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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  Gerald Weber
  Twitter: the_gman
  February 27, 2010 at 3:31 am

  Adriana,

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

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    Adriana Copaceanu February 28, 2010 at 2:10 am

    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 =-.

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  Gerald Weber
  Twitter: the_gman
  February 27, 2010 at 3:31 am

  Adriana,

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

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    Adriana Copaceanu February 28, 2010 at 2:10 am

    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 =-.

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  Kyio February 27, 2010 at 10:34 am

  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!

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  Kyio February 27, 2010 at 10:34 am

  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!

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  Chris Williams February 28, 2010 at 3:02 pm

  Excellent. Logical and very pragmatic tip.

  Cheers for the heads up.

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  Chris Williams February 28, 2010 at 3:02 pm

  Excellent. Logical and very pragmatic tip.

  Cheers for the heads up.

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  Dave March 2, 2010 at 10:32 pm

  Thanks quite a good tatic, thanks for sharing, I like to use google trends, check it out!
  .-= Dave´s last blog ..eBay Hot Selling Items – The Apple Ipad =-.

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  Dave March 2, 2010 at 10:32 pm

  Thanks quite a good tatic, thanks for sharing, I like to use google trends, check it out!
  .-= Dave´s last blog ..eBay Hot Selling Items – The Apple Ipad =-.

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  mohamed March 3, 2010 at 7:21 pm

  Thanks very much, its sweet and simple tip .
  .-= mohamed´s last blog ..The Search Engine Optimization"SEO" Factors. =-.

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  mohamed March 3, 2010 at 7:21 pm

  Thanks very much, its sweet and simple tip .
  .-= mohamed´s last blog ..The Search Engine Optimization"SEO" Factors. =-.

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  keywordresearch April 8, 2010 at 7:11 pm

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

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  keywordresearch April 8, 2010 at 7:11 pm

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

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  jon May 6, 2010 at 9:51 am

  Thanks very much, its sweet and simple tip .

  chian cell phones
  .-= jon´s last blog ..A Mixed ON Product with Attributes =-.

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  jon May 6, 2010 at 9:51 am

  Thanks very much, its sweet and simple tip .

  chian cell phones
  .-= jon´s last blog ..A Mixed ON Product with Attributes =-.

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  Sanalika Hileleri July 14, 2010 at 10:14 pm

  Thanks very much, its sweet and simple tip..

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  Sanalika Hileleri July 14, 2010 at 10:14 pm

  Thanks very much, its sweet and simple tip..
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  Mumbo Design August 7, 2010 at 5:28 pm

  Thanks for this ebay post. I use ebay alot. Do you have any other ebay related posts?

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  Gerald Weber
  Twitter: the_gman
  August 8, 2010 at 3:43 pm

  I believe that's the only ebay post on my blog. Glad you like this one!

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  Mike October 9, 2010 at 5:05 pm

  Nice info, I have been using the same technique..and it works great!

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  James September 22, 2011 at 7:35 pm

  Thanks a lot. Every it’s small tricks and ideas that make marketer great.
  James recently posted..How to Save your Marriage – Problems and Expectations

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  Cat Alexandra from Internet Marketing Success
  Twitter: alexandra_cath
  November 11, 2011 at 7:03 am

  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,
  Cat Alexandra
  Cat Alexandra recently posted..Empower Network Scam, Hype, or the Real Deal?

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