Getting Started to blogging

It is always best to try and make money from what you know. It is far easier to write about what you know than to try and make money writing about other things. However, having said that, you can find free content on almost any subject, so you can pick a subject that you think would be profitable, but you don’t really know anything about.

- Adsense Research

We will start by finding out how much the maximum bid is for a keyword. Please note that you will not likely get anything close to this value as this is only showing the highest bid. The visitor may click on lower paying ads. Also, there are two types of PPC advertising. They can advertise on the “Search Network” and/or the “Content Network”. If they don’t advertise in the content network, the ads won’t show on your site. This is the best information we have, so it will give you a general idea of the money available for this keyword.

You can find the tool here.

Here are the results for a search on credit card:

It appears that this would be a lucrative niche however you need to find less
competitive keywords to be successful with this method.

When you roll further down the page you will see some further analysis.

Using the information provided above we can figure out a ratio to see how
competitive the keyword is.
You will now do some division to come up with a ratio. You take the
number of searches for that phrase and divide it by the number of search
results for Google to get a ratio of searches performed. In this example, that
would be:
8406716 (monthly searches) / 211000000 (Number Of Google Results) =
which is .03984
Now we need to repeat this process for a large list of related keywords.
Go Here and search for the keyword or key phrase that you are targeting for
your niche. For instance, if you are targeting “credit card”, you would key it
in below as shown.


Do the same for all of the results. You will then take the result with the
highest ratio and optimize your blog for that content. This will be the
keyword which is most likely to get you listed high in the search engines.
Below is a screen shot of  the keyword credit
card. These are not real numbers, but example data so don't use it.
The formula is already in the spreadsheet. You key in the keyword, the
number of searches and the number of Google results.