Does anyone use Keyword Research when writing a blog entry?

[erikko]

i use google trends or yahoo buzz sometimes but oftentimes i check other sites or blogs of my niche to see what is the trend. i believe that fresh is best

[Ferox]

I have in the past done a google search on my planned title to see what the competition's like. Sometimes I still will, but it doesn't change what I write about.

Somedays I wish google woudl have a 'call for content' type arrangement, where it would say 'X people have searched for Y querry and found no relevant sites'.

[veikoh]

Thanks for your answers. I was considering to publish an article which will use only key phrases for my topic with high KEI in a way I used Trellian for SEO work writing meta tags for articles. After several hours of trying this article didn't made any sense for me so I abandonded this idea even it could have made me lot of traffic.

[Bloggeries]

Originally Posted by veikoh

Thanks for your answers. I was considering to publish an article which will use only key phrases for my topic with high KEI in a way I used Trellian for SEO work writing meta tags for articles. After several hours of trying this article didn't made any sense for me so I abandonded this idea even it could have made me lot of traffic.

From experience a high KEI term is only a GEM if it's in your niche. If not it just pulls people in who most of the time just leave instantly.

Finding high KEI terms in make money online, internet marketing, web dev are a lot harder and I find if you DO find one... Give it 4 days and it's no longer a high KEI as many people are using advanced tools as well now like the free wordtracker or paid like I am testing.