Ranking high in Google for proper keywords is the secret to making money online. Unless you pay for your traffic through advertisements, your online business will probably not survive without natural search engine traffic. So how do you get ranked highly in Google for your chosen keywords?

Let's face it. Getting ranked highly in Google for competitive keywords is almost impossible - especially if you are working on a limited budget. It is just too difficult to compete with companies that can spend thousands of dollars on internet marketing. So really the first step in ranking high in Google is to find keywords that have little competition. Once you find these keywords, you can create a simple website and some backlinks to that website.

How would we define keywords with little competition? There are many different guidelines, but the method that I use is this: a keyword phrase should have exact matches for that keyword in fewer than 10,000 websites. This means that at the most you will be competing with 10,000 websites for that keyword. Of course, you need to ensure that those top ranking websites are not very established. I like to see websites with a page rank of less than 3 and fewer than 1,000 backlinks.

Again this is not a hard and fast rule but just a guideline to get you started.

Also, a keyword research tool can help you greatly in finding these keywords. Such a tool will save you a lot of manual effort by doing the searches for you and showing you the results on one simple page. Then you can scan the page and find the keywords that you want to try to dominate in Google.