Before worrying about Keywords and SEO you MUST Understand your Market, Your Niche, Your Blog audience

Before you can develop a list of words and phrases for Keywords and SEO you need to understand what people search for when they enter a search into Google or Yahoo when they want information like what is in your Blog or Website. To figure this out you can

• Start by actually entering words and phrases about your blog or Website into Google and checkout the search results. Is are they what you expected? While you are at it, check out the competitions websites to see what they are talking about.
• Use the Google Adwords free keyword suggestion tool (see the article link a few bullet points down from here to access it). Enter some of the keywords and phrases in there and see how often people search on them every month. See the different variations that the Keyword Tool shows you.
• Continue to check out other websites that you find on the same subject and learn the lingo they and the users use. Read the blogs and the comments.
•  Go to this web page which has links to a lot of FREE Google tools that will help you do this; http://wordpress-how-to-wp.com/Google-keyword-tool-links-and-seo-tools-links-and-information

Develop a list of Target Keywords that you wish to use for Search Engine Optimization (SEO).

There are a few places where you should spend money on your blog this is one of them. An automated  keyword Software System will give you a huge advantage over the competition when it comes to SEO and getting free traffic from the search engines.:

• Click on this link to read about Keyword Research Pro the best tool out there http://www.keywordsoftwareguide.com/keyword-research-leader-keyword-research-pro-releases-new-version
• Click on this link to read about Keyword Elite 2.0 the second best tool in our opinion http://www.keywordsoftwareguide.com/keyword-software-guides-keyword-elite-2-0-review
• Click on this link for a list of 5 free Keyword tools if you really really don't want to spend any money:
• http://wordpress-how-to-wp.com/5-free-keyword-tools-for-keyword-research.

Whatever the tool you should do these basic keyword and SEO steps

 Find relevant keyword and keyword phrase niches

Group closely related keywords into related primary and secondary keyword pairs that you could focus one page on

Then Evaluate your keyword and Keyword phrase niches for SEO potential. Click on this link for an article on Keyword Research and evaluation in 6 simple steps: http://www.keywordsoftwareguide.com/6-keyword-research-steps

Then Prioritize your keyword and Keyword Phrases that you want to use in your posts and articles

              Then Focus on building a page of content for each keyword or phrase. 

Each Page should focus on 1 to 2 Keywords and related SEO

Your page will be targeting many more than those two keywords – they are your starting point and your focus

• To get started, target each page’s SEO on a primary and secondary keyword.
• Don't try to jam your entire keyword list into your home page you WILL NOT get ranked for all those keywords and without a focus, Google will most likely place no emphasis on the page at all!
• Don’t make the common mistake of initially using different pages to target the same keywords.  It may seem hard not to if your Website is on a given subject. But even then you want to target unique phrases for each phrase. IF you run out of phrases and keywords from your original research list you can always do more keyword research and market niche research and add to your list.

When it Comes to Keywords and SEO Use your target keywords and Phrases in these specific places

Use your primary and secondary target keywords in the following positions on your page:

• Page title tag
• Description tag
• Note that for the Page Title and Description and Keywords Meta Tags use the Keywords Statistics plugin if your blog uses wordpress. Click on this link to read a review of the keywords statistics plugin. It is quick, easy and it rocks for Keywords and SEO!: http://wordpress-how-to-wp.com/the-keyword-statistics-plugin-for-wordpress-search-engine-optimization
• Headlines, sub-headlines and body text
•  Internal and external links (use text)

For your Keywords and SEO efforts to work, you need content that is interesting and related

Content is where the rubber hits the road!

• Your content must relate to the keywords that you are targetting. You can't fool the search engines and if you could it would take more work then is required to give them what they want: Value adding information of a given subject.
• The search engines nowadays do contextual analysis and if the heading and keywords do not flow with the content they will be ignored. page will be targeting many more than those two keywords – they are your starting point and your focus
• Try to write 1000 words, no less then 200 or it will be ignored. The focus should be on your primary and secondary keyword. But sprinkling in long tailed keywords from your keyword list will give the site more "Juice" and more opportunity to getr ranked for related keywords.
• The Content should be informational and easy to read. If its not, even if you get people there, they will just leave and never come back.
• Add value. For example this article gives links to free tools and related information saving the readers time. Give your readers what they are looking for and Google will send more readers your way and they will all come back! And that is what you want from Keywords and SEO!

The Keyword Statistics Plugin is a great Keyword and SEO Plugin For Wordpress!

Keyword Statistics Plugin Author is : Alexander Müller

With this plugin you can optimize your WordPress blog for search engines. It can automatically generate meta information (like keywords and description for example) needed for the search engine optimization (SEO) of your blog..

Key Features of this Wordpress Keyword Plugin:

I use this plugin on all of my sites.If you do not know how to use wordpress plugins check out http://wordpress-how-to-wp.com/category/how-to-wordpress-plugins/

Here is my list of its key features. Then I will give you the Authors list.

1) The Keyword Statistics Wordpress Plugin will automatically Generate the Following Meta Tags for each page in your blog:

• Title – The Title Meta Tag is usually the same as the page or article title. it is what the search engines show on the first line of the search result.
• Description – The Description Meta Tag is what the search engines show after the title on the search results. It is therefor very imp[important that the description accurately describes the content of the page or people won't click on the link to your site!!!
• Keywords – The Keyword Meta Tag is not as important as it used to be. Google and some other major search engines determine their own keywords for your site rather then rely on the Keys=words tag. still Some search engines do so it is worth having. NOTE: for Keyword research and software to help you do proper keyword research.: www.keywordsoftwareguide.com has a lot of good articles concerning keyword

2) The Keyword Statistics plugin will let you uncheck the auto generation of the above 3 meta tags so you can change them to be more accurate. i do this regularly.

Here is an actual example from one of my articles at www.affiliatestoreguide.com

3) Keyword Density – The keyword statistics really shines for this. The keyword Statistics Plugin gives you the keyword density and occurances for the top 1, 2 and 3 word long keyword phrases. This really helps. It does h=this real time as you type yor article or blog post.  In this way, if your main keyword phrase is "Dog flea control" you can see how many times you have used that phrase in your post.

Here is an actual keyword density oputput from the keyword statistics plugin:

Here  is the Ketword Statistics  plugin description from the Author:

The Keyword-Statistics-Plugin checks the content of a post or a page for keyword density (single words and optionally 2- and 3-word phrases; for each the 1-10 most commonly used can be displayed). It can update its information automatically while the author is writing his content in a variable interval (every 1-10 seconds) or manually by clicking on a button. The script comes with english and german stopwords, which optionally can be filtered out before calculating the keyword densities. Moreover the commonest keywords are extracted in a list as a META keywords suggestion. Based on this list a META description can be created and automatically set. So the plugin can be used to do the on-page part of your SEO strategy.

Features:

• Keyword density statistics about the usage of single keywords and keyphrases (2- and 3-words)
• Setting an individual title for each page and post
• META keywords will be set automatically based on the page content
• META description generated from content based on the keyword statistics
• Definition of individual titles, keywords and descriptions for all kinds of content aggregations. A set of variables that can be used on the specific aggregations – keywords will be filled up automatically to the maximum number of keys (you can define this too) with the ones generated from the listed posts.
• Page-specific control of robots META
• Generation of Canonical URLs – also for all kinds of content aggregation (lists with last posts, archive, tag, category, search results and author including pagination)
• Controls the index/follow settings of the content aggregations (full control of robots for the specific aggregations)
• Configuration of ODP, Yahoo! Directory and ARCHIVE (archiving of the content for search engines like google but also at archive.org) META
• Prevents urls resulting in a not found response (404) from indexation
• All meta tags generated by the plugin can be switched off separately to prevent collisions with other plugins

Stopwords filtered for:

• Brazilian Portoguese
• Dutch
• English
• German
• Turkish

Backend translations for:

• English
• German

NOTE: The SEO-relevant meta-information (meta keywords, meta description and the robots meta-tag) will be generated – and served – only for pages and posts which are saved after plugin installation. You have to open and save an older post or page if you want to generate the meta data for the particular content. For now there is no way to do this automatically.

The administrator can allow ordinary authors to change META information or not. Even if changing is disallowed an author can see the keyword density and can be guided from the statistics while he is writing the content. He can do the on-page search engine optimization incidentally by knowing which keyword density should be reached. This makes SEO easier for authors.

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Spring 2010 – The webs leading Keyword Research Software System, Keyword Research Pro, has released version 1.0.17!!!

If you are serious about your Website and search engine traffic, then you need to seriously consider the latest version of Keyword Research Pro!

We have shown you plenty of "Free" Keyword Research Tools at our Website (click here to take a look in our Keyword Software articles Section). But if you really want a shot at getting the search engines to send the right traffic to your site, you really need a Keyword Research Software System. Why?  Read the description of the functionality in the New Version Of Keyword Software Pro and you will understand,.

Here is our top 10 list for why Keyword Research Pro is the best Keyword Research software out there!

1) Most keyword Tools out there only drives off of one database like Google or Ask. Keyword Research Pro sources its Keyword Information from 7 major public databases:

• Google AdWords Keyword Tool
• Keyword Discovery
• Wordtracker
• 7Search
• Miva
• YouTube
• Ask.com

2) Keyword Research Pro runs off of real time data!!!

This is critical! So many tools out there give you the keyword data on a disc or a download. By the time you get it could be months or years old!

Keyword Research Pro works in real time getting the keyword research information from the actual keyword databases listed in (1) above. So when it tells you:

• how popular any keyword is,
• how much competition for that keyword there is,
• how many people there are paying for advertisement (PPC) for the keywords,
• how much they are paying in advertising costs
• The actual ads they are placing (yes it retrieves their actual ads)
• The landing pages that they are using

        When Keyword Research Pro gives you all of this, it is doing it in real time! It is Accurate! It is Fresh! And you can rely on it!

3) Keyword Research Pro lets you format Keywords For Pay Per Click  Campaigns quickly and easily. Here are some of the options at your disposal:

• Exact Keyword Match
• Broad Keyword Match
• Keyword Phrase Match
• Negative Keyword Matches
• Combinations of Broad, exact and Phrase matching

4) Keyword Research Pro gives you more Keyword Analysis Options then a lot of the other packages combined:

   Competition Analysis:

     What is the competition level for your Keywords in Google, Yahoo & Bing

   PPC analysis includes:

     Average Cost-Per-Click (Broad, Phrase, Exact) and Competing Ads (Analyze competitors' PPC ad copy and actual landing pages with ease!)
 

   What about Keyword Effectiveness analysis?:

    Keyword Research Pro Includes a Keyword Effectiveness Index and the R/S Ratio

   Keyword Research Pro tells you  the current real time Search Volume in:

• Google,
• Wordtracker,
• 7 Search,
• Keyword Discovery
• etc

   How about the  First Page Search Engine Results Page (SERP):

     Analyze first page SERP for any keyword via easy 'one-click' access

5) Keyword Research Pro features Multi-country and language targeting (see below)

•  Use Synonyms
• Local Monthly Search Volume versus Global Monthly Search Volume
• Volume Match Type (Broad, Phrase, Exact)
• Estimated Average Cost-Per-Click (Broad, Phrase, Exact)

6) Includes the most popular Advertising Word Features!

- Target Languages for Multi-country the web is not just in English, take advantage of it!

  How about 40 Languages

   How about 233 countries!
- Allows for Synonyms
- Allows you to compare the local (to your area) monthly search volume to the

  monthly search volume.
- Estimates your expected average pay per click costs

7)  Keyword Research Pro includes a real time 'save' function.

Sounds obvious? Try to save your work on any of the free tools or even most of the other

Keyword Research Software out there. Not gonna happen, especially not at any point.

8)  Includes industry leading Long-Tail Keyword research!
TARGETING  long-tail keywords is one of the pro trick that everyone should use!

It is the quickest way to get  a page one ranking Keyword Research Pro can help you achieve this quickly and easily.

9) Keyword Research pro is Fast – even though it is going after real time data!

10) Provides One-Click Niche Market Brainstorming

All you have to do is  click the 'Brainstorm' button and the Keyword Research Pro software give you lots of ideas! Lots? How about unlimited ideas. If you have 10 hours to waste on wonder wheel that’s your business. If you want to do the best keyword research and do it NOW – that is Keyword Research Pros’s business

Here is a link if you want to see some of their videos on how it works.

Here are some quick Keyword and SEO tricks and tips to get your blog traffic increasing:

1) Do do keyword research – meaning do understand what words and phrases people use when searching for products or information that you have or want to have on your blog or Website. Click on this link to read a basic tutorial on Keyword Research

2) Do use a quality keyword tool (Google adwords keyword tool at a minimum Here is a link to a great set of free Google tools).

I suggest that if you spend money one place you spend it on a quality keyword software system like Keyword Elite 2.0 or Keyword research pro. Here is a link to a review of Keyword Elite 2.0 and Here is a link to a review of Keyword research Pro.

3) Do try to focus each page on one or 2 keywords or keyword phrases

4) Do use the keywords in the page title and sprinkled thru out the article on that page.

5) Do Use a quality wordpress keyword plugin like Keyword Statistics to understand what your page contains from a keyword sense and to generate the title, Description and Keyword Meta tags

6) Don't sweat the keyword meta tag as most of the big search engines don't drive off it any more.

7) Do Make sure your title and description have your keyword(s) that you want to focus on that page.

Don't try to put every keyword you found on your main page. You won't get ranked for them all and it will just be a waste of time.

9) Don't Try to focus on the keywords with the most searches per month. If your blog or Website is new there is no way you will get in the first 10 pages of the Google search results for a keyword with 40,000 searches per month if you are not an SEO Expert.

10) So Do focus on lesser used terms and long tailed keywords. For example instead of trying to get ranked #1 on Google for Dogs. What about trying to get a page #1 on Google for "Great dogs for kids".

11)  Don't sweat keyword density. Here is a link to an article that tells you why its not so important anymore

Related Article Links that you might be interested in :

Keyword Research Information,   Keyword Software Articles

READ THIS BEFORE STARTING THE KEYWORD ELITE 2.0 REVIEW BELOW:

Before we start this Keyword Elite 2.0  Review Here are some links to guides on How to do Keyword research, Why its important and the basic steps to follow. If you already know this and you are interested in this Keyword Tool then skip these links. Otherwise I suggest you read a few of the Keyword Tool articles and Keyword Software articles before reading this review.

NOTE: I included the article on the Top 5 FREE Keyword Software Research Tools. They in no way compare to Keyword elite 2.0 or some of the other professional Keyword Software Systems out there. But if a person just wants to grab some keywords and go, well I will at least save them some time . Also here is a link to a new blog  traffic generating tool  that does some of the keyword and seo stuff that Keyword Elite 2.0 does but adds in some sell side stuff thatKeyword Elite doesn't have.

But if you are new at this, you are just hurting your websites future traffic flow and impairing your future income by trying to save a few bucks. Professional Quality Keyword Research software IS the one place YOU SHOULD invest a little money. It is the foundation of everything else that you want to achieve with your Website. Enough said:

1)  Keyword Research – Why you have to do Keyword Research to get Website traffic

2)  Keyword Research – The top 6 Keyword Research Questions Answered

3)  Keyword Tool – The top 5 FREE Keyword Software Keyword Tool

The Keyword Elite 2.0 advertisements make some pretty big claims that caught our attention. Note this one below:

KE box

Introducing… Keyword Elite 2.0!

The NEW Generation of money making keyword tools!

To put it bluntly, Keyword Elite 2.0 blows away every single tool on the market…

If you're looking for high profit, low competition niches, this will show you them… fast.

Anyone not using this tool is allowing their competitors to get a distinct tactical advantage over them… And in the modern marketing world, that's deadly…

Above – One of the Ads for Keyword Elite 2.0

- But does the product live up to the Hype?

REVIEW SUMMARY: Ok lets cut straight to the chase. Keyword Elite 2.0 has some great features that are a most have for any Blog developer or Niche Marketer. If you don't have a  Keyword Research System with similar capabilities you need one.

Keyword Elite 2.0 comes with an 8 week Money back Guarantee FOR ANY Reason – You can buy it, try it, SEO your website with it or start a new niche market website and if it fails to deliver on Keyword Elite's promises you return the software for a 100% guaranteed refund. Sweet!

That alone makes it a buy. Try it. You risk nothing and you Gain competitive advantage over everyone else in your Niche who does not have this tool!

Click on this link to go to the  Keyword elite website and see some of their videos -> Keyword Elite: Generate 1000s Of Keywords In Seconds! The review details follow.

KEYWORD ELITE 2.0 REVIEW

The Original version of Keyword Elite, Keyword Elite 1.0 was a s mash hit and really revolutionized Keyword Research, SEO, Organic Traffic and Niche Marketing  in general. Keyword Elite 1.0 did have a rough start> if I remember correctly it  was released in 2006 and for the first few months there were a number of bugs and issues but Brad Callen's team did make the required fixes and Keyword Elite became a standard tool of many Pro's.

BUT, since then the competition has improved and surpassed the capabilities of Keyword Elite 1.0. Here is a list of the core functionality of Keyword Elite 1.0:

1.Analyze Pay Per Click Listings
2.Create a Keyword List
3.Select a Keyword List
4.Analyze Keyword Competition
5.Spy on AdWords Competition

I am not going to go into all the original base functionality of each of these core components of Keyword Elite 1.0. But will instead focus on what Brad Callen has delivered in Keyword Elite 2.0.

Here is a list of the base Functionality that Keyword Elite 2.0 brings to the table:

1. Analyze Pay Per Click Listings – OK pay per Click (PPC) advertising research is one of the core strengths of Keyword Elite 2.0> If you are planning on using PPC then I would say the Keyword Elite 2.0 is a month. It will pay for itself  just  by making sure that you target your marketing dollars where they are the most effective.Before jumping into PPC advertising, it is a very good idea to do market research. Keyword Elite will automatically find information about Keyword PPC competition with an amazing amount of detailed information.

2. Keyword Research – Call it brain storming, Niche Market Analysis, Keyword List building. This is the core functionality that the everyday Blog and Website owner needs to be successful. The kicker is that only a few will by the software to make them a success! Keyword Elite  will generate a list of keywords based upon your root keyword or keyword phrase. 2.0Keyword Elite 2.0 does so from  multiple sources like Google, Yahoo, Ask, even the meta tags of your competitors and keyword misspellings.

OK, you can't do this to this depth on your own. Not to this level.  To further save time, it even integrates with Wordtracker or Keyword Discovery search volume databases. Once the list is generated, you can filter  as you need to. The interface that Keyword Elite 2.0 has for this makes it a snap.

3. Don't know where to start then – Select a Keyword List – They have over 40,000 pre-built keyword lists that you can start your brainstorming with. OK this is not for me. I like to do my own keyword lists and filter down to what I thinks important. But if you are new at this or a person that cranks out a site a week, then this might be exactly what you are looking for.

4. Analyze Keyword Competition – This is where most of the average Keyword Researches fail> I can't tell you how many people I have talked to that use Google Adwords and think the Adword competition is a good way to judge Keyword competition.
This is another module that makes Keyword Elite 2.0 worth the cost of admission. This module is great for researching organic search engine competition for any keyword. Before starting a new niche or choosing target keywords, plug your potential keyword into this module to gauge how competitive it is. It will give you a detailed summary of the top ranked websites. Included is information such as Google Page Rank and keyword use in important page locations (H1, title, bold, alt text and 1st 25 words). This kind of information tells you approximately how difficult it will be to attain similar rankings.

5. Spy on AdWords Competition – OK this is a PPC centered advanced topic. Cool if you are investing your money in Adwords and PPC campaigns.You can set this to automatically check the ads periodically. From there you can discover interesting things about your competitors PPC campaign:

OK, cut to the chase. I say Keyword Elite 2.0 is a good buy just based upon the functionality of 1, 2 and 4 above. If you are into PPC advertising then 2 is a must and 5 is pretty freaking cool.

Click on the banner ad below to go to the Keyword Elite 2.0 site if you would like to buy it now. Or continue reading for more details on the product improvements:

Specific Improvements made In Keyword Elite 2.0 according to the Keyword Elite 2.0 Team:

1) Entirely new Keyword Elite 2.0 Software web 2.0 look and feel to allow faster navigation, increase user friendliness, and create a much more enjoyable experience.

2) 100% New Adwords Time Machine program which allows you to view the entire 6 month Adwords ad history of any Adwords advertiser!

3) 100% New Advanced Google Site Targeter program which allows you to quickly find websites displaying Adsense, that you can advertise your own Website on.

4) 100% New JV Diamond Miner program which allows you to quickly and easily find websites that are building email lists, allowing you to mooch traffic from their already profitable businesses.

5) 100% New CPA Magnet program which allows you to find high converting CPA offers, as well as monetize those offers through stealth keyword generation.

6) Enhanced speed. We increased Keyword Elite's speed of generating keywords and displaying analysis data by over 10x!

7) Added a multi-tab interface to allow you to run as many project types as you wish, at the same time… while not losing data from the previously run project!

8- Added Keyword Elite's own keyword data source, which allows you to build your keyword lists in seconds, not minutes.

9) Completely changed the keyword editing screen in the Keyword software to allow for much easier keyword manipulation.

10) Added much more filtering capabilities so you can create an ultra specific keyword list based around your niche.

11) Added several new columns including the ability to see how many clicks you can expect to receive for each keyword in both the paid and free search engine listings.

12) Added trends graphs to thekeyword software  reports

13) Greatly increased the depth of analysis for on page ranking factors for sites in Google, Yahoo, and Bing. Allowing you to see, at a glance, why sites rank where they do and how to beat them.

14) Added the Microsoft OCI percentage so you can see what percentage of visitors searching on a specific keyword are potential buyers vs. just browsers.

15) Added a competition strength indicator to the Keyword tool to quickly tell you if a keyword is worth optimizing for… based on the level of the competition.

16) And they claim "Plus, literally hundreds of other feature enhancements gathered over the past year and a half! Way too many to list here… "

The end result. Keyword Elite 2.0 is a really great Keyword Research Software System. They offer a try it before you buy it guarantee. That makes it a must try. If you don't like it or its more horse power then you need then give it back. You get a 100% refund! No harm no foul.

How To – Increase Website Traffic – The Basics

This article covers all the basics from Identifying your niche market, to what software to use to driving traffic.It includes links to free and paid for software and other related articles.

Your Blog or Website needs to have a target Market

Most people refer to this as a “Niche Market”.  The questions you need to be able to answer BEFORE Starting your Website are the following:

• What is your site going to be about?
• What is its purpose (to make friends, to make money, to tell the world something important?)
• Who is your audience?
• Why will they come to your Website?
• What are their Needs?
• What will make them come back?
• Who are your competitors?
• What can you offer that they don’t?
• What is the language that people using when looking for information about your Niche Market?

You need to decide how important this project is to you

• How much time are you willing to spend on your Website to start it up?
• And daily and weekly after that?
• Be honest if you want it up in a day and automated that’s fine. Then Say So.
• How much money do you have budgeted for you Website?
• To start it up?
• To market it?
• To keep it going?
• If you want to spend the bare minimum then be honest with yourself.
• If you can afford to spend xxx then make that your budget.

You Need to do Keyword Research before writing content

When I said that you needed to understand what language people use when searching for information or products in your niche market what I was referring to is doing “Keyword Research” . Chances are when you go to Google or yahoo to search for a product or information you type in 1-4 words.  Those are Keywords. That is what the search engines use to find the information you are looking for. If they don’t do a good job then you will use a different search engine next time you search, so they try to find exactly what you are looking for.

For example If I am looking for information on a black Labrador retriever I would type in the key words “information  Black Labrador Retriever”.  The Search engine will try to find sites that have information on black Labrador retrievers.

Therefore if I have a Website about black Labrador retrievers then  I want to make sure that I have keywords That tell the search engine that I have information on black Labrador retrievers. The more convinced that the search engines are that your site is the best site to fill the need  for “Information on Black Labrador Retrievers” the higher your site will be on the list of the results they show the searcher and the more people that will click on the link to your site and they more targeted traffic your Website will get.

Here is a link for an article on this Website that tells you everything the latest version of Keyword Research Pro will do for you. It is the best keyword / niche market software out there. It is pretty cheap but worth its weight in gold::

http://www.keywordsoftwareguide.com/category/keywords-software-articles

If you are on a super tight budget (I don’t recommend cutting corners here but if you are) here is a link to an article that has 5 of the top free keyword research tools. All of them together do not do half what Keyword Research Pro will, but they are free:

http://www.keywordsoftwareguide.com/top-5-free-keyword-research-tools-for-web-developers-and-online-marketers

What I have just defined for you is Niche Marketing, Keyword Research and Search Engine Optomization all in a dozen sentences. So how hard can it be? Easy right?

You need to Create valuable content.

OK, now that you know what your niche market is and the keywords that you need, it is time to write articles, blog entries, stories, etc, for your Website or blog that will give people that are interested in your niche to come to your Website and read your articles and then want to stay around and read some more, either because they like it, they want to know it, they find it interesting, whatever. Hopefully all of the above!

For each new article you should decide what it will be about and what keyword(S) you want to make sure that you are getting across. If it is about training black labs then make that the title. And refer to that term for clarity whenever possible. Just throwing the term “training black labs” around  a hundred times in a nonsense article will just piss people off and they won’t come back.Yes some people do this as they just want people to get to their site, as many as possible, so that they will hopefully click on an ad and make them some money. But it is a poor plan if you want to make money over time.

Your Website is like an investment. The more you put into it over time the more valuable it will become. That value can be thru getting your message out to more and more people or it can be thru selling more and more stuff. The value is created by the age of the site, the quality of the information, the amount of other sites that link into it over time, etc. This raises the page rank in the search engines and you get more and more traffic.

Try to fool the search engines and they, and the people, will eventually figure it out and your Website will never increase in value.

Use Wordpress if your Website is a blog (ITS FREE) and learn the plugins to start with.

You can get wordpress as a FREE download at:

http://wordpress.org/download/

One reason Wordpress is so great is that it has hundreds of free “Plugins”. Plugins are tools that lets your Website do cool or important things. For example. Want your Website to create an XML Sitemap (this is a map that tells the search engines whats on your Website and where so they can come check it out)

SAY YES to wanting a sitemap. OK. Just automatically download and click install on the “Google XML Sitemap Plugin”

.A Website that looks sharp with great features is a competitive advantage

Pick a Website design that makes sense. If You are using Wordpress there are plenty of Website designs  (Called Themes) for any occasion. Don’t use a hi tech modern design if you want to write about ancient Egypt.

You can get free themes from the free wordpress download. You can also buy a professionally designed theme. I have used both but hands down the professionally designed ones are the best. They look better and have more options that you can configure to make your theme the way you want it to be.

Here is a link to a site that has a lot of good deals on Wordpress Themes. It also has a lot of free information on how to set up the wordpress Website and how to make simple changes to your theme, etc. www.wpthemesdeals.com

You need to Optimize your Website for the Search Engines (SEO BABY!)

OK. I gave you a preview of SEO earlier and there really is a lot more to it than just keywords and articles. BUT if you use wordpress you are at an advantage. You can install the platinum SEO plugin for free and it will do a GREAT job of handling SEO for you. Also there is the  SEO smartlinks plugin for wordpress  as well.

BUT automation is not a substitute for knowledge. We will be posting a article just on SEO in a few days (But most people consider SEO keyword research and placement. But it goes way beyond that).

You need to create a sitemap and submit your site to the search engines

With Wordpress if you want your Website to create an XML Sitemap (this is a map that tells the search engines whats on your Website and where so they can come check it out) whenever you add a new post or article you can do so with the “Google XML Sitemap Plugin”.   Just automatically download  the plugin from the “add Plugin” option within wordpress and you are on your way (OK you have to click install and then go into the options to do a few settings).

Also, go into the “Pages” option and create a page called “Site Map”. Don’t put anything in it. Almost all of the Wordpress themes will include this with the pages in the header so people will see it and the site map generator plugin will fill the page with a link to all the articles posts and categories that are on your Website so people can look around easier.

Remember, you can have the best information in the world on your Website but

• If no one can find the site it does no good.
• If the people who find your site were looking for something else it does no good
• If once the people get there the site has useless or copied information it will do little good
• And if People have to much trouble getting around your site it will do no good!

You need to submit your site to directories, and to social bookmarking sites and promote it for BACKLINKS and that will help get you the “link juice”(as some like to callit) and that will help get your site MORE TRAFFIC!

But  doing all of this can be a pain in the butt. It is a slow and tedious process.

I recommend using Miracle traffic Bot because it is automated and does it all. As I state elsewhere on this site I have personally spent hundreds and hundreds of dollars on different products that don’t do any of this as well as Miracle traffic Bot. Here is a link to a short Review of it. It is another paid for product that is worth its weight in gold:

http://www.affiliatestoreguide.com/how-to-increase-Website-traffic

You need to keep working your site Content! Submissions! Links!

Once you have done all this you won’t get the traffic overnight. It takes a while for the search engines to “crawl” your site, and start sending you traffic and for people to start clicking on the articles that you submitted to the article sites and to the links you submitted to the directories.

In the mean time keep writing new and interesting articles. If you purchased Keyword Research Pro you can keep using it to find keyword phrases to write focused articles around. If you are using Miracle traffic Bot you can keep submitting articles etc.

You can also start to tweak your website. Learn how to add pictures. Learn that you can add keywords to the picture descriptions and names to add more relevance to your site.  Browse the Plugin directory for more cool plugins and experiment to improve your site.

Get the Easy Google Analytics plugin, get a google analytics code and start tracking your website with google analytics. It will tell you how many people are going to your website and what keywords they use to get there etc. Just go to www.google.com/analytics and follow their instructions

And I could go on forever.  ENOUGH FOR NOW!

A Keyword  Research Video:

A reader sent me this Video and I thought I would share it. While the information is pretty basic, some people will watch a video rather then read an informative article so I thought I would include it in the hopes that it gives some people the basics and that might motivate them to read some of our articles on Keyword Research, Keyword Software Tools and SEO.

If you are a beginner and don't know where to start in terms of Keyword Research, Niche Marketing, etc. Then here are a few links to some good articles on this sites and a few others:

1) The top 5 Free Keyword Research Tools

2) 12 Blog SEO Tips that are worth a Fortune!

3) Keyword Research Techniques and Strategies

OK, a little more about this Keyword Research Video interview of Christine Churchill. In the video, Byron Gordon, SEO-PR, interviews Christine Churchill, a highly regarded expert, on both how to do keyword research and why it is so important for SEO. In a nutshell the Text consists of keywords, says Christine, and it goes right back to how people are searching the Web. Christine says if you don't have your bog posts, videos, and Website all optimized for keywords that are relevant to you and can bring you traffic, you wont be found on the Web. Christine goes on to describe the elements of keyword research and describes effective keyword tools, including Wordtracker and wordstream.

I am a fan of Wordtracker and Word Stream, they have a lot of tools but it is way overcomplicated and pricey for the average blogger, You are much better off with a single good quality tool Like Keyword Research Pro or Keyword Elite. If you can't afford one then learn the process by reading articles and get by with some of the free tools like Googles Keyword Tool.

Speaking of which here is a link to a list of cool Free Google Tools and links. Click on it and bookmark it. They are must have items in your tool chest and they are free!.

• A good keyword is a word or phrase that people are actually searching for.
• The second element of  good keywords is that that the keyword phrase itself is not too competitive (meaning that there are too many websites using that same keyword phrase and trying to get traffic to their website for it).
• The third element of good keywords is that they are relavant to your Niche
• Fourth -And the Keyword or Keyword Phrase is relavant to your website
• Fith – And the Keyword or Keyword Phrase is relavant to the article you use it in

All of the above require thaat you spend some time and do quality Keyword research!

• If you rank for "good keywords" but no one is searching on them, you still won't get much  traffic.
• If you choose "good keywords" that are too competitive, then even if they have a lot of searches, you still won't get traffic, because you won't be able to make it to the top of the search engines for people to find you.
• If you use a keyword that is irrelavant to your Niche, Site or Article, the people that do search on it and find your site will leave in a second once they realize that it is not what they were looking for.

3) Why do I need good keywords?

• Doing good keyword research, and finding good keywords is important because you will get organic (free) traffic from those keywords when people enter them in a search engine like Google.
• Choosing profitable keywords is important because it assures you will make money with your website. You can certainly pay for traffic, but using good keywords will get your long term, ongoing, free traffic.
• You need to do better keyword research then your competitors so that you rank higher on the search results then they do and you get more traffic to your website.

4) How do good keywords get me traffic?

When someone is searching for information online they generally go to a search engine. They put a word or phrase in the search engine (That is the Keyword or Keyword Phrase) that will help them find what they are looking for.

When the results come up for their search if your site comes up on the first page chances are they may click on your site. Your chances increase the higher on page 1 you are. That is why Keyword Research for Good Keywords is so important!

The more keywords with high search volume, or the more long tail keywords that your site shows up high on the search engine search results for the more traffic you will get. period! That is why quality  Keyword Research Software is such a good investment. It pays for itself!

 

5) How do I start the keyword research process?

First step first, think about what your site offers. Your keywords must be relevant to your content. Once you have figured out some main areas of focus for your site you can begin looking for relevant keywords.