Google Adwords Reveals Real Number of Searches Instead of The Green Bar
I was doing some keyword research with the Google Adwords tool when I saw that Google returned number of searches for a specific keyword instead of the familiar green bar.
The green bar before gave just some idea of the traffic but you couldn’t really tell whether that was 50 or 500 searches per day.
The Most Powerful Link Experiment – Part I
One of the best ways of building links is submitting them to article directories which allow you to include links back to your site in the resource boxes or even in the body of the article.
Some of these sites are authority sites which means that Google trusts them a lot and will rank keyword optimized articles very high in its own search results.
But the problem we all face is how can we make the best of our time and money and not waste time submitting articles to sites that won’t send us any traffic and won’t improve the pagerank of our site.
That’s why you need to find the best site – or at least a few best ones – which will give you the best results for your invested energy, time and money.
I’ve submitted my share of articles to various sites and have narrowed the best ones to 4 main sites that send me traffic and sometimes even show pagerank above 0 on the page of my article.
Why SEO Will Soon Become A Waste Of Time And Money
Google has recently written a post Why Data Matters where they explain how their algorithm has changed over the years.
Here’s the first main point of that story:
On the academic side, the National Science Foundation started a “Digital Library Project” which made grants to several universities. Two Stanford grad students in computer science named Larry Page and Sergey Brin worked on this project. Their insight was to recognize that existing search algorithms could be dramatically improved by using the special linking structure of web documents. Thus PageRank was born.
Where we are now with SEO
a) ON-page SEO: Pagerank + keyword in title
From my own experiments and experience, I know that pagerank is still a very healthy factor in rankings.
Actually pagerank + keyword in title are the most effective things you can do on-page (of course if you have some pagerank regardless of the anchor text of the incoming links) to rank for a certain keyword.
Here’s an experiment I did on my tennis blog www.tennisthoughts.com:
Finding Good Keywords For Product Oriented Websites
If you have a product reviews oriented website and are doing the keyword research with Wordtracker, you can sometimes run out of keywords too quickly.
Here’s an example:
Let’s say you have a tennis racquet reviews website and one of your main pages will contain Wilson tennis racquets.
So you go to Wordtracker to find out which Wilson racquets people search for:
As you can see, you don’t have many useful keywords here since there are just a few models listed. You get a similar results if you search for wilson tennis or something like that.
Wordtracker Predicted Searches And Real Traffic For #1 In Google
One of great things about the free keyword tool from Wordtracker is that it gives you a prediction of how many searches per day there are for a certain keyword.
But have you ever wondered how many visitors you REALLY get if you rank #1 in Google for that keyword?
Well, I wanted to know that many times and now I finally rank number 1 in Google for a couple high traffic keywords for my vacuum site and I can show you some numbers.
Here are my rankings for top 14 keywords that I see in my Google webmasters tools:
Five Simple Ways For Finding Related Keywords
You’ve probably heard of LSI or Latent Semantic Indexing, which is just a big word for search engine-proven synonyms or related keywords.
When a search engine scans your page which, for example, talks about tennis equipment, one of the algorithms to determine whether this page is really relevant is the LSI algorithm, which will scan for related keywords.
If you want to convince a search engine (and a visitor!) that this is a really relevant page for that keyword, you’ll need to include keywords related to tennis equipment on that page.
Here are three free and two paid methods that I use to find related keywords:
7 Link Building Tips For Newborn Blogs
Since I started my main tennis website 2 years ago I have met and made many tennis friends among the internet community.
If I decide to start a new tennis website, I can just send a few emails and I’ll soon receive good quality links.
Not so with the Freedom Ideas blog. It’s my first internet marketing related blog and I basically have to start from scratch.
The Freedom Ideas blog is only 2 months old I am still very active in getting quality links to it.
Here are some of the ways I am building links now when this blog is still a baby:
Link Exchange Mistakes You Don’t Want To Make
Although link exchanges are supposedly losing the importance of bringing pagerank and higher search engine rankings to your website, they are still working.
Why supposedly? Well, I’ve read a lot of articles stating that reciprocal link exchanges are dead, but have never found any scientific proof.
But I did find this on Matt Cutts’ blog:
“Reciprocal links by themselves aren’t automatically bad, but we’ve communicated before that there is such a thing as excessive reciprocal linking.”
So exchanging links is not wrong, as long as it is not excessive.
2 in 1 Domain Name
Choosing a keyword-rich domain name can make a big difference in your rankings.
Your choice of whether to go for a keyword-rich [tag]domain name[/tag] or a branded domain name depends on your goal (purpose) for the website.
If it is a personal blog where you will discuss how you travel around the world, then choose a catchy domain name and establish your name in the blogosphere.
But if you are building a niche website for AdSense, Chitika or affiliated marketing, then you may want to choose a keyword-rich domain name.
What Are Relevant Websites and How To Find Them
The World Wide Web is a network made up of links on websites, which people can follow to eventually find what they are looking for.
In order to make these links useful to visitors to websites, they need to be relevant.
What does ‘relevant’ mean?
It means, that if there is a person looking for, say tips on how to lose weight on a certain website, they may also be interested in nutrition, exercise, maybe even juicers or blenders to prepare healthy drinks and so on.
