Insider Secrets to Keywords - page 5

If you are attempting to obtain search engine rankings for your site by publishing articles, you are making a smart choice. There is, however, one big issue you need to watch out for. Read 'Using SEO Keyword Phrases in Your Articles'.

One of your most important marketing assets is your Keyword List. But are you giving your Keyword List the attention it deserves? Is your Keyword List getting a little shaggy around the edges? Are your keywords becoming old and out of date? Is your Keyword List not behaving at its best, possibly due to neglect? Read 'Keyword Lists - Their Proper Care and Feeding'.

Choosing keywords that will bring extra traffic to your website is something that SEO experts are trained to do. There is a popular method of choosing keywords that involves the calculation of something called KEI (Keyword Effectiveness Index). KEI is a very helpful indicator, but in my opinion, it is slightly flawed. Read 'Choosing Keywords - The Truth about KEI'.

What can you do if your keywords are too common? Is there anything that can help you optimise your keywords to gain more traffic to your website? When you start to optimise your website keywords you will find yourself trying to come up with ever more interesting or unique key words, and you will be trying to implement them more smoothly into your web page. Read 'Help! My Keywords are Too Common'.

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I am sure that most people who have a website are looking into ways to help them to attract more people to read their site. There are many differing opinions on the best way to go about doing this but one thing that most people agree on is that it is essential to build up the number of backward links that point to your site. The question is how do we obtain these links? Read 'The Importance Of Obtaining Backward Links'.

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Titles and Headlines: It's Not a Newspaper

Titles are some of the most vital parts of your site, especially if it consists of a series of articles. Yet they're also some of the most ignored elements of all web pages, and more difficult than you'd think to do correctly. You have to realise that you're not writing headlines - it's more interactive than that. Read 'Titles and Headlines: It's Not a Newspaper'.

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Are You Targeting The Wrong Keywords?

Like it or not, the keywords and phrases you select to describe your site within your META tags and body text can make or break your listings in the search engines. It's a sad fact that most companies are targeting the wrong keywords and losing traffic as a result. Even sites that have excellent rankings will not benefit if those rankings are for unsuitable keywords. Read 'Are You Targeting The Wrong Keywords?'.

Professional Keyword Research Strategies

Keyword research is an integral part of any SEM initiative, whether it may be PPC or SEO, so it's important to do it right. Its also important to do it right from the start, Google spiders (the bots that indexes web pages) can takes up to months before they cycle to your site, so if you target the wrong keywords initially, it could take months to fix. Read 'Professional Keyword Research Strategies'.

Why Are Long Tail Keywords So Important?

Long tail keywords is a term you will often come across in SEO circles, and basically refers to the less popular keywords that get fewer searches per month in the search engines, but are easier to rank highly for, because there are far fewer sites competing for that term. Read 'Why Are Long Tail Keywords So Important?'.