What are keywords?
Let’s get started with this chapter of are lesson discussing keywords, what they are, how and where to use them, and which ones to choose.
If you are new to SEO you may wonder what keywords are in the Search Engine Optimization world and how to find and use them.
Keywords are what make up your site, your niche/category and they tell a search engine what your site is about and help you place / rank within search engines. Keywords are the search terms that people are searching for in which you want to come up on the first page of the search engine when searched for.
When deciding what keywords you want to try and rank for with your website there are a few factors that come into play. Which ones are related? Which are most searched for, and which are most and least competitive. When you first get a website going, you don’t want to focus on keywords that have a lot of competition for it will take a while for you to rank for them. You have to build your website up day by day. So, try to rank for less competitive keywords in which you can easily move up and beat the competition for that will bring your website traffic/hits and increase your website popularity.
Don’t totally cut out the competitive keywords though also, as your site grows in ranking and popularity, you will move up within the search engine. So mainly focus on the less competitive keywords but use and optimize for a few of the more competitive ones also so when the day comes that you see you are starting to achieve popularity and say over websites, you will already be somewhat ranking for those competitive keywords and you will move up and rank easier and faster for them.
Now, you want to use a couple tools here to determine which keywords that you want to start optimizing for. First you want to use the Google Keyword Tool. This will show you how many searches a keyword gets monthly, how competitive it is and you can also look at your competitions keywords and even use them. This helps and cuts off a lot of time. Also you can use the keywordspy tool for free to spy on your competitors which comes in handy when monetizing your website for making money with Google adsense. This will show you what keywords your competitors are making money off of with adsense. Saves you a heap of work. We would design a similar Google keyword tool but you can’t beat the leading search engines tools.
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