Rock Star Keywords

I have decided with my latest article to combine my love for Internet Marketing with my love for music.  What I have done is taken the list of top selling artists from Wikipedia’s List of best-selling artists of all time and inserted it into The Google Keyword Estimator Tool.  The results are interesting.  Now, the top searched key-terms on the list were “Chicago,” “Prince” & “Kiss.”  I will dismiss those results.  It would be my assumption that with “Chicago” we are getting more searches for the city and the musical than we are for the popular 70′s rock group.  With “Prince” I would say there are as many searches (if not more) with the intent to find out about, say, “Prince William”, or just “Princes” in general than the flamboyant Rock Icon “Prince” (although he would disagree). With “Kiss” it’s much the same. I would think many searches are for people researching kissing techniques than stories about the Gene Simmons led legendary Rock Band.

So discounting those possibilities, the next on our list (by artist name alone) would be “The Who” & “Eminem.”  Tied. Interesting.  Both are well beyond their expiring dates (The Who being a great band from the 60′s & Eminem should have been washed up about 5 years ago, but he’s not, he is still making great music).  Now I would put “Eminem” on top of this list as his name is not a common spelling, and there is a chance that “The Who” searches could also be something else all together (sorry “The Who”). So congratulations to “Eminem!”

Now when we get into CPC it is another story.  Surprisingly “Genesis” rules the roost. However, I think there may be some biblical association to this. So we will cut them out (CPC, by the way, is what people will pay for a keyterm). As we go down the list to #2 we see “a-ha”. I wonder if that is a search for something people say when they sneak up on someone? So, not sure if we should give them this one. Let’s not. “Paul McCartney” is really the top of the list that I would believe gets high search traffic and has a high value to his name, so we will call him the champ of the top “paid for keywords” for rock stars. Congrats Paul. A Beatle, we should not be surprised.

*Reason for choosing title “Rock Star Keywords”.  “Rock Star” gets 2,400,000 monthly searches. It was not chosen to borrow any thunder from my friend Steve Jones or his amazing new book Brand Like A Rock Star: Lessons from Rock ‘n Roll to Make Your Business Rich and Famous. Although, somehow within all this writing I am sure I have borrowed a little from him. Thanks Steve. Enjoy the list!

Wikipedia’s List of best-selling artists of all time

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