Okay, I've "conquered" the keywords I was after (they're on the 1st page for the most part) and I was wondering how to make the transition from 2-word keywords to 1-word keywords. For example, my main keyword is "Hustler Lingerie", and now I want to start pursuing "Lingerie". Any suggestions?
Well - increase keyword density in content, title tag and description tag (this may mean to reduce density of other keywords too!) and concentrate on one particular page which you want to boost w.r.t. this one keyword. And, of course, get backlinks with this unique word as anchor.
Oh, yes - having seen the nice little objects of concern in your business only after sending my last post : there should be plenty of opportunities to plug ALT-texts into your pictures. So, just stuff them with very short varying descriptions containing the "keyword of contention"...
Establish a new page with the url www.xxx.com/lingerie/lingerie.htm title: lingerie H2: lingerie Bold: lingerie On first page make first anchor "lingerie" pointing to this page On site map make anchor "lingerie" pointing to this page Make an anchor at bottom of first page "lingerie" pointing to this page Get the KWD about 15% on this page Get all the other pages pointing with their anchor to this page with "lingerie" Thats about it!
Hi, with that sort of competition one need more content to enable more combinations and singles in addition to what is already said. If it would me I would collect and write the story of lingerie / underwear over the centuries / countries (french skandinavian...) and its development on probably 20+ pages advertise myself by plugging it into the texts. Thus you can use lingerie underwear knickers throngs etc... Why don't you challenge your brother to write or adapt a nice php mysql multiple choice like The lingerie expert - not sure what to buy (for her / him)? 5 questions 4 multiple choice each - leading to a product page of yours. Nicely written gives you another range of pages with keywords...... Have fun M PS Sorry Shawn....
Some of the posts have hinted at it but nobody has come right out and said it. It is usually a fool's task to try and optimize for a single competitive keyword. And according to Shawn's Keyword suggestion tool there are 30,000 to 60,000 searches a day on 'lingerie'. So I think you need to look at 2 and 3 word combinations. For instance there are 4,000 to 7,000 searches per day for 'sexy lingerie'. This would be a far more attainable target phrase. Now everyone has advised you about on-page stuff. Titles, alt tags, keyword density etc. And you should certainly do all of these. But the way to drive your page to the top of the SERPs is with backlinks. Look at the evidence in the McDar experiment. Or even more dramatically look at what is happening with the "nigritude ultramarine" contest. One more time with feeling. You cannot get to the top of the SERPs for competitive keywords or search terms with content. It takes 100s if not 1,000s of backlinks. In fact there is lots of proof out there that with enough backlinks using the correct anchor text you can drive a page to the top for weywords that don't even appear on your page.
If you want to go after "lingerie" I would strongly advise that you target a different page on your site than the one that places well for "Hustler Lingerie". If you start getting links with the anchor text "lingerie" pointing to the same page, it may only serve to dilute the allinanchor value of "Hustler Lingerie" for your existing page. I would target a different or even new page with "lingerie" as the only anchor text from every link obtained. IMHO Caryl
Well, here is my take on links Links and anchor text are important but totally overrated presently. Yes it works and because anyone can write a cheque and get 5000 links it will die or diminish. These graveyard like pages of links are of no use to anyone. It is different if we look at textual content links or links within editorial controlled content - like "resource" pages that contain these imbedded in a description preferably in third person and not just straight copy from a site. The nice thing about leaving webmasters to their own devices is that they may come up with embedded link text one hasen't thought of. If and when I refer to content this does refer to usefull and up to date content page(s) that is(are) of use to a visitor. If these are usefull to visitors they will be useful to SE's and if the visitor happens to have a website.... or friends.... (a site recommendation on one of our shopping sites has a near 100% conversion rate) A great example is this BB. Yes the signature adds a link and thanks to Shawns excellent work and positioning and all the contributors, it is actually a very valuable one BUT does it endorse or qualify the site? My above rambing is certainly not an endorsement to the signature site (no please don't tell me, I know it needs work) but presently it helps, so I'm happy to take it. M
Golly I've never seen all the boys excel themselves in one grouping of advice before!!!! Could it have something to do with the subject? Or is it to do with that lovely picture of Summer? Mmmmm!!!
"lingerie - past & present" "lingerie for men" "lingerie for daydreamers" wouldn't that work to the same effect (given present technology)? M
I've sent you some emails with the results of Wordtracker - following up on what compar said Hope these help
In my humble opinion you are just so wrong. Links, as witness the advice given in this thread, are "just so underrated" by so many in the SEO field. Links are the only way to drive a page with a popular or competitive search term or keyword to the top of the SERPs. Nowhere in my previous post did I suggest getting links from link farms, but links from quality pages with the search terms as anchor text are what you must have to prosper in the SERPs. I challenge anybody to show me a page that is in the top ten for a search term that gets more than 2,000 searches per day that doesn't use backlinking extensively. Take the McDar experiment for instance. According to Shawn's keyword suggestion tool 'sleeping bags' is only searched on 500 to 800 times per day. Do you mean to tell me that we could have driven this page to 17th place in the SERPs within 35 days without the liberal use of links? I absolutely don't believe it. I just can't understand why apparently knowledgable people continue to fight the obvious. I don't even understand why Vicious is asking these questions. The evidence is everywhere around us. You may not like the sun rising in the east, but you can deny that it does forever and it won't change a thing. It is the same with denying the importance of using links to obtain SERP placement in Google. Links are required as surely as the sun will come up in the eastern sky again tomorrow.
"adoption london" P5 1.180.000 "UK london adoption" P2 767.000 "Greater london adoption" 460.000 and so on Site is www.i-a-s.org.uk Its a competitive emotional and sadly sometimes high value field. The adoption sump of sites is 15Mio. Sorry but I don't need extensive links! And for a large donation to the above site I will reveal the daily visitors. M PS It's one of my better content balanced sites as after a great beginning I had to filter out and educate the visitors - "there are no babys in the cellar" etc.
Well, I don't disclose clients (except for soliciting donaions) so here is another pet project of mine: In the fiercely competitive field of insurance I happen to have another foot in the door. It's about house and content insurance and it's still awaiting it's own engine and more content. "house and content insurance" has about 2.5 mio on G (Thats what people use to search for, here in the UK) house-content.com is on P140 on G and has 1 and 2's on other SE's like Y I etc. BUT the point is for an on-line quote one needs the rebuild value of a house. Well under "house rebuild calculator" or variants there are only 13.000 pages... Ooops HC is on P2. Similar for house content value and such things. It has absolutely minimal back links (28 Pr4/5 on G) As it's a holding domain and an affilation - here are the stats: last 30 days 528 uniques/day (and these are not the window shoppers) (OK so this one is not 2.000+ but hey it makes a point...) M PS Whilst others are wasting time hunting links I just generate content. PPS As long as G is only able to answer the query "LGW airport parking" with one relevant site and does ask me if I mean LGA .... I regard it a second rate.
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