This happened to me when optimizing my website for search engines and I think it will be helpful for other webmasters: I offer web hosting services in México, when searching for keywords I found "hospedaje web" and "alojamiento web" (both are synonyms for web hosting in spanish) After a couple of months, I am in number seven in google mexico and number one in yahoo mexico for "alojamiento web mexico". Sounds great, doesn't it? However, I didn't receive any traffic for those keywords With a little investigation, I found out that "Alojamiento web" is a term used in Spain. In Mexico, the term used is "hospedaje web". Now I am changing all my spanish keywords to "Hospedaje web". So the lesson here is, investigate fully your keywords and make sure they apply to your languaje, market and desired traffic, so you don't spend your time with keywords that won't bring you traffic, or the wrong traffic to your site.
Thats what SEO is all about. You have to plan the keywords, find the ones that have high traffic BEFORE you start your SEO campaign. If you target the wrong keywords, your efforts will go unrewarded.
guess I still have a lot to learn. That's why I am at these forums! anyway, I think a SEO campaing is not defined and then forgoten. You have to work at it constantly and define and refine your work as you learn from your mistakes.
Lol now this thread outranks any other site for Alojamiento Web DP power. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&rls=GGGL,GGGL:2006-29,GGGL:en&q=alojamiento+web&btnG=Search
mmm, I always considered posting at the forums as a linking creation method, but I never thought of using it for keyword targeting (I use article submition for that). I think I discovered something new here