How To Do Keyword Research With EBay
This is a guest post by Adriana Copaceanu who loves doing
keyword research and talks about her online adventures at My Online Business Journey
It’s a fact: in order to start a successful online business you need to research your market first. Do you struggle finding the right keywords for your niche? It’s not hard if you know how to do your research. Many use Google’s External Keyword tool, the WordTracker tool, or a tool that pulls their data from one of these. And there is nothing wrong with it, but if you want to be ahead of the game, you need to be a little more creative, and research in ways that others don’t.Today we’ll take a look at how eBay can help you with your keyword research.
Go to the home page of EBay, and start typing your main keyword in the search box. Let’s say I was researching “men’s watches”. As soon as I start typing my phrase, there is a drop down box that shows several potential key phrases.
Click on search and you’ll be taken to a page that lists men’s watches, of course.
But what’s important is that you look right under the search box, at the related searches, and you’ll notice some more specific phrases:
mens fossil watches
mens watches seiko
mens watches rolex
If you go over at the google keyword tool and search for “mens watches”, you won’t see any of these searches, yet, they have many exact searches daily. Let’s take a look:
As you see, none of the 3 key phrases discovered above with the eBay search are on this list. So let’s just enter those individually in the Google tool and see what happens.
Surprise, surprise! These key phrases have quite a good number of exact searches.
What you do next, is go back to the EBay search and dig for more key phrases. Click on any of the “related searches” and you’ll get more specific terms. For example, if I click on the “mens fossil watches” which I discovered above, here is what I see:
This search uncovers at least 2 more key phrases I may be interested in: “mens guess watch” with 5,400 exact searches and “mens diesel watches” with 1,600 exact searches. You can go on and on and on, and discover key phrases your competitors won’t, just because you dug a little deeper and thought creatively.
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Adriana,
This is definitely "outside of the box" keyword research thinking. Good job!
I'm glad you liked it, and appreciate the opportunity to participate here.
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Adriana,
This is definitely “outside of the box” keyword research thinking. Good job!
I’m glad you liked it, and appreciate the opportunity to participate here.
.-= Adriana Copaceanu´s last blog ..Building an Internet Business with the Goal to Sell It =-.
Cool thing. Taking the search suggestion from eBay and working on them with your GoogleAdwords. I've never tried that. I myself use iSpionage and GoogleAdwords for keyword research but i haven't thought of working with them on eBay search suggestions. Thanks for the tip!
Cool thing. Taking the search suggestion from eBay and working on them with your GoogleAdwords. I’ve never tried that. I myself use iSpionage and GoogleAdwords for keyword research but i haven’t thought of working with them on eBay search suggestions. Thanks for the tip!
Excellent. Logical and very pragmatic tip.
Cheers for the heads up.
Excellent. Logical and very pragmatic tip.
Cheers for the heads up.
Thanks quite a good tatic, thanks for sharing, I like to use google trends, check it out!
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Thanks quite a good tatic, thanks for sharing, I like to use google trends, check it out!
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Thanks very much, its sweet and simple tip .
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Thanks very much, its sweet and simple tip .
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Thanks very much, its sweet and simple tip .
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Thanks very much, its sweet and simple tip..
Thanks very much, its sweet and simple tip..
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Thanks for this ebay post. I use ebay alot. Do you have any other ebay related posts?
I believe that's the only ebay post on my blog. Glad you like this one!
Nice info, I have been using the same technique..and it works great!
Thanks a lot. Every it’s small tricks and ideas that make marketer great.
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HI Adriana,
Wow, talk about a ninja-strategy! I love the tip here. Thanks very much! I will be giving this a shot!
Best regards,
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Thanks for the tip. Related searches… should’ave known!
Works a treat – thanks!!!
To add to these great tips and ideas, over at WatchCount.com we recently launched a free eBay keywords tool that shows top search phrases that shoppers are using on eBay, in any eBay category.
I think it can come in pretty handy for a variety of uses, such as sourcing ideas/brainstorming, listing title keyword selection, or wider SEO/ecommerce needs.
Thanks for checking it out…
Great. My thanks for doing such a good job. I’ll return here to read more and tell my coworkers about this.
Nice site. My thanks for posting this. I will definitely check back to read more and tell my friends about your site.
Thanks a lot for this one.
Simply Brilliant!