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Key word SEO – Choosing Keywords For Best SEO Strategies
Posted by: | CommentsHow do you choose keywords for the best seo strategies? Actually the the process is quite simple… and I’m going share with you some secrets on how you can select good keywords that will bring more seo traffic to your web pages.
I’m going make some suggestions on how you can find the best keywords for your title and for your text. For my examples, I’m going avoid the “online marketing niche” go into a smaller niche.
SEO Keyword tool
There are several good seo Keyword tools available. Some are free and some you will have to pay for. I’ve used both and found that Google Keyword External is very good and it’s free. Make sure it’s “External.”
Using The Tool
Log in and put your main key word into your search box. An entire list of relevant key words or keyword suggestions will show up below your selection. (I like to search by relevance.)
This Is What I Found For My Subject:
1. Main key word: Dill Pickles Searches: 60,500
I looked through all the keywords that were listed and I wrote down the ones that fit my subject the best.
2. Here’s the trick. I always search for keywords that don’t have extremely high searches. I search from the middle to the low range for my “Title Keyword.”
Why would I want to compete with 60,000 others for the main keyword.
Here Is My Selection That Fits My Post The Best
Dill Pickles 60,500
Sour Pickles 9,000
Canning Dill Pickles 3,600
Dill Pickle Canning 1,900
Genuine Dill Pickles 1000
Dill Pickle Canning Recipe 720
Cucumber Dill Pickles 390
The relevant key words to my main keyword were not listed in this order… there were many keyword suggestions in between. But, these fit my post the best.
Guess which one I chose for my title?
Dill Pickle Canning – Dill Pickle Canning Recipe
Then I used all of the other relevant keywords in my text including Dill Pickles…. which has the most competition.
Another secret is… don’t over use one key word in your text. Google and Ezine frown upon it.
In fact… Ezine will turn down your article if they think you have packed your article with one main keyword just for seo ranking. It doesn’t sound natural. They want relevant key words to be included in your text along with your main keyword. So does Google.
Now, if you want to see how this all worked out… go see what I did with my keywords in a Dill Pickle Canning post. I used every one of my selected keywords in this short post.
How did I do?
Til Later,
Kathryn Griffiths
P.S. Go for it… Do your keywords search before you write every post. And, make sure you use relevant keywords for best seo strategies.
P.P.S. “Online Money Making” has high searches and high competition. You’ll have to be very selective in the keywords you choose.
What are your thoughts on the subject?Misspelled Words For SEO | Creative Online Copywriting
Posted by: | Comments“Oh my… you mean to tell me, it’s okay to have misspelled words for SEO purposes? Creative Copywriting? Are you nuts?” That’s what I thought when I first heard of the concept.
Let me explain.
You have to understand… writing on the web is a different animal than copy writing for a text book. You’re not only writing for an audience, you’re writing for “Google.” That’s what SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is all about.
There has always been the debate on who you should be pleasing… your reader… or Google. I say… why not both! That is, unless you have 121,604 subscribers reading your blog and 56,000 twitter followers like “Copyblogger” has. If that’s the case, you could avoid SEO strategies all together if you wanted to, because Google already loves you.
But, most bloggers, or copy writers, are working to create a strong following and become well known. So, SEO is an important strategy.
Please comment.Bounce Rate SEO | Google Analytics Bounce Rate Explained
Posted by: | Comments“Bounce Rate?” What is it? Google gives us this definition:
“Bounce rate is the percentage of single-page visits or visits in which the person left your site from the entrance (landing) page.”
1. A “landing page” is any page a reader “lands” on when they get to your site. 2. A Bounce is… leaving your site without clicking on another post or other information. In other words… the reader bounced off your site without sticking around to read additional information. (That means your bounce rate is high… Google loves a low bounce rate.)
Bounce rate is part of the Google Analytics stats tracking system. If you’re on WordPress… The Google Analytic Plugin is a must. It tracks all of your stats. If you don’t know your stats… how do you know what to improve?
Where Do Your Readers Come From?
If your reader comes to your blog site from the Search Engines (SEO) chances are they are not going land on your home page. They will come to a specific page of your site (landing page.)
If your readers come from referrals… they will also land on a specific post…. not your home page.
If your readers come directly to your site because they typed in your URL address… they will land on your home page.
Since much of the time… folks will not come to you site via your home page… it’s so important to use good keywords in your post title. Readers come your site because they want specific information. They know what your subject is because the Keyword in the title of your post informed them.
How Lower Your Bounce Rate
What's your opinion on this?How To Get Backlinks To Improve Your Page Rank
Posted by: | CommentsGetting backlinks to your site is more important for your pagerank than your outgoing links. You want high ranking sites to link to your page or site for Google SEO to sit up and take notice.
So how do you get them?
First… let’s define “Backlinks” or “Incoming links.”
Definition: Direct links to your websites through other sites. This is called Off-page SEO…. or…Links from other websites back to yours to gain popularity with search engines.
Getting backlinks from sites that have high readership or ranking are the sites you want to link to your site or pages.
Here are a few simple methods of getting high quality backlinks to improve your page rank.
Ezine Articles: Ezine Articles get thousands of viewers a day visiting their site. They have extremely high google pagerank.
Write an article and have a link point back to a particular page on your site. When a reader clicks the anchor text in your signature area, it then becomes a quality link coming from… yep…from Ezine. This strategy is excellent for a new blog.
Squidoo: Build a simple Squidoo Lens and have it link to a page on your blog that contains similar information. Squidoo is an authority site that will help you improve your pagerank.
HubPages: HubPages is much like Enzine. The incoming links to your blog will be high quality links. Tip: Use only original content in HubPages. You cannot re-purpose content from other sites or sources.
YouTube: Ahhh… One of my favorites! I have 28 videos that point to a pages on a blog that I have in another niche. Videos have served me well in sending me high quality backlinks from other sites who have used one of my videos on their site.
Get busy and produce a video that you can point back to your site. Point an anchor text link in your description box back to your blog. When folks click on it, you will get a superior incoming link from YouTube.
Just one more…. I’m including a one minute… 30 second video with another idea for getting quality backlinks to you site.
Good luck in your efforts for getting solid pagerank backlinks to your blog.
Til Later,
Kathryn Griffiths
P.S. Remember: Google will treat you well in rankings if you have high quality sites linking to your blog.