What is a Keyword?
- Words and phrases that describe what your content is about. Then Google uses that information to determine which content is relevant to a particular search query, and how the page should rank in searches for a particular term.
- Understand what your targets are searching for
- Use the keywords in your site
- Your keyword should appear in the first 100-150 words of the article.
- Use related keywords
- You must know your prospect’s keywords
- Don’t Guess
2. Steps to take
- Write down obvious keywords
- Look at competing sites ( View page source on those pages to find keywords)
- Ask colleagues for insight on your list
- Look for obvious spelling mistakes
- Synonyms
- Split/Merged Words
- Hyphenated Words
- Singular/Plural
- Geo Terms
- Your Company Name
- Competing Terms ( Competing Company names/products )
3. Where to use Keywords
- URLs
- Title tag
- Heading Tags (“H” Tags)
- Description tags
- Links Pointing to the Page within Your site
- Links Pointing to the page from other sites
- IMG tags
- Body Text
- Bolded
- Italicized
4. Use related keywords
Google has technology called LSI, which is like a thesaurus , and they analyze the meanings of different keywords on a page to determine a pages relevancy.5. Useful links
- Keyword Analyzer: tools.seobook.com/general/keyword-density/
- Brainstorm Keywords: mergewords.com
- How to find Keywords: google.com/intl/en/adwords
- Find easy key words with weak competition: momarketsamurai.com