The best articles on Associated Content are keyword articles. A keyword is any term which someone would search for in a search engine. These can be as broad as “weight loss” or as specific as “losing 10 pounds in ten days”. What you want to find is a search term that has a lot of searches, and a relatively small number of competing websites.

To check searches you should use a tool like the Google Keyword Tool. When you find an interesting keyword, preferably one that has a number of words in the keyword phrase, you open a new window, type that entire phrase into Google in quotes, and then check out the number of results.

A good guide would be to try for any search term with more than 100 searches and less than 2,000 competing websites. These terms are hard to come by, but worth the effort of finding them. When your article gets indexed by Google, it is very likely to appear on the very top page of the results, giving you an excellent chance to get every single one of those searchers to click on your article.

In general, the longer the phrase, the more likely it is to be a good keyword. Thus, we could assume that “how to lose 10 pounds in ten days” is a better keyword than “how to lose 10 pounds”.

This process takes a while to do it manually, and that’s one of the major reasons why I like to use software like Micro Niche Finder. It won’t automate the entire process, but it can make it way faster.  If you want to learn more about what the software does before buying, there’s a great free video here that will give you an idea (NOTE: this video focuses on selling affiliate products with your articles, and while it’s a little different, the process works the same way to ensure that you’re getting the necessary information for writing articles).

A good keyword, however, is useless if you don’t know how to optimize your articles to fit what Google is looking for. Ready to learn about Keyword Density?

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