As we know Alibaba is the B2B ONLINE SERVICE, a stage for   "finding each other". And the very point is that both sides have to use the Alibaba search engine to find what they need with their familiar keywords. So the rules for business online is just trying  any ways to increase the chance of  connection ,and keywords is the only key to the connection.This means who get the key to keywords ,who will take the first step earlier.
  Of course keyword is very important to both sides. But here i gonna introduce more information for the sellers.Basic on the questions from the different sellers ,i find out that the point of difficulties to the keyword skills is "how to collect , where to collect ".Here i give three points from my study :

1.Different nations use different keyword to search for  the same product
2.Pay attention to the recommend keywords from Alibaba, Google,Yahoo!  etc
3.Study the keyword for one product from science website (example: Wikipedia)

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First we can try Alibaba.com. for example I want to use "Polystyrene" keyword and try to find more active keywords for it.



As you can see Alibaba will suggest related searches to you,  these 4 keywords are used too much by the seller and buyers so they are more important from Alibaba eyes. But if you click on view all then:



Also if you type slowly on search space, Alibaba start to suggesting you automatically even no need type more.  those keywords also can be useful for you because buyers use them too much and you can get more chance that your products view by them.
Try study Alibaba as one buyer, then can understand Alibaba suggest what to buyers and try to work on it.

I love Alibaba because if you post any products in Alibaba Google search can find your products in first pages from your company profile at Alibaba.  If you use the correct name for your products pictures, also Google would be able to find your pictures through image search.



The monsters of keywords "search engine companies" such as Google and yahoo...
Because they are monster of keywords so they are full of different keywords too, for example google.cn, google.us, google.ru and etc. different countries with different keywords. Now let's search on google and find related keywords from it.



New keywords again can search and give you more new keywords...

Yahoo! also is important for us because the search system of Alibaba is from Yahoo!
so we can have different keywords from it too.

Let's try:


Alibaba also recommend to ask from your old customers from different countries to undrestand more about active keywords.

If you are new seller for your factory, it's one of your job that learn more about what you sell, I know that most of us working in some business that was not our major before.  Have more knowledge let us improve more,  so use your product  keyword and study about it. be professional in your own business...

Right opinion , Well explained & detailed , but why when your product appears at the top of the searching results of Google but can't find it on the Google images , even you have posted pictures with your product ? , does the name of the uploaded picture make difference , or what ? Thanks

You are right, pictures should not send without name. Search engines find images because of their names and information.



Google invites people to improve it's image search.
Want to help improve Google Image Search? Try Google Image Labeler.


Different pictures within few minutes show to you and your partner, your keyword should be the same as your partner, but you can't see his or her keywords.


This means how much the name of pictures are important. Because search engines don't have eyes to see the pictures and find for you, they find pictures by pictures names or their info. If you want your job be professional try ACDC or other image editor to edit the information of your picture too.

This article is very useful!

I will try and follow your methods.

Thanks for sharing !

Oh that is very abstruse. I am studying.

many products is showed by sellers in search engine, and how to find the customers' messages? or how to find the useful messages.