better to target lesser keywords first before harder ones?

Is it better to target less competitive keywords before you target more competitive ones?

 

If you mean it's better to start off with the little less competitive keywords to learn and gain experience to then later target a more difficult keyword, then yes it's better

 

The main thing is that you need to target those keywords which bring you the business. Not categorize the keywords in higher and lesser format. Optimized your site with right keywords and you will get the rankings surely even keywords is more competitive.

 

Yes i would think so once u get the hang of things take it from there

 

Does not matter which keywords you try to rank with, BUT, it is ideal to go for long tail versions of the keyword

 

I agree with Promoman, target first long tail versions of the main keyword you want to target so rake in traffic (and income) while you gradually build up your links. And the nice thing: The long tail keywords ALSO include your target keyword, so ultimately ytou are also working towards getting good SERP in that particular keyword...

 

it's better to start with lesser competitive since if the domain is brand new, you can't do anything excessive for backlinks (and you need that for harder kw)

 

If your website is quite new even if you target very competitive keywords, you will not be able to achieve rankings fast. So basically you work for nothing. You need to start first with lower competitive keywords. Then once the website receive reputation, and it became more and more established in search engines you can go for the bigger ones. However you need to consider even 6 months for moderate keywords and over 12 months for really targeted keywords.

It all depends on your current website status, how old it is, and how many links you have for your website at the moment.
If you send me your website URL I can make for you a complete SEO analysis

looking forward,
T.B

 

I also believe it is better to target the less competitive long tail keyword phrases first and graduate to the more competitive main keywords

 

much like a pyra,id, do the easy one first, tehn graduate

 

Less competative Keywords always easy to rank quickly but it also must be related to your business other it will useless. Yes it's Good idea

 

It is always good to segregate all your keywords in the order of importance and target them phase-wise.
Initially at the start of the campaign, start with long-tail keywords with high search density and relatively low competition. Then narrow down on more competitive keywords with higher search density.

 

yes target less competitive keywords so u start getting rank and people able to reach you

 

I can answer this in this way.
If your website is about Acne.
firstly forget about optimizing for acne (the primary one word keyword). You will never be able to do that.
Now say you want to optimize ultimately for that two word keyword acne treatment, forget about optimizing for it for a while.
now take one even more specific keyword like best natural acne treatment It would be much easier to optimize for it.
Keep on optimizing for other ones like:
all natural acne treatment
natural acne treatment system
natural acne treatment products
the best natural acne treatment
After you do all this, you will be optimized for natural acne treatment. You need to optimize one page each for separate sub-keyword and link all of them to a parent page.
now in a similar fasion, optimize more parent pages for keywords like:
skin acne treatment
natural acne treatment
acne treatment reviews
acne treatment gel
new acne treatment
acne treatment system
best acne treatments
exposed acne treatment
clear acne treatment
acne treatment cream
facial acne treatment
back acne treatment
the best acne treatment
body acne treatment
severe acne treatment
rosacea acne treatment
and link all of them to the grand parent page which you want to optimize for the keyword Acne treatment.
If you can afford it, you can also try many grand parent pages to each achieve optimization for the keyword acne.
In each and every step use Google Keyword Tool to find highly searched keywords which have low competition so that you can gain a lot of traffic from them out of least efforts.

Hope I am clear and helpful

 

Better to target less competitive keywords as they are easy to rank and that will generate more traffic and later you can go for tougher ones....

 

thanks for sharing useful information about keyword

 

Yes always choose less competitive keywords for your website.

 

wow, thanks for all the feedback. it seems overwhelming like i should target the less competitive keywords first - going for longtail phrases. i will definitely pursue that route. really good feedback and much appreciated.

 

Yes, you are correct but you can always start with the harder one - no problem.

 

You welcome chinesechess