Million Dollar Question: PPC v/s SEO – Which is better?

PPC is the acronym for “Pay Per Click”. It is type of search engine marketing tool which has gained immense popularity recently. This has given rise to a debate - Which is a better option, SEO or PPC? Which one of them will yield better search results? Some of the experts of the web suggest that a combination of both the techniques should be used to get good results. The webmasters who are new to online marketing techniques suffer from a lot of confusion. A lot of questions go on in their mind and most of them are still unanswered. To answers the questions correctly, we should take a look at the pros and cons of both of the techniques.

The advantages and disadvantages of Search Engine Optimization are:
The most attractive thing about SEO is that you don't have to pay a single penny from your pocket in order to get listed in search result pages. The search engine does not charge you anything when you carry out SEO. To improve the quality of your website and get it optimized you have to simply follow some techniques, which can be done in many ways. The most important thing is to use good quality and informative content in the web pages of your website. If user comes on your website and spends time to read the genuine information, the value of your webpage increases. And once Google thinks that this web page is providing relevant information with some keyword, your website will be ranked high. The search engine spiders will also find it easy to scan through the website. The results will last for a very long period. The website will appear at the top of search engine results for a longer amount of time in the future.

Now talking about the negative side of SEO, the SEO techniques are very time consuming. There are many search engines that use a set of filters. These filters take such parameters like age of the website and age of the domain into consideration while carrying out the optimization process. So you have to wait patiently before you start seeing the actual results.

Pros and cons of PPC:

PPC is a new technique that is being adopted by most of the webmasters involved in online marketing if they want to get fast results. PPC is a bidding system, where you have to bid against other websites which are of similar type and are running PPC campaign. Like this you can get to the top of search page results that shows paid listings. For example you have a website for “e-books”. You have to place your bid for the keyword “e-book” so that your website appears on the top of the search result whenever someone searches using that particular keyword. Your relative position on the page will be decided depending on the amount you are willing to pay with respect to your fellow bidders. One thing you should keep in mind is that PPC campaigns are very tough to maintain.

So it is wise to carry out PPC for a very short time period and continue with SEO at the back end. Adopting both the strategies will help you get good results in the long run.

Why keyword To Page Relevancy Is Important

If you would want to be like the blooming populations who are making money through a snap on their keyboards, then there are some fundamental things you need to know prior to doing it. Being a blogger or a writer for website contents, then you have to be familiar with some things and take note about certain ideas. It is easy to write and tap the spaces on your keyboard if you have great ideas, but no matter how amazing your idea is, that would still be in no use if nobody is going to read it. To help you in succeeding with your goal to speak your mind and impart your knowledge, you need to be acquainted with the fact that one of the most important stuffs that your post must be equipped of is the keyword.

Well, I have already come up with answers to some basic questions before you could possibly put them to words. But if in this instance, you feel like there’s no need for you to know a lot, and then you may stop scrolling. However, if you are willing to be a more effective blogger or web writer, then you certainly need to keep scrolling to have knowledge about the pre-requisites in achieving your aims.

What are Keywords?

If you would want to have a lot of visitors on your page, then you must come up with the best keyword possible which targets the most likely researched topic on the web. This shall be submitted on the Google webmaster tools to enable the search engines to absorb it and show it to the web visitors.

How to optimize for keywords?

People who are already experienced in this kind of activity have already mastered what to do or what to use as a keyword for their posts. However, most of them are still having a difficult time in coming up with the best, since they have millions and millions of competitors. In this case, numbers of people are even making researches and creating surveys to be able to know

which one really works. Sometimes, we think that we may look and sound brilliant when we use words which are unique, and which are not cliché. We think that deeper words mean better post, but that is just not the case. With website-related posts and blogs, often times, less is actually more. Less complicated words would mean more readers especially if you are trying to impart knowledge and facts. You always have to consider many factors such as the individuals from other country who may read your posts.

What is “relevancy of keywords”?

Keyword relevancy is the parallelism of your keywords with regards to the content of your post. You need to stay on track on what you really want to convey. The keywords that you may use must define the most significant message of your post. However, you still need to make a blissful flow of your post through the optimal keyword density in which you should limit the usage of the word that you are about to use. Some say it should only be 2% to 5% of the post because anything more than that will be considered a spam.

What are the benefits of having keyword relevancy?
Nirvana stage of optimization is:
Ideal keywords, ideal ad copy (if you wish to have contextual ads), landing page with relevant content.If this state is achieved, best ROI (Return on Investment) is guaranteed.

Every marketer (SEO, SEM, Social, Display) tries to reach the best proxmity to relvancy and all the best online marketing practices are designed around the same idea.

Love or Hate: Google and SEOs

SEO is a process that involves editing and shaping the page such that it shows up on the first page or first 30 search results for keywords that are related to the topic. This is very important as failure or the success of a webpage is purely based on the traffic towards the site and second is the matter it has. SEO’s main target is to increase the number of hits a website gets for keywords by putting up the content on it to the top of the search results. There are many companies online that provide SEO services. Getting the right one would be a bit difficult if you are doing it for the first time.

Google is the kind of company that continuously strive for end user search experience improvement. So, before putting forward the questions to Google services, it is well and good if you have idea on Google optimization. It is very simple as per the matter on the web page there will be few keywords that are used to search very frequently when compared to other keywords on Google. A particular page is optimized by obtaining the keywords and then using that to improve the count of the keywords of a web page. In general, Google just like in any other search engines, the count of the keywords decides the page position including factors like information, consistency and many more. This type of optimization is called on-page optimization.

Google SEO services use off-page optimization too. In this type of optimization, the content on the blogs, websites, etc are formed to link to the page that is being optimized. Google ranking manipulation is done based on the links that a particular web page has.  For that reason, if the page has more number of links, then there are more chances of it appearing on the top. Such type of services mostly depends on Social networking sites and Social media sites. These blogs, articles, videos that has content being optimized act as a method of free advertisements as posting videos, blogs and articles is free.

Every one of us by now knew that these SEO services can force the website business to any where further. However, there are many SEO companies online and also offline for you to choose from. But, is it really easy to find out the right service. In fact, any company with a good experience should be on a right track. It is only with experience that SEO services have detailed information of Google and things that work and things that do not work. There are few SEO services with good experience, but not have worked more with Google. It is always a good idea to employ an agency that has good Google experience as there are few differences that Google performs its searches from any other search directory. 

Few of the Google SEO services charge a huge amount for their services as they provide few extra services like web hosting, web content developing, etc.

Are you using Adwords' Auction Insight report?

Launched in May'12, a useful but missed out tool.

When it comes to measure performance of your key - keywords, Google Adwords' Auction insight report is a great help to make smarter decisions

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Top Keywords Social Media Buzz Online!

Effective campaigns, keyword research, deep down grilling of core-keywords, relevancy, Latent Semantic Indexing, Stemming, Long Tail Keywords, synonyms, volume and traffic, KEI etc etc all lead to gather one common thing - what is the page or site is about and what it want to achieve with SEO & Internet Marketing Techniques.

In the media world where all the leading SEO, SEM Pros are fighting for each 'word', here is an overview how the online marketing and social media buzz words as compared to top social properties such as Twitter, Myspace, Youtube, Digg & Flickr.

After looking at these charts, one can get an idea which keywords are in high demand, whats latest and which keywords are user talking about in the www.

These charts are just provided to give you a birds eye view, no guarantees of accuracy, all info is brought to you by sitevolume.com ( we are not anyway associated with the said site)

Digg's latest SEO / SEM buzz shows PPC is the top keyword searched and/or talked about, followed by SEM: 

Flickr's latest trending buzz shows SEM is the top keyword searched and/or talked about with no major competition as surveyed: 

Myspace users also talk about SEM and it is the top keyword online:  

Here comes Twitter's latest internet marketing buzz shows PPC is the top keyword searched and/or talked about, followed by SEM, chart a bit matching with Digg: 

Last but not the least Youtube's latest online marketing buzz shows SEM is the top keyword searched and/or talked about, followed by SMO, 

so now its upto all those search marketers, twitters and buzz creators online to take what they wish to extract from the analysis drawn.

Top SEO SEM Analytics Internet Marketing terms comparison on Google

Here is a comparative analysis of major search terms on Google.com - Web Search Volume: seo vs. sem vs. web analytics vs. internet marketing

The worldwide data for last 30 days for the internet niche's online marketing segment shows crucial results and guidance with India being in the focus of the SEO keyword cloud.

Lets analyze the data/ graphs extracted from Google Search Engine.

By far SEO is the most widely searched keyword while SEM, web analytics and internet marketing is yet to catch up in volume and penetration.

Regional interest for the top search marketing and analytics keywords show Indians searching more then US while UK & china manage to rank in top 5 spots.


Moving on the top searched term ( the most important criteria for search marketers and analysts across the globe)

Going through the data, 'Google seo' finds the top position among searched keywords while seo tools, seo marketing and even free seo comes in the high 10.


The results show growing dominance in Chinese SEO marketing and have a great scope in the online market of china ( may be baidu to add more)

Free SEO SEM Tools online : Tested

Here is a list of Top SEO tools available for free and useful in various SEO / SEM operations such as Website analysis, link popularity and ban check, submitting to directories etc.

Please have a look at the details below and the source where you can test / use all those tools is mentioned at the end of the post.

Web Rank Checkers:

- Fake Rank Checker
Check to see if a website is illegally faking their Google PageRank.
- Alexa Traffic Rank Checker
View and compare Alexa Ranking graphs.
- Multiple Keyword Search Engine Position
Check a website's search engine position with multiple keywords.
- Multiple Website Search Engine Position
Check multiple websites' search engine position with a single keyword.
- Multi-Rank Checker (PageRank and Alexa)
Check multiple websites' PageRank and Alexa rank.
- Search Engine Position Checker
Check the position of a single site with a single keyword on various search engines.
- Site Rank Checker
Check PageRank and Alexa Rank for a site.


IP Related Tools:

- Reverse IP/Look-up Script
Resolve a host to an IP address.
- Ping Script
Ping a domain or IP address to find the response time.
- IP Locator (country)
Locate the country an IP address resides in.
- Firewall Scanner
Check to see if your server is secure on various ports.

Header & Tag Tools:

- HTTP Header Extractor
Extract the HTTP Headers of a web page.
- HTTP Header Viewer
View the headers of the site of your choice.
- Meta Tag Extractor
Extract meta-tags information from a web page.
- Meta-Tag Generator
Generate meta-tags for your site.

Source Code Tools:

- Source Code Viewer
View the source code of a website.
- MD5 Encrypter
Encrypt text with MD5 encoding.
- HTML Encrypter
Encrypt your HTML code to hide it from visitors.
- HTML Optimizer
Optimize your HTML code.
- Website Speed Test
Find out how fast your website loads.
- Domain Whois Retriever
Find out the WHOIS details for your domain.
- Single-Level Sitemap Creator
Makes an XML sitemap of the page of your choice.

Keyword Research Tools:

- Keyword Density Checker
Check the density of different keywords at the site of your choice.
- Keyword Suggestion Generator
Check keyword results and get suggestions.
- Keyword Click Value Tool
Analyze a keyword and find its per-click values.

Search Engine Tools:

- Search Engine Saturation Checker
Check the number of pages search engines have listed from your website.
- Site Spider Viewer
Find various SEO statistics and spider information about your site.
- Spider Viewer
Discover how spider bots view your website.
- Search Engine Listing Preview
Preview what your site's listing will look like
- Website Resolution Viewer
View your website at a variety of common resolutions.
- Text Website Viewer
View your website in text-only mode, just as the search engines see it.

Website Submitters:

- Automated Directory Submitter
Submits your website to 23 of the top web directories.
- Automated Search Engine Submitter
Submits your website to 19 of the top search engines.

Link Based Tools:

- Link Popularity Checker
Check the number of links pointing to the website of your choice.
- Link Suggestion Generator
Generate links that relate to the keyword/topic of your choosing.
- No-Follow Finder
Scan a website to find no-follow links to various other sites.
- Reciprocal Link Checker
Check multiple sites to see if they are really linking back to you.
- Link Analyzer
Analyze incoming and outgoing links.
- Backlink Checker
View the number of backlinks a site has listed.
- Valid Link Checker
Use this tool to check for broken links on a website.

Miscellaneous Tools:

- URL Shortener
Offer a URL shortening service.
- Website Status Checker
Check whether the five major ports are responding.
- Online Calculator
A simple online calculator.
- Browser Details Tool
View your IP address and your browser details.
- Anonymous Email Script
Allows the sending of anonymous e-mails.
- Countdown Generator
Copy and paste Javascript code to count down to the date and time of your choice.
- E-mail Image Generator
Create an image of your e-mail address to prevent harvesting.
- Javascript Hit Counter
Copy and paste Javascript code to your website and create a web counter.
- List Cleaner
Clean and remove duplicates from a text list.
- Unix Time Converter
Convert UNIX internal time formats to a date or vice versa.
- Google Banned Checker
Check to see if a website is banned from Google.

All the tools are available for free at SEO Tools

Top Search Terms in India for Internet

Crucial Data for internet marketers and SEO's ( India)

Latest data from Google Zeigeist shows that in Search queries, Indian internet surfers clearly show what they do mostly on the web - its emails!

No suprise that out of the top 10 keyword searches on Google in India, 8 searches are for email or for search engine names.

Google seems to have understood the trends with Indian perspective long back when the introduction of ads in Gmail came in to picture.

Rising Searches: Latest Trends in India

Among the rising searches, surprisingly Microsoft Windows 7 is the rising search word on Google in the last 30 days with a whooping 120% rise.

Infosys makes a 40% rise and scores a 4th position while rediff money is 3rd with the same percentage rise.

Conclusion:

All the future online marketing decisions should be conceptualized using Google ( search for content tool) and email marketing campaigns to the best of results, specially for India and the online internet user community.

Top searched keywords on Google December 30

Checkout the latest 25 Keyword searches for 30th December 2008 on Google International search.

1. roland burris
2. mike shanahan
3. soullow
4. shanahan fired
5. todd doxey
6. twyla tharp
7. george jones
8. rob thomas
9. barbara streisand
10. bobby rush
11. dane cook married
12. nikki o connell
13. lark previn
14. supper solutions
15. idaho lottery
16. brittany fuchs
17. kennedy center honors
18. senior skip day
19. soylent green
20. olivia palermo
21. 49th parallel
22. cynthia mckinney
23. nathan gunn
24. superhero registry
25. idaho raffle

Google's Search based keyword tool

Very less known Google's Search based keyword tool.

Those we are familiar with Overture ( Yahoo Search inventory tool) find this a bit similar (yet modified version). There are a lot of ideas one can get about keywords, related terms, stemming of keywords in SEO and also the relevant paid keywords per page / site.

With category based suggestions, Google's new kewyword search tool takes a digg at Hitwise, the industry leader in competition analysis.

For Search Marketers:

If you login to your AdWords account, you can explore a full list of keyword ideas customized to your website (typically excluding those already in your account).

The Search-based Keyword Tool provides keyword ideas:

* Based on actual Google search queries
* Matched to specific pages of your website with your ad and search share
* New to your Adwords account (typically excluding keywords matching those already in your account)

What is the Search-based Keyword Tool?
The Search-based Keyword Tool generates keyword and landing page ideas highly relevant and specific to your website. In doing so, the tool helps you identify additional advertising opportunities that aren't currently being used in your AdWords ad campaigns.

Based on your URLs, the Search-based Keyword Tool displays a list of relevant user queries that have occurred on Google.com (and on other Google search properties, such as google.co.uk) with some frequency over the past year; these suggestions can be found under the Keywords tab, in the New keywords related to (site) section. In the Keywords related to your search section, you can see a broad list of keyword ideas that are also relevant, but aren't necessarily based on your site.

How does the Search-based Keyword Tool differ from the Keyword Tool in AdWords?

The main difference between the Search-based Keyword Tool and the Keyword Tool currently in AdWords is that the former generates keyword ideas based on your website, and identifies those currently not being used in your AdWords account. Additionally, the Search-based Keyword Tool provides more detailed data for each keyword, such as category information, suggested bid that may place the ad in the top three spots of a search results page, and ad/search share. Both tools, however, offer the option of browsing all keywords across all categories.

How does the Search-based Keyword Tool generate its keyword ideas?

The Search-based Keyword Tool compares your website and current AdWords campaigns against actual, past Google search queries to identify additional keywords that might be relevant for your campaigns. The tool compiles a list of search queries relevant to your website that don't already appear in your AdWords campaigns.

With access to the actual terms your potential customers are using when they search Google for your products, you may have a better chance of reaching your target audience.

Does the tool take into account various keyword matching types before recommending keywords?

Yes. When compiling keyword suggestions, the tool takes into consideration exact, phrase, and broad matched keywords in your AdWords account, as well as negative keywords. By default, the tool is enabled to show you partially matched keywords as part of its list of ideas. This means that the tool will show you keywords that partially match broad match or expanded match keywords that may already be in your AdWords account.

For example, if you've designated tennis shoe as a broad match keyword within your AdWords account, the Search-based Keyword Tool may suggest tennis sports shoe.

You can choose not to show partially matched keywords by clicking + More filters and unchecking the box next to Partial matches to keywords in my account.

Is there a way I can see the top keywords across all categories - and not just those related to my website?

Yes. From the starting page (where you either chose your website from the drop-down menu or typed in a different website), click the Or see top keywords across all categories link at the bottom. You'll then be able to search for specific keywords or browse by category. Whether you search or browse, the results will encompass the top 800 most-commonly used keywords.

Get a full idea and start doing research at Google's search based keyword tool

Points to be noted:
1. Please also note that the Search-based Keyword Tool is currently in beta, efforts are going on to develop and improve its features to offer you even more functionality.
2. Google DOES NOT guarantee that these keywords will improve your campaign performance. They reserve the right to disapprove any keywords you add. You are responsible for the keywords you select and for ensuring that your use of the keywords does not violate any applicable laws.

Google Search Insights Evolution !

Lets welcome, the latest offering from Google. Yes I'm talking about the Google Search Insights, a search tool which would be of immense help in Keyword research from the search marketers point of view.

Google insights for search provide deep dive statistics for keyword searches via volumes, countries drilling to seasonal and geographic trends and not to forget its a category wise option.

Previously only Google Trends was available to get a "hint" of the keyword competition which was to get a general guessing idea, as 100% reliability was not assured, and cant be :)

Lets check the difference with both the tools :

Searching for : search engine optimization , search marketing

Google Trends gives a nice "crossing" graph, showing the trend of search engine optimization is giving up to search marketing over the years.


Search on Google Insights :
Now when the same keywords are searched for the "interest" in several years, a similar but simple graph is observed giving the output and winning to search marketing (keyword)


Drilled down to India + Maharashtra + 90 days span


Shows a wide graph, here the more you categorize and drill, you will get a deeper insight, as the name suggests and when used with commonsense, can be an effective tool in keyword analysis and research.

Microsoft Add-inBeta for Excel 2007

After a long wait on any updates in Search Marketing and latest tools, Microsoft is back in business with its new Adcenter Tool Add-in , Add-inBeta for Excel 2007.

A link from Microsoft has more info here:

This new adCenter tool helps optimize keywords to improve advertiser campaign ROI. The adCenter Add-in provides immediate access to advanced keyword data including market segmentation, monthly traffic, monetization, categorization, and other advanced tools. This new tool makes adCenter keyword research and optimization easy and efficient by providing unparalleled keyword information to help advertisers choose the right keywords for the right audience to capture the right customer.

The key benefits are:
- Free, simple and quick download for Excel 2007
- Easily research, analyze, and manipulate data in Excel.
- Quickly research keyword monetization for KPIs—CPC, CTR, impressions, and - clicks—to help maximize campaign ROI.
- Keyword categorization allows users to input URLs or keywords, and the tool suggests a category based on the market segment for more effective advertising spend.
Keyword demographic and geographic information helps to target the right audience.
Leverage keyword historical data to anticipate future trends to choose the right keywords at the right time.

STOP Words to Avoid : SEO technique

What are STOP words?
Those set of characters which are very very common on the web and are generally ignored by search engines during search.

Its recommended to avoid such stop words in meta tags : Title , Description and keywords on SEO organic technique of on-page optimization.

List of stop words:

about
after
all
also
am
an
and
another
any
are
as
at
be
because
been
before
being
between
both
but
by
came
can
come
could
did
do
does
each
else
for
from
get
got
has
had
he
have
her
here
him
himself
his
how
if
in
into
is
it
its
just
like
make
many
me
might
more
most
much
must
my
never
now
of
on
only
or
other
our
out
over
re
said
same
see
should
since
so
some
still
such
take
than
that
the
their
them
then
there
these
they
this
those
through
to
too
under
up
use
very
want
was
way
we
well
were
what
when
where
which
while
who
will
with
would
you
your
near
not
nearby
weight
quot
nbsp
gt
lt
com
amp
var
raquo
middot
ndash

Most Popular Keywords June 2007 India

India - Top Gaining Queries: June 2007

- reliance data card
- national institute of technology
- raveena tandon
- jordan
- bob marley
- amul
- allahabad
- mallika sheravat
- airdecan
- Shakira
- ashwariya
- tantra
- coconut
- dhoom3
- 3gp player

Source : Google Zeitgeist

Top Keyword Searches on Google ( May) in India

Top Queries at Google ( May) in India

These are the top search words ( or keywords in terms of SEO professionals) people are searching for on the World #1 Search Engine Google. May Shows users interest in Gadgets, Bollywood personalities and Banking with Technology.

1. fedex
2. thailand
3. ford fiesta
4. andhra bank
5. nikon
6. john abrahim
7. NIIT
8. clear trip
9. indian navy
10. pepsi
11. 7th results
(7th grade exam results)
12. hdfc netbanking
13. 300 movie
14. marilyn monroe
15. netone

Source : Google Zeitgeist Press Center

Worlds Top 10 Most Irritating Words

Ever wondered what are the most profitable keywords ?
Every webmaster thinks on it, but what about the irritating ones?

According to Daily Telegraph,

It is the driving force behind what some experts have hailed a golden age in the development of the English language.

But while the internet may be responsible for the greatest blossoming of new phrases since Shakespeare it has also been blamed for some of the most irritating.

Now a poll has revealed the web-related words that drive most computer users up the wall. "Folksonomy" was voted the most annoying new phrase in a survey to mark the 10th anniversary of the word "web-log".

The YouGov poll, in which 2,000 web users voted for their least favourite word spawned by the internet, celebrates the second annual Blooker Prize, which honours the year's best "blook", or book based on a blog. The 10 most irksome words spawned by the internet:

1. Folksonomy: an ad hoc online classification system
2. Blogosphere: the collective term for the online blogging community
3. Blog: an online journal or web-log
4. Netiquette: internet etiquette
5. Blook: a book based on a blog
6. Webinar: an online seminar
7. Vlog: a video blog
8. Social networking: the use of the web to form "virtual communities"
9. Cookie: a text file stored on your computer from a website you visited
10. = Wiki: a collaborative website in which multiple authors add, remove and edit content
= Podcast: a downloadable audio file
= Avatar: an icon used to represent oneself online
= User-generated content: web content created by use

If you know more, just digg the story.

Keyword Research Tools for SEO and SEM

Keyword Research is a vital part in Organic as well as Paid Search Optimization.
Basically you capitalize on those keywords which are searched on a large volume and still have lower CPC (Cost per Click). Skill is finding relevant keywords for your/ client's site with less competition with least CPC for getting maximum ROI (Return on Investment).
Webmasters are now seriously concerned about these keywords for Adwords and Adsense too.

Searching for Top keywords for volume and popularity?
There are many tools available:
1) Google Adwords Keyword Tool with Traffic Estimator (for Google only)
2) KeywordDiscovery Online Tool
3) WordTracker Interface.
4) Overture Inventory Tool
5) Google Zeitgeist Monthly searched keywords

Each of those use a different formula ( most of them gather from top search engines)

You can get a clear view from Google Zeitgeist about the last month's most popular keywords searched. Here is a snap shot for India Specific searches :

Top Paying Keywords for Adsense/Adwords

I found following keywords worth more than others, especially if you are using then for adsense/adwords.

Keywords - Cost Per Click (CPC)
register a domain name $34.51
domain registrations $31.39
servers dedicated $29.47
how to register a domain name $26.84
domaine names $26.00
register domain names $25.83
search domain name $24.75
domain register $24.25
domain registration $23.97
internet domain registration $23.58
yahoo webhosting $22.05
domain registering $21.78
counter strike dedicated servers $21.65
buy domain name $21.23
registering domain names $20.71
domain check $20.21
buy a domain name $20.12
domain search $19.83
dedicated server $19.73
managed dedicated servers $19.56
domain name registrations $19.55
eu domain registration $19.52
domain searches $19.28
domain names $19.06
domain name registration $19.01
dedicated linux hosting $18.35
available domain name $18.31
linux dedicated hosting $18.20
dedicated web hosting $18.04
hosting domain registration $17.87
dedicated windows server hosting $17.74
dedicated web hosting $17.63
hosting dedicated $17.58
dedicated hosting $17.30
managed dedicated hosting $17.30
domain name availability $16.99
ca domain name $16.64
web domain $16.58
dedicated web server $16.56
domain names canada $16.53
dedicated server hosting $16.14
dedicated hosting server $16.03
cheap domain names $16.00
register domains $15.92
dedicated windows hosting $15.90
mohaa dedicated server $15.87
inexpensive domain $15.70
domain name $15.69
dedicated server web hosting $15.44
Domain $15.38
domain name registration search $15.37
uk dedicated hosting server $15.36
unix dedicated server $15.17
cheap domain register $15.03
dedicated sql server $15.03

These figures are just given for information and may/may not be stable, please do your own keyword research for accuracy of results.

What They searched in India on Google ?

India - Top Gaining Queries: March 2007
daniel craig drake bell toyota india travel guru maria sharapova	hrithik roshan epl maruti alto jharkhand public service commission govinda	mahindra bolero dhoom 2 danik jagran (A Hindi newspaper) hanna montana victoria beckham

Source : Google Zeitgeist

KEI

SEO's say so and so keywords are bad to rank or so and so keywords are easy to top the ranking. The reason is arguable the competition for that particular keyword.General Observations are searches for particular query (keyword) are increasing but occurances are doubled every two months.Internet population is increasing per day and this reflects the search in who is searching what. Competition is the decisive factor while considering your target area/reach. Also the number of searches for that particular keyword need to be considered.Here is where KEI comes into play.

Keyword Effectiveness Index (KEI) in Keyword Research and analysis,stands for the ration of total search terms and phrases to respective occurances. Its a formula which gives values in units. Tools like Keyword Discovery, WordTracker are handy to get

the values per keyword/phrase.