Hello, I have set up a blog and am not sure how to choose the right keywords. I read that... "If a keyword is on a list of high-paying keywords, that means that thousands of spammers are already competing for that keyword. Don't be a follower. There is no money in being one of the crowd." If so, then what keywords should I choose. As an example, can you please suggest me some good keywords for this post : http://healthandlife.in/how-to-cope-with-the-death-of-a-loved-one.html Thank You
Your first step should be choose a keyword from a free keyword tool and you can find one of them here http://www.serpanalytics.com/tools/top_keywords Still make sure that if you are targeting a high traffic keyword then you have too many competitor..so either you can use some generic keywords..this would get some less traffic to you but still its better if you do not get anything... For your website if you go for keyword as "health and life" then its better as you have the same keyword in your domain and that will be a plus point in promotion..
The worst advice I have heard. How can a small blog or a site or a person who does not know which keywords to target to be successful in targetting content or health and life??? Health has over 60 million searches every month and Life has 83,100,000 searches every month. He will be nowhere in the top 1000 listings, for those two words. To OP: You need to use a keyword tool and then search for keywords there which are not too competitive for initial stages. For example, take a keyword that has around or less than 6,000 - 10,000 searches if you want to show up in the first page. Once your page gains some exposure, and your site gets a bit of authority, you can then target for much higher comeptitive keywords. For example: For the given link, I would go with ... well Post is not found a 404 error. So, reasearch is based on your title. Nice. And you give that guy - health and life!
Google Keyword Tool will be able to answer your question. You just need to know how to use this tool very well. The rest will become history.
Keyword Research is the very important part of optimizing. Before you can do on page optimization you need to find the right keyword first. Not all of the keywords that is ranking for your site are useful and will bring lot of targeted traffic. That is why you need to do keyword research by using keywords suggestion tool. Google suggestion tool is the best tool to find related and synonyms of keywords. After getting related keywords, find the traffic of each keywords and the number of search result in search engine then compute for KEI of each keywords. The formula of KEI is [ KEI = (traffic/search result)*traffic ] . It is better to target keywords that has high KEI which is greater than 1. If the KEI is less than 1 it only means that the keywords is very competitive or useless to target. Keyword Suggestion tools that you can use are: freekeywords.wordtracker.com/ keyworddiscovery.com/keywords.html tools.seobook.com/keyword-tools/seobook/ To be successful in getting the right keyword you should know the niche and the type business of your client. Think as if you're the owner and the visitors of the site. In this was you can come up with bright ideas in picking the right keywords for your site.