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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What’s Your Blog’s Main Keyword?

I have a friend who has just created her first blog and she is almost completely new to the whole blogging concept. So I decided to give her the basics of what blogging is, how she can rank well in the search engines based on certain keywords and also the fact that she could earn from it. She was actually very interested in the whole search engine ranking idea. So when I asked her what’s...

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Swimwear Sales During the Christmas Season?

I’ve mentioned in an earlier post about the keyword research that I’ve been doing for an online swimwear retailer. I’m now done with that and have moved on to Pay Per Click advertising at Google for the keywords that I’ve gathered. A few days ago, I was surprised to learn from the client that they have been experiencing a rise in their sales from the United Kingdom.This given...

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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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Of Sexy Girls and Underwear: Keyword Research Takes Its Toll

I have been conducting keyword research for a swim wear retailer. Naturally, the first set of keywords or seeds that I would consider are swim wear, underwear, thongs, bikini, sexy girls, etc. You get the picture. But doing this research for two straight weeks made me realize this truth: that it is possible for a guy to get bored looking at scantily clad beautiful and sexy women! Now who would...

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