How Many Keywords Should You Consider in Your Keyword Research

Steve of Success Factors asked: what is the minimum volume you should consider in examining the keyword results, and what is too much volume (e.g., making for too much competition)? A very good question because otherwise a keyword researcher can just go on and on with his research and come up with a million keywords. So probably the question here is when do we know when enough is enough? There...

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How to Do Basic Keyword Research Using Google Keyword Tool

Step-by-step Tutorial on Finding the Right Keywords to Optimize Your Site This basic keyword research tutorial is the result of a suggestion made by The Lady Programmer. For this purpose, let’s pretend we have a freelance writer’s website. So obviously we want to find the right keywords starting with the keywords “freelance” and “writer”. Why Google Keyword...

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The Importance of the Anchor Text

Why the Anchor Text and the Keyword Should Go Together First of all, what is an anchor text? The anchor text is the clickable text in a hyperlink. Do I need to explain what a hyperlink is? I hope not. An example of an anchor text and a hyperlink is this: my favorite place in the whole world! The anchor text there is “my favorite place in the whole world!” and it is hyperlinked to...

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IMBroadcast: Multimedia for Internet Marketers

IMBroadcast.com, the multimedia hub for Internet marketers is relatively new but it already has videos submitted by its members that can truly help us all who does business online. I picked a couple of videos you might be interested in. Here’s a short but informative video made by Darren Rowse when he asked probloggers Jeremy Schoemaker and Steve Pavlina for their blogging tips for...

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10 Blog Traffic Tips

In every blogger’s life comes a special day – the day they first launch a new blog. Now unless you went out and purchased someone else”s blog chances are your blog launched with only one very loyal reader – you. Maybe a few days later you received a few hits when you told your sister, father, girlfriend and best friend about your new blog but that”s about as far you...

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Keyword Density for A 300-Word Copy

What’s the ideal keyword density for a 300-word article? Is it 2% or more than that? I say don’t worry about the percentage and just do the following and your copy will work just fine: Put your main keyword in your title. While it is not definite whether spiders start scanning a page from top to bottom or vice versa, it is the title that states what your article is all about. It is...

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