By Justin Harrison

Logging into Google AdWords, you will quickly find a large number of very useful tools at your disposal. These tools will make it possible to proof your ads for errors, choose their placement, optimize your website, and generate a huge number of reports so you can how your ads are performing against other sites, in their demographics, and much more. But probably the most powerful tool you will find the Google Adwords keyword suggestion tool, which uses ad data to generate a list of related keywords along with their recent search data and their cost.

The first thing you need to do, before you do anything with the Adwords keyword suggestion tool, is to come up with your own list of some keywords. Keep your list relatively short. Your list of no more than 10 to 15 words is all the data Adwords needs to generate new search terms and phrases for you. It's always possible of course, find these keywords directly on your web pages, although Google can do that for you automatically. Sometimes the very best way to start, however, is to brainstorm you own list of terms you think your most profitable visitors would search for if they wanted the content your website provides. Brainstorming your own list will sometimes give you that one terrific keyword the data do not yet capture.

Either way, the next step is for you to take your list to the keyword suggestion tool. Start by entering your keywords one at a time. It is possible to enter multiple keywords all at once, but if you do this, it's highly likely you will get back a list of hundreds of keywords that don't really related to your site. It is far more effective just to start with one keyword at a time, letting the Adwords keyword suggestion tool generate related terms that you may be able to use.

Every time you search a word or phrase, Google will suggest other words or phrases that match websites with similar content, or Adwords campaigns that bid on the same words you chose. The suggestion tool will also provide an estimate of traffic per month, how much competition there is for the word or term, and current prices at various rankings on the page.

The Google Adwords keyword suggestion tool gives you several dozen more options that will give you even more useful information about your keywords. The tool allows you to generate monthly traffic charts. These inform you how the popularity of your keywords rises and falls throughout the year. You can also get an estimate of the position of your ad on the page at various bid prices, and you can retrieve an estimate of the number of clicks you can buy based on last month's search volume, average search volume, which month the search volume for that keyword is the highest, and your budget.

One thing you will learn quickly is that each of these bits of information is equally important in choosing your keywords, but it is still up to you to choose select words that you know are valuable to your service or product. Don't choose a low competition, high volume phrase just because it is cheap, if it does not help you sell your site. That would be just throwing your money away. But if you do your research and then still stay creative, you can ensure that every keyword you use in your campaign will drive traffic to your site.

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