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Confusion about best keywords in WP article postings

by carolynblake
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There is so much to read on this subject and I am totally confused. Here is what I have learned to do so far, but I am not sure of it. I start each new affiliate site with 10 articles. I put the 10 main keywords for those articles into the SEO All In One main settings for the entire site. Then when I post each article, I put the main article keyword and any long tail keywords into the individual post keywords box in All In One SEO Pack post widget. I also put the same keywords in as post tags in the default WP dashboard Post Tags.

What I am confused about is keywords for each post. Is it most effective to just put the main key word and the long tail keywords used in that particular article into the All In One? Or does it work better to add other keywords that are not in the article, but relevant to the site? If so, how would we select which ones to add? I am really confused because there is just too much to learn. Just as soon as I think I understand something, something else comes along claiming to be a more powerful practice.
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  • Profile picture of the author webapex
    When you "put the 10 main keywords for those articles into the SEO All In One main settings" I'm not sure how their used, sounds like they would become the meta keywords for the home page of the site, meta keyword headers were one of the easy way to mislead search engines in their infancy, all the major engines are smart enough these day to just not pay attention to what appears there.

    I believe your plan calls for a given post to stick to the topic (the given keyword) and not go too astray, though you can be dinged for repeating the exact same keyword too many times, including other terms commonly known to be connected with your keyword might help with relevancy that at least google patents talk about recognizing.
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    • Profile picture of the author thecableguy
      As for the meta keywords most of the major searchengines don't use them anymore, but I'd just add the keywords that are relevant to the individual page. As for the title and description I'd use the keyword phrase that the page is being optimized for. Some of the major keyword tools use them in evaluating the competition. Plus it'll be the keywords that's bolded in the SERPs when a visitor does a search, Adwords suggests that you include the keyword when doing PPC as it improves the click through rate. One thing you might try is to paste the pages url into the Google Adwords tool and by default it should be on Relevance. You might want to use those keywords or use them as anchor text when backlinking.
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    • Profile picture of the author carolynblake
      Thanks webapex, what I mean by the main settings is..in WP, on the left menu in the dasboard, is the All In One SEO Settings link. When I click on that and open up the All In One settings page, there is a box with this title: Home Keywords (comma separated): and there in that box I put the main 10 keywords for my main 10 articles. Though I have some experience at this, geting the finer points of proper SEO is challenging because there is such a massive amount of information to absorb. Thanks for the help. I just want to be sure my efforts are going in an effective direction. Hope this explains better what I am asking.
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  • Profile picture of the author trevone
    The all in one seo is great however it seems to be limeted to the meta tags without buying the commercial edition Yeah the hype of meta keywords not being used is sad but their are some specific sites that still check them to categorize your theme. You should still take the opportunity everywhere to improve your rankings. dont leave theme out however what I have found recently is that making your main keywords in the post bold or italic improves your rank. Every post i make has bold or italic keywords now.
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  • Profile picture of the author sfossy
    Well its fine what you are doing though search engines are not looking much in those homepage keywords, rather i would say you optimize the homepage description and homepage title, just use your brains while writing them don't just stuff the keywords.
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  • Profile picture of the author 60MinuteAffiliate
    Hi there, have your main keywords as your article posts.

    Make sure though that you have your permalinks set correctly in settings.

    ie they should be custom and /%category%/%postname%.php

    also make sure when you're writing your post say you're trying to target the keyword negative calorie foods and your article title is negative calorie foods that you can consume for lunch every day, if you look in wp just underneath where you write the title you have it showing what the url for the post will be -- i click on that and make sure that link is specifically for the keyword negative calorie foods rather than the full title as it gets more seo juice that way.

    regards

    colleen
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