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Brainstorm Keywords

Brainstorm Some Keyword Terms

No matter where you're searching, you will need to pick out the most important keywords. These are generally nouns.

For example: "How do advertisers market their products to women?"

Other related words (or synonyms) for products and women might be:

products 

Products: clothing, clothes, cigarettes or liquor, computers, toys

women

Women: girl, girls, gender, female, females, ladies, mothers

Note that we've included variations of keywords such as plurals. Include any alternate spellings of words or abbreviations, too. For example, turn ADHD into Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.