Keyword Research Guide -- How and Why!
In the Field of SEO-Search engine optimization choosing
keywords is one of the most important tasks. You should choose
keyword wisely. Choosing keyword is not a guessing Game but it
is an art.
Why to choose keywords?
As you probably aware of search engine traffic. Search engine
traffic is very very important for success of any website. It is
estimated that approximately 65 to 85% of traffic (average)
coming from search engine (however is depends on how you promote
your website).search engine is only way to create highly
targeted traffic. You can improve visitor to sales ratio of your
website if you successfully receive traffic from search engine.
Or improve your revenue by attracting more visitors.
If you are selling Music CDs online. If your website is on top
for key Phrase like "Music CD" on all Major search engines then
just think how many people will search for Music CD in a day?? I
think lots of. Now. This is the way you are getting visitor
searching for Music CDs. However there will be lots of search in
a day for term CD like
[1] Software CDs [2] E-Book CDs [3] Video CDs [4] Game CDs
etc...
But traffic coming form these terms is Meaningless for you to
create sales. So your page should be relevant only for Key
phrases like music CDs, audio CDs etc ... so it will be better
to choose Keywords related to your business rather than
selecting randomly or blindly. I hope you will now able to
understand importance of choosing better keywords
How to choose keywords?
There are lots of tools for choosing better Keywords like
Nichebot, overture keyword suggestion tool, Wordtracker
etc...First decide "what is your target market?" and then use
these tools. Example you are selling E-books related to website
design. Than you should first research how many people every day
search for 'Web Design E-books" go to Nichebot.com for that and
simply search Web Design E-books. Nichebot will provide you
count of last 60 days for this Key Phrase. We can see that Count
for this key phrase is...........Or Go to Wordtracker.com site
and search for this keyword Phrase and you will see related
information on specific key phrase and you will be able to get
information related to this keyword. Phrase.
They will provide you all related keywords
Example: For "Directory submission" you will see following
related or nearly related Keywords. (This can also help to
receive ONLY targeted traffic...)
Related term-count(average search in two month) Directory
submission-3978 Search engine directory submission-679 Search
engine submission software directory-266 directory internet
submission-163 directory website submission-159 directory engine
search submission-133 directory submission services-129
Follow this Url to know more>>
http://www.nichebot.com/kd/?term=directory+submission
you can follow one of the following tool for keyword research.
[1] wordtracker.com [2] Nichebot.com [3] inventory.overture.com/
Here is a list of top free Keyword research tools. visit it.>>
http://www.seo-resources.inetzeal.com/top-free-seo-tools.htm the
list include keyword suggestion tools,keyword analyzer
tools,keyword density checker tools and lot more..
Now you have to decide which Keyword is less competitive for
your website and you can easily reach on top. Based on that you
should place these Keywords on your site..
Where and How to place these Keywords?
You are now familiar with keyword/key phrases. Now Question is
'where to Put these keywords?" here are some places where you
can place these keywords
[1] Meta tags [2] Title Tags [3] Through out the Description on
the page
Meta tags:-
Meta tags are invisible for Visitor and as you might know search
engines like Yahoo, Google, MSN are Not providing weight to them
to rank your page. But still you can place your keywords in Meta
title, keywords and description section.
Title Tags:-
This is very important place where you should place your keyword
for better ranking in search engine. The main Keywords must be
here for which you are optimizing your site. Try to include its
synonyms Key phrases / keywords also to receive traffic of
related keywords. Example you can create your title like this
way Buy Music CDs online: The shop for buying audio CDs online
You are including your two targeted keywords here.
Description:
After title tags this is also one of the most important section
where you can place your keywords. But don't go over bound
.density of keywords/ phrases should be 7-10%. Otherwise search
engines will consider it as keyword stuffing and your rank will
go down rather than improving
Other places where you can place these keywords:
Images: -
you can choose name of images like music_cds.gif audio_cds.jpg
etc rather than 0545.gif and image.jpg! This will improve
relevancy of your page for related keyword
Name of domain, Sub directory and sub domain:-
Before you choose any domain name, directory or sub directory
you should consider your keywords/ key phrases and also choose
them according to your target market.
Example:
Just look at my site. I selected sub domain for my site like
http://directory-submission.inetzeal.com/ and
http://link-building.inetzeal.com/ for targeting my keywords.
Now see source code of Page
http://directory-submission.inetzeal.com/ you will find that to
improve relevancy of my page related to keywords I also kept
name of my logo like this
directory_submission_and_link_building.png .then I placed title
like Directory submission service. And placed this keyword
phrase in whole description.now my page is relevant for keyword
phrase "directory submission", "directory submission service".
Or 'web directory submission" etc...
I have chosen every sub domain according to this to improve
relevancy for specific keywords
I strongly recommend you to choose your sub domain or sub
directory wisely. if you are creating just a page then you can
select like this ..../directory-submission.html because search
engines text matching will match this keyword and will rank your
site on top with your competitor
So, like this article? It took two days to write. Any feed back
good or bad are always appreciated. You can contact me at
http://inetzeal.com/contact_us.htm
About the author:
Manish Mathukiya Is webmaster Of Inetzeal SEO Services( http://inetzeal.com/ ).he offers various
services like Directory submission ( http://directory-submission.inetzeal.com/
).link Building and other SEO services