I was hoping I could get some help or direction on what one is supposed to do next after finding your low competition keywords. I've read and read so much stuff that I'm getting myself all confused in finding the answer I'm actually looking for. I understand from what I've been reading that you should pick around 10 keywords surrounding a niche. I want to do article marketing and from what I understand you create an article targeting a specific keyword or phrase which could make your article rise up to the top in Google if the competition is relatively low, but the ultimate goal is to get my site rank up for that keyword/phrase. Is that set of 10 chosen keyword/keyword phrases supposed to be emphasized on my website as well? If so how many times should you use that keyword/phrase be used in the article and how many times on your website? This is where I'm getting confused. Any help would be appreciated as I don’t want to start writing a bunch of articles that won’t do what I want them to do.
just write it as if you are writing for human consumption.. that is the goal of search engine.. they are good at picking good content from bad one.. why not use them both.. and evenly.... off site seo is as important as on site seo...
Thanks webmaster - are there others who are willing to elaborate and give a more detailed response? As I mentionned it would be greatly appreciated.
Use the keyword in the title and like 3-5 times in the article depending on the length. I'd say about once for every 100 words. And yeah if you're writing an article around a keyword then you want your landing page to be congruent with that keyword. So if your keyword is "best way to get laid" your page should also be developed around those words. You will also need to backlink the articles and the landing page to help them rise in the search engines. It's unlikely they will hit the top by themselves.
I understand from what I've been reading that you should pick around 10 keywords surrounding a niche. Maybe is too many.I think it isdepending your length of your article.
- Find your keywords and then frame them into the title for an article. Write an article that features the terms/phrases and any closely related synonyms within the title, text and anchor links of your article. Post a long version of your article on your website, and a short preview on a few different article marketing sites. - Keywords within your signature- OP has too many words, not really optimized for keywords, and the links here are do-follow. - Blog commenting- Put the keywords within your names. - Create a Squidoo lense with your keywords in the page title, content and anchor links back to your site. - Write amazing original articles and then offer other high ranking sites that target the same audience and related keywords the right to publish them. Just a few easy ways to go out and build links that will both generate traffic and benefit your SEO campaign.
So 10 keywords/keyphrases would be too many for an entire product/service I would be trying to sell? So maybe like 6 keyphrases/words.?? Is it supposed to be 1 keyword/keyphrase per artcile and repeating the process for each keyword/keyphrase? Or do I use all 6-10 keywords in each article
10 is actually not enough keywords if you want to get consistent sales. People put out like 50 articles or more on a topic before they see any sales sometimes. And you want to use 1 keyword in each article along with some related keywords that you could possibly rank for. A good way is to use the Google keyword tool and type in the keyword that you want to rank for. Then get a list of all related long-tail keywords and try to throw some of those in the article somewhere.
For each article you write, the main keyword/phrase should be in the title, first paragraph and a few more times in the main content. You can also include a few secondary keywords/phrases in the article. But you must also take care to check the keyword density to make sure it is not too high. You can find some good keyword density tools if you do a search in google. I've heard that having a keyword density of about 3% for your main keyword is optimal.
Ezine Articles only allows you to have 2% density or less. I've ran into a couple problems before when it was more than that.
Another thing that just confused me is after selecting my key phrases using niche keyword program - I ran into a key phrases that had virtually no competition and according to the program it had for example 2000 exact phrase results in Google. So to me that seemed like a great combination of words to use...... here is my issue. What good is that data?? I don't know of anyone regular person in the world that goes to Google to do a search that would use a sentence in "xxxx xxxx xxxx " (brackets) to get specific results. So when I just used those keywords without brackets so many results came back so are these key phrases worthless ?
The point of searching in quotes is just to see what kind of competition you're up against as far as competing pages. A better way I have found is to do this: allintitle:"keyword here" and search in Google. If the results come back at under 2,000 that's a good sign. Next type in the keyword without quotes or anything and check to see if there's any Web 2.0 sites or article directories on the 1st-2nd page. If so, you should go for it and build more links than the articles currently ranking and you should pass them up.
Thanks for the answer, if yourself or someone could clarify this part of your reply - "If so, you should go for it and build more links than the articles currently ranking and you should pass them up" How do you build more links than an article that is ranking? How exactly does one do that?
There's lots of ways to build backlinks. Submit your articles to a lot of other directories with anchor text linking back to your main article. Do the same with Web 2.0 sites like Squidoo, Weebly, etc. You could post in forums and on blogs that are do-follow and have anchor text to your article. Other then that just read through these forums and you will find the answers you need. I also suggest reading these 2 blogs that are both by members here of their journals: http://internetmarketingjournal.info - Petehol's journal http://goal100k.com - Robert's journal Both are good resources I think.
Thanks but this method would make my Original article rank (let's assume the E-zine article is the original article) based around the long tail keyphrase but I ultimately want my domain to end up ranking for that keyphrase not just the article. If my article is ranked high how do I then make my website rank for that keyphrase. I've been visiting goal100k but I'll also check petehol's journal too.
Oh Ok, I thought you were aiming to get your article itself ranked. I guess I didn't read it thoroughly. Anyway, you would do the same thing then except point all your backlinks from articles and Web 2.0 sites to your domain instead of the main EZA. Make sure on the domain you have the keyword in the URL exactly as it is. So if your keyword is "how to build big arms", your domain name should preferably be howtobuildbigarms.com. If that's taken go for .net and .org and if those are taken you can use dashes or throw other words at the beginning or the end but make sure you don't split up the keywords. The strategies for backlinks don't change really whether you're trying to rank an article or a domain. Just generally it's easier to get the article ranked because EZA has a lot of power in Google but you can still make it work.