Sunday, December 18, 2011

Steps To Keyword Research

The most important and primary step in search engine optimization is to find the right keywords for your products/services that you are going to exhibit/sell on your web pages. The keywords must describe your products/services keeping in mind your potential users. Below are the top guidelines for keyword research that will help you find and refine the keywords.

1. Use the below tools for keyword research and build a list of keywords

2. Using the above mentioned tools, setup list of keywords against every web page. Think of each page as a separate service and find keywords for each page

3. If your products/services are for some specific geographic location then you must add the country/location in your keyword.

4. If you have a new domain, choose the keywords that don't have higher competition and after sometime you can target the higher competitive keywords . Google Adwords Keyword Tool   can help you determine which keywords are most competitive.

5. After using the tool mentioned above you should have 10-20 highly focused keywords, now what do you do with them? You prepare them for launch!

6. The next step is to used your keywords in your page contents. If you did your keyword research right, at least some of the words on your list already appear in your site content, but some of them may not. Try to use the missing keywords in your contents.

7. Inserting keywords in contents is important but its also very important is to insert the keywords in the below tags.
  • Title Tag
  • Meta Description Tags
  • Headings
  • Image Alt text
  • Anchor Text/ Navigational Links
You've created your keyword list using the keyword research tools and placed them into your contents and tags. You're done, right?

Remember If your site changes, so does your keywords. The key to success is to keep monitoring your keywords and make tweaks as necessary.

Hope you will find it very useful.

Good luck!

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