Keyword research can be time consuming and there can often be times when you hit a wall with the tools your are using or your own suggestions.  However, many people don’t think to make use of Google Suggest.  Ok, some of the suggestions made are getting little or no results but it can produce many results that you may not have thought of or that your other tools just didn’t pick up on from your original keyword entries.

Try putting in one of your main keywords follow buy a space then a, then b, then c etc.  See how many new ideas pop out at you.  For example, imaging you’re researching fitness related keywords… here’s an example based on that keyword:

As you’re going through them and you see some terms which may be good ones, throw them into Google’s Keyword Tool and see what the searches are like.  I then also like to check out the competition by popping that term back into Google with quotes around it.

I tried this recently (on a different subject) when keyword researching for article titles and additional content keywords and it really helped me find a decent list of good quality terms.

So make use of the tools around you… even the not so obvious ones.

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