How To Do Keyword Research With EBay

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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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Comment by Gerald Weber
2010-02-27 03:31:01

Adriana,

This is definitely “outside of the box” keyword research thinking. Good job!

Comment by Adriana Copaceanu Subscribed to comments via email
2010-02-28 02:10:49

I’m glad you liked it, and appreciate the opportunity to participate here.
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Comment by Kyio
2010-02-27 10:34:39

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!

 
Comment by Chris Williams Subscribed to comments via email
2010-02-28 15:02:35

Excellent. Logical and very pragmatic tip.

Cheers for the heads up.

 
Comment by Dave
2010-03-02 22:32:22

Thanks quite a good tatic, thanks for sharing, I like to use google trends, check it out!
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Comment by mohamed
2010-03-03 19:21:52

Thanks very much, its sweet and simple tip .
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Comment by keywordresearch
2010-04-08 19:11:19

I think if you IM eye tool your work will be relatively easy and you can get faster results

 
Comment by jon Subscribed to comments via email
2010-05-06 09:51:47

Thanks very much, its sweet and simple tip .

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Comment by Sanalika Hileleri
2010-07-14 22:14:10

Thanks very much, its sweet and simple tip..
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