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NicheBOT V2 Full Review

NicheBOT V2 Review

Software Type: Web Based.
Cost: $1.00

The original NicheBOT keyword research tool was one of the best free keyword research tools around. This old classic has now been pushed aside to make room for the new and improved NicheBOT V2. I decided to take this shiny new keyword research tool for a run to see if it lives up to the high expectations many had for it. Here’s what I found.

My Experience

After doing keyword research for a long time, people tend to develop and refine certain procedures to get the best results in the minimum amount of time. I’ve certainly got my own methodology which has several procedure pathways depending upon what I’m trying to dig out.

For example the way that I research for pay per click (PPC) is quite different to how I research to find new profitable niches. Perhaps I will share these different procedures with you some day.

Anyway, regardless of the style of keyword research I’m doing, I loosely follow a basic procedure. This workflow can be crudely explained as:

• I poke around a bit.
• I assess difficulty.
• I assess profitability.
• I go “lateral”.
• I blow it up.
• I clean up the mess.

Now each of these steps will be executed slightly differently depending on the outcomes I’m trying to achieve, but that’s my basic workflow.

Now the problem with that up until recently, there weren’t many tools that would allow me to smoothly work like that with much continuity. That is until now. Enter NicheBOT V2.

(The original NicheBOT (now NicheBOT Classic) was a free tool that has now moved here).

Going with the grain instead of against it

I’ve got to say from the outset that I love NicheBOT V2.  It fits my keyword research style like a glove. Now, I’m not saying that it’s perfect. The interface is a bit messy, the keyword management is a somewhat lacking and there isn’t any pricing data for AdSense or heavy duty PPC. These things definitely need improvement.

However, even with those shortfalls, NicheBOT V2 just feels right. Perhaps the most right of any of the 25+ keyword research tools I have spent time with.  It feels like the tool is finally going with the grain instead of against it.

Let me give you a quick tour. You can give the system a run yourself for 14 days for a lazy buck here.

Getting started

When I first logged into members home page I heard my inner monologue say;

 “Whoa! Steady on guys! It feels like I just walked into a room and everyone started talking to me at once. This page is busy!”

It actually took me a minute or two to assimilate all the content on this page and how it all hung together. Once I got my head around it, I got started.

As you follow this little tour, see how the different sections matched my keyword research style. See if it matches yours too.

Quick Digging

NicheBOT V2 allows you to use a whole bunch of free tools to poke around researching different keywords. These tools won’t cost you any of your premium credits. The free tools include:

• Keyword Discovery Keywords (Top 10)
• WordTracker Keywords (Top 15)
• Overture Keywords (Top 100)
• WordTracker Thesaurus (Top 15)
• Find Niche Products (Directory Style)

Using these tools, I pulled out a bunch of keywords that look pretty good, and wanted to check out a bit more. No credit required.

Assessing difficulty

Once I had these keywords in my investigative basket, I was able to run a bunch of checks on them to assess competition.

The info I could get for each keyword included:

• Volume
• Google Competition (using checks to see how many pages contained that term in both the title and in anchor text)
• KEI
• Ratio
• Analysis
  
  Now I will just stop for a second here to explain this neat feature. For every keyword, you can hit this analyse button. NicheBOT V2 goes out and grabs the top 10 sites (can be up to 50) on Google for that phrase, and sees how tough they would be to crack SEO wise. For each of those top 10 URL’s it looks at the backlinks, the number of indexed pages and the page rank. Nice!
  
  
• WordTrend
  
  This is a great feature if you wish to see the kinds of seasonal trends of your chosen keywords. It also allows you to run some visual comparisons of search volume between keywords. Some neat stuff that will probably chew through your credits pretty fast if you get hooked on those fancy graphs!
  

Using these free tools I was also able to find myself lots of related lateral keywords to add into the mix.

Deep Digging

Normally when I am keyword researching I like to bring my lists down to small group of keywords I call my seed group. These are the result of my initial “poking around”, difficulty and profitability analysis, as well as my lateral research. It’s at this point I try to “blow up” my keyword lists.

NicheBOT V2 does this perfectly by tapping into the Keyword Discovery enterprise level data (normally $495 per month) and lets you expand your list to as big as any service on the market will provide. That means up to 10,000 keywords per seed keyword. So if you have 100 seed keywords you can potentially expand your keyword list to 1,000,000 (1 million) keywords. Very slick stuff.

Keyword Cleaning and Management

When you can blow your keyword lists up to that size, you are going to want a healthy way to both manage and clean up your keyword lists.

On the whole, NicheBOT V2 does a good job of doing this. As far as keyword management goes, the interface is good, and the continuity between features is excellent. The only thing that annoyed me was that I couldn’t see how I could combine lists (and remove the duplicates). Perhaps other NicheBOT V2 users can help me out with that?

With respect to keyword list cleanup, NicheBOT V2 on the whole hits the nail on the head. The only thing that it lacks (and so does pretty much every other tool so I know it’s a minor quibble) is that the appending tool doesn’t add the keywords with the appendages as new keywords, but just replaces the old ones. I want the tool to keep the existing keyword, AND create a new keyword phrase with the appended words. I’m sure it’s not hard to do, so Jim, if you’re reading this… :)

The verdict

The verdict? The verdict is I love it!

If you do any keyword research at all, you must at least try this service. It only costs 1 buck to get your feet wet. Just make sure that you set aside at least 30 minutes to get your head around how it all hangs together so you can get the full picture of the power of NicheBOT V2.

Summary

A keyword research tool that makes sense as it closely follows how users conduct their research. Ability to expand your lists to up to 10,000 words per seed keyword. Recommended. Go get it!

Strong Aspects

• Design matches solid keyword research methodology
• A variety of tools pulling from several different data sources
• Ability to expand your lists dramatically
• Strong keyword cleaning functionality
  

Weak Aspects

• Interface a bit messy
• Doesn’t have keyword bid data
• Keyword management could be a little better
  

Who is it ideal for?

This tool would suit almost anyone who does any kind of keyword research, although it would probably suit PPC and AdSense focused users less as it doesn’t provide bid data.


Ratings

For Niche Miners:
For Search Engine Optimizers:
For Pay Per Click Advertisers:
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