One of my methods to generate income is to sell affiliate products on a small website which is optimized for a particular keyword, keeping the scope of the site down to a narrow focus of  information targeted on that keyword.

One of the mistakes,  sometimes made,  by followers of this method is to do insufficient research into their competition. It is vital to analyze the websites of the top companys on the first two pages of Google to see if you have a reasonable chance of ranking.

So here we are:

• You have identified a hungry crowd.
• So you have found a product that is in demand.
• You have found a company willing to let you sell this item for a commission.
• You picked a niche by drilling down until you found  buyer keywords.

Well, at least you think that they are buyer keywords.  You have several of these keywords with good search  numbers and low competition.

You are fairly new to this affiliate marketing thing and right now you don’t have the cash for a fancy key word tool with all of the bells and whistles. Perhaps you have tried a free trial,  like I did, with market Samurai.

For FTC purposes….I am not affiliated,  I just use it !

The problem is that once the free trial has ended,  although you can still use the keyword analysis feature for free,  most of the SEO analysis features no longer work.

So what can we do?

Personally I think that market Samurai is a great tool and I was reluctant to give it up,  so I looked for another tool to work in conjunction with its free function to give me a better means of assessing the SEO competition.

On the video below check out this other free tool and learn what to look for when analyzing the SEO set up of your top competitors on the 1st  two pages of Google.

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