# The exact roadmap to start using keywords on Etsy (/docs/quick-skills/etsy/keyword-research/etsy-keyword-roadmap-for-beginners)

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title: "The exact roadmap to start using keywords on Etsy"
description: A beginner's roadmap from Sir Zakria Afzal, getting seed keywords from ChatGPT, checking them in eRank against the criteria, confirming they are not copyright or trademark, and building a whole shop on one good keyword.
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*This whole document is from the Exact Roadmap: How to Start Using Keyword
class of Sir Zakria Afzal's Etsy course on YouTube, a separate course from
the iSkills Etsy module.*

## The roadmap

1. **If you are still a beginner** and do not know a keyword or a niche,
   ask **ChatGPT**. It will give you a lot of keywords and seeds.
2. Put them into **eRank**, look at them step by step, and keep taking out
   the ones that meet the **criteria**.
3. Put each keyword you find into ChatGPT and ask whether it is
   **copyright** or **trademark**. If it is not, that is your
   keyword.[^zakria-afzal-keyword-roadmap]

## One keyword, one shop

Once you find **one good keyword**, build your **whole shop** on
it.[^zakria-afzal-keyword-roadmap]

## Getting more keywords out of a keyword

- You can take more keywords out of a keyword. For example, **wall art** is
  a keyword, and **wall** and **art** inside it are separate keywords.
- Just keep spying and reverse engineering, and you will find a lot of
  keywords. To sort them, you can use **Niche
  Deck**.[^zakria-afzal-keyword-roadmap]

[^zakria-afzal-keyword-roadmap]: Exact Roadmap: How to Start Using Keyword
    class of Sir Zakria Afzal's Etsy course on YouTube, notes taken by the
    record's owner.

## Class infographic

![Infographic: The exact roadmap to start using keywords on Etsy](etsy-keyword-roadmap-for-beginners-infographic.webp)