Coming up with unique good keywords is a challenging thing. Could anyone please suggest some techniques to be used for this. I am trying to advertise my classified site on jobs,housing,for sale,personals,resumes etc.
thank you

Keywords doesn't have to be unique. You have to choose a keyword that people tend to use often when they're searching for services/products - in your case, classified ads. The number of searches that particular keyword gets is important and you also have to consider the competition. There are lots of tools that can help you like overture, google adwords.

analysis for the right keywords is not that easy. lots of factors to consider in terms of competition.

Try these sites:

http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/suggestion/
Input a phrase, generates appropriate keywords

http://www.nichebot.com/
Tons of metrics, analysises (sp?) and suggestions for relevant keywords

http://inventory.overture.com/d/sear...ry/suggestion/
Input the keyword and it will provide you information on related searches and the number of times this keyword was searched for in the last month

http://www.webconfs.com/
Variety of SEO tools including a keyword density checker

Hope this helps!

Oh, and don't forget about negative keywords too

Use keyword suggestion tool to select the right keyword to target. If your site is new target a semi-competitive keywords.

What are your users finding you under? Sometimes keywords and phrases can stem from that.

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Originally Posted by travelagent

You can lead a horse to water, but ya can't make him drink...

TA send me some pills to stop laughing.

I imagine Adam in CowBoy dress, trying to make a horse drink water.

EDIT : I did the same mistake with that tools. Those tools are waste, especially when you are looking to market web related service. All webmasters search for those terms, so it adds search count/month. Finally when you achieve rank you get No / Less traffic than you expect.

Sorry Kirtan -- I won't be making anyone laugh anymore, due to a whining crybaby here who has no personality, much less a sense of humor and is driving people away from the forum who are trying to help others.

The most important part of keyword are optimized for and rank highly in search engines for keywords that people actually want to find. If no one is searching for your targeted keywords, it won't matter how highly the site is ranked in the search engines. This is actually the first part of any keyword strategy

• Popularity: Do people search for your keywords?
• Competitiveness: How many other pages target your keywords? Should you have more specific keywords?
• Keyword Selector tool: Enter a term related to your site and we will show you:; Related searches t
• Check the keyword relevancy : Google Adwords: The Keyword Tool generates potential keywords for your ad campaign and reports their Google.
• Keyword density and promixity
• Keyword searches per month
  

Originally Posted by webcosmo

Coming up with unique good keywords is a challenging thing. Could anyone please suggest some techniques to be used for this. I am trying to advertise my classified site on jobs,housing,for sale,personals,resumes etc.
thank you

BTW
Most of the above comes from

http://www-128.ibm.com/developerwork...brary/wa-seo2/

You can use http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/suggestion/ for keyword suggestion. It shows the keywords per day for the previous month.

type in 'google adwords tool' in google and click on the first link that appears. It will bring you to the tool that shows search volume vs competition for keywords. This is an amazing tool to use.

Do you have webstats on your page? Did you check what keywords people are using to get to your site?

I also feel the keyword tools aren't effective anymore, everybody's using the same tools, the same keywords, feels like it's time to place more value on other factors, i.e. the content these keywords are used in.

the content these keywords are used in.

Surely you don't mean write your pages for real people

It doesn`t matter if they are unique or not, just make sure they connect with the users of you site or what ever. Target the audience thats the best way to use it.

KeywordSpy.com a try for a keyword research tool, with results actually reflecting what advertisers are using at the current time.