Google search is a keyword tool??  Well, no it isn’t a keyword tool but we’re going to use it like one.  After All, it doesn’t make any sense to spend time looking for good keywords to write articles on if when your article gets published it ends up on page 566 of google search.

Here’s how to prevent that.

Open up Google search in Firefox (with the keyword plugin installed)  If you don’t have it, read my post on setting up your PC for writing articles here.

When you find a promising keyword, based on traffic and/or CPC go to google search and search that exact keyword.

Open up the last result on page one and look at the bottom right of the Firefox window, it’ll list the PageRank and Alexa rating of the page.

Articles on eHow have an Alexa rating of 468, which is incredible.  The page rank starts at ‘Unranked’ and goes up from there.

With that being said, if your article can beat that last result on page one in terms of Alexa rating, then you will probably end up on the coveted first page of results for that keyword.  If not, see how far back you’ll end up.

I should also say that, with minimal effort you should at least be able to get your articles PageRank to 1 or even 2, so keep that in mind when you look at the results.

So, armed with this information you can determine if that ‘juicy’ looking keyword is really a good one at all.  If necessary go back and look at other keywords using Wordtracker and the Adsense tool.  It’ll only take a few minutes but it’ll really payoff when you find one you can rank well AND get paid well for.

We can beat this page!

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