Hope I don't get penalised for asking too many questions here! And noticed that people say 'just get on with what we advised' (not in a nasty way!). Well from my last post a couple of days ago i have followed almost to a tee what people advised on my baby shower site, and applied it to this site. Hi and welcome to Fitness Studio World - Fitness Studio World I say most, because some i simply didn't understand, but getting my head around bits now. Anyway, firstly, do people think i'm on the right tracks with this one? I promise i won't use this forum to get critiqued, but posting it here for other reason so thought i'd ask while i was here. The thing that is confusing me is my keywords. I did follow for a while the rule of thumb given by thirty day challenge, keywords with less than 30,000 competing pages with the exact keyword, right? Another method has brought assessing the top 4 or 5 in google if you type these words in. Page rank 3 and less is manageable, or potential anyway, right? Well my confusion is this, fitness studio has a 300,000 competing pages, yet the top few rank low in their page ranks? Have I just been lucky and found a good niche? Have i been silly and all of you are going to make a site lol (took that into account as a risk worth getting some advice about as it stumps me). I have also found similar examples of some keywords with in excess of 90,000,000 pages (without "") yet the top ranking pages are pr 2 or pr 3? Bit lost, any guidance would be appreciated. I have a feeling it is a very competitive area, but the actual sites on the top ten dont seem so? heeellpPP!! Many thanks again, Alan. __________________
Hello, Alan. I'm not familiar with the 30 Day Challenge, although I see it all over the place. It must be very popular. I wouldn't really concern myself with page rank as much as concerning myself with backlinks. In the old days of Google page rank was a big, big deal, but since people play the SEO game, page ranks go up and down and up and down and up an down. Too many people would spend more time concerning themselves with page rank than concerning themselves with satisfying and providing good content for their reader. So you could probably type in a keyword and look at a list of results and it would be no surprise if a PR 0 site was ranked number 4 while a PR 5 site was ranked number 6. Why? It has to do with the relevant backlinks. If your site is about blog themes and you placed a blog comment to Darren Rowse's Problogger.net, Google would consider that a relevant blog theme. What does Google consider as relevant keywords? Well, simply go into Google, type in a keyword, click "show options" and then click "related searches". Google will tell you what they consider relevant keywords. I recommend writing articles optimized for a keyword. Have the article link provide a link to your website. If you can afford an article submitter, you can submit to several article directories. Not too many at once. Google will raise the flag. Perhaps 10 or 15 per day.
If you are not using a keyword tool such as Micro Niche Finder or Market Samurai, then you can't resolve this issue Using MNF I entered your phrase "fitness studio" and rejected it immediately from the info that was displayed (too difficult to rank) - however "personal fitness studio" was returned and the info for that phrase shows it to be a winner Both phrases have virtually identical exact search competition My phrase pays much more per click than your phrase Your phrase is almost impossible to get a top ranking for - mine is easy So, although your phrase gets good monthly search traffic - you won't get any of it - whereas my phrase gets low monthly search traffic - but you can get some of it - which do you prefer?