How to win these keywords?

Hey,

I have a blog about cute stuff and I want to win the keyword 'kawaii' for top spot on Google & MSN & Y!... what's the best way to optimize for it?

Also where do I go to check how many searches of a word are performed daily/monthly/whatever.

Thanks guys,
Alur3n AKA Kagemaro

 

What you're asking for is more like "Can someone tell me how to Search Engine Optimize my site & Develop links" .

Anyhow, I'll just highlight some of the main points and then you can run off and digg into them.

First SEOing:

1. Add your keyword into your title(it already is there) and it is prefered for it to be the first word in your title or so I heard.
2. Optimize your meta tags(keywords & description) to include 'kawaii'.
3. Try to have a keyword density of ~9% .
4. Be sure to include your keywords in header tags, specially h1 & h2.

Yadayada try out my SEO Tips Blog for some good info.

Link Development:
1. Aim for one way links - Try to get sites to link to your site, with your keyword in the anchor text.
2. Go off to google and get as many links to your as you could.

Sorry, I G2G now, more link development tips can be found at http://www.4getschool.net/seo_tips_blog/category/link-building/

Sorry.

 

http://www.google.com/trends "See what the world is searching for"

Cryo.

 

Thanks Cryo. Repped.

 

Put statcounter code to your pages to determine the visitors of your site.

 

How about http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/suggestion .. this is how I found out about this forum in the first place. I like the keyword suggestion tool they have. Also, make sure the title, description and body of at least one page contains that keyword, and try to post that page on different sites with the same word as title, do all this and you will find yourself closer to #1.

 

An easy way to do it is to duplicate what the people leading the results for the search do. Copy their on page optimization and try to duplicate their backlinks by contacting the websites which link to them. Once you have done this just go one step more and you will be better than them.

 

mikka offers good advice although it's not instant success, it's time-driven.

 

search google for: link:http://www.competitors-website.com

That will give you some ideas of who is linking to your competitors, then you could visit those sites and see if they will link to you as well.

Here is a good post by authorities Andy Hagan and Aaron Wall on how to get more links, thus improving your search engine rankings:
101 Ways to Build Link Popularity

 

Thanks for the heads up...