You mean like target a sun keyword of the Niche. Instead of the top main keyword, another one? I have websites, and made them. However nothing official. I mainly make blogs and forums. Until now. Thanks. Hopefully I will be having all these in my website.
Yeah, the sort of thing I mean is lets say you want to do a site about learning piano. You dont want to look at targeting the term "piano" and look at its competition level, you might want to type some piano type words into the google keyword suggestion tool and find some less compedative terms to taget. You can find the google keyword suggestion tool here: https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal We always need top vary the anchor text when we build links so we might find about 5 terms to target and may find that the set of keywords: "how to learn to play piano" "easy piano lessons online" "beginner piano lessons" ... are much easyer to rank for and will still generate some good traffic. If you are successful at ranking for these term, then you can start to target some higher volume terms then. I have made a few posts in this thread about doing keyword analysis if you feel you need some advice about this: http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=942826
I have used that tool. It's great. Never knew about it. You know if there is a blank green box (meaning no competition) am I right to use the keywords?
Hi, not sure what you mean with the blank green box, but you basically want to find terms that have. 1. low competition e.g. not many competing entries in google when you type the term into google with quotes. 2. good search volume (as shown by the average monthly search volume field). 3. are profitable, you can get a feel for this by the shown Average Expected CPC column. Also make sure you set the match type to "Exact" otherwise you will be seeing volume estimates for deviations of the term rather than just the exact term.
I would perform a mixture of marketing. Go for long-term ranking in the serp but at the same time work immediate traffic solutions: bookmarking link bait, mass article distribution, blog commenting, and even distribute free torrent books. Those will get you free, instant traffic. Meanwhile, work towards the long-term keywords and slowly build up traffic via back linking.
Oh, by blank green box I think your looking at the advertiser competition field. No, it is better if this one is higher, because this is how much adwords competition (not SEO competition) there is. If there is no adwords competition, it means there is an increased chance the term is not profitable. You do want low SEO competition though. One way to get a bit of a feel for this is search the keyword in quotes in google and see '1 to 10 of 1,000,000 entries with Keyword". You want the number 1,000,000 to be as low as possible.
Your question really depends on the type of site you are doing. I have sites that get a little more than 100+ visitors a day that make decent money and sites that get 1000's a day that make less. It really depends on the niche you are targeting. To achieve the visitors, forget about anything else and just keep generating good content. Content is what is going to make your site "proper". Exchange a couple of links from other webmasters who have a theme similiar to your site and create a couple of articles and submit them to article directories. Good and unique content will generate traffic for you. You will find people linking to you naturally without you having to chase them down.
Thanks for that. I was wondering. You know the sub keywords with no advertiser competition, but with good monthly search rates. Also with less then 500,000 in Google. Are these good keywords to be starting with?
That's where the real work comes. Keywords are usually short tail keywords (1 to two word phrase) and then long tail keyowords (3 word phrases +). You probably should focus on those first. To get an idea on what those might be you can use google. Search for your short tail keyword and then go to the botton of the page and look for "Searches related to: ". The results will give you an idea of other search phrases for the original phrase. I always try to keep the main page of my site optimized for the short tail keywords and 2 long tail keywords. Link off of the main page to your other pages that contain your long tail keywords.
That was my plan. To use the main keywords for the home page. Then build pages related to the sub keywords which in this case are three words rather one. So having different but related keywords on different pages of a website is a good idea then?
Yes. Like you said, just make sure everything is related and make it look natural. Your pages should be linked no more then 1 or 2 links away from the home page. Think of it as an upside down pyramid. The point being the top keyword and the wider it goes out is your long tail keywords. Once you have a good site structure, then work on getting some links from article submissions, blog commenting on related sites, link exchanges with other webmasters, etc.. Make sure your links have different variations of anchor texts. You want to make it look like sites linked to your site naturally. Also, every anchor text linking to your site does not need to contain your sought after keywords either. Hope that helps you out. Keep in mind, that these are my own views and other folks here are going to have their own point of view too. It's all about trial and error. NO one here is going to tell you everything that they use. Most of what you will read is commonly known ways of building your site.