At the start of my SEO campaign; how to pick the key words?

Hi,
I am at the start of my SEO campaign. A one person effeort
I have been writing articles and trying to place them in as many article directories as I can.
I have been submitting the website URL to many web directories, I've done some press releases.
My site is an online real estate school offering the State of Florida's required real estate license courses.
I have been using keywords (and or phrases) like:
florida real estate school, florida real estate license, online real estate school, get you florida real estate license, etc.
I am lost
Do I just keep writing articles for backlinks, blogging on my wordpress blog linked to the school's home page, directory submissions, etc.
I have asked about AdWords in that forum, but I am concerned that the Keyword approach may be wrong?
Suggestions would be greatly appreciated
Steve Simon
Lead Instructor

 

Relevant, targeted keywords can get you to the top of search engine rankings and help you attract visitors interested in your web site's content and products. When your customers enter keywords to search, do they find you - or your competitors

 

A good place to start is https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal
This site lists the number of visitors that each keyword attracts as well as suggesting other related ones.

 

Programs GoodKeywords Try it

 

Hi

Have you tried wordtracker

Regards

S

 

I believe you are looking for traffic and not keyword research. Adwords can be expensive, and is risky there are plenty of ways to get lots of free traffic to your site.

Here are some blog posts I wrote that will help answer your questions:

Don't Wait for Search Engines - 14 Ways to Increase Website Traffic Now!

13 Ways to Link Building that Also Increase Web Traffic

also here's one crucial to your SEO efforts

Internal Link Building for On-Site SEO

Hope this helps!

 

nice articles! i will the submission sites there... steve try to use keyword tracker google adwords to see the keywords competition...

 

hi
Firsly you select the keywords from wordtracker and adwords suggestion tool
then check the competion of those keywords
i suggested you to select those keywords which have high traffic but less competitive but usually by common visitors
Video Production Marketing

 

Hi there i recommend you read my current series of keyword research articles its the second chapter today
All in one Keyword Research

 

Thanks for taking the time to reply.
I will try the yahoo tools that come with the search marketing account I opened.
Then I will read as much as I can.
It appears I need some trial and error to achieve a better result