How many keyword do you search for your 1 site or blog?

12 years ago

I search one primary keyword per article. Then I select at least 8-12+ secondary keywords for the same article. It does take a lot of time but is the best way to do it. Secondary keywords could be lsi or just secondary long tail keywords.

Secondary keywords in a single article often become primary keywords in other articles and vice versa, but not always.

I have offered my clients a rate of $100 per primary keyword (including the secondary) keywords because it essentially takes 15-45 minutes or so to just get a single keyword along with the secondary ones.

I don't mind if they can't afford it, then I simply won't do this for them

Though writers who write according to these guidelines typically will cost $2-4 per 100 words and $5-10+ per 100 words if they are natives.

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DNChamp

12 years ago

Are you speaking about a blog post OR what you want to that blog to rank for overall?

If you speaking about a blog post the keyword should be part of your overall keyword structure. So lets say one of your main keywords is "dog training" then you may want to write about "dog training a new puppy". This will still help you with the root keyword "dog training" at the same time going after a long tail keyword. Keep in mind though that when you write the post dont over flood it with that keyword phrase every 3rd line but speak about it in general terms. Link out to sites with stature and also interlink back to others pages on your site as well.

You can pick as many keywords to rank for as you like but if you are just starting out I suggest 5 until you get those 5 in a place where traffic is steady and then you can add and fix on other new ones.

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CalinDan

12 years ago

For my personal blog, the one where I provide true value and interact with my audience directly, I never research for specific keywords. I just write what needs to be written and what my audience likes.

I don't worry about this kind of stuff, I just provide unique and quality content.

Cheers!
Dan

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Alexa Smith

Banned 12 years ago

Originally Posted by CalinDan

For my personal blog, the one where I provide true value and interact with my audience directly, I never research for specific keywords. I just write what needs to be written and what my audience likes.

I don't worry about this kind of stuff, I just provide unique and quality content.

Cheers!
Dan

I think this is an excellent approach.

Especially the part about "not worrying".

I've always done a little bit of keyword research before choosing the niche in the first place, and that's left me with a list of keywords of low-to-medium and medium competition for which I know I'll easily rank, with the aid of backlinks from the relevant sites on which my articles are published. When your articles eventually get syndicated to relevant sites, you do actually get some pretty valuable backlinks out of it (because "linkjuice" is determined primarily by relevance!) so it seems a shame, to me, to ignore it totally. But that's all I need. It's just a "one-off job" for the niche. The percentage of my total working time that I spend on this is too small to measure.

Still, because of the power of later backlinks from relevant sites, the result is that I do actually get a lot of "Google traffic" as well as my direct "article traffic". This search engine traffic certainly isn't great traffic. I don't think much of it. But it's kind of "something for nothing". My visitors from Google searches don't opt in as often, don't stay as long, and don't buy as much. I'd hate to depend on it as a way to make a living, but it is "a little something extra". That's my perspective, anyway.

I don't take SEO into account when writing my articles, other than starting (first word - this matters!) some of the titles with a keyword I wouldn't mind ranking for. As Dan says above, quality is what matters.

I'm not interested in "keyword density" (I like it to be under 1% because anything more may look "clunky" but I hardly ever bother counting it, to be honest). And I'm especially not interested in "Latent Semantic Indexing Keywords". It seems to me that that's just a fancy way of referring to "the related words that you couldn't possibly avoid using in an article anyway, even if you tried to".

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CalinDan

11 years ago

Originally Posted by Alexa Smith

I think this is an excellent approach.

Especially the part about "not worrying".

I've always done a little bit of keyword research before choosing the niche in the first place, and that's left me with a list of keywords of low-to-medium and medium competition for which I know I'll easily rank, with the aid of backlinks from the relevant sites on which my articles are published. When your articles eventually get syndicated to relevant sites, you do actually get some pretty valuable backlinks out of it (because "linkjuice" is determined primarily by relevance!) so it seems a shame, to me, to ignore it totally. But that's all I need. It's just a "one-off job" for the niche. The percentage of my total working time that I spend on this is too small to measure.

Still, because of the power of later backlinks from relevant sites, the result is that I do actually get a lot of "Google traffic" as well as my direct "article traffic". This search engine traffic certainly isn't great traffic. I don't think much of it. But it's kind of "something for nothing". My visitors from Google searches don't opt in as often, don't stay as long, and don't buy as much. I'd hate to depend on it as a way to make a living, but it is "a little something extra". That's my perspective, anyway.

I don't take SEO into account when writing my articles, other than starting (first word - this matters!) some of the titles with a keyword I wouldn't mind ranking for. As Dan says above, quality is what matters.

I'm not interested in "keyword density" (I like it to be under 1% because anything more may look "clunky" but I hardly ever bother counting it, to be honest). And I'm especially not interested in "Latent Semantic Indexing Keywords". It seems to me that that's just a fancy way of referring to "the related words that you couldn't possibly avoid using in an article anyway, even if you tried to".

I totally and absolutely agree to this. Especially the part "something for nothing"... I use my organic traffic to make my online presence felt and try to increase my 'cold interaction' techniques.
Paid traffic is what really makes the wheel turn; if we had to rely only on search engines traffic, we'd starve..

The part about me not worrying is simply because most of the time I get traffic from long tail key-phrases which bring in people willing to read my posts. So, just like you, keyword density is not one of my concerns.

The one thing about keyword research I still do, is trying to figure out how would people search for a specific piece of information. What exact search string would they use if they would like to find out more about X...

Have a great day,
Dan

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shintaiguy

12 years ago

I was taught to pick between 3-5 keywords and do a bit of work to rank one every day, working in a cycle so that you can monitor which ones bring the most traffic for the time put in. You can then scale up on the best and drop the worst.

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Clive