The importance of doing some Keyword Research
Keyword research is required for your search engine marketing campaign as you need to find keywords and key phrases that people really search for.
You will reckon to yourself, this is what I sell so it’s obvious this is what people will search for, not always the case. Without any keyword research it really is a guessing game.
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When you reckon about the time you can spend on getting those search engine positions you so desire, all the trial and error and guessing wrongly what keywords to use, it certainly pays to use keyword research tools to find the right keywords to use.
The Google Search
What people type
If you want to be found on the first page of the search engines for your furniture company website, you would want to be found for the keyword “furniture”; this would be much harder than if you were to find alternative key phrases.
Google will show you a whole list of keywords and phrases that others have typed in before, such as glass dining room, or contemporary dining room furniture if you were to type into its search the keyword furniture.
These would be much simpler to achieve than a single word and these are keywords people do type in.
Today, the search in Google for furniture came back with 162,000,000 results
dining room tables 28,900,000 results
contemporary dining room furniture 1,120,000 results
dining room furniture 8,560,000 results
You can see the difference in the results.
Local Searches
Going Local
Another solution is if you only wanted to be found in your local area, such as a local tradesman, for example, landscape design, if someone was looking online for a landscape designer, they would only want someone from their local area, so your landscape design website should be optimized for your local area.
Such as; landscape design boston
There really wouldn’t be much point in finding a carpenter or builder hundreds of miles away as no one will be willing to travel all that far for a small maintenance job.
Keyword Tools
There are so many keyword research tools out there today; some are very excellent while others are completely useless.
The best by far I believe are, Wordtracker and Keyworddiscovery, there are others too and these do cost but they are well worth it in my opinion.
You can find excellent keywords using Google adwords for example, and there is also the Yahoo adwords program.
I have added the links to Word Tracker and Keyword Discovery below as I have used both of these and they work for me, there are other keyword research tools that I have not used so if anyone has any other suggestions, please feel free to let us know so we can add them here to help everyone.
Keyword Tool provides keyword thoughts
You can try this keyword tool from Google
It’s brilliant, you just type in your website and then a few keywords and it will find other keywords and phrases you can use too.
It’s really for Google Adwords but just have a play with it as it does give some fantastic keyword thoughts.
How many keywords per page?
You really should only optimise each page with no more than two keywords, preferably, key phrases.
If your website sold wedding dresses, you would optimise your home page for something like Designer Wedding Dresses, Discount Wedding Dresses.
No point in using just Wedding Dresses be clever.
You would have links to pages called Ivory Wedding Dresses and this page would only be optimised for that phrase; Ivory Wedding Dresses and with all your other pages you would do the same.
Too many people will have their keywords in their home page and title and all other pages would have the same, you’re not going to get anywhere like that.
I usually place the key phrase in about once every 90 to 100 words but make sure you have in your first sentence.
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