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How to choose keywords

Alex Moneymaker — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 14:07:40 +0000

The reason why so many bloggers are not making any money online at all is because they are not targeting the right keywords. Thousands of bloggers are writing about how to make money online, loans, mortgages and other niches that have so much competition that they will not make serious money online. So what are they doing wrong? This article will explain the basics on how to choose keywords for your website and article writing.

Nobody exactly knows how the Google algorithm works, besides the people working for Google. However, many experienced Internet Marketer found ways how they could target their niches the best way. One of these important ways is your main keyword or topic you want to write about. You should always try to write quality content that has some use for the people who are looking for it, but you also want to target your content so that they can find you.

If you are writing about Killer Sharks than which article has the most chance to get on page 1 of Google, ‘Killer sharks in the wild’ or ‘How deadly are sharks that kill’? You should always keep in mind the phrase people will use to come to your website. If I want to know something about Killer sharks than I would use that phrase in Google and not the second one. Both are titles for the same topic but the first one has the most chance to attract visitors.

This example works for just every niche on the Internet. When I write articles for my websites than I always target a certain keyword that I found in the Google Keyword Tool. This is a great free tool from Google that every Internet Marketer should use.

Targeting exact keywords is not the only thing you need to do to get the most out of your articles. Most people that blog have smaller websites and they will never rank for the high paying short keywords like sharks, make money and so on. However, targeting long tail keywords that have not much competition is a great way to get some traffic from those high paying niches. To summarize, you want to target exact keywords that people use in Google and have no competition. In this way you are able to attract visitors to your website without having a strong pagerank/authority. Now you know how to choose keywords it is time to give it a try and see how you can increase visitors coming to your website, Good luck.

How to find keywords:Tips

Alex Moneymaker — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:08:34 +0000

In other posts I told about how to find keywords, related keywords, profitable keywords and how to use them. For most people it is quite a big problem coming up with some basic words to find keywords. They always get stuck to the same ones and these are maybe not always as profitable. So how can you find a diversity of keywords that will help you writing about just everything?

This article will give some keywords tips you could use when you are looking for new ones. When I started out a few months ago with writing hubs on hubpages I had big trouble finding some good keywords. I simply did not know what to fill in the Google Keyword Tool. Luckily I came by some people giving advice on the matter. When you are doing this for a couple of months you almost do not have any problems anymore with finding some good keywords that you can use for your websites.

When you do not have much inspiration there are many ways how to find keywords. I will give some keyword finding tips that will help you:

1) Go to amazon and look for some products and product categories. Just write them down and fill them in the Keyword Tool. The good thing about this tool is that it will find you related keywords but also it gives results of keywords that are of a similar topic. For instance, when you are looking for alcohol addiction, it will also give results about cocaine addiction etc etc. If you fill in new words in the tool this will help you a lot.

2) Ezines directory is another great way to find keywords. Most articles written here are for promoting websites. You could have a look on some articles and see what they are about or you could fill in some categories in the keyword tool. This will probably give you a lot of results.

3) The way I do it is the following: I have a website about widgets and already have some categories like red widgets, green, blue etc. Every time I need new keywords I will choose one category and use it in the tool. In this way I will get related keywords to my category.

4) Watch commercials you see on television about certain products and fill these in the tool. You could also use commercials you see on billboards. Put everything you come up with in the tool and see what it spits out.

These keywords tips are some excellent ways to find some inspiration. If you have more ways than send them to my and I will add them to the list.

How to find Related Keywords

Alex Moneymaker — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:03:04 +0000

I already told in another post what the relevance is of doing research for profitable keywords. In this article I will go to the next step of doing research for keywords and explain how you can optimize your earnings with article writing in finding relating keywords. It does not stop by writing an article and use your main keyword as there are some other things you could do to make more money out of your article.

Maybe you noticed that when you were pasting some keywords in the Google Keyword Tool that sometimes related keywords showed up. You probably did not mention to much attention to it as you were only looking to profitable keywords and not the related keywords were only a few people are looking for. However, when it comes to the writing of the article these related keywords are very important. If you add 5 related keywords to every article you write, you will give a boost to the potential earnings. Sometimes it is even easier to rank for these keywords than for the main one. So how does it works?

1) If you did your work well you probably have a list of about 100 keywords. You checked them for competition and they all passed the criteria. The next step is pasting your keyword back in to Google Keyword Tool and see what related keywords show up. Write these down in your excel sheet as you will need them later on.

2) When you start writing about your keyword, try to also write about the related keywords you found in the Google Tool. They are great as a synonym for not overusing your main keyword.

3) Every article has tags and tags are important for google as you are letting know where the article is about. You will optimize your article for Google by using the related keywords as tags.

4) The final step is back linking. Do not just use one anchor text but use all variations you wrote down; the main keyword and the related ones.

In this simple but effective way you are able to get the most out of your articles. It is a great way in making more money with the same article and it will only cost you a little more time. Just try it out and see the results for yourself.

How to find Profitable keywords for a niche site

Alex Moneymaker — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:43:30 +0000

First let me explain what I mean with Profitable keywords and why it is so important to do research for your keywords. A keyword is the main topic of a website or article. It is the main thing you are writing about and the word you want people to find your website with when they search in Google or other search engines. The main keyword for this website for instance is how to make money online for beginners. A profitable keyword is a main keyword that has the potential to make money with. This is not just a matter on how much you will earn when someone would click your ads, it is about how many visitors are you able to attract to your website with that word and how much money could you make with it.

The most important thing to consider when you are researching new keywords is how much competition there is out there. You want to fight the small fish and not bother any sharks because then you will get eaten and don’t earn anything at all. So it is important to find a keyword that has the potential to make you money and does not has to much competition. The big question off course would be how are we going to do that?

Everybody has his or her own rules when it comes to doing research for keywords. This is not a solid scientific way but it works out for me so maybe it will also work for you. Generally there are 2 ways how you could find new keywords. The first has a cut off line when it comes to potential, you want to find as many keywords with the help of the Google keyword tool and all put them in an excel sheet. With many I truly mean many, try to get hundreds or thousands of keywords which you will analyze later on. After you did this, you will make use of the cut off line. All words that do not have a potential to make more than $50 a month go right to the garbage can. For the others we have to do some research how much competition they have. Do a search in Google for the word and see what comes up. There are some nice tools that will help you analyze how strong a website is. Try to target websites that have a pagerank of 3 and below. These are the ones you have a chance beating them if you do a lot of linking.

The second method is actually a lot a like the first one but there is no cutoff line. You will try to target profitable keywords that have almost no competition at all and only have a potential of some bucks a month. The good thing with the second method is that it is much easier to rank for these keywords. When you got some authority for the lower keywords you could eventually go for method 1 and only target the more profitable keywords.

This is not a matter of trying this out a few times, you need to know what works and what does not. Write some articles everyday and see what sticks. Try at least a few hundred (yes a few hundred) to get the hang of it. Again, squidoo, hubpages and infobarrel are excellent websites for trying out your keywords. When you know what you are doing you know the basic of making money online.