So after reading and studying what many people and reports had to say about blog making and how to establish into profitable web site is it first determine a keyword for you to use. However... I really am having a hard time doing that. I mean I've seen several blogs where they seem to have a lot of traffic, but aren't really focused on any one particular niche, just a whole clutter of stuff they like to write about. How did these blogs build up? In my signature, I have my first blog going up, but while in this thread http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=1855077 several people have told me my content is pretty good and I'm really glad that it is enjoyable, but if I were to really pick a keyword phrase to pin point what I'm going to write, I just wouldn't be able to think of one. I plan to write all about my passions, life lessons I can teach people to follow, art, science and technology, reviews about things that just seem to strike a note with me like perhaps a really amazing movie, music that I love and recommend, products which I can write to promote, maybe some stuff about how I myself started up in Internet Marketing in the first place and how people can follow in my footsteps... Do you see what I'm trying to say? What solutions should I take to this? Forcefully cut off and isolate a segment of what I want to write? Or is there a way to encompass all of what I like to write effectively? Help is APPRECIATED.
As i think your asking to get help for writing articles for every given keywords to insert those articles on your blog. Yes? If its your meaning, its better that you focus only on one or some fields. For example you can only write about keywords relating to online business or any other one, But its impossible that some one can write articles for any keyword.
I think you should have one blog for each of your passions. It is important for a "money making blog" to have one topic/niche" After you decide a niche for the blog, use the power of the Google Keyword Tool or The Google Wonder Wheel to find 10-15 good keywords Choose one or 2 keywords at a time and write a blog post about it. Rinse and repeat. -Good Luck
What is the end goal of your blog? Are you writing for search engines or are you writing for your readers? -If you're writing for search engines you're going to have to do some keyword research. You need to find some "long tail" keywords that you want to target. Once you have found your long tail keywords you can start focusing your posts about whatever keywords you picked. Make sure each blog entry has the keyword you're targeting and make sure you include your keyword in your post a bunch of times. Get some backlinks to these posts and you will see your Search Engine rankings go up! -If you want to write for your readers enjoyment keep doing what you've been doing. Write about whatever you want to write about...movies, business, the weather whatever. If people are enjoying your blog the way it is now they will stay as long term readers. So it really depends on what your goal is. As long as you keep pumping out high quality articles and spend some time promoting your blog you will get readers. Hope this helps...
I think it is important for you to spend some time with Google Adwords keywords tool. You will be surprised with the amount of information you will have in front of you. If you spend quality time on doing your research on keywords, you will save a lot of time down the road.
Question: If I pick a keyword or keyword phrase to work with, do I have to consistently use this keyword or keyword phrase to keep high rank in google? Is it by percentage or simply by number of times it's used? And if it's number of times used, can't I aim for more than one set of keyword or keyword phrases?
Hi Kevin. The short answer is that yes, the whole idea of keywords or keyword phrases its that you do need to be consistently using them (but not OVERusing them). It is best to aim for between 2% to 5% keyword or keyphrase density in your articles and posts. You will rank higher if your keyword or phrase is included in your domain name; preferably at the front. Don't forget your meta-tags and meta-description as well. You can use multiple keywords in your posts but don't forget that Google is looking for relevant content to serve to their searchers. So if you want to target multiple keywords you should preferably do that by using multiple domains or at least multiple posts. Try not to mix them up too much. The best way would be to focus on one keyword/phrase in one article/post and use the other ones as anchor-text to the other pages/posts that focus on a different keyword/phrase. Do that for all the different keywords you want to target.
Quick tip .... don't choose 'make money from home' it's just too competetive, go for something less popular!
I see. Can you define meta-tags and meta-descriptions for me? I ran a search and somewhat understand it now. From what I just read, it seems to do with the coding? So let me clarify, if for each entry in my blog, for each URL, I put the keyword I want to theme each entry after, this'll be okay? Does this mean for my one site, I can target several different niches since they will be categorized in certain groups like "Music" or "Self Improvement"? I am beginning to understand how keywords should be implemented but want to make sure how broad or how constricted I need to keep my writing for it to be effective. As of now, I mostly have self improvement niche entries. I may keep to music and self improvement if you guys advise that I stay to a more specific path.