These questions may seem to you trivial, but it's vital for me to get the answers from a seo specialist. 1. I used free Wordtracker tool to find good keywords. First question: is it worth to be paid? What considerable benefits will the paid Wordtracker bring to me comparing to it's free service? 2. With the help of Google keyword suggest tool, overture suggest tool and wordtracker I found about 10 seem-to-be-good keywords. I considered 8 pages of my web site to be the Landing Pages and optimized each for 1-3 keywords in order to avoid keyword cannibalization and target relevant traffic to them. What to do with the other pages? Find more keywords for them or leave unoptimized? 3. What to write in keyword tags of the Landing Pages: only 1-3 keywords they are optimized for or use all the keywords I've chosen for the whole site? 4. What to write in keyword tags of the other pages (not landing)? Nothing? 5. I have 2 keywords: ex. "web development" and "custom web development". Is it ok to combine these two into just one keyword "custom web development" (not repeating in meta tags "web development, custom web development"? May such kind of a page be considered to be optimized for both keywords? What else will I loose/benefit from these? Please, give me the answers to the questions. I hope for a seo specialist it won't be difficult. Thank you.
1. Yes it can help, tough you can search for your kws for free. 2. You can also use kws on different page, especially for the titles 3 & 4. what do you mean by that...? you are going to put kws on meta kws? if i where you im just going to create a content related to a particular page. 5. don't bother on creating meta tags... emphasized kws on your content (much better)..
Hi, I can't speak for the paid version of WT because I've never used it. With regards to keywords and meta tags, Google said it themselves that they don't consider keyword and description meta tags anymore. But you don't get penalized if you leave them in, so there's no harm. In fact I've found some of my sites' listings being represented by the content of the meta description tag. Go figure. Concentrate on keyword density instead and a 5-6% density is recommended. For example, if you have a 500 word page (not counting html tags), your keyword/phrase should appear 30 times maximum. In my own practice, that's how I go about optimizing--keyword density first, then meta tags are secondary. I'm by no means a SEO expert and I only speak from experience on what works for me.
So meta tags are not valued anymore. I see. According to the book "SEO: An hour a day" I've chosen 10 keywords and split them among 8 pages. The aim of my question was to understand what to do with the pages that didn't get any keywords: find another keywords for them or leave unpotimized at all?
What are those pages about? Keywords aren't some magical spell you lob onto pages - they are what the pages are ABOUT - if you've got a subject, and have got some text, you have keywords.
Let's say you have 8 pages that revolve around the keyword "dog training" and you then you have another 8 pages that still talks about dogs but not necessarily training. One may be about the types of food that dogs like so the keyword is probably "dog food". Another page is probably about dogs that play with rubber bones so the keyword is probably "playful dogs" or "rubber bones for dogs". Are you getting the picture? This kind of strategy is quite good because your other 8 pages are beginning to form a theme for your site. So you cannot say that the other pages are unoptimized. Maybe for "dog training" they're not, but they certainly are optimized for those other keywords. Just my 2¢.