could have guessed on your own.

Here's what you get when you start typing in affiliate marketing:

After a plain search for affiliate marketing, Google's results tell you that most searchers want to learn how to do it.

(You can check out Yahoo's and Bing's autocomplete too, but the results are mostly the same.)

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2. Google Related Searches

While you’re checking out what kind of gold nuggets Google’s auto-complete feature has to offer, scroll down to thebottom of the page to see what other long-tail keywords people are using in conjunction to the one you’ve justtyped in to find the information you’re looking for.

These will help you expand your thinking, but they may also serve as an important red flag so you can know whenyou’re beating down the wrong path.

If none of the related searches relate to the topic or goals of your niche site, you might want to consider anotherdirection in your long-tail keyword strategy.

Related searches give you more in-depth, longer-tail keyword options than you might guess on your own.In this example, starting a phrase with "Clickbank" could open up another world of keyword

possibilities.

3. Using Chrome's Sneaky Shortcut for Competitor Keywords

The key to success is always staying one step ahead of the competition, but sometimes in order to get ahead, youneed to understand what your competition is doing that’s beating you to the ground.

In terms of keywords, you won’t be able to uncover their keyword strategy 100%, but you will be able to figure outthe trends and long-tail terms they’re going after.

Open Chrome and type in a keyword phrase that you’d love to rank for and click on one of the first results.

When the page opens, hold down “command + option + u” simultaneously (“control + alt + u” on a PC), and you’llsee the page's data pop up on the bottom of the screen or in a new tap. Hit “command + f” and search for differenttags like <title>, <H1>, <H2>, or <keyword> to see what’s put between these tags.

Once you’ve got an idea of keywords they're trying to highlight, skim through the content to look for long-tailvariations.

Before: NicheHack's page on Niche Market Ideas.

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After: The Chrome shortcut yields all kinds of information about this page.

4. Amazon Product Listings

Hands-down, Amazon is the king of organic search for keywords that drive the purchase of physical goods.

If you’re using your niche site to sell things people can use for themselves, give as gifts, or need for any otherpurpose, you’d be a fool not to troll around Amazon for a while to see what kind of SEO keyword work they’ve gotgoing on.

When you search for a specific product (you can pick anything related to your site), look for keyword patterns in theresults menu in the left column, the main header and supporting text, the list of results, breadcrumbs, and itemslisted.

Keywords related to a MacBook cover include rubberized, hard, 13-inch, keyboard, laptop, netbook, sleeves, slipcases, skins, cases, anddecals.

When you click on a specific product, look at the product description, what other customers bought, product adsfrom other sites, the top-rated reviews, and customer Q&A.

From this info you can glean keyword phrases like retina display, polycarbonate material, snap-on, light-weight, rubberized plastic,transparency, silicone skin, hard shell case, and different brand names.

The names listed under items purchased in conjunction with the main one give you long-tail keyword ideas that are more purchase-focused.

Customer reviews are a great place to find high-emotion key phrases that can boost your content. For this product, you can glean wordslike indestructible, SPECK, break, vents to release heat, and go-to option.

5. eBay Keywords

eBay is not a bad runner-up to Amazon in terms of dominating online retail or creating an easily searchable onlinemarketplace.

By following the same steps you did with Amazon’s product listings, you’ll be able to find even more keywordpatterns and long-tail keyword options to fill out your product descriptions and advertising strategies to get thetraffic with the highest buyer intent.

And the benefit of eBay in particular is that it’s a little bit less regulated than Amazon in terms of what productsellers write in their descriptions, so you’ll often come across something a little more candid than you’d expect onAmazon.

In the top listings after a simple product search on eBay, you can find keywords like digital camera, [color], 'MP' for megapixels, photoaccessories, replacement parts, lenses, filters, and optical zoom.

In the product listing itself, you can find differentiating keywords like S3600 HD VR, tripod, 8GB, and 2 yr warranty. The ads alsosometimes give you hints like Cameta Camera, Nikon, and authorized reseller.

6. Wikipedia

Wikipedia is the sixth most popular website in the world, and it is #4 on Google with absolutely no paidadvertising.

Wikipedia has one of the best organic SEO backends on the planet, so taking an effort to mimic them with relevant,internal keyword linking is huge.

If you’re in a rut and getting stuck with the same basic keyword phrases over and over again, check out Wikipediafor some relevant, linked terms in the intro paragraphs on your given subject. You’ll also get some hints from thetable of contents and any other side menus on how to delve deeper into the topic at hand with linkable, effectivekeywords.

If you're in the online advertising niche, this Wikipedia page is a gold mine to start your keyword listing from. Key phrases that literallyjump out at you include online marketing, internet advertising, search engine optimization, email marketing, native advertising, web

analytics, search analytics, contextual advertising, behavioral targeting, mobile advertising, and many more.

7. Yahoo Answers

Normally, people go to Yahoo Answers in desperation to find answers to their question that they weren’t able to findwith a quick look around the web via a search engine.

If the question and answers are relatively recent, this can be a gold mine for showing you what your targetaudience wants to know but isn’t finding answers for (tweet this)—and you can create the content to fix thatproblem.

Further, when people go through the effort of creating and/or signing into an account online just to ask a question,you can bet that there’s some high emotional value attached to it, which means they’re desperate to knowsomething, and are probably willing to spend some money for a quality solution.

Typing in a common problem into Yahoo Answers is a great way to get high-relevancy, high-emotion keywords. In this search to 'get rid ofa wart,' you uncover words like freezing, medicine, home remedies, permanently, facial warts, and painless treatment.

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8. Product Reviews

Whether you offer products or business services for sale on your website, you can search the web for hot reviewsites on either.

If you’re selling products, Amazon and eBay are gold mines.

If you offer services, you might have to dig a little deeper, but reviews of different companies and service providersare still relatively easy to find. The best things to look out for are common themes in dissatisfaction andsatisfaction.

Why are all the five-star reviewers so thrilled and what do they keep talking about? And why are all the two-starand one-star reviewers so disappointed? What do they keep mentioning that they wish wasn’t lacking or wouldhave made their experience with the product or service better?

Borrowing this kind of sticky copy for your own on-page content will not only increase readability and conversions,but it will also help in your SEO rankings for prospective customers who like to do serious research before theymake a purchase.

These results on Consumer Search for 'flea control reviews' show lots of flea and pet-based keywords like adult fleas, immature fleas,prescription, dose, topical flea treatments, and side effects.

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9. Customer Service & Sales Reps

If you’re a small niche site, you are the customer service, sales rep, content producer, and site owner all rolled intoone.

But whatever your niche business setup is, there’s some real data to be uncovered in what your customer servicehas to deal with once someone is sold on a service, or questions sales have to answer before someone becomesconvinced to buy.

Look through your strings of email conversations with current and potential customers to uncover common trendsin your audience’s top concerns about your product or service. If you have a sales rep or two (or even an entireteam), send out a free-form questionnaire asking them to write in the most common problems and questions theydeal with.

The recurring phrases you see are the ones you want to latch on to.

10. Your Site’s Internal Search

Google might have stopped handing over all the juicy data on the keyword phrases people search for to actuallyget to your site, but your site’s internal search bar is fair game.

By looking at the list of search terms of items people want to find immediately after they get to one of your landingpages, it’s a golden ticket to improving your on-site SEO and giving your prospective customers what they wantright away.

To activate data from your site's internal search bar in your Google Analytics reporting, go to your Admin panel andclick on 'View Settings' in the 'View' menu all the way to the right. Scroll down until you see 'Site Search Settings'and click to turn it on. Enter the query parameter used by your search bar and click on 'Save.'

You'll be able to access the search terms people use within your site under the 'Behavior' menu option in yourmain dashboard.

11. Google Correlate

While it doesn’t show you exactly what your particular audience is searching, Google Correlate goes after phrasesthat are the most highly correlated with whatever you type in.

Some are home runs and can give you great ideas for expanding your keyword strategy, and others are just therebecause Correlate reads numbers rather than context.

Once activated, the results from your internal searchare really easy to find within your Google Analytics

dashboard menu. (Tweet this tip .)

'Single family homes for rent' may not be of much use to a weight loss niche marketer, but terms like how many calories, eat to lose, andbelly fat will help you come up with some great SEO-based content ideas for your site.

12. Free Book Previews

If your niche is in a hotly-published topic, check out some of the best-selling books that have already been writtenand are selling well.

One of the easiest ways to do this is to look up a niche rockstar on Amazon and check out the ‘Look Inside’ Kindlepreview.

Make sure you devour the table of contents—it’ll give you insight into what the successful niche masterminds inyour space are successfully writing on, and you can use their topic and keyword strategies as inspiration for yourown content marketing.

From this table of contents, a person with a make money online niche site knows that he'll need to cover Amazon affiliate marketing,Clickbank, Google Adsense, YouTube, and Kindle Publishing.

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In contrast, a site that specifically serves freelance workers would want to cover keyword-based topics like getting clients, prospectingtactics, repeat business, referral business, productivity, work-life balance, and streams of income.

13. Google Search for ‘[your keyword]’ + ‘most popular……’

If you do a Google search for your main keyword followed by “most popular posts/sites/articles”, you’ll uncover atreasure cove of content ideas and long-tail keywords to utilize.

This tip is particularly effective if you combine it with tip number three and you use Chrome to uncover the long-tailkeywords embedded into titles, headlines, and sub headings—not just for your direct competitors, but for niche-related websites that share a similar audience.

Ideally, you'd follow each of these links and try to glean keyword data from each of them - or from the list of sites they provide. But fromthe search results alone, you can see keyword phrases like digital marketing advice, ecommerce sites, Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and

affiliate marketing blogs.

14. Wordle

This tool makes a word map of the most recurring phrases in a piece of content.

If there's a piece of content (whether on your site or somewhere else) that you know gets a lot of traffic fromorganic search, you can copy and paste the content of the post into Wordle’s ‘Create” screen.

What it leaves you with is a word map showing the most commonly used words within the blog feed as a whole orthat piece of content in particular. Figuring out ways to put these top-ranking words together will help you come upwith some long-tail keywords that will generate more organic traffic for you.

Tip: sometimes it's a little slow to work, but the results are usually worth the wait.

This word map came from a travel niche site's blog post about getting the best rates for hotels from online travel agencies .

15. Press Release Sites

Go to any popular press release site and search for a phrase that’s popular among your niche audience.

The results of this search are two-fold: you’ll be able to uncover what’s new that’s going on in your niche industry,and you’ll be able to see what web PR experts in your niche deem as rankable keywords for the search engines topick up on.

Because no one regularly goes to these PR sites for the simple joy of it, smart PR reps posting articles there knowthey have to optimize their text for keyword ranking (tweet this) to get the news in front of the eyes of their targetaudience.

A search for 'real estate' on PRWeb reveals keywords like real estate franchise, direct commercial real estate lender, multifamilyproperty, manufacturing facility, administrative offices, and ecommerce retailers. More keywords could be uncovered by following the

links most relevant to your audience.

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16. MetaGlossary.com

MetaGlossary’s tagline above their search bar is “find meaning, not just links.” The only catch is, it works as moreof a dictionary for one-word queries, rather than a long-tail keyword phrase.

When you do a search, it renders a list of similar single-word keywords and a list of related terms that can reallyhelp you expand your current list of long-tail keywords by adding those related terms to your original word orbrainstorm searches around them that you can produce content for.

When I searched for ' cellulite' in MetaGlossary, I came up with a goldmine of keywords a niche marketer could use for their SEO contentand ad campaigns. The related terms are especially interesting because they give you a broader perspective of services you can

advertise or market for.

17. Thesaurus

Yes, cracking open a book (or, you know, an electronic version of one) can provide a new perspective onalternative thought patterns people might have when they’re searching online for a solution you offer.

For example, not everyone calls a coffee maker a coffee maker. To some people, it’s a coffee pot, a Keurig, or aMr. Coffee. This is a simplistic example, but you get the idea.

Continuing with the cellulite example from MetaGlossary, 'fat' is a related term that you'd want to explore. A term like adiposetissue could open your website's SEO reach to more medically-minded readers.

18. Amazon Auto-Fill

A lot like Google’s Auto-Complete function, Amazon’s Auto-Fill guesses what you want to look for and buy based onwhat you’ve searched for before and the words you’re typing into a box.

If you want a totally fresh look at it, log out of your Amazon account and use the search bar as if you were a totallynew visitor.

Even if you don’t sell physical products, you can still get ideas for longer-tail, purchase-ready keywords people usewhen they’re looking for information—one of the great things about Amazon is that it’s a major book seller thatdeals out loads of information on a daily basis in every niche market you can think of.

If you have a niche site focused on helping people increase their incomes, you can see the information they're looking for on Amazon hasa little bit to do with investing and the stock market, and a lot to do with being self employed while working online.

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19. Blog Comments & Industry Forums

If you’re wanting to establish yourself as a leader in your niche market, you should already be participating indiscussions on leading blogs, forums, or the more modernized version of it all: Twitter chats.

Even though the recurring themes and long-tail keywords here might not be buy-based, they are good for creatinglead-in, researched-based conversational content, and give you a clue on some topics that are hot at the moment.

This personal finance form reveals keywords like renting, Roth IRA, pension contributions, mutual funds, health savings account,mortgage, investing, and life insurance.

20. Ubersuggest

Rather than doing all the mind-numbing work of figuring out all the different search possibilities someone couldsearch for and writing down the results by playing with Google Auto-Complete, you can type one term intoUbersuggest and instantly get a long list of the top online searches related to your keyword.

For example, I typed in ‘personal finance’ and Ubersuggest gave back to me a list of 10 of the top phrases with“personal finance” in them, 10 of the top phrases with ‘personal finance’ plus another word… and then it goesthrough the entire alphabet.

It gives you ten of the most popular long tail keywords with ‘personal finance’ with a word starting with the letter A,then B, then C, and so on. And then it does numbers 0-9… pretty comprehensive.

And for any of the terms you want to know more you, you can click for four more related terms.

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As you can see, Ubersuggest goes into great detail with long-tail keywords,

unveiling more possibilities than you could ever hope to use.

21. Soolve

Soolve is an interesting tool in that it shows you thetop searches related to the words you enter acrossWikipedia, Google, Amazon, Answers, YouTube,Bing and Yahoo simultaneously.

Landing on Soolve, you get a blank page, but theinstant you type a letter in, you start getting results.This can be a good way to make sure you haven’tleft any keywords out, or figuring out how toallocate your advertising budget across differentsearch channels.

This is the Soolve screen before you start typing in any keywords.

After you type in a keyword (in this case, 'six pack') solve gives you the top keywords from each of the different search engines they havelisted.

22. SEM Rush

If you’ve got a full-fledged niche website that gathers traffic from paid ads, SEM Rush can be a great way to makesure you’re not letting your competitors get away with ranking for keywords you’ve accidentally left out.

Especially if you’re just breaking into ad strategies, you can enter one of your competitor’s urls and see what kindof organic and ad-based traffic they’re getting, and for which keywords.

This is the QuickBooks.com organic traffic keywords report SEM Rush generates. As you can see, it's a great tool to find out what yourcompetitors are getting traffic from.

23. Keyword Tool Dominator

This site gives you three free searches to do research on per day. It uses the auto-complete features of Google,Amazon and YouTube to to figure out the long-tail keywords most commonly used in search that are related to theterms you type in.

When I typed 'vegan recipes' into the YouTube tool, I got a list of 42 relevant keywords I can use for building out my SEO strategy.

Finding the Best Keywords for Your Niche

Obviously, each of these sources are not created equal.

Which ones you choose for your research will depend on the theme of your niche site and the kind of traffic you'retrying to get. A nutritional supplement seller might have better results with Yahoo Answers and Amazon's productlistings, while a self-help guru might be better off spending some time in forums and checking out their competitorssites on via the Chrome hack.

It all depends.

So tell us, which keyword sources do you use for your niche research?