You as a site owner have a funnel that you must take the visitor through. The hardest thing for most site owners is to get to the front page for the keyword that you're targeting. If you're looking up search keywords related to SEO, than you've that same problem.

"How To SEO" is the biggest hurdle that you will initially face as a marketer. The first step that you have to take is to do your market research. This is sometimes referred to as niche research. If you have to do something related to golf then you have to see how golf is doing in Google Trends.

You can see the search trend volume of any broad keyword by looking in Google Trends. Then take the broad keyword and enter it in Google's keyword tool to get 200 keywords. In the tool you will get the monthly search volume, advertiser competition, and a lot more.

If you're new to "How to SEO" you want to pick a relatively low searched keyword to start with. The higher the search amount the harder it is to dominate and get a top 10 listing. When starting as a beginner you always want to start off small and attest you can dominate a small term.

It is good practice to start with a keyword that has at least one thousand up to twenty thousand searches a month. When you type in the broad keyword it will provide you a list of synonyms for the broad keyword. Golf swing will be the sub category inside golf.

Pick out of a list of 5 to 10 words that you will research further. The more specific the more better. Golf swing would not necessarily be a good keyword until you've researched it further. Take that list of 5 to 10 and start doing a few researches on the keywords.

Go to Mozilla Firefox and type in the first keyword without quotes. Make sure you have seo quake plug-in enabled so you can see some key details. Look at the top 10 results. Don't be bothered about the outrageous number of results that will appear. What you are looking for is the strength of competition.

What you will be looking at is the Page Rank (PR) and types of sites on the top 10. If you see article sites, video sites, or web 2.0 sites, that is a good sign. If you see sites with PR 3 and higher, you may want to back away from targeting that keyword as your first site.

It is a contest for every decent searched keyword. You want to ensure that you can list in top 10 for results in less than a month. Listings that have PR sites of 5 and higher for top 10 deserve your respect and logic to stay away.

If you were a starting boxer would you try to battle Oscar De La Hoya as your first fight? Of course not. You would find one more boxer at your skill set that you may possibly beat if you trained properly. That is the same concept here. If you see a couple of article sites, or videos, you have a much better chance of dominating the keyword in less than a month.