Internet users know that the online world is growing and expanding on a daily basis. Many entrepreneurs are using their web sites to make money. Online business is thriving, Internet buying and selling is more popular than ever, and everyone is cashing in. But to make money from your web site, and make your Internet dreams a success, you must have customers.
Sounds simple enough, right? As easy as it sounds, there’s more to it than that. The Internet is a thriving, fast-paced, high-tech world where everything has to be bigger and better than what came before. Thousands upon thousands of web sites are out there, many of them probably very much like yours. How do you make your web site stand out above the competition? How do you make sure that customers come to your site first, buy from you?
Search engines. Everyone who has used the Internet has used a search engine at one time or another. The process is quite simple and usually quick. You know you’re looking for heated socks. So, you go to the search engine of your choice and type in “heated socks.” Voila! Web sites that sell heated socks.
So, what do you do? You click on the very first web site that’s on the list that the search engine returns. That’s what everyone does! The web sites that appear on page thirteen of the listing aren’t going to get any visitors. Obviously, you want your site to appear right up there near the top of the list.
And that’s where search engine optimization comes in. Search engines look, primarily at one thing: keywords. Choosing good keywords for your site is incredibly important, because keywords are what your potential visitors are going to use to find you. First, you have to decide what keywords you’re going to display on your site, what keywords you think visitors will use to find your site.
What sort of site is it? Are you running funny a site with lots of political jokes? You’ll want keywords like “politics” “Washington, D.C.” “Funny” “humor,” etc. Choosing good keywords is very important. You want simple, straightforward keywords. Some words are very commonly misspelled – include the common misspellings if your keywords are easy to misspell. Simplify your keywords as much as possible, include as many as you can, and you’ve taken your first steps to search engine optimization.
But, even that isn’t enough. Knowing that your keywords are “computers, Internet, and mouse pads” is great, but you still need to do more. Those keywords, all the keywords that you want connected to your site, have to appear on the site. Sounds simple enough, doesn’t it? Well, it is pretty simple, but you have to know what search engines are looking for. Search engines are very, very smart, and look for very specific things.
Your keywords must appear within content on the site. You can’t just repeat the same keywords over and over “computers, Internet, mouse pads. Computers, the Internet, mousepads.” Search engines will discount your site, because they’ll know what you’re trying to do, and you won’t get a high listing. To get a high listing, you have to have lots of content. Here’s the secret: it doesn’t have to be great content. As a matter of fact, most Internet users don’t read the text of web site that carefully in the first place. Just have lots of contents on the site, with your specific keywords repeated 4-6 times on the page, and you’ll have optimized your keywords.
Search engine optimization isn’t hard, as long as you know how search engines work. By using good keywords, you can get the most out of your site and out of search engines.
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Rabu, 05 September 2012
Keywords & Search Engine Optimization
Internet users know that the online world is growing and expanding on a daily basis. Many entrepreneurs are using their web sites to make money. Online business is thriving, Internet buying and selling is more popular than ever, and everyone is cashing in. But to make money from your web site, and make your Internet dreams a success, you must have customers.
Sounds simple enough, right? As easy as it sounds, there’s more to it than that. The Internet is a thriving, fast-paced, high-tech world where everything has to be bigger and better than what came before. Thousands upon thousands of web sites are out there, many of them probably very much like yours. How do you make your web site stand out above the competition? How do you make sure that customers come to your site first, buy from you?
Search engines. Everyone who has used the Internet has used a search engine at one time or another. The process is quite simple and usually quick. You know you’re looking for heated socks. So, you go to the search engine of your choice and type in “heated socks.” Voila! Web sites that sell heated socks.
So, what do you do? You click on the very first web site that’s on the list that the search engine returns. That’s what everyone does! The web sites that appear on page thirteen of the listing aren’t going to get any visitors. Obviously, you want your site to appear right up there near the top of the list.
And that’s where search engine optimization comes in. Search engines look, primarily at one thing: keywords. Choosing good keywords for your site is incredibly important, because keywords are what your potential visitors are going to use to find you. First, you have to decide what keywords you’re going to display on your site, what keywords you think visitors will use to find your site.
What sort of site is it? Are you running funny a site with lots of political jokes? You’ll want keywords like “politics” “Washington, D.C.” “Funny” “humor,” etc. Choosing good keywords is very important. You want simple, straightforward keywords. Some words are very commonly misspelled – include the common misspellings if your keywords are easy to misspell. Simplify your keywords as much as possible, include as many as you can, and you’ve taken your first steps to search engine optimization.
But, even that isn’t enough. Knowing that your keywords are “computers, Internet, and mouse pads” is great, but you still need to do more. Those keywords, all the keywords that you want connected to your site, have to appear on the site. Sounds simple enough, doesn’t it? Well, it is pretty simple, but you have to know what search engines are looking for. Search engines are very, very smart, and look for very specific things.
Your keywords must appear within content on the site. You can’t just repeat the same keywords over and over “computers, Internet, mouse pads. Computers, the Internet, mousepads.” Search engines will discount your site, because they’ll know what you’re trying to do, and you won’t get a high listing. To get a high listing, you have to have lots of content. Here’s the secret: it doesn’t have to be great content. As a matter of fact, most Internet users don’t read the text of web site that carefully in the first place. Just have lots of contents on the site, with your specific keywords repeated 4-6 times on the page, and you’ll have optimized your keywords.
Search engine optimization isn’t hard, as long as you know how search engines work. By using good keywords, you can get the most out of your site and out of search engines.
Sounds simple enough, right? As easy as it sounds, there’s more to it than that. The Internet is a thriving, fast-paced, high-tech world where everything has to be bigger and better than what came before. Thousands upon thousands of web sites are out there, many of them probably very much like yours. How do you make your web site stand out above the competition? How do you make sure that customers come to your site first, buy from you?
Search engines. Everyone who has used the Internet has used a search engine at one time or another. The process is quite simple and usually quick. You know you’re looking for heated socks. So, you go to the search engine of your choice and type in “heated socks.” Voila! Web sites that sell heated socks.
So, what do you do? You click on the very first web site that’s on the list that the search engine returns. That’s what everyone does! The web sites that appear on page thirteen of the listing aren’t going to get any visitors. Obviously, you want your site to appear right up there near the top of the list.
And that’s where search engine optimization comes in. Search engines look, primarily at one thing: keywords. Choosing good keywords for your site is incredibly important, because keywords are what your potential visitors are going to use to find you. First, you have to decide what keywords you’re going to display on your site, what keywords you think visitors will use to find your site.
What sort of site is it? Are you running funny a site with lots of political jokes? You’ll want keywords like “politics” “Washington, D.C.” “Funny” “humor,” etc. Choosing good keywords is very important. You want simple, straightforward keywords. Some words are very commonly misspelled – include the common misspellings if your keywords are easy to misspell. Simplify your keywords as much as possible, include as many as you can, and you’ve taken your first steps to search engine optimization.
But, even that isn’t enough. Knowing that your keywords are “computers, Internet, and mouse pads” is great, but you still need to do more. Those keywords, all the keywords that you want connected to your site, have to appear on the site. Sounds simple enough, doesn’t it? Well, it is pretty simple, but you have to know what search engines are looking for. Search engines are very, very smart, and look for very specific things.
Your keywords must appear within content on the site. You can’t just repeat the same keywords over and over “computers, Internet, mouse pads. Computers, the Internet, mousepads.” Search engines will discount your site, because they’ll know what you’re trying to do, and you won’t get a high listing. To get a high listing, you have to have lots of content. Here’s the secret: it doesn’t have to be great content. As a matter of fact, most Internet users don’t read the text of web site that carefully in the first place. Just have lots of contents on the site, with your specific keywords repeated 4-6 times on the page, and you’ll have optimized your keywords.
Search engine optimization isn’t hard, as long as you know how search engines work. By using good keywords, you can get the most out of your site and out of search engines.
Minggu, 08 Juli 2012
Optimizing for Rankings – Things to Do and Avoid
Search engine optimization is a much-debated topic and there is a lot of different on the net. Let’s cut through the muck and discuss things you should and shouldn’t pursue to get high rankings.
Optimizing for Rankings – Things to Do and Avoid
Before blasting into the subject, we need to define optimization. It simply refers to the manipulation of a site to gain top rankings on the three search engines that dominate the search traffic on the net – Yahoo, Google and MSN. If you do a search on Google, the optimized listings are found in the large section on the left hand side of the page. These are often referred to as organic rankings since you don’t pay for placement. Of course, you manipulated the page for optimization, but we will stick with organic as a name.
The first optimization tip is the most basic and the one many people screw up. Pick the correct keywords for your site! The correct keywords are not what you personally think based on your knowledge of your service or product. They are not the phrases returned in the Overture inventory tool. The only place you will find the exact keyword phrases you should use are in Wordtracker. The site gives you an analytical tool that provides the exact keyword phrases being used by your prospects, how often they are being used and which are easiest to get high rankings on. It costs a whopping $8 for a single session, but you will want to get a year subscription so you can pick up different cycles of keywords. Your prospects will search for different things in summer compared to winter.
The second thing to consider is the isolation keyword strategy. Many people will try to cram as many keywords into a page as possible. The accepted standard is 10 to 15 words. This is an old approach that works, but it will take much longer to get high rankings. Instead, you should develop a list of as many keyword phrases as possible. A single page should be made for each keyword phrase. You should never have to pick one keyword phrase instead of another for your site. Instead, you should make individual pages for each phrase.
A major third optimization tip is interlinking. The links from one page of your site to another matter a lot. When you create a link, make sure the link is the anchor text for the page the prospect will be going to. Anchor text is simply the keyword phrase on that page.
Turning to things you should avoid in optimization, well, there are a lot. Do not put your site name in your meta title, the search engines will list you high without it. Do not skimp on text, you need at least 250 words per page. Do not put database parameters in your urls because spiders have problems reading them. Stay away from flash as much as possible for the same reason. Stick to a single subject per page, to wit, do not wonder around like a drunken web designer! For the love of God, do not use frames. Finally, keep your html code streamlined so search engines can read it with ease.
The list of things to do and avoid is nearly endless. Follow these simple steps, however, and you will see marked improvement in your rankings.
Sabtu, 23 Juni 2012
SEO and Your Targeted Market
SEO is a continuing process and one that should not be ignored. As you know, or will soon realize, is that the search engines are the main entry point at which your customers will find your website. But there are other issues you must be aware of to get the targeted customers that you want.
Keywords
You may have optimized your webpages and people are coming -- but not many. Why? It could be the keywords you are choosing.
Choosing the right keywords take time and effort, and it is an important factor to consider. When choosing keywords you should be asking yourself -
1.) What are the exact words people are using to find the product or service that you are offering. For example: Is it refurbished tools, cheap tools, free tools, red, ugly tools -- you get my meaning.
2.) Are my keywords too general, or overused. If the keywords are too general, you may receive visitors that are not buyers, just browsers. If the keywords are overused, you may be so far down in the search engine rankings that your site will never be seen.
3.) Do you have your keywords or keyword phases in your "Title Tag". Your keywords in the Title Page should be relevant to what your web copy relates too. If it doesn't, you've just wasted an important keyword tool that the Search Engines utilize.
4. Meta Keywords Tag -- Some people use the meta keywords Tag and others say that the search engines no longer use them. And still others, claim that it gives their competition an unfair advantage. I personally will continue to use them, because I don't believe all the search engines ignore this tag.
Finding the correct keywords is no easy task. However, did you think of asking the people around you what keywords or phases they would use to get to one of your web pages. You might be surprised -- it may not have been a keyword or phase that you even considered.
Popularity
Even though a keyword may be popular to the masses, you also must consider if it is targeting your specific market. Why? You may begin to get the traffic, but not the specific target market that will buy your products. And that is the bottom line, not so much the popularity of the word, as the quality of the traffic that the keyword brings.
And if the keyword is popular, you may find your web page competing with established websites -- which translates into poor positioning. Thus, you could consider other smaller niche words, and still get the ranking you seek.
Experiment
You will have to experiment with the keywords that you use on your webpage/website, to determine if the keywords you are using is giving you the sales you want.
I have found testing, evaluating and re-evaluating is the name of the game of SEO. If you keep that in mind, you will begin to see the results you want.
However, once you are in the top ten of the search engines, do not think your job is done. You must continue to monitor -- because the Internet is not a static environment -- and people can come online that can slide your web page or website down the line in the search engines.
Jumat, 15 Juni 2012
Search Engine Optimization is no rocket science
Introduction
So you have completed your website, great! Now how are you going to attract visitors? If you do not let them know you're there, your visitors will never find find you. How are you going to sell products when users don't know that you exist? SEO will make your website noticeable on the internet, and this small guide will help you bring targeted visitors to your website.
Optimize your website
The most important part of your website is quality content. Search engines (such as google) will crawl your content and index it into a database. If your content does not match the product you are selling, you will not attract targeted visitors. It is therefore very important that you choose your (key)words very carefully. For instance, if you sell calculators on the internet, make sure you mention the words calculator, calc, math and more calculator related words on your website. However, be careful not to mention the words too often, or search engines might think your website is spam, which will result in a very low rank (search engine position) within the search results.
Linkbuilding
When more websites link to your site, the more attention you will get from search engines, which results in higher ranking. When you create and receive links from other websites to your website, make sure important keywords are used as anchor keywords in the hyperlink. If you sell calculators online, use a link such as; "buy calculator" instead of "click here".
Target your audience
Leave your link on website where your potential customers meet, for instance forums or discussion boards related to your website. Do not spam your website as this will be noticed by crawlers and will eventually result in a blacklist entry.
Offline targeting
Be sure to market your website offline as well. Advertise in local newspapers, tell everyone about your website, etc.
Add a sitemap to your website
When you want search engines to crawl your entire website, the best thing to do is adding a sitemap to your website.
Make sure searchbots can read your website
Searchbots can only read plain text.websites. No matter how beautiful your flash animation is, searchbots cannot read the content inside that animation. Therefore, try to avoid Flash animations on your website when there is content involved. Same story goes for JavaScript.
Do NOT use frames
Never use frames to design your website! Lots of search engines simply skip webpages with frames since they are a difficult to be seen apart from each other by visitors. For instance, if your framepage would consist of menu.html and content.html and your visitor would land on content.html, he would not have a menu to navigate through your website.
Stay away from bad neighbourhoods and don't spam!
Do not be tempted into leaving your link on abandonned guestbooks, forums or spam your link on every website you can find. Do not exchange links with spammy websites (such as pharmacy websites) either. The risk exists that google will classify your website as a spamsite and will block your website from any search results.
Sabtu, 12 Mei 2012
Wordtracker: a Must for any Search Engine Optimization Project
While many factors influence the rankings of a web site, any search engine optimization effort isn’t worth even a second of your time without one and single unknown: relevant and competitive keywords.
Let’s examine an example: a local moving company decided to optimize its website. It knows (or assumes that it does) that the most popular keywords for their type of business are “movers” and “moving”. At a first glance, looks like everything’s fine: the keywords seem to be relevant, and should produce good results. However, there are two mistakes made here.
The first one is keyword relevancy. What’s the use for our local moving company of people that are looking for “movers” or “moving” in Denver, CO, Boston, MA or New York, NY, if they are located and offering services in and around San Francisco only?
Another mistake is keyword effectiveness. It’ll take much more time and effort to get top rankings for such popular and competitive general keywords as “moving” and “movers” than to get same results for something more specific and relevant, such as “movers San Francisco” or “moving San Francisco”. Not only are these keywords more likely to convert visitors to buyers, but also it’s a much easier and less time-consuming task.
If the world we live in consists of atoms, the smallest and most important particles in search engine optimization world are keywords. In fact, there’s nothing complicated about them, if one remembers three things about keywords: relevancy, effectiveness and Wordtracker.
Wordtracker.com is an UK based company that offers an irreplaceable search engine marketing service tool: keyword research and analysis. It helps to find and pick keywords that are both relevant and competitive. Relevant mean that the keywords are related to your website, and that these are the words people are typing in Google, Yahoo or MSN in order to find your kind of business. Another important factor in determining a “good” keyword is its effectiveness. Let’s say we have a keyword “movers” which has a record of appearing in Google search list for 1009 times; there are 15400000 different web pages competing for this keyword. This means that this keyword’s effectiveness index is 1009/15400000=0.066. This index shows that the keyword is far too competitive and you’ll probably end up somewhere in the middle of Google’s search results if you try to optimize your webpage for this particular keyword. A rule of thumb is to find keywords that are quite popular and at the same time have fewer webpages competing for them. A good keyword is considered to have an effectiveness index of over 100, although anything in between 10 and 100 can be targeted as well.
Needless to say, without having the right keywords that are both relevant and competitive it’s impossible to succeed in any search engine optimization campaign. Without knowing your niche words, you’ll probably end up competing against web sites with thousands of inbound links optimized by search engine optimization gurus and will be lost in millions of search results – no one will even ever find out you exist. On the other hand, all it takes to get your web traffic from 0 to couple hundreds a day might be something as simple and cost-effective as Wordtracker.
Let’s examine an example: a local moving company decided to optimize its website. It knows (or assumes that it does) that the most popular keywords for their type of business are “movers” and “moving”. At a first glance, looks like everything’s fine: the keywords seem to be relevant, and should produce good results. However, there are two mistakes made here.
The first one is keyword relevancy. What’s the use for our local moving company of people that are looking for “movers” or “moving” in Denver, CO, Boston, MA or New York, NY, if they are located and offering services in and around San Francisco only?
Another mistake is keyword effectiveness. It’ll take much more time and effort to get top rankings for such popular and competitive general keywords as “moving” and “movers” than to get same results for something more specific and relevant, such as “movers San Francisco” or “moving San Francisco”. Not only are these keywords more likely to convert visitors to buyers, but also it’s a much easier and less time-consuming task.
If the world we live in consists of atoms, the smallest and most important particles in search engine optimization world are keywords. In fact, there’s nothing complicated about them, if one remembers three things about keywords: relevancy, effectiveness and Wordtracker.
Wordtracker.com is an UK based company that offers an irreplaceable search engine marketing service tool: keyword research and analysis. It helps to find and pick keywords that are both relevant and competitive. Relevant mean that the keywords are related to your website, and that these are the words people are typing in Google, Yahoo or MSN in order to find your kind of business. Another important factor in determining a “good” keyword is its effectiveness. Let’s say we have a keyword “movers” which has a record of appearing in Google search list for 1009 times; there are 15400000 different web pages competing for this keyword. This means that this keyword’s effectiveness index is 1009/15400000=0.066. This index shows that the keyword is far too competitive and you’ll probably end up somewhere in the middle of Google’s search results if you try to optimize your webpage for this particular keyword. A rule of thumb is to find keywords that are quite popular and at the same time have fewer webpages competing for them. A good keyword is considered to have an effectiveness index of over 100, although anything in between 10 and 100 can be targeted as well.
Needless to say, without having the right keywords that are both relevant and competitive it’s impossible to succeed in any search engine optimization campaign. Without knowing your niche words, you’ll probably end up competing against web sites with thousands of inbound links optimized by search engine optimization gurus and will be lost in millions of search results – no one will even ever find out you exist. On the other hand, all it takes to get your web traffic from 0 to couple hundreds a day might be something as simple and cost-effective as Wordtracker.
Keyword Advertising To Attain High Search Engine Ranking
Do you want to earn more in search engine rankings? Who would not wan to earn easy money, in fact search engines are used by more people other than logging on to the particular sites. People always want everything to be free. They do not know that in every click they do the owner of the search engine gains piles upon piles of dollars.
Easy right? However, you need to find the best keywords to invite more traffic in your search engine. How? Easy, you just have to choose the right keyword for every entry in your search engine. Want to know more about keyword advertising? Read on and find out.
Search engine ranking are improved if you put more attention on the keywords that you place over every entry in your search engines. Keywords are very important as it leads the search engines to your website. By choosing the right keywords, you will be inviting more traffic to your website resulting to more income. But how are you going to find the best keyword for your website? There many tools you can use. Continue reading and find out.
Write down every possible keyword to your business. You should carefully analyze each keywords and make sure that what you will choose can relate the product and the company that your are advertising. Ask some people like friends and relatives about the keywords that suites every details of your search engines. Ask them what they would search if they are looking for a particular brand.
Try avoiding words that are common, you need to focus your keyword to be more specific. You will have more costumers if you will be choosing specific words. The costumers will always find its way to your site if specific words are used.
When you finally have your list of possible keywords, find out which among them is the most popular. Focus more on the search engine optimization on the keywords selected. There are heaps of good tolls you can use for your search engine business.
You should also remember that most of the people have the chance to misspell words. You also have to prepare special entry for these. Include misspelled word to take the chance inviting more traffic in your website.
You can be an affiliate to most of the sites available on the net. Make sure that the site you chose will help you gain more fame in this business. Sometimes instead of gaining, you loose because of the chosen affiliate. Make sure to check the background of your affiliated website before you can submit your entries there.
Use a tool that will show the related searches to the term and how many times the term is being used in a month. You can also use free software. Make sure that the chosen free software will provide the following features: keyword suggestion, misspelled terms, web explorer, keyword builder, keyword organizer, and site and link popularity.
These are the tools you can use for your keyword advertising. Make sure that you have read the whole articles carefully. This will not only bring you fame in the business but it will let you gain more money than what you ever expected.
Easy right? However, you need to find the best keywords to invite more traffic in your search engine. How? Easy, you just have to choose the right keyword for every entry in your search engine. Want to know more about keyword advertising? Read on and find out.
Search engine ranking are improved if you put more attention on the keywords that you place over every entry in your search engines. Keywords are very important as it leads the search engines to your website. By choosing the right keywords, you will be inviting more traffic to your website resulting to more income. But how are you going to find the best keyword for your website? There many tools you can use. Continue reading and find out.
Write down every possible keyword to your business. You should carefully analyze each keywords and make sure that what you will choose can relate the product and the company that your are advertising. Ask some people like friends and relatives about the keywords that suites every details of your search engines. Ask them what they would search if they are looking for a particular brand.
Try avoiding words that are common, you need to focus your keyword to be more specific. You will have more costumers if you will be choosing specific words. The costumers will always find its way to your site if specific words are used.
When you finally have your list of possible keywords, find out which among them is the most popular. Focus more on the search engine optimization on the keywords selected. There are heaps of good tolls you can use for your search engine business.
You should also remember that most of the people have the chance to misspell words. You also have to prepare special entry for these. Include misspelled word to take the chance inviting more traffic in your website.
You can be an affiliate to most of the sites available on the net. Make sure that the site you chose will help you gain more fame in this business. Sometimes instead of gaining, you loose because of the chosen affiliate. Make sure to check the background of your affiliated website before you can submit your entries there.
Use a tool that will show the related searches to the term and how many times the term is being used in a month. You can also use free software. Make sure that the chosen free software will provide the following features: keyword suggestion, misspelled terms, web explorer, keyword builder, keyword organizer, and site and link popularity.
These are the tools you can use for your keyword advertising. Make sure that you have read the whole articles carefully. This will not only bring you fame in the business but it will let you gain more money than what you ever expected.
Selasa, 01 Mei 2012
Find the best keywords for your web pages
If you want to improve your search engine rankings, then you need to put attention on keywords. Keywords are what lead search engine users to your site. Choosing the right keywords is really important. But how can you find the best keywords for your website? Well, there are few free tools you can use.
Take a piece of paper and write down all keywords that can relate to your business. Analyze carefully your business and think of any keywords that relate to your company or product. Ask your friends what keywords would they search for if they were looking for products like yours.
Try to avoid common words, you need to focus on specific keywords. Than more specific your keywords are than more chances you have that your potential customers will find you.
When you have your list of possible keywords, you can try to find out which of them are most popular and try to focus your search engine optimization on these keywords. There are some good tools you can use here.
Remember that people often misspell words, so you can include also some misspelled words.
The first one is the Google AdWords keyword sandbox at https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordSandbox .
Submit your keywords and you'll get a list of popular queries that include your keyword and also a list of similar keywords to consider.
The second tool is the Overture Keyword Selector Tool . This one shows you the related searches to your term and how many times that term was searched on last month.
The third tool is a free software, Good keywords for finding the best keywords for your web pages. It provides you with the following features: keyword suggestion, misspelled words, web page explorer, keyword phrase builder, site and link popularity, keyword organizer.
Once you have your keyword list, you can use the Overture View Bids Tool to find out what they're worth to other advertisers. You can check here your list of most fruitful keywords. You may find out that you can pay very little money in pay-per-click advertising for some hot keywords related to your business.
Google AdWords also provides a similar service, but only to registered members. And Google doesn't show you the highest bids. You can use their tool named Traffic Estimator and see the traffic estimates for different bid values.
There few other places where you can find lists of popular keywords:
http://buzz.yahoo.com/ - you can find here the most searched terms on yahoo.
http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist.html - What people are searching for at Google.
http://50.lycos.com/ - The 50 most popular searches on Lycos.
Take a piece of paper and write down all keywords that can relate to your business. Analyze carefully your business and think of any keywords that relate to your company or product. Ask your friends what keywords would they search for if they were looking for products like yours.
Try to avoid common words, you need to focus on specific keywords. Than more specific your keywords are than more chances you have that your potential customers will find you.
When you have your list of possible keywords, you can try to find out which of them are most popular and try to focus your search engine optimization on these keywords. There are some good tools you can use here.
Remember that people often misspell words, so you can include also some misspelled words.
The first one is the Google AdWords keyword sandbox at https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordSandbox .
Submit your keywords and you'll get a list of popular queries that include your keyword and also a list of similar keywords to consider.
The second tool is the Overture Keyword Selector Tool . This one shows you the related searches to your term and how many times that term was searched on last month.
The third tool is a free software, Good keywords for finding the best keywords for your web pages. It provides you with the following features: keyword suggestion, misspelled words, web page explorer, keyword phrase builder, site and link popularity, keyword organizer.
Once you have your keyword list, you can use the Overture View Bids Tool to find out what they're worth to other advertisers. You can check here your list of most fruitful keywords. You may find out that you can pay very little money in pay-per-click advertising for some hot keywords related to your business.
Google AdWords also provides a similar service, but only to registered members. And Google doesn't show you the highest bids. You can use their tool named Traffic Estimator and see the traffic estimates for different bid values.
There few other places where you can find lists of popular keywords:
http://buzz.yahoo.com/ - you can find here the most searched terms on yahoo.
http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist.html - What people are searching for at Google.
http://50.lycos.com/ - The 50 most popular searches on Lycos.
Minggu, 29 April 2012
Keyword Specific Ads Equals Higher Search Engine Rankings
Keywords are an essential component of producing a web site. These are the words which the search engines use to help categorize and rank your pages. For instance, if your website is about 'writing articles' then your keywords could include 'writing', 'articles', 'article writing' and so on.
The advice from many web designers and search engine optimizers has been to find as many keywords as you can. They advise you to search for keywords using a variety of online tools and software programs which can identify leading keywords. At first sight this seems attractive, but it actually defies logic.
Let's take a look at the aim of a search engine. Its job is to track down pages that meet the specific search term that a web surfer has typed in. The more closely the pages it serves up match the search term, the better it is for users. Search engines need to be as accurate as possible in delivering the right material to their users. Otherwise the web surfer goes elsewhere.
Now imagine you are a search engine algorithm – the mathematical program which calculates the probability of any web page matching the search term typed in. If the page has hundreds, or thousands of keywords you'll be a bit confused.
For instance, is this web page about 'article writing', or is it about 'feature writing for journalists'. They are different things. You'll end up knowing the page is relevant but not that relevant. So you rank it down the bottom.
But what if the page only has the keyword 'article writing' several times? You're absolutely clear the page is about article writing and so you rank it highly. Admittedly, it's not quite as simple as this. But this is the principle of search engine technology. It is trying to find the most relevant pages that match the search term.
What this means for Internet marketers is that you need separate pages for each keyword. Focus each page on each individual keyword. Use the keyword in headings, sub-headings, the page text, the page title tag and in the Meta tags.
Avoid having pages which contain several key-words as that simply confuses the search engines and lowers your rankings. So forget the advice to have hundreds or thousands of keywords. Go for single pages that match single keywords and you will find your page traffic increase.
This trick also works for Google Adwords. Each advert should apply to just a handful of keywords - you get much greater click through rates and therefore cheaper advertising when you only have a couple of keywords per advert. If you have hundreds of keywords you'll find you'll get greater results by having keyword specific ads, rather than one advert with hundreds of keywords. So go against the advice of filling your pages and adverts with keywords. Go specific.
The advice from many web designers and search engine optimizers has been to find as many keywords as you can. They advise you to search for keywords using a variety of online tools and software programs which can identify leading keywords. At first sight this seems attractive, but it actually defies logic.
Let's take a look at the aim of a search engine. Its job is to track down pages that meet the specific search term that a web surfer has typed in. The more closely the pages it serves up match the search term, the better it is for users. Search engines need to be as accurate as possible in delivering the right material to their users. Otherwise the web surfer goes elsewhere.
Now imagine you are a search engine algorithm – the mathematical program which calculates the probability of any web page matching the search term typed in. If the page has hundreds, or thousands of keywords you'll be a bit confused.
For instance, is this web page about 'article writing', or is it about 'feature writing for journalists'. They are different things. You'll end up knowing the page is relevant but not that relevant. So you rank it down the bottom.
But what if the page only has the keyword 'article writing' several times? You're absolutely clear the page is about article writing and so you rank it highly. Admittedly, it's not quite as simple as this. But this is the principle of search engine technology. It is trying to find the most relevant pages that match the search term.
What this means for Internet marketers is that you need separate pages for each keyword. Focus each page on each individual keyword. Use the keyword in headings, sub-headings, the page text, the page title tag and in the Meta tags.
Avoid having pages which contain several key-words as that simply confuses the search engines and lowers your rankings. So forget the advice to have hundreds or thousands of keywords. Go for single pages that match single keywords and you will find your page traffic increase.
This trick also works for Google Adwords. Each advert should apply to just a handful of keywords - you get much greater click through rates and therefore cheaper advertising when you only have a couple of keywords per advert. If you have hundreds of keywords you'll find you'll get greater results by having keyword specific ads, rather than one advert with hundreds of keywords. So go against the advice of filling your pages and adverts with keywords. Go specific.
Sabtu, 14 April 2012
Keyword Elite , The Ferrari Of Keywords Research
In order to find the right tools to research high paying AdSense keywords, it is important to know what information you want o know about keywords. It would be just great if there were a tool that told everyone exactly what Google pays for each keyword, but that doesn't exist and anyone who creates such a tool is certain to be barred from Google forever because it is a clear violation of the terms and conditions of having an AdSense account to reveal any income information to anyone else.
You can use Adwords keyword tool to select keywords and you'll get some information. But there are many, many great tools out there that will help you select the right keywords for your AdSense campaign focus. Look for only those tools that provide information about the number of searches performed, the number of competing websites and a "guestimate" of profitability.
Keyword elite will do all of that and a lot more. Keyword elite allows you to create keyword lists with the most profitable keywords and thousands of variations. Keyword elite let's you spy on your competitors adword campaigns so you can do better.
With keyword Elite you can find the highest paying keywords for adsense publishing.
WordTracker is probably the best known and most popular tool for finding keywords that are profitable and that have little competition. However, it does entail a subscription fee so that you want to subscribe for the period that you will actually use the tool and no longer. You can subscribe for a day, a week or a month, or indefinitely. Only those people who use the tool frequently should consider an indefinite subscription due to the high cost.
NicheBot is a free tool that is really handy for this. Unlike WordTracker which costs quite a bit for a subscription, this tool has just about everything you need or want and it is absolutely free to use. It is web-based and perhaps not quite as fast as WordTracker, but it works just great. And it is being upgraded all the time with new features.
KeyWordDiscovery offers a free trial period, after which there is a subscription fee. However, it is a reasonably popular tool for keyword researching.
Overture Keyword Research Tool is another free tool that you can use. It gives you the information you need but the output is based on Overture search engines and you would do much better to get Google search engine results.
To find the right tools for you, try several of the free tools you'll find with a simple Internet search. You may find one that meets your needs very well. If not, then it is time to begin using some of the subscription services.
You can use Adwords keyword tool to select keywords and you'll get some information. But there are many, many great tools out there that will help you select the right keywords for your AdSense campaign focus. Look for only those tools that provide information about the number of searches performed, the number of competing websites and a "guestimate" of profitability.
Keyword elite will do all of that and a lot more. Keyword elite allows you to create keyword lists with the most profitable keywords and thousands of variations. Keyword elite let's you spy on your competitors adword campaigns so you can do better.
With keyword Elite you can find the highest paying keywords for adsense publishing.
WordTracker is probably the best known and most popular tool for finding keywords that are profitable and that have little competition. However, it does entail a subscription fee so that you want to subscribe for the period that you will actually use the tool and no longer. You can subscribe for a day, a week or a month, or indefinitely. Only those people who use the tool frequently should consider an indefinite subscription due to the high cost.
NicheBot is a free tool that is really handy for this. Unlike WordTracker which costs quite a bit for a subscription, this tool has just about everything you need or want and it is absolutely free to use. It is web-based and perhaps not quite as fast as WordTracker, but it works just great. And it is being upgraded all the time with new features.
KeyWordDiscovery offers a free trial period, after which there is a subscription fee. However, it is a reasonably popular tool for keyword researching.
Overture Keyword Research Tool is another free tool that you can use. It gives you the information you need but the output is based on Overture search engines and you would do much better to get Google search engine results.
To find the right tools for you, try several of the free tools you'll find with a simple Internet search. You may find one that meets your needs very well. If not, then it is time to begin using some of the subscription services.
Minggu, 01 April 2012
Keyword Advice
Online "experts" are always offering conflicting keyword advice. This is because different keywords are good for different reasons. Once you know the factors involved, you can decide which ones are best for your web site.
I have a page of my backpacking site optimized for the term "dirtbagging." I think I get half the world traffic for that keyword, but that only means ten visitors a month. I was new to online marketing when I put up that page. Obviously you need decent keyword demand to get much traffic, but demand is just one factor.
My Keyword Advice
1. Make sure there is enough total demand for a keyword. This will vary according to the nature of your site. If you are making a few cents per visitor an average, you need more traffic than sites that average a dollar per visitor. I won't optimize for a keyword that is searched less than a few hundred times per month.
2. Look at keyword demand/supply ratios. Last month there were 289,000 searches for "fishing," but with 35 million results showing up on a Google search for the term, can you compete? Probably not. A Keyword term like "bass fishing tips," with 3,700 searches, and 31,000 results is a more likely winner.
3. Consider total supply. Google shows 300 results for "dirtbagging," 15 times the 20 monthly searches for the term. Still, it is easy to get on the first page of results for the term. A keyword with a demand of a million, and a million search results has a better ratio, but can you really get on the first page of search results? Whatever the ratio, you have to be able to compete against the total supply. Nobody will find you on the tenth page of results.
4. Consider the type of keyword. Good search engine placement is one thing, but what type of visitor are you getting? Who's more likely to buy something or click on your affiliate links, a searcher for "fishing stories," or "fishing poles?" You'd probably make more money with the second term, even if it had half the traffic.
5. Look for keyword variations. My site www.IncreaseBrainpower.com was optimized for "brain power." I later found there was even more traffic for "brainpower." I have since optimized for both. By the way, both spellings are in the dictionary. Look for odd search phrases too, but be careful about optimizing for misspellings and bad-grammar keywords, if it might hurt the reputation of your site.
5. Consider the value of keyword ads. If you rely partly on pay-per click advertising, like Google's Adsense program, for revenue, you may want to consider the ads that will be diplayed for a given keyword. Ads for "surveilance cameras," pay four times as much per click as those for "hidden cameras."
6. Consider your interest and expertise in the topic represented by the keyword. Do you want to write a page on that topic? Can you deliver what a searcher of that term is looking for? Giving real value while doing something you enjoy - that's my final keyword advice.
I have a page of my backpacking site optimized for the term "dirtbagging." I think I get half the world traffic for that keyword, but that only means ten visitors a month. I was new to online marketing when I put up that page. Obviously you need decent keyword demand to get much traffic, but demand is just one factor.
My Keyword Advice
1. Make sure there is enough total demand for a keyword. This will vary according to the nature of your site. If you are making a few cents per visitor an average, you need more traffic than sites that average a dollar per visitor. I won't optimize for a keyword that is searched less than a few hundred times per month.
2. Look at keyword demand/supply ratios. Last month there were 289,000 searches for "fishing," but with 35 million results showing up on a Google search for the term, can you compete? Probably not. A Keyword term like "bass fishing tips," with 3,700 searches, and 31,000 results is a more likely winner.
3. Consider total supply. Google shows 300 results for "dirtbagging," 15 times the 20 monthly searches for the term. Still, it is easy to get on the first page of results for the term. A keyword with a demand of a million, and a million search results has a better ratio, but can you really get on the first page of search results? Whatever the ratio, you have to be able to compete against the total supply. Nobody will find you on the tenth page of results.
4. Consider the type of keyword. Good search engine placement is one thing, but what type of visitor are you getting? Who's more likely to buy something or click on your affiliate links, a searcher for "fishing stories," or "fishing poles?" You'd probably make more money with the second term, even if it had half the traffic.
5. Look for keyword variations. My site www.IncreaseBrainpower.com was optimized for "brain power." I later found there was even more traffic for "brainpower." I have since optimized for both. By the way, both spellings are in the dictionary. Look for odd search phrases too, but be careful about optimizing for misspellings and bad-grammar keywords, if it might hurt the reputation of your site.
5. Consider the value of keyword ads. If you rely partly on pay-per click advertising, like Google's Adsense program, for revenue, you may want to consider the ads that will be diplayed for a given keyword. Ads for "surveilance cameras," pay four times as much per click as those for "hidden cameras."
6. Consider your interest and expertise in the topic represented by the keyword. Do you want to write a page on that topic? Can you deliver what a searcher of that term is looking for? Giving real value while doing something you enjoy - that's my final keyword advice.
Senin, 19 Maret 2012
SEO - Selecting A Domain Name
Selecting a good domain name is the key factor for attaining a better page ranking. The most commonly used aspect while choosing a domain name is the usage of keyword in the URL. You can take the idea of selecting a domain name that has low competition but with good demand can ultimately help in Search Engine Optimization (SEO).
There are many factors to keep in mind while naming your domain. A good domain name should be short and easy to spell by the users. By avoiding long domain name will help the searchers to find your website and also to remember the name much easily. The keyword used in your domain name can be descriptive to help the internet users to memorize.
Make sure to include the domain name that is unique and at the same time keyword rich. Usage of more keywords in your domain name will help in a better ranking which in turn may also help the searchers to find your website. The use of more than two keywords can bring a negative impact, as it can make the domain name lengthier and the chance of misspelling is more. So it better to use a maximum of two keywords. Another drawback is that it can also make your email address long. So it is recommended the use of shorter and catchy domain names.
Among a large number of steps while choosing a domain name, the most important and foremost one is whether you are choosing a free or paid domain. In all these, give consideration to the customer so that your potential users can find your website.
Another important factor to be remembered in domain naming is the use of hyphens (-). If you are using two or more keywords, without separators, as your domain name it can be interesting, but at the same time the search engine may consider it as a single keyword. In this case, it is advised to use hyphen to separate the keywords. But for internet users the domain name without hyphen will be easier to remember and the one with hyphens tend to bring confusion for the users. A main solution for this issue is that you may use hyphened domain name during the registration with a search engine and for online advertising. At the same time go for a domain name which uses no hyphen, so that it may help the people who prefer just keywords during the searching.
Taking these tips into consideration will help you in selecting an excellent domain name for your website. You can register multiple variants for your website at the price of a single domain name. Also, make sure to avoid the use of numbers in your domain name as it may prevent confusion. In place of keywords you can also use some unique brand names for your website
Selecting a good business and domain name can draw a good traffic, and makes the entire process of optimization much easier. All you require is a shorter and unique web address that can bring your website among the top listing.
Copyright © 2006 Andreas Obermueller
There are many factors to keep in mind while naming your domain. A good domain name should be short and easy to spell by the users. By avoiding long domain name will help the searchers to find your website and also to remember the name much easily. The keyword used in your domain name can be descriptive to help the internet users to memorize.
Make sure to include the domain name that is unique and at the same time keyword rich. Usage of more keywords in your domain name will help in a better ranking which in turn may also help the searchers to find your website. The use of more than two keywords can bring a negative impact, as it can make the domain name lengthier and the chance of misspelling is more. So it better to use a maximum of two keywords. Another drawback is that it can also make your email address long. So it is recommended the use of shorter and catchy domain names.
Among a large number of steps while choosing a domain name, the most important and foremost one is whether you are choosing a free or paid domain. In all these, give consideration to the customer so that your potential users can find your website.
Another important factor to be remembered in domain naming is the use of hyphens (-). If you are using two or more keywords, without separators, as your domain name it can be interesting, but at the same time the search engine may consider it as a single keyword. In this case, it is advised to use hyphen to separate the keywords. But for internet users the domain name without hyphen will be easier to remember and the one with hyphens tend to bring confusion for the users. A main solution for this issue is that you may use hyphened domain name during the registration with a search engine and for online advertising. At the same time go for a domain name which uses no hyphen, so that it may help the people who prefer just keywords during the searching.
Taking these tips into consideration will help you in selecting an excellent domain name for your website. You can register multiple variants for your website at the price of a single domain name. Also, make sure to avoid the use of numbers in your domain name as it may prevent confusion. In place of keywords you can also use some unique brand names for your website
Selecting a good business and domain name can draw a good traffic, and makes the entire process of optimization much easier. All you require is a shorter and unique web address that can bring your website among the top listing.
Copyright © 2006 Andreas Obermueller
Kamis, 23 Februari 2012
Importance of Genuine SEO Techniques
There are some methods of SEO (Search Engine Optimization) you should follow for your website. SEO is very important for all websites out there in the WWW. Without SEO techniques, which are genuine, you cannot get your website to be known, and get any profit from it.
1. Content is King: Every search engine, Google included, looks for only the content. Content is the most important thing to rank high in search engines. Without content, your site is just another site, without much importance. So create good genuine content.
2. Build links: Building links is utmost important just as content. For this, there are several methods. One such method is writing to the related Webmasters and letting them know of your site’s existence. If they believe that your site has some content, which is linkable, they will definitely link to your content. Maybe some reciprocal linking is required. In that case, you can negotiate with the webmaster and ask them about the reciprocal.
3. No one can guarantee number one in search engines: Google is the most important search engine out there, and even Google top employees cannot guarantee your number one position in Google search. It is the result of your hard work and genuine SEO link building that will position you at the top of the search results. Otherwise, you cannot just get to the top of any search engines.
4. Link building yourself is better than consulting: You may promote your blog with genuine SEO, and that will rank your site higher than any SEO firm can do. So, it is extremely important that you do it yourself. Set apart some time in your daily schedule to build links with any niche blogs you know of. Also, ask your friends who have blogs themselves in the same subject to link into your site.
5. Do not trust blackhat SEO firms: Blackhat SEO techniques are those, which do not do genuine SEO but go by such methods as doorway pages, invisible text, keyword stuffing, etc. SEO should be done through Whitehat methods only. Otherwise, you may be permanently banned by search engines.
6. Do not do reckless link buildings: if your blog is two days old and has 1200 incoming links, then Google will ban you on the third day. So, reckless link building is equal to link spamming. Do not do that.
These and more of the techniques to do good SEO are available in the resources mentioned below. SEO is a very important technique to get your site to the top of search engines, thereby building your brand, getting sales, and profit. So, genuine natural SEO technique is extremely important for the success of a website.
1. Content is King: Every search engine, Google included, looks for only the content. Content is the most important thing to rank high in search engines. Without content, your site is just another site, without much importance. So create good genuine content.
2. Build links: Building links is utmost important just as content. For this, there are several methods. One such method is writing to the related Webmasters and letting them know of your site’s existence. If they believe that your site has some content, which is linkable, they will definitely link to your content. Maybe some reciprocal linking is required. In that case, you can negotiate with the webmaster and ask them about the reciprocal.
3. No one can guarantee number one in search engines: Google is the most important search engine out there, and even Google top employees cannot guarantee your number one position in Google search. It is the result of your hard work and genuine SEO link building that will position you at the top of the search results. Otherwise, you cannot just get to the top of any search engines.
4. Link building yourself is better than consulting: You may promote your blog with genuine SEO, and that will rank your site higher than any SEO firm can do. So, it is extremely important that you do it yourself. Set apart some time in your daily schedule to build links with any niche blogs you know of. Also, ask your friends who have blogs themselves in the same subject to link into your site.
5. Do not trust blackhat SEO firms: Blackhat SEO techniques are those, which do not do genuine SEO but go by such methods as doorway pages, invisible text, keyword stuffing, etc. SEO should be done through Whitehat methods only. Otherwise, you may be permanently banned by search engines.
6. Do not do reckless link buildings: if your blog is two days old and has 1200 incoming links, then Google will ban you on the third day. So, reckless link building is equal to link spamming. Do not do that.
These and more of the techniques to do good SEO are available in the resources mentioned below. SEO is a very important technique to get your site to the top of search engines, thereby building your brand, getting sales, and profit. So, genuine natural SEO technique is extremely important for the success of a website.
Kamis, 16 Februari 2012
Adwords, Adsense, SEO – Common Denominator, Keywords
If you have just put up a website, you probably all ready have heard words like: keywords, Google Adwords, Google Adsense, SEO. Adwords, Adsense, SEO have one thing in common – Keywords. How important are keywords? Very Important.
Google Adwords
Adwords, be it through Google, Miva, or any pay-per-click search engines, you need keywords. With Adwords, you create a three-line ad – 25 word title, with two 35 word lines of ad copy – then you create your keywords. To get the hits, you have to brainstorm for different keywords, that are different but relevant to your target audience. Sound easy? It’s not. It takes time, patience, constant tweaking, and hoping that the product you are selling is not already saturated -- to much competition, makes it a little more difficult for the novice to make a profit.
Google Adsense
Google Adsense is an advertising program created by Google, and which is beginning to be explored by other search engines, such as Yahoo and MSN – that allows you to put targeted ads on your website. If someone clicks on the ad, you earn a small amount of money. These ads are keyword driven and are relevant to your webpage or website.
Sounds simple? Well, not really. There is more too it than just putting an ad on your website and expecting someone to click on it. What’s involved? Let’s see – color, position, style, to name just a few.
SEO
Search engine optimization – this for me has been a time-consuming process – since I am still learning. SEO is keyword driven – the search engines pull the keywords from your web copy – not, to my surprise,
from the meta keywords tag. Granted, I still use the meta keywords tag, but maybe in the near future, I will slowly eliminate the tag from my webpages…
The search engines do, however, pull information from Meta Description, Meta Title, and the content of your webpages. Thus, content does reign supreme.
Since content reigns supreme, each page should contain useful content and most importantly, your most relevant keywords that you want to emphasize. Secondly, it is best to try and base your keywords around a central theme. I have found that when the keywords diverts away from the main theme – that sends a red flag to search engines. So, if you want to look at your keywords and the density of the keywords on your webpage or webpages – You can get a quick rundown at: http://www.ranks.nl/tools/spider.html . It’s a free
tool, and very helpful.
To conclude, keywords is one of the main ingredients that leads people to your website, product, service and/or ad. …AND, keywords based around your quality content will help with your positioning on your website.
Google Adwords
Adwords, be it through Google, Miva, or any pay-per-click search engines, you need keywords. With Adwords, you create a three-line ad – 25 word title, with two 35 word lines of ad copy – then you create your keywords. To get the hits, you have to brainstorm for different keywords, that are different but relevant to your target audience. Sound easy? It’s not. It takes time, patience, constant tweaking, and hoping that the product you are selling is not already saturated -- to much competition, makes it a little more difficult for the novice to make a profit.
Google Adsense
Google Adsense is an advertising program created by Google, and which is beginning to be explored by other search engines, such as Yahoo and MSN – that allows you to put targeted ads on your website. If someone clicks on the ad, you earn a small amount of money. These ads are keyword driven and are relevant to your webpage or website.
Sounds simple? Well, not really. There is more too it than just putting an ad on your website and expecting someone to click on it. What’s involved? Let’s see – color, position, style, to name just a few.
SEO
Search engine optimization – this for me has been a time-consuming process – since I am still learning. SEO is keyword driven – the search engines pull the keywords from your web copy – not, to my surprise,
from the meta keywords tag. Granted, I still use the meta keywords tag, but maybe in the near future, I will slowly eliminate the tag from my webpages…
The search engines do, however, pull information from Meta Description, Meta Title, and the content of your webpages. Thus, content does reign supreme.
Since content reigns supreme, each page should contain useful content and most importantly, your most relevant keywords that you want to emphasize. Secondly, it is best to try and base your keywords around a central theme. I have found that when the keywords diverts away from the main theme – that sends a red flag to search engines. So, if you want to look at your keywords and the density of the keywords on your webpage or webpages – You can get a quick rundown at: http://www.ranks.nl/tools/spider.html . It’s a free
tool, and very helpful.
To conclude, keywords is one of the main ingredients that leads people to your website, product, service and/or ad. …AND, keywords based around your quality content will help with your positioning on your website.
Minggu, 12 Februari 2012
Profitable Key phrases
If you target the wrong key phrases you might as well give up and go home now......
Keywords are the first thing you need to consider when approaching the subject of internet marketing and search engine optimisation and if not properly selected will loose you copious amounts of targeted traffic.
I would hazard a guess that probably 99% of websites are not targeting the keywords that would be most profitable for them and so are losing thousands if not hundreds of thousands of pounds by ignoring this important part of Search Engine Optimisation.
Most businesses when asked “So how did you decide on the keywords you wanted to target” will say one of the following two:
1.“They are the keywords my competitors use so I used them”.
2.“Well it obvious they are the keywords I should use isn’t it”.
Do these comments sound familiar to you? To 99% of you they will and if that’s the case then you need to read on.
Keyword selection is an easy process but many people overlook it and target keywords that they would expect to be profitable and find out to their peril that they were not.
First of let me clear one thing up that not a lot of people seem to realise and that is that a keyword is individual, So for arguments sake the key phrase “great keyword” is different to the key phrase “keywords that are great”. This sounds strange I know but if you are optimising for a specific key phrase you need to keep your eye on that key phrase (this is important to remember).
There are now many tools that make the process of keyword selection very easy. One example of this is Yahoo marketing’s (formally known as overture) keyword tool that’s free to use and will quickly tell you all the different variations of the keywords you are targeting and exactly how popular they are.
I always recommend the following when deciding the best keywords for a campaign:
1. Put yourself in your customer’s shoes (what would you search for if you were looking for your product or service?).
2. Research your competition and see what they are doing but don’t just do what they are doing because they are.
3. Write down all of your suggestions and ideas for keywords (you will need them next)
4. Go to the Yahoo marketing web page and use their free keyword checking tool and in turn type in your key phrase suggestions.
5. Take note of all of the different combinations that are suggested to you and the amount of searches done on them this is where you normally find out that the key phrase you thought was profitable are not the most profitable on the list.
6. This is where you now decide to reselect your keywords unless you are in the 1%.
Only once you know what specific key phrases you are targeting can you start the job of search engine optimisation safe in the knowledge that you are not chasing a white elephant.
Keywords are the first thing you need to consider when approaching the subject of internet marketing and search engine optimisation and if not properly selected will loose you copious amounts of targeted traffic.
I would hazard a guess that probably 99% of websites are not targeting the keywords that would be most profitable for them and so are losing thousands if not hundreds of thousands of pounds by ignoring this important part of Search Engine Optimisation.
Most businesses when asked “So how did you decide on the keywords you wanted to target” will say one of the following two:
1.“They are the keywords my competitors use so I used them”.
2.“Well it obvious they are the keywords I should use isn’t it”.
Do these comments sound familiar to you? To 99% of you they will and if that’s the case then you need to read on.
Keyword selection is an easy process but many people overlook it and target keywords that they would expect to be profitable and find out to their peril that they were not.
First of let me clear one thing up that not a lot of people seem to realise and that is that a keyword is individual, So for arguments sake the key phrase “great keyword” is different to the key phrase “keywords that are great”. This sounds strange I know but if you are optimising for a specific key phrase you need to keep your eye on that key phrase (this is important to remember).
There are now many tools that make the process of keyword selection very easy. One example of this is Yahoo marketing’s (formally known as overture) keyword tool that’s free to use and will quickly tell you all the different variations of the keywords you are targeting and exactly how popular they are.
I always recommend the following when deciding the best keywords for a campaign:
1. Put yourself in your customer’s shoes (what would you search for if you were looking for your product or service?).
2. Research your competition and see what they are doing but don’t just do what they are doing because they are.
3. Write down all of your suggestions and ideas for keywords (you will need them next)
4. Go to the Yahoo marketing web page and use their free keyword checking tool and in turn type in your key phrase suggestions.
5. Take note of all of the different combinations that are suggested to you and the amount of searches done on them this is where you normally find out that the key phrase you thought was profitable are not the most profitable on the list.
6. This is where you now decide to reselect your keywords unless you are in the 1%.
Only once you know what specific key phrases you are targeting can you start the job of search engine optimisation safe in the knowledge that you are not chasing a white elephant.
Sabtu, 08 Oktober 2011
Keywords Shape the Success of a Web Site
Choosing the keywords for your site is one of the most important steps in developing a website. The keywords you choose will be branded to the site for its lifetime. There are many important factors to keep in mind when researching keywords as well as when placing the keywords within the site. The keywords should be chosen with ranking and search engine marketing in mind.
Researching keywords is imperative to making the right choice for your product and your industry. The process is said to be the most challenging task for website developers. It will shape and develop the success of the site for years to come. There are a variety of tools available that provide listings of keyword popularity.
Monitoring keyword trends is an important step in keyword research. Keyword trends fluctuate, so you should not choose the first set you find that coincides with your market. Watch the trends for several months to get a better grasp on how users search for your terms.
Competitiveness of keywords makes a big difference. The keyword may be popular, but if you’re competing with 1 million results in the search engines, the end result will not be beneficial to your site. Choosing keywords that are somewhat less popular will not be as competitive and may only produce several thousand results in the search engines. In this scenario, the chances of someone finding your site are much greater.
Once a keyword or keyword phrase has been finalized, there is the matter of placement within the site. Your keywords should appear frequently through out the site, but not every other word. Keyword stuffing or keyword Spam is not a search engine friendly tactic. SEO specialists have developed strategic keyword placement that includes a standard set of areas within the site where the keyword should appear. Keyword placement is a very delicate issue, where placing the keyword in the wrong area or used too frequently could get your site banned from a search engine entirely.
With so many things to keep in mind when researching keywords, it may be beneficial to hire search engine positioning specialist who have expertise in keyword research and placement. It’s all about the right keywords to get you to the top of the search engine rankings.
Researching keywords is imperative to making the right choice for your product and your industry. The process is said to be the most challenging task for website developers. It will shape and develop the success of the site for years to come. There are a variety of tools available that provide listings of keyword popularity.
Monitoring keyword trends is an important step in keyword research. Keyword trends fluctuate, so you should not choose the first set you find that coincides with your market. Watch the trends for several months to get a better grasp on how users search for your terms.
Competitiveness of keywords makes a big difference. The keyword may be popular, but if you’re competing with 1 million results in the search engines, the end result will not be beneficial to your site. Choosing keywords that are somewhat less popular will not be as competitive and may only produce several thousand results in the search engines. In this scenario, the chances of someone finding your site are much greater.
Once a keyword or keyword phrase has been finalized, there is the matter of placement within the site. Your keywords should appear frequently through out the site, but not every other word. Keyword stuffing or keyword Spam is not a search engine friendly tactic. SEO specialists have developed strategic keyword placement that includes a standard set of areas within the site where the keyword should appear. Keyword placement is a very delicate issue, where placing the keyword in the wrong area or used too frequently could get your site banned from a search engine entirely.
With so many things to keep in mind when researching keywords, it may be beneficial to hire search engine positioning specialist who have expertise in keyword research and placement. It’s all about the right keywords to get you to the top of the search engine rankings.
Minggu, 01 Mei 2011
Effective Keyword Use for SEO
In SEO, keywords are of supreme importance. Keywords are words or phrases that search engines use in order to match web pages with search queries. It's important to optimize your website with strategic keywords in order to maximize targeted traffic. You will use keywords in both your on-page and off-page optimization.
First of all, choose a domain name that includes your best keywords. For example, if your best keyword phrase is "satellite affilaite", you'd want to choose a domain name that includes this phrase. You might therefore choose a domain such as "SatelliteAffiliateTips.com".
Use your keywords in the title tag and description tag. The description tag should make sense and entice users to visit your site when they view the description on a search engine.
Your keywords should also be used in your H1 tag. Scatter keywords throughout the content of your page to a keyword density of between 3%-7%. Avoid overuse of a keyword. Most SEO experts believe that using a keyword too frequently can trigger a search engine's "keyword stuffing" filter. It is believed that the search engines use such a filter in an effort to prevent search engine spam from appearing in the top results. It is also helpful to add common misspellings of a word as well as both the singular and plural forms of the word or phrase.
You'll want to use your keywords within the anchor text of the links. Assuming our best keyword phrase is "satellite affiliate", you'd want to link to your home page using that keyword phrase. A good link to your home page might therefore look something like "satellite affiliate tips". Apply this linking method to all of the pages within your site. Furthermore, request that other sites link to you using a similar anchor text containing your best keywords.
Keywords are one of the primary components in search engine optimization. They are the means by which search engines identify relevant pages for given searches. Using keywords effectively is one of the keys to achieving maximum traffic from the search engines.
First of all, choose a domain name that includes your best keywords. For example, if your best keyword phrase is "satellite affilaite", you'd want to choose a domain name that includes this phrase. You might therefore choose a domain such as "SatelliteAffiliateTips.com".
Use your keywords in the title tag and description tag. The description tag should make sense and entice users to visit your site when they view the description on a search engine.
Your keywords should also be used in your H1 tag. Scatter keywords throughout the content of your page to a keyword density of between 3%-7%. Avoid overuse of a keyword. Most SEO experts believe that using a keyword too frequently can trigger a search engine's "keyword stuffing" filter. It is believed that the search engines use such a filter in an effort to prevent search engine spam from appearing in the top results. It is also helpful to add common misspellings of a word as well as both the singular and plural forms of the word or phrase.
You'll want to use your keywords within the anchor text of the links. Assuming our best keyword phrase is "satellite affiliate", you'd want to link to your home page using that keyword phrase. A good link to your home page might therefore look something like "satellite affiliate tips". Apply this linking method to all of the pages within your site. Furthermore, request that other sites link to you using a similar anchor text containing your best keywords.
Keywords are one of the primary components in search engine optimization. They are the means by which search engines identify relevant pages for given searches. Using keywords effectively is one of the keys to achieving maximum traffic from the search engines.
Kamis, 24 Maret 2011
What's the most important part of an SEO campaign?
If you're like many of the business owners that are beginning to see the importance of search engine optimization as a marketing tool, chances are that you've come across quite a bit of contradictory information. You've probably heard a dozen opinions of what the most important part of your SEO campaign is - everything from links to title tags and everything in between.
The fact of the matter is that selecting the right keyword phrases is the single most important aspect of any SEO campaign. If you choose keywords that are too competitive you may never achieve any ranking for them, and if you choose keywords that no one searches for you will not receive any traffic even if your web site ranks #1. That's why it's so important to put a little extra effort into your keyword selection or hire a professional to do it. Let's say that you are a real estate agent in Tampa, Florida who wants to generate additional business from the internet. While it may sound great to target the keyword phrase "real estate" because it gets over 67,000 searches each day, you would really be much better off targeting a keyword phrase like "tampa bay waterfront real estate" which gets about 6 searches each day. Visitors searching for 3-4 word keyword phrases are more likely to convert to clients than those searching for more general keyword phrases. When coupled with the competition you'll face for a general term like "real estate" you're ROI quickly dissipates, despite the high number of daily searches. You have to consider that someone using the keyword phrase "real estate" could be any number of people outside of our target market, such as a person looking for general real estate information, a person looking for a career in real estate, or a person looking for real estate in a location that you don't serve.
By choosing keyword phrases based on relevance, traffic and competition you will get the highest ROI out of your SEO campaign and see results more quickly.
The fact of the matter is that selecting the right keyword phrases is the single most important aspect of any SEO campaign. If you choose keywords that are too competitive you may never achieve any ranking for them, and if you choose keywords that no one searches for you will not receive any traffic even if your web site ranks #1. That's why it's so important to put a little extra effort into your keyword selection or hire a professional to do it. Let's say that you are a real estate agent in Tampa, Florida who wants to generate additional business from the internet. While it may sound great to target the keyword phrase "real estate" because it gets over 67,000 searches each day, you would really be much better off targeting a keyword phrase like "tampa bay waterfront real estate" which gets about 6 searches each day. Visitors searching for 3-4 word keyword phrases are more likely to convert to clients than those searching for more general keyword phrases. When coupled with the competition you'll face for a general term like "real estate" you're ROI quickly dissipates, despite the high number of daily searches. You have to consider that someone using the keyword phrase "real estate" could be any number of people outside of our target market, such as a person looking for general real estate information, a person looking for a career in real estate, or a person looking for real estate in a location that you don't serve.
By choosing keyword phrases based on relevance, traffic and competition you will get the highest ROI out of your SEO campaign and see results more quickly.
Rabu, 23 Maret 2011
What's the most important part of an SEO campaign?
If you're like many of the business owners that are beginning to see the importance of search engine optimization as a marketing tool, chances are that you've come across quite a bit of contradictory information. You've probably heard a dozen opinions of what the most important part of your SEO campaign is - everything from links to title tags and everything in between.
The fact of the matter is that selecting the right keyword phrases is the single most important aspect of any SEO campaign. If you choose keywords that are too competitive you may never achieve any ranking for them, and if you choose keywords that no one searches for you will not receive any traffic even if your web site ranks #1. That's why it's so important to put a little extra effort into your keyword selection or hire a professional to do it. Let's say that you are a real estate agent in Tampa, Florida who wants to generate additional business from the internet. While it may sound great to target the keyword phrase "real estate" because it gets over 67,000 searches each day, you would really be much better off targeting a keyword phrase like "tampa bay waterfront real estate" which gets about 6 searches each day. Visitors searching for 3-4 word keyword phrases are more likely to convert to clients than those searching for more general keyword phrases. When coupled with the competition you'll face for a general term like "real estate" you're ROI quickly dissipates, despite the high number of daily searches. You have to consider that someone using the keyword phrase "real estate" could be any number of people outside of our target market, such as a person looking for general real estate information, a person looking for a career in real estate, or a person looking for real estate in a location that you don't serve.
By choosing keyword phrases based on relevance, traffic and competition you will get the highest ROI out of your SEO campaign and see results more quickly.
The fact of the matter is that selecting the right keyword phrases is the single most important aspect of any SEO campaign. If you choose keywords that are too competitive you may never achieve any ranking for them, and if you choose keywords that no one searches for you will not receive any traffic even if your web site ranks #1. That's why it's so important to put a little extra effort into your keyword selection or hire a professional to do it. Let's say that you are a real estate agent in Tampa, Florida who wants to generate additional business from the internet. While it may sound great to target the keyword phrase "real estate" because it gets over 67,000 searches each day, you would really be much better off targeting a keyword phrase like "tampa bay waterfront real estate" which gets about 6 searches each day. Visitors searching for 3-4 word keyword phrases are more likely to convert to clients than those searching for more general keyword phrases. When coupled with the competition you'll face for a general term like "real estate" you're ROI quickly dissipates, despite the high number of daily searches. You have to consider that someone using the keyword phrase "real estate" could be any number of people outside of our target market, such as a person looking for general real estate information, a person looking for a career in real estate, or a person looking for real estate in a location that you don't serve.
By choosing keyword phrases based on relevance, traffic and competition you will get the highest ROI out of your SEO campaign and see results more quickly.
Minggu, 13 Februari 2011
The Basics of Blogging and Web Site Creation - Part Two: Introduction To Keywords
Okay so now we know content is king. And of course since we are creating our own blogs, (remember blogs is short slang for Weblogs - which is what their "formal and official" name is), most of our information is going to be "unique" and "Original". Yet every now and then, since we are only human, and since we simply cannot "create" more and more information, we will copy information from other web sites. That is cool. There is no problem with that, UNLESS, you decide that "copying" and/or "linking" is simply better and forego writing anything.
Now let me make this clear. If you are offering a service to people, where your main business is to offer out links to other places where people can get information, in other words you are a repository where people come to get links, because you already did all the research - that is fine. Because what you will loose in content, you will make up in "eyeballs" and "hits". Remember the end result of good search engine listings is just that. MORE HITS - MORE EYEBALLS - MORE PEOPLE VISITING. And content is not the only parameter an Search Engine looks at. Not by a long shot.
This is a critical point to keep in mind. Everything we will talk about, every method, from content to email to lists to whatever, (hehe my most unfavorite word in the English language pops in - Whatever - see my post on that word in my blog), has but one goal in mind. To consistently and constantly increase and build your website "hits". To make sure you have an ever-growing "fan" club "motivated" because of the service you are offering, to come back. So please differentiate between the end goal and the methods. Content (discussed in our first article) is a method towards the goal of getting listed in a good position on a search engine, and the goal is to have people use and come to your web site or blog, and create a "buzz" about it. (We will talk about this much later in our series.)
Let us go back to content for a moment. Here we are talking about something that all writers know about and are familiar with. Text, words, phrases. Original, unique text.
So in order to continue on our own fairly logical path, we will now concentrate on the "text" and what has to be in it. Which brings us to the subject of "keywords". Before explaining just what these are and either their importance or total invalidity and worthlessness these days, (and this is up for debate) let us define keywords more carefully.
If you have a website selling hair beauty aids, you will want to sell your material writing content around what you are selling. Obviously if you write something about the difference between different models of dishwashers, this is not going to relate to the "subject matter" and content of your site. So you will write articles around your hair supplies. You will write articles on good hair care, on how to dye your hair, how to get rid of split-ends, how often to shampoo etc. etc.
Our magic hair website is called "Hair Is Not Forever", and it is at www.hairisnotforever.com (I have no clue if such a site exists so please don't hit that link!) But this is our site for now and we will keep it as we go along. hairisnotforever also has a blog. This blog we will call "SilkyFairHair" and we will put it, for the sake of our example in blogger.com under the name of the proprietor who is aptly named Mr. Nor Hair. So now we have as follows:
1. Web Site - Hair Forever @ www.hairisnotforever.com
2. Blog - SilkyFairHair @ http://norhair.bl.com (this URL is fictional)
These names ARE important and so are the URL's. (URL stands for Universal Resource Locater). So keep them in mind as we go along through these articles especially when I get to the article on the importance of finding the right name.
So Mr. Nor Hair and his wife, Mrs. Purple Hair work together. They create the site, get all the necessary stuff to sell something on it, write a couple of articles about hair and sit back and wait for the people to come beating their "virtual" door down. Well as we say in Hebrew, "Boker Tov" (which literally means "Good Morning"), or as you say in English, "Knock. Knock. Good Morning! Anyone Home?"
Okay the Hair couple know about keywords. So they create articles in which EVERY sentence has the word hair in it (or balding). But hair is the name of the game. They make sure their content is original, and once they have written two HTML pages of hair articles, strategically placed by their cousin the graphic artist (who is bald) around the advertisements for hair products and now they think they are done!
Woah! Not by a LONG SHOT! And here is where it gets depressing for the uninitiated and non-dedicated people.
Let us deal with the "keyword" issue.
Keywords are like indices or if you wish, categories. A keyword is something that the search engine will look for and validate (in our day), to use as one of the parameters as to how to list your site.
The keywords we refer to are in two distinct and totally different places. The first in the page header of the site.
in what is known as the section for "meta" tags. We will deal with meta tags in a different article, however let us just say these are the keywords most search engine look for (with their "bots") when visiting your site.
An example meta tag for keywords on our site may look like this:
Again in our article(s) on meta tags we will discuss these keywords, and meta tags, but for now take it as a given these are some of the keywords that will be in the meta tag.
When the Search Engine technology first became popular and meta tags were implemented, the keywords tag was critical. Search Engines looked at the keywords in the meta tag and assumed that was what the site was about and listed the site under those keywords. This was caught on to immediately, and humans being the crafty devils they are, began listing keywords that had nothing to do with their sites in order to drive traffic to the site. (Remember - the end result is the oh-so-important one: Hits & Eyeballs)
So porn sites especially, adopting this as yet another "fool the engine" technique, would put keywords like "hair", "technology" etc. into their meta tags, and give the site an innocuous name and voila, more traffic.
So in the never-ending battle Search Engines caught on, and did a few things. They deprecated the importance of the keywords in the meta tags according to their algorithms, UNLESS the content on the site actually did match the keywords. Of course, this was not enough as porn sites will put "real" content around their stuff. I will give you a REAL example which I find funny, but it is very serious.
In one of my posts on my blog, you can see my bio which is picked up by search engines. The other day I received an email from an old flame of mine saying "I freaked out. I googled you, under Ted Gross Writer, and you are connected with a site about tushy's!" So I go and Google it, and sure enough in like the fifth position is this: "Ted Gross's Unofficial Bio - The Real Version by Tushy" and of course I click and get led to another site (no url here as I do not want to publicize that site for obvious reasons) and I come to a porn site which ripped off, out of all the content on the internet, MY profile to place around their porn adverts. UGH! But you see that is how crafty people are!
(Here we are not going to talk about "splogs" - meaning "spam blogs" yet. But keep it in mind.)
Okay now what happens - not in theory but in practice.
Two scenarios:
1. You have keywords in your meta tag (and you should have them!) The little Search Engine "bot" (that is a software program whose job it is to travel around the Internet, never sleeps and never eats and gets into all those porn sites too!, and picks up information on ALL sites so the information can be categorized), comes to our site of hairisnotforever and reads the keywords on the page. Then this little bot makes a snapshot of the web page. Then the algorithms take over and match the keywords in the meta tags to the text and stuff on your site. (Remember Search Engines don't "see", they are NOT visual (males are visually oriented not Search Engines!) so graphics are not taken into account unless you use the alt tag.) The algorithms get more and more sophisticated as time goes on and they look for content, keywords, phrases etc. (Remember original content!)
2. You have no keywords in your meta tag so the engine just looks at your content.
So our happy couple figures okay lets put the word hair say, in every sentence at least three times. NO! Don't do that. Overuse of a keyword is a red-flag to a Search Engine and you will be penalized for it! It should be used and used frequently, but NOT overused.
Now when you Google for hair products using the word "balding", the Search Engine has the keyword, and based upon a million parameters decides what position for that specific keyword, hairisnotforever will have, and feeds it out.
So our couple figures what the hell. We will also sell mascara, and they put in a picture advert and the word mascara in their keywords, without having any content for it. Well then www.hairisnotforever.com will probably be listed as the last of the last of the last for anyone looking for "mascara".
So for this lesson the formula is:
"Content+Keywords in the content+Keywords in Meta tag."
Now let me make this clear. If you are offering a service to people, where your main business is to offer out links to other places where people can get information, in other words you are a repository where people come to get links, because you already did all the research - that is fine. Because what you will loose in content, you will make up in "eyeballs" and "hits". Remember the end result of good search engine listings is just that. MORE HITS - MORE EYEBALLS - MORE PEOPLE VISITING. And content is not the only parameter an Search Engine looks at. Not by a long shot.
This is a critical point to keep in mind. Everything we will talk about, every method, from content to email to lists to whatever, (hehe my most unfavorite word in the English language pops in - Whatever - see my post on that word in my blog), has but one goal in mind. To consistently and constantly increase and build your website "hits". To make sure you have an ever-growing "fan" club "motivated" because of the service you are offering, to come back. So please differentiate between the end goal and the methods. Content (discussed in our first article) is a method towards the goal of getting listed in a good position on a search engine, and the goal is to have people use and come to your web site or blog, and create a "buzz" about it. (We will talk about this much later in our series.)
Let us go back to content for a moment. Here we are talking about something that all writers know about and are familiar with. Text, words, phrases. Original, unique text.
So in order to continue on our own fairly logical path, we will now concentrate on the "text" and what has to be in it. Which brings us to the subject of "keywords". Before explaining just what these are and either their importance or total invalidity and worthlessness these days, (and this is up for debate) let us define keywords more carefully.
If you have a website selling hair beauty aids, you will want to sell your material writing content around what you are selling. Obviously if you write something about the difference between different models of dishwashers, this is not going to relate to the "subject matter" and content of your site. So you will write articles around your hair supplies. You will write articles on good hair care, on how to dye your hair, how to get rid of split-ends, how often to shampoo etc. etc.
Our magic hair website is called "Hair Is Not Forever", and it is at www.hairisnotforever.com (I have no clue if such a site exists so please don't hit that link!) But this is our site for now and we will keep it as we go along. hairisnotforever also has a blog. This blog we will call "SilkyFairHair" and we will put it, for the sake of our example in blogger.com under the name of the proprietor who is aptly named Mr. Nor Hair. So now we have as follows:
1. Web Site - Hair Forever @ www.hairisnotforever.com
2. Blog - SilkyFairHair @ http://norhair.bl.com (this URL is fictional)
These names ARE important and so are the URL's. (URL stands for Universal Resource Locater). So keep them in mind as we go along through these articles especially when I get to the article on the importance of finding the right name.
So Mr. Nor Hair and his wife, Mrs. Purple Hair work together. They create the site, get all the necessary stuff to sell something on it, write a couple of articles about hair and sit back and wait for the people to come beating their "virtual" door down. Well as we say in Hebrew, "Boker Tov" (which literally means "Good Morning"), or as you say in English, "Knock. Knock. Good Morning! Anyone Home?"
Okay the Hair couple know about keywords. So they create articles in which EVERY sentence has the word hair in it (or balding). But hair is the name of the game. They make sure their content is original, and once they have written two HTML pages of hair articles, strategically placed by their cousin the graphic artist (who is bald) around the advertisements for hair products and now they think they are done!
Woah! Not by a LONG SHOT! And here is where it gets depressing for the uninitiated and non-dedicated people.
Let us deal with the "keyword" issue.
Keywords are like indices or if you wish, categories. A keyword is something that the search engine will look for and validate (in our day), to use as one of the parameters as to how to list your site.
The keywords we refer to are in two distinct and totally different places. The first in the page header of the site.
in what is known as the section for "meta" tags. We will deal with meta tags in a different article, however let us just say these are the keywords most search engine look for (with their "bots") when visiting your site.
An example meta tag for keywords on our site may look like this:
Again in our article(s) on meta tags we will discuss these keywords, and meta tags, but for now take it as a given these are some of the keywords that will be in the meta tag.
When the Search Engine technology first became popular and meta tags were implemented, the keywords tag was critical. Search Engines looked at the keywords in the meta tag and assumed that was what the site was about and listed the site under those keywords. This was caught on to immediately, and humans being the crafty devils they are, began listing keywords that had nothing to do with their sites in order to drive traffic to the site. (Remember - the end result is the oh-so-important one: Hits & Eyeballs)
So porn sites especially, adopting this as yet another "fool the engine" technique, would put keywords like "hair", "technology" etc. into their meta tags, and give the site an innocuous name and voila, more traffic.
So in the never-ending battle Search Engines caught on, and did a few things. They deprecated the importance of the keywords in the meta tags according to their algorithms, UNLESS the content on the site actually did match the keywords. Of course, this was not enough as porn sites will put "real" content around their stuff. I will give you a REAL example which I find funny, but it is very serious.
In one of my posts on my blog, you can see my bio which is picked up by search engines. The other day I received an email from an old flame of mine saying "I freaked out. I googled you, under Ted Gross Writer, and you are connected with a site about tushy's!" So I go and Google it, and sure enough in like the fifth position is this: "Ted Gross's Unofficial Bio - The Real Version by Tushy" and of course I click and get led to another site (no url here as I do not want to publicize that site for obvious reasons) and I come to a porn site which ripped off, out of all the content on the internet, MY profile to place around their porn adverts. UGH! But you see that is how crafty people are!
(Here we are not going to talk about "splogs" - meaning "spam blogs" yet. But keep it in mind.)
Okay now what happens - not in theory but in practice.
Two scenarios:
1. You have keywords in your meta tag (and you should have them!) The little Search Engine "bot" (that is a software program whose job it is to travel around the Internet, never sleeps and never eats and gets into all those porn sites too!, and picks up information on ALL sites so the information can be categorized), comes to our site of hairisnotforever and reads the keywords on the page. Then this little bot makes a snapshot of the web page. Then the algorithms take over and match the keywords in the meta tags to the text and stuff on your site. (Remember Search Engines don't "see", they are NOT visual (males are visually oriented not Search Engines!) so graphics are not taken into account unless you use the alt tag.) The algorithms get more and more sophisticated as time goes on and they look for content, keywords, phrases etc. (Remember original content!)
2. You have no keywords in your meta tag so the engine just looks at your content.
So our happy couple figures okay lets put the word hair say, in every sentence at least three times. NO! Don't do that. Overuse of a keyword is a red-flag to a Search Engine and you will be penalized for it! It should be used and used frequently, but NOT overused.
Now when you Google for hair products using the word "balding", the Search Engine has the keyword, and based upon a million parameters decides what position for that specific keyword, hairisnotforever will have, and feeds it out.
So our couple figures what the hell. We will also sell mascara, and they put in a picture advert and the word mascara in their keywords, without having any content for it. Well then www.hairisnotforever.com will probably be listed as the last of the last of the last for anyone looking for "mascara".
So for this lesson the formula is:
"Content+Keywords in the content+Keywords in Meta tag."
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