Lynne
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I am just wondering how you all target your keywords and how much emphasis you place on keyword research?
I was taught that keywords are vital to your website SEO and in turn your traffic, so ultimately your success right?
I have spent a lot of time doing keyword research because of this and I like to target keywords that have very little competition even if they have much less traffic because this makes sense to me.
I would rather target a keyword that I can achieve in ranking for than high traffic keywords that I possibly wont come close to ranking anywhere for.
How do you know when you can start targeting keywords that are a little harder to rank for but have more traffic?
Ok so I have only really focused on targeting low tail keywords with low search traffic since I ws trying to only go for keywords I thought I could rank for. Are you sure you want to delete this post?
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How do you know when you can start targeting keywords that are a little harder to rank for but have more traffic?
Sure it's good to go after the lesser tough competition keywords. But trust me, there is always room for one more at the top! Don't think that you wont be able to rank for those big terms as well in time. Age plays a large role in ranking! So having them tough competition keywords on your site from the early days can pay off later in time. First comes the content, then the backlinks. Then the rankings of some sort in time.
[quote]How do you know when you can start targeting keywords that are a little harder to rank for but have more traffic?[/quote]
You should be targeting them first! There's no time like the present! Never put off for tomorrow what you can do today! :) Sure it's good to go after the lesser tough competition keywords. But trust me, there is always room for one more at the top! Don't think that you wont be able to rank for those big terms as well in time. Age plays a large role in ranking! So having them tough competition keywords on your site from the early days can pay off later in time. First comes the content, then the backlinks. Then the rankings of some sort in time.
When doing keyword research, it all starts with a seed word. A single word that may have many long tails associated with it. It could be a single word or a double word that you're trying to rank for but usually ever single seed word has many long tail keyword phrases associated with it.
Let's say you're trying to rank for "[b]baby walker[/b]". You can use Google Auto Suggest to get other ideas for other long tails that are most associated with that by just putting that into Google and pressing space, selecting a new word and doing the same again for different long tails of them. Google will always show the most associated and selected phrases to you based on your region.
We could select [b]baby walker reviews[/b] and see what long tails there are for that.
[url=https://www.seoclerk.com/files/user/images/baby walker reviews.jpg][img]https://www.seoclerk.com/files/user/images/baby walker reviews.jpg[/img][/url]
Or again for [b]baby walker car[/b] and see what long tails it suggest for that.
[url=https://www.seoclerk.com/files/user/images/baby walker car.jpg][img]https://www.seoclerk.com/files/user/images/baby walker car.jpg[/img][/url]
And the same again for other words auto suggested. You could then run these through [b]Google Keyword Planner Tool[/b] to see if any are showing much search volume for or what the suggested CPC is although you can't rely on these numbers as gospel.
One way to check if a long tail keyword is a high competition and high search volume keyword is to just search it in Google. If there are any [b]Sponsored Ads[/b] showing then you know that there are people putting money into it and then it's likely a high search volume / competition long tail keyword phrase.
But the trick is to try and find ways to merge these long tails into your content naturally without them looking like they've been forced in. And to use synonyms of them and all words around them and associated with them on that page too but that's just on-page SEO. :)
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I usually target keywords that have 3 or more words never surpassing 5 words though. I've never really had success when trying to target keywords that had 5 words or more.. so I generally stick to just 3 keywords. Also, I don't use any keyword tool as my target is actually clones of another website, pretty hard to describe without showing an example.
I do quite fine though, and never really sought to target 5+ keywords, perhaps in the future I may get it a go, but for now i'm doing well. :)
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Idealmike knows the score and I agree with him 100% on everything. While targeting low comp terms is great when starting out - your dream keywords should never be forgotten about. Even if you were to just target them a little as your site builds age and metrics it will stand you well in the long term.
The tips on research I agree with too - Google suggest is great as the terms showing up in there are terms that have been searched a lot recently. I also use ubbersuggest.org as well - good little free tool. Once you have a long list of these keywords its time to put them through your keyword software of choice to establish their competitiveness and average monthly search volume before making a decision on which ones are worth targeting. Hey Lynne, Mikey from a well known Barry team on here :) Idealmike knows the score and I agree with him 100% on everything. While targeting low comp terms is great when starting out - your dream keywords should never be forgotten about. Even if you were to just target them a little as your site builds age and metrics it will stand you well in the long term. The tips on research I agree with too - Google suggest is great as the terms showing up in there are terms that have been searched a lot recently. I also use ubbersuggest.org as well - good little free tool. Once you have a long list of these keywords its time to put them through your keyword software of choice to establish their competitiveness and average monthly search volume before making a decision on which ones are worth targeting.
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