Don’t ask me, check the facts on Google.

Do searches on plural keywords and see if there are singular versions boldened in the title and text in the results and if they rank well.

I know as much as you do when looking at these facts.

What about singular and plural keywords?

Let’s say you build a page around the keyword “ACME lawnmowers” and your title tag is “Repairs for ACME lawnmowers”. We’ll assume the page and internal/external links contains the keyword ACME lawnmowers.
Is that page is also automatically optimized for the singular version, ACME lawnmower?

Thanks so much for your willingness to help, Tomaz. You’re one of the few.

I personally think that your keywords in the title have nothing to with Adsense unless Adsense ads are directly below the title. You also don’t know which ads get clicked and whether they were really related to your keyword in the title.

Why you’re not getting more traffic is too complex question to ask. Maybe you simply don’t have enough links and those small changes that you do with title tags really don’t mean anything to Google (yet).

Thank you so much for sharing this bit of information. I have an SBI site and have used keywords that are far too competitive because I really didn’t understand what I was doing. Now I’m in the process of trying to use as much of the title tag space as possible, since you’ve indicated that Google optimizes all the words in the title tag to some degree. However, I’ve chosen to keep my initial keywords, but add more winnable ones to them. The reason being is because I sometimes get some nice payouts from Adsense when an Adsense ad is clicked on a page with a very competitive keyword.

I’ve been working on this for probably a month now, but I really haven’t seen an increase in traffic. What are your thoughts on this? Will my traffic improve by doing what I am doing?

Thanks so much for your input, Tomaz!

I explained in one of the previous articles when you should monetize a website.

External links are better – but I rarely build them for T3 pages. Usually for homepage and most of the T2 pages.

Build links according to your needs and not according to what or someone else says.

Are you happy with your traffic and income? If yes, no need to work on links – other people will contact you for link exchanges or you can submit an occasional article.

If no, build links. Build links and content until you’re happy with your results.

So the questions whether you should build links to T3 pages or not is not really the right one. The question is whether you are happy with the rankings of those T3 pages.

If not, build links to them. The easiest way is with article submissions.

Also, if this was easy, everyone would have a 10K website. That’s the whole point of success online (and everywhere else): are you willing to do the hard work?