Am I Choosing Good Keywords?

Hi,

I've used Long Tail Keyword Pro and it's a solid piece of software. However, there are a few things to keep in mind and this is straight from there tutorial video.

1. Only pay attention to PA, DA, Juice and PR.

From what I remember, the PA & DA must be below 35 to be on the better part of thing. The Page Juice = lower the better. A page rank of zero usually means "1"

I quickly went through the numbers and some of them are higher than 35. However, again, you never know what the actual ranking factors will be when it comes to Google. These days high quality content has been getting much of the bumps.

Next,

Just the fact that none of the top 10 have the keyword inside the URL is a good thing but again, take a look at the actual domain because if its a creditable domain and been around for years, it still holds much value. For example, if I try and rank for the word "credit cards" and I notice the top 10 results don't have the keyword within the URL this doesn't mean websites on the 1st page will be outranked easily especially if the domains are American Express, Visa, PNC, etc.

Next,

do this...

Take your keyword and do a quick search in Google, for example "keyword" and quotation so you can see how many websites show up. I would like to know how many are actually "targeting" that keyword. It's a good indication of competitiveness. Usually aim for 100,000 or less from my experience.

Finally,

This is just stuff from the top of my head which I can pull out. If you want my honest advice and I've actually done it this way and ranked for even the toughest keywords.

1. Write the best content with your targeted keywords in mind. Check out the content from the websites on the 1st page and create something better.

2. Contact all the websites who are linking to the other 1st page websites and let them know you've created something better. Many times because you've created better content they'll have no problem switching the link to your website.

3. Do some guest posts from solid blogs with authority. Remember on these guest posts to write content better than you would for your website. It's an awesome way to drive traffic and these websites have built authority and your content will rank in search engines which means loads of traffic in the future through your guest posts.

4. Don't for get to target long tail keywords in your content because they can drive solid traffic and rank pretty good in the SERP's.

I hope this helps and I would love for others to add. The problem with SEO, keywords, etc, you have so many factors which can determining your rankings. I believe there are 200 rankings factors which Google talks about and hundreds more which are quiet.

Please let me know if you have any direct questions and I'll do my best to help you out!

What I did was I bought 10,000 visitors. I bought website traffic to make it short (to cut work load and costs for work). It did a great job though.

No root domains in top 10: +ve
Ecommerce sites in top 10: -ve
Keyword in titles of results in top 10: -ve

You need to look for lower competition kewords if you don't want to find yourself struggling unduly to rank.

Thanks for the advice everyone and while AskAnAffiliate does bring up a few good points, I too strongly disagree with the 100k search results view. It's only the first 10 that matter

@SEOPower I might be having a brainfart but what is "ve"? And I was led to believe that ecommerce sites are relatively easy to outrank. Am I completely wrong?

@JayKay This goal w/ this site in particular is to get people to Amazon using my links. I copy/pasted your post to a sticky note on my desktop. Thank you!

A good keyword would be a buying keyword. [gold investment] would be a good keyword [buy golf clubs] would also be a good keyword. Not point in ranking something if you're not going to make money off it.