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Keywords

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.
  1. 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