My book, Promoting Your Podcast, has been out long enough that I’ve decided to post updates online. Podcasting is moving at the speed of light. Things are constantly changing. There are already things I want to update in the book for the benefit of my readers. I’ll be posting occasional updates here on my blog and linking to this category from the book site.
And with that, here’s the first update.
In chapter 4 of my book, I talk about how to research and choose keywords that will attract more search engine traffic to your site. I recommended Nichebot as my favorite tool for collecting keyword data to create keyword reports.
As Murphy’s Law would have it, Nichebot recently changed their site. The service is no longer free to use as it once used to be. However, there is an alternate source for this information.
Nichebot pulls its data from the Keyword Discovery service. If you visit Keyword Discovery, you can sign up for a free account and get limited access to their keyword tool. To use the tool, select Keyword Discovery and then the Research sub-tab. Then just type a search term and click search. Instead of using the “Count” statistic, it’s now simply called “Searches”
January 10th, 2007 at 12:01 pm
Thanks, Jason.
Nichebot offered a link to their “classic” service for a short time after changing to a paid site but that has gone away.
I have also been using Google analytics (free) to keep a close eye on the keywords people are using to access my site. That coupled with this update should help me continue to grow my download and subscriber numbers. I’ve nearly tripled my numbers since Podcast expo!
January 22nd, 2007 at 10:14 pm
Jason,
I found that the link for Nichebot Classic is still active (found here at http://www.nichebotclassic.com/).
I’m not sure how it comapares to the original version, but you can search Keyword Discovery, WordTracker, Overture. It also has a Thesaurus, Keyword Analysis (but requires Google API key), and Google Ranking information.
Hopefully that helps out.
January 28th, 2007 at 11:15 pm
Jeff,
Thanks for sharing that link. That’s very helpful. It looks the Keyword Discovery search on Nichebot Classic no longer works, but their Wordtracker search does. I’ll add that to the post.