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10 years ago

Hi there do you have your site on WordPress? If so you can use this plug-in.

WordPress SEO Plugin

It will give you areas to fill in on all your posts and pages so that you optimise each page of your site for the keyword you choose.

It makes SEO optimization very easy.

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sinishta

10 years ago

Hey Nick,

There are many free tools and paid tools on web to explore the targeted keywords of a website. I use paid SEM Rush, Majestic SEO explorer tools to get the detailed keywords list of the website.

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Moneymaker2012

10 years ago

I bet you'll like keyword density.
you can also try alexa search analytics.

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- Nick ASD 10 years ago
  
  Thanks guys I'll check them all out.
  And no I don't use WordPress I'm using an OpenCart template, so there is a section where I can add keywords also.
  
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  yukon Banned 10 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Nick ASD
  
  Thanks guys I'll check them all out.
  And no I don't use WordPress I'm using an OpenCart template, so there is a section where I can add keywords also.
  
  If your talking about the keyword meta tag, all that does is show competition the keywords your targeting, it has no SEO value.
  
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  Nick ASD 10 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by yukon
  
  If your talking about the keyword meta tag, all that does is show competition the keywords your targeting, it has no SEO value.
  
  Okay this is what I was having trouble with. Does it make sense to put competitors high ranking words somewhere on my site? And where would I do that if not under keyword meta tags?
  Like if my competitor is 1234.com and their highest keywords are 1234, 1234.com, and 1234: Call or Text, should I put all those keywords in also? So that I could be shown when someone is searching for them?
  
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  Bonita T Josephson 10 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by yukon
  
  If your talking about the keyword meta tag, all that does is show competition the keywords your targeting, it has no SEO value.
  
  Just wanted to know, how does google sort out a page's keyword now?
  
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  Nick ASD 10 years ago
  
  Is there any guidelines as far as how many keywords should be used? I kind of remember seeing something about using up to 5 keywords. Otherwise people would basically just list the whole dictionary wouldn't they?
  
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nik0

Banned 10 years ago

When you optimize for the search engines most people pick a keyword that they build the post or multiple posts around to support that page.

That's where those keywords come from, it's like the basic that most start with:

- kw research
- onpage SEO
- offpage SEO

If you're just blogging about whatever you like it becomes a kind of reverse process. When I write blog posts for my SEO site I just write about what's trendy at the moment or what closely relates to my business without doing kw research or optimization at all.

Same when I build links to my site I don't pick any specific anchors as keywords.

Why? Not sure, maybe cause I'm lazy, maybe cause I want to build out the site as natural as possible, maybe I don't care about Google but more about my visitors. It's easy for me as I get all my traffic from forums and paid campaigns anyway.

One thing I do know, and that's that I don't build links from my network to my own site to keep it under the radar and I never reach out to webmasters asking for a link so I don't expect it to rank any time soon, only when an easy opportunity passes by like someone who lately started a website where all kind of websites are featured, he had a strong PR4 or PR5 domain, I won't say no to such link, even if it costs a bit.

Doing SEO for money or doing SEO for my own site are two complete different beasts, with my own site there is zero pressure so I actually don't do any active SEO for it.

Sure when I post a comment at backlinko I leave my link there which drives some traffic, but I don't post to leave a link, I just post and see, ok I can leave a link, yeah why not add it. Totally the other way around.

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Nick ASD

10 years ago

Originally Posted by nik0

When you optimize for the search engines most people pick a keyword that they build the post or multiple posts around to support that page.

That's where those keywords come from, it's like the basic that most start with:

- kw research
- onpage SEO
- offpage SEO

If you're just blogging about whatever you like it becomes a kind of reverse process. When I write blog posts for my SEO site I just write about what's trendy at the moment or what closely relates to my business without doing kw research or optimization at all.

Same when I build links to my site I don't pick any specific anchors as keywords.

Why? Not sure, maybe cause I'm lazy, maybe cause I want to build out the site as natural as possible, maybe I don't care about Google but more about my visitors. It's easy for me as I get all my traffic from forums and paid campaigns anyway.

One thing I do know, and that's that I don't build links from my network to my own site to keep it under the radar and I never reach out to webmasters asking for a link so I don't expect it to rank any time soon, only when an easy opportunity passes by like someone who lately started a website where all kind of websites are featured, he had a strong PR4 or PR5 domain, I won't say no to such link, even if it costs a bit.

Doing SEO for money or doing SEO for my own site are two complete different beasts, with my own site there is zero pressure so I actually don't do any active SEO for it.

Sure when I post a comment at backlinko I leave my link there which drives some traffic, but I don't post to leave a link, I just post and see, ok I can leave a link, yeah why not add it. Totally the other way around.

I see what you are saying here. I don't have a blog though, I sell physical products and am having a hard time attracting new visitors.

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ago 10 years ago

Originally Posted by Nick ASD

I see what you are saying here. I don't have a blog though, I sell physical products and am having a hard time attracting new visitors.

Maybe it's time for you to add a blog to your site. Start writing articles about the products you sell, submit them to social media sites: facebook, twitter, pinterest, etc. It's a way to get more traffic
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- Nick ASD 10 years ago
  
  That's what I was thinking about doing, just haven't had the time to commit. I'll try to start one up next week and see if it helps.
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nik0

Banned 10 years ago

Originally Posted by Nick ASD

I see what you are saying here. I don't have a blog though, I sell physical products and am having a hard time attracting new visitors.

Optimize your category page titles by adding prefixes/suffixes like:

- best
- review
- reviews
- top rated
-etc.

Add content to your category pages.

Add comparison modules in combination with descriptions of your products.

Focus to get those pages ranked, once they do the rest will follow as long as your product pages have some uniqueness.

You probably also need to clean up your site, ecommerce sites often result in a lot of trash that gets indexed and that shouldn't happen, you can block such things in your robots.txt and or use SEO plugins to get rid of stuff.

To block a sub directory that shouldn't be indexed you can use something like:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /name-sub-directory/

After that you can also remove complete directories with the URL removal tool from Google Webmasters but first you need to block Google, otherwise it will start to index it again.

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Nick ASD

10 years ago

Originally Posted by nik0

Optimize your category page titles by adding prefixes/suffixes like:

- best
- review
- reviews
- top rated
-etc.

Add content to your category pages.

Add comparison modules in combination with descriptions of your products.

Focus to get those pages ranked, once they do the rest will follow as long as your product pages have some uniqueness.

You probably also need to clean up your site, ecommerce sites often result in a lot of trash that gets indexed and that shouldn't happen, you can block such things in your robots.txt and or use SEO plugins to get rid of stuff.

To block a sub directory that shouldn't be indexed you can use something like:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /name-sub-directory/

After that you can also remove complete directories with the URL removal tool from Google Webmasters but first you need to block Google, otherwise it will start to index it again.

Awesome thank you, I'll give it all a shot

Thanks

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brettb

10 years ago

If you're in a particular niche then you can use my site to spy on keywords your site should be using. Just check out the forums in your own niche.

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