{"id":161,"date":"2006-05-26T13:03:37","date_gmt":"2006-05-26T20:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pdxtc.com\/wpblog\/archives\/161"},"modified":"2014-12-04T13:46:18","modified_gmt":"2014-12-04T20:46:18","slug":"how-big-is-the-internet-market-for-your-products-or-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pdxtc.com\/wpblog\/search-engines\/how-big-is-the-internet-market-for-your-products-or-services\/","title":{"rendered":"How big is the internet market for your products or services?"},"content":{"rendered":"

How many people are looking for you online? Whether you’re selling globally, or just in your neighborhood, what are people looking for, and how often are they looking for it?<\/p>\n

If you’ve been considering\u00a0expanding your internet marketing budget, how can you know if it’s going to be a worthwhile endeavor? Just Do a little research, and find out how much\u00a0business is out there…<\/p>\n

I use Wordtracker<\/a>\u00a0to get specific statistics about your competition, but that’s not free. However, there are a few\u00a0keyword research tools that can give you valuable information.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Overture keyword research tool<\/a> will give you a large list of associated keywords, and tell you the tell you\u00a0the number of times they were searched for on Yahoo last month.<\/p>\n

The Google keyword reasearch tool<\/a>\u00a0gives you a few more\u00a0options, including one that looks at your website, and extracts many related keywords.<\/p>\n

For the SEO “do it yourselfer”, Good Keywords<\/a> is actually a lot of fun, and many times just as effective as other expensive options I’ve used.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How many people are looking for you online? Whether you’re selling globally, or just in your neighborhood, what are people looking for, and how often are they looking for it? If you’ve been considering\u00a0expanding your internet marketing budget, how can you know if it’s going to be a worthwhile endeavor? Just Do a little research, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-search-engines","category-seo"],"yoast_head":"\nHow big is the internet market for your products or services?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"How many people are looking for you online? 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