Question Regarding Google Keywords | Bloggers Lair | Yakezie Forums

When using google keywords to find keywords to insert into the all in one seo
fields, do I want to choose a keyword with a lot of competition or no?
Also, it makes sense to choose a keyword with the most searches,
correct?

Low volume to competition is very important.  In a perfect, SEO-friendly world, you would want to target keywords with low search volume (think 100 per month or less in terms of click-throughs) until you build up enough internal SEO power to start ranking for the higher search volume keywords.

While Google's tool is a great way to find new keywords, I would look first to your Google Analytics to see what people are searching for, how they're coming to your site, and how you could spruce up already written pages for better SERP performance.  

Having a unique perspective or opinion on something–or just freely giving away your viewpoint–is a great way to move up in search engines.  Not only are people likely to link to it, but you also have something that is different from the 9 other information and content-driven pages that rank on page 1 for the particular keyword. 

Look into Market Samurai.  Keyword research is critical if you want to make any type of money online.  Too many people separate SEO and writing for people.  There is definitely a balance between the two.  At the end of the day you want to help real people.  Look at huffington post for example.  i personally hate that blog but they are a great example of interesting articles and performing top notch keyword research and SEO practices within their articles.

Hope that helped.  Like JT says, use analytics, it's a great and free tool!

One thing I do is try to write on topics that I already get a lot of traffic. I have become to go to website for a topic that I never would have guessed when I started writing, but that brings the most traffic and AdSense revenue.