Types of Keywords That Never Sell (Stop Wasting Your Time With Them)

Neil Patel · Beginner ·🔍 RAG & Vector Search ·6y ago
There're a lot of extremely competitive keywords out there. From pharmaceutical keywords to online gambling keywords to payday loans and credit cards and banking term. These are all competitive keywords that multi-billion dollar companies are already investing hundreds and thousands, if not millions of dollars to go after. And if you go after them, you're not going to do well. And those aren't the only type of keywords. There's a lot of other keywords that if you go after, you're going to be wasting your time. Today I'm going to go over the types of keywords that never sell. These are the keywords that you should stop wasting your time with because if you go after them, you're not going to generate any sales. RESOURCES & LINKS: ____________________________________________ Ubersuggest - https://neilpatel.com/ubersuggest/ How to Find Hundreds of Thousands of SEO Keywords For Free [video]: https://youtu.be/0HRCWqFUlOY ____________________________________________ The first type of keyword that you should avoid is generic keywords. You'll attract visitors that have no interest what you're offering. They don't qualify visitors in any way. For example, if you just want to rank for credit cards, sure you're going to get a lot of traffic and a very, very, very, very tiny percentage of those people may convert, but heres the thing. The amount of cost, the money, the time you put into to rank for that term is going to be so expensive for how much revenue you make, it's not worth it. In most cases you're going to lose money and not have a positive ROI. You don't want to go after generic keywords. You're better off going after very specific terms, and the terms you should avoid are industry specific keywords which gets into the next type of keywords you should avoid. You know that technical jargon that people use? Well, most people who are in the industry may know about it, but most your buyers aren't going to be in your industry so they're not going to use it as much.
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