Hi again,
I just wanted to let you in on what I have been up to over the past couple of days. Mainly on how I am using keywords to bring traffic to my website.
At first it seemed as if keyword research was a tedious unnecessary process that brought little or no rewards. Today though, I’m glad I took the time to do just that.
The back links have been adding up and it is showing by the traffic I’m getting from the search engines. Knowing now for sure that my website will be ranked high for all low to moderately competitive keywords I choose makes blog posting that much more fun to track. Let me just give you an example of how I test, use, then monitor my keywords.
First, I use the Google Adwords keyword tool to look into a very broad search item. This week I typed in “home business ideas”. In doing this you will get a multitude of results. What I am looking for is terms that don’t have a real high search rate. One’s that I can rank with.
If you type those terms into the tool and scroll down, you will see the keyword phrase “home biz ideas” and that it is was searched on 590 times in July. Next I want to do an actual search in Google first without quotes, then with quotations. And without the quotation there are 376,000 results and with them they are 6,980 results.
I’ve been ranked on page one for keywords with millions of results so I know that I can compete easily using “home biz ideas”.
The next step is to actually write the post/article with the keywords, which I did and you can view that here.
I made the post on Wednesday and I am happy to announce that I am currently on page 2 for those keywords with quotes and page 9 without quotes. That’s great! Only 2 days and still moving up. Soon I will be on page 1 for those keywords and getting a share of the almost 20 people per day who search on those terms.
I’m going after a bunch of other keywords and will repeat this process over and over and over again. Anyone can use this keyword research method and have similar results. Trust me, if I can do it anyone can.
Stay tuned…
Matt Helphrey