Can some one explain this to me?

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  1. Ohma profile image61
    Ohmaposted 14 years ago

    For all you computer wizzes out there please don't laugh. I truly do not unserstand what I should be looking for when I try and use this tool. I think it should be something like high volume searhes with low competition but I am just not sure.

    https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal

    Ok go ahead and laugh if you must big_smile but help me out anyway.

  2. Misha profile image62
    Mishaposted 14 years ago

    You get it right. You want relatively high volume with relatively low competition. Now, if you are having adsense in mind, you also want to add the cost of the click to your equation. smile

  3. Ohma profile image61
    Ohmaposted 14 years ago

    Mish thanks again. As always it is so nice that you are so helpful.

  4. IzzyM profile image86
    IzzyMposted 14 years ago

    Glad you posted this Ohma, you are not alone smile

  5. Ohma profile image61
    Ohmaposted 14 years ago

    Izzy to tell you the truth I used to think I had a pretty good handle on this whole Internet thing but that was before I actually tried to make it work for me. Now I read some of the stuff about SEO and Backlinks and keywords and I am just hopelessly lost.

  6. Misha profile image62
    Mishaposted 14 years ago

    It's normal girls, we all were there. It will start getting together later. smile

  7. Ohma profile image61
    Ohmaposted 14 years ago

    ok just found another one. What in the world is a longtailed Keyword? and how is it better or worse than a regular ceyword.

    1. livewithrichard profile image73
      livewithrichardposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      I have a hub that may help you with this here It's a tutorial on longtail keywords and how to find them.. smile

  8. Misha profile image62
    Mishaposted 14 years ago

    Oh that's easy. Those are just ceywords with long tails tongue

    "hubpages" would be a normal keyword, as well as "hubpages scam". Yet "hubpages perpetuated scam on me" would have a long tail smile

  9. Ohma profile image61
    Ohmaposted 14 years ago

    Thanks again and thank-you for noticing that my spell checker had a brain bubble. :LOL:

  10. livewithrichard profile image73
    livewithrichardposted 14 years ago

    Basically, a longtail keyword is a keyword phrase used to narrow down a broad term.  For example, you may want to do a search for the term "boots" which will bring a lot of searches with a lot of competitions.  A longtail narrows it down to say "brown leather boots" with a lesser search volume than the broad term and usually less competition.

  11. Ohma profile image61
    Ohmaposted 14 years ago

    Thanks Richard I have read some of your hubs. No disrespect intended It has nothing to do with your knowledge and talent as a writer but honestly I leave your hubs with more questions than answers. It is not your fault you are a very good writer it is just that I need you to explain things to me like you would explain them to your Grandmother. I really wish someone would do a hub with nothing but terms a definitions about all this stuff.

    1. sunforged profile image71
      sunforgedposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      This is over a year old but the information as far as terms go should still be up to date

      http://hubpages.com/hub/Post-Hub-Pages- … ng-Lexicon

      Internet marketing Lexicon

    2. Lynda Gary profile image61
      Lynda Garyposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      I am EXACTLY with you on this.  I've spent a few hours today trying to sort it all out, understand it, yadda yadda ... Only, I don't even understand the definition of the topic, much less the description that follows.  (Know what I mean?)  Just read one on backlinking.  I can tell it was REALLY well written and helpful, but it ASSumed the reader knew what backlinking is.  I didn't / don't.
      Gonna check out the links some of you have provided here; thank you in advance if I miraculously lose my blond-hair!

      By the way, Ohma and others who start threads:  PLEASE try to make them topic specific, so that those of us who are limited with time can still scroll / cruise the forums but quickly see something relevant.  (That was worded badly; I do not have time to write well at the moment...)  In other words, for this thread, rather than "Can Someone Explain This To Me," something more like, "Can Someone Explain the Adwords Tool to Me?"  (If I'd seen that, I'd been here in a heart beat).  So glad you posted this!!

  12. livewithrichard profile image73
    livewithrichardposted 14 years ago

    LOL I'm sorry, I've been there, we all have. I'll see if I can fit a keyword tutorial for the absolute newbie in sometime this weekend.

    If you ever need more explanation from my hubs just leave a comment, I always try to respond quickly.

  13. Ohma profile image61
    Ohmaposted 14 years ago

    Thanks Richard
    I am glad you were not offended.

    How about a Thesaurus of Internet marketing terms?

    1. livewithrichard profile image73
      livewithrichardposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      Of course I'm not offended, lol

      Give me a day, I'll work on it tomorrow and post back here when it's finished.  I'll put it in the simplest terms I can smile

      1. livewithrichard profile image73
        livewithrichardposted 14 years agoin reply to this

        I finished a glossary of terms and it can be found HERE  If the link gets snipped then the title is called Glossary of Terms for Affiliate Marketing.

        It's not an exhaustive list of terms, its a work in progress smile

  14. Faybe Bay profile image64
    Faybe Bayposted 14 years ago

    Ohma, I am with you there. If I knew the definitions I would write the hub! I don't know what half of this means. I am still getting the hang of adding pictures to make hubs more inviting! I am glad you asked these questions. smile

  15. Ohma profile image61
    Ohmaposted 14 years ago

    Your a peach!

  16. AEvans profile image73
    AEvansposted 14 years ago

    I have been here for almost three years and don't understand all of it myself thank God for Misha and Live Richard to come to the rescue, I to am learning something new. smile

  17. Ohma profile image61
    Ohmaposted 14 years ago

    Going to look right now thank you so much!

  18. Ohma profile image61
    Ohmaposted 14 years ago

    How big of a challenge was that for you. It must have seemed like you were teaching pre-school. Thank you so much!

  19. kirstenblog profile image78
    kirstenblogposted 14 years ago

    Something I have noticed with the keyword tool is that sometimes the traffic is just reasonable (worth trying for) and the competition bar is empty or close enough to empty, but when I use that keyword in a google search it brings back huge hits, 10's of millions or more. With that many hits I tend to think, I am not good enough at this stuff to compete with 10's of millions of other sites. I also wonder if the low competition bar might mean that the max CPC might be rare to actually get?

    1. sunforged profile image71
      sunforgedposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      its an ADVERTISER competition bar, as the tool is intended for ADWORDS buyers one can look at the bar to see how many other advertisers you are bidding against

  20. Ohma profile image61
    Ohmaposted 14 years ago

    So it has no relevance to how many people are publishing info on that keyword?

    1. livewithrichard profile image73
      livewithrichardposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      I think it has relevance though it's not going to be completely accurate.  Like sunforged pointed out, the bars represent the level of competition between advertisers that are actually paying and bidding on those keywords for PPC campaigns.  They don't represent how many publishers are using those keywords to rank with their content.  This is why you take that keyword and do a search in quotes "keyword phrase" to determine how much content is actually indexed on Google for that keyword phrase.

      I use the bars as a starting point to gauge the level of paying competition vs. non paying but then always use the keyword in quotes to find actual competition. 

      I show how I do this with screen shots in my "keywords - A long tail keyword tutorial" hub.

 
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