Thursday, December 22, 2011

Focus on Your Keywords


After the excitement of getting your domain name and web hosting starts wearing off, you start creating content for your blog. So you sit down and start reading all the information about what you are supposed to
do with your blog. Maybe you downloaded a free ebook that talked about what you need to do to
launch your site.

You want to create high quality web content for your readers. So you think of good headlines for your blog posts. Nothing bland or unexciting, but something interesting to  capture the readers attention to get them to find your site and actually read your post.

People are searching for good quality information. Spend time writing blog posts and make sure that they have good information. Add photos and graphics that can help add some context to your post. Categorize and tag the post with the appropriate labels to make it easy to find.

So you hit publish and now you have a few articles on your site and you expect the traffic to just start flowing into your site. You log into your google adsense account to see how many impressions that you have. You check google analytics expecting to see hits from around the country. But the only hits you see are the hits
that occured when you were creating the blog posts.

Every company and website owner wants to get more web traffic. You can do all the seo
optimization you want and still not get traffic. The only thing that you can do is continue to try new
ways for getting your content in front of people. In addition to writing content for your site, you have
to create links back to your site.

New blogs and websites are being created all the time, so each day you are going to get more competition. What really sets your website apart? Start thinking about why someone should read your site. How can you
make your website easier to be found?

Focus on keywords. There are a few free keyword tools that you can use to help identify what
people are searching for. If you know what people are searching for you can link your information
with those keywords. For example every year new movies are made. You could have a great movie
about football, but the title of the movie has nothing to do with football. When people see the title they will not immediately think of football.

You want your information linked with the proper keywords. Search for software tools that will
help you with keyword selection. Keep looking for new ways to get web traffic.

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