How to Find the Best Keywords for a Niche Site - page 2

by Paul Foley, 7/21/2007

Now that you've done that, write down the keywords on these sites that jump out at you. Plan on using some (or all) of them on your own site.

If you have chosen a niche topic that isn't particularly well-known, you will have to come up with some or all of the niche site keywords on your own. In this case, think of niche site keywords that can be applied to your site. If you are running a bass guitar site, for instance, try to think of 8 keywords or key phrases that are relevant to bass guitar. Perhaps you'll choose to use keywords like "bass, bass guitar, acoustic bass guitar, lead bass guitar etc." The point is, come up with keywords and key phrases that are a good fit for your site. After you do that, pick one of them to use as your main keyword or keyphrase. Use that 10-20 times per 600 words of content.

Why should I use niche site keywords?

Why shouldn't you? They are useful and essential to the creation of any niche site. How many visitors you are able to get usually depends on your site's ranking in the search engine. The higher you are ranked, the more likely a person who is searching for your topic will see your site and visit it. In order to achieve a high search engine ranking, you need to have enough keywords so that the search engine spiders will visit your site. After all, these spiders are responsible for finding and adding sites to their search engine.

It is important to note that you should never, ever overuse niche site keywords. Only use niche site keywords enough to get spiders to visit. Never use them so much that humans won't want to come to your site--they are the ones who click the ads, which makes you money, so you can't afford to turn them off to your site.

What is keyword density?

Keyword density is the number of major niche site keywords divided by the total words in a piece of content. So if you have 20 niche site keywords in a 600 word piece of content, you'll have a keyword density of about 3%, a good number.

The ideal keyword density is between 3 and 5%. Anything less (or more) is considered bad for the page/site.

So this explains how we choose a niche site topic, how we choose some profitable keywords for it and also what keyword density we want to aim for in our content (page content) - if you'd like to know more you can go to follow the link in the biography below or click here for a FREE Mini Course Here.

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