Comments on: How to Find Competitors’ Keywords For Your SEO & PPC

By: Gabriel Goldenberg

Gabriel Goldenberg — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 06:19:57 +0000

It’s a question of not making the location obvious to humans … that doesn’t necessarily imply hiding it.

By: Andre Colt

Andre Colt — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 02:29:27 +0000

Nice tips Gab.I’ve never tried it before and I never knew that you can protect your keywords.I thought hiding keywords is against the google guidelines.BTW,thanks I found these topic.

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By: Gabriel Goldenberg

Gabriel Goldenberg — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 16:05:05 +0000

I’ve used and like SpyFu.

By: sasdaman

sasdaman — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 15:57:50 +0000

Thanks for the Adgooroo mention! Will check that out. I’m just deciding whether to go with SpyFu or KeywordSpy!? You got experience of any of the above!?

By: Gabriel Goldenberg

Gabriel Goldenberg — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 18:10:07 +0000

Excellent point there Dave. The reason is that Buy comes before sell, generally speaking.

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:56:09 +0000

There are many tools out there which profess to be the end all in keyword research. If chasing the competition was all you had in mind, this is fine. The point is to lead and formulate new thoughts and ideas while embracing the old. Why chase when you can lead.

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By: failureblogger

failureblogger — Sun, 25 May 2008 21:55:02 +0000

uh oh, my competition better watch out!

By: Will

Will — Thu, 22 May 2008 05:10:53 +0000

You can also use Wordze’s competitor keywords tool.
http://www.wordze.com/competitorkeywords.php

And follow it up by using this tool of theirs: http://www.wordze.com/relatedkeywords.php

But there always seems to be debate over how accurate wordze is compared to other keyword research tools for some reason.

By: Dev Basu

Dev Basu — Fri, 16 May 2008 02:08:56 +0000

Hey Gab! Thanks for the link love sir. Check your email, as I’m looking for your MSN/gtalk id — Dev

By: Linda Bustos

Linda Bustos — Mon, 12 May 2008 23:24:48 +0000

Nice work, this article made WebProNews too

By: Gabriel Goldenberg

Gabriel Goldenberg — Sun, 11 May 2008 17:13:36 +0000

Stephan, you have an excellent point about this being largely limited to the shorttail. That said, the longtail tends to be composed of the shorttail plus modifiers, so this is still a valid starting point. Furthermore, I’ve done analytics on sites earning 5 figures/month from single word searches…

Daryl, thanks for sharing that. FYI, Spyfu does that and I believe Compete does too.

By: Daryl from Quenet SEO

Daryl from Quenet SEO — Sat, 10 May 2008 05:41:53 +0000

If you want to see a cooler pay tool which has a free trial check out Adgooroo it will tell you both organic and PPC terms. And how your market penetration is compared to your competitors. Little bit pricey but if your spending a lot on SEO, or PPC then this may save you some money (their advice is very good too).

By: Stephan Miller

Stephan Miller — Wed, 07 May 2008 18:31:53 +0000

Very interesting, but not too worried. If I check Google Analytics on one site it shows 17,604 key phrases in the last month. Only those at the top of the list would show up in sitemaps. Only about the top ten would show in remote anchor links. And those at the bottom of the list that don’t show are the ones that convert.

By: Gabriel Goldenberg

Gabriel Goldenberg — Wed, 07 May 2008 17:34:37 +0000

David, the point about using a sitemap generator is really bright – totally hadn’t thought of that. Great way to get other people’s keywords! And I didn’t know you could use Xenu that way.

As to WebCEO, I’ve tried it before and it couldn’t pick out my keywords for the life of it. Crummy piece of software imho.

Well, I suppose you’ve poked some holes in my ideas on protecting your keywords, but evidently you’ve shown that my technique for getting them from competitors works .

Happy to hear you enjoyed the folder lock thing. I thought it was a clever trick my friend showed me.

By: David

David — Wed, 07 May 2008 08:35:05 +0000

Sorry to come a rain on the parade… but say you had a site where you had done this, I would likely just use a “sitemap generator” to spider the site and give me a nice list of urls. In fact, xenu link sleuth would likely be the best option for that.

Additionally, you can get software such as webceo or something similar to wander around a website and make a nice list of all the keywords used etc.

Anyway, this is nice to stop the noobs from copying what you are doing, and any seo agency worth its salt will know how to get around it in moments… though I would also argue that they need not even do that as they should be fine doing their own keyword research and optimising a site on a ‘per site’ basis

Anyway, the folder lock thing is interesting as an item on its own and I enjoy your writing style. Fine tune to topic of your posts a bit more and you will go far

Thank you for the read!

Dave