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One of the most important aspects of being a successful blogger is choosing your keywords carefully. This is just not something most people do when they learn how to blog. I am going to run through a couple of steps for you really quick that will help you figure out your keywords.
- Find out how you are ranked at Google Rankings. I just changed mine here so google isn’t ranking me on the new words as well as I would like. In single word phrases I top out with blog at 11.18% density which is pretty respectible if there were more posts and fewer search results for it. My top three word phrases are Wordpress Option Field and Wordpress Optional Fields, based on a recent post. What I really want to be rated on is How To Blog.
- Once you know what you are rated on it is time to decide what you want to be rated on. I use Free Keywords which was originally suggested on Courtney Tuttle’s Blog. Start searching for keywords based on your general blog niche. This is how I found How To Blog. What you want is a keyword or phrase that has no more than three words to it. The more daily search results you have the better off you are.
- Once you have a particularly good keyword or phrase you need to figure out how it plays out on google. Put your keyword or phrase in quotes and search. While Google Personalization can really screw up the ranking of your results, it will have no effect on how many results it returns.
- Optimize your choice by looking for a high number of daily searches and a low number, under a million, search results. Look for how to use these new keywords in the near future.
I will revisit this post with you from time to time and let you see how my changes affect my placement for these keywords without stuffing the keywords where they don’t belong.
Post 72 of 100 of Brad’s Tiny World Scribefire Challenge.
