Jan 02 2012

Spotting Seasonal Keyword Interest With Google Trends

Seasonal trends effect keyword volumes in varying degrees. In some industries, there is almost no seasonal variation in keyword volume. Examples of such industries include staple products like groceries, telephone services, family medicine, auto repair - the things that all folks need pretty much all the time. Then on the other end of the spectrum are those products that are acutely seasonal. The most pronounced examples would be Santa dolls around Christmas time, pool building services in spring and summer, air conditioning repair in summertime in the Southern U.S., weight-loss programs just after New Year's and in the spring; you get the idea. The truth is that nearly all keywords are seasonal to some degree - just perhaps not enough to worry about. Sure, a family...

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Search Engine Optimization Case Study: How I Drive Free Organic Traffic To My Coupon Blog Daily

Search engine optimization is a vital aspect of your business growth. No matter where you’re today on Google index page, I want to reveal some amazing tips to further expand your business. Targeted free traffic is the live-blood of internet marketing; without it, you’re bound to fail. I’m yet to see any marketer who is satisfied with the amount of traffic he attracts. We all want some more. That why I’m here to open your eyes...

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SEO & Content Freshness – Case Study

Every SEO specialist knows that content freshness is extremely important for the success of any SEO project. Search engines favor pages with lots of new content published every day and tend to rank higher websites containing fresh text and pages. Everyone knows that, but is it really true? And what about all the old and obsolete content that is still available on websites? Is it totally discarded by Google? I will present you some data researched...

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Low-Hanging Fruit: How To Identify Keywords That Just Need A Little Help

Want to find traffic-converting keywords that your website is already ranking relatively well for, but can rank even better for with just a small push in the right direction? 1.) Go into Google Analytics, select "Keywords" under Traffic Sources, view only "non-paid" keywords, and filter out keywords that don't convert or convert poorly by your website's standards.  Furthermore, filter out keywords that have too few visits to weed out really...

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Misleading Keyword Research Pitfalls : An Advanced Tutorial

Earlier today I had a friend of mine visit me at my pad and he looked quite worried . When inquired I realized that he was worried about his site not doing good enough in the search results and making even lesser money for him from even little traffic that he received. He was clueless about why a site wont rank in the search engines when the keyword research was done...

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Visualize Your Keyword Research with Keyword Eye

Keyword Eye is a keyword suggestion tool which visualizes search volume and competitiveness by size and color. Using results from the Google search based keyword tool it can accept two inputs: Keyword - this will return keyword ideas based on the entered keyword URL - this will return keyword ideas based on the content within the URL specified Settings are available which enable you to: Choose the keyword match type Choose the country for results to be tailored to Choose...

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Doing Proper Keyword Research

Two of the most popular forms of internet marketing are pay per click advertising and search engine optimization. A major part of both of these is keyword research. Proper keyword research is crucial to doing any real internet marketing. Here are 4 tips to help you with your keyword research. Make a thorough list. Coming up with the right keywords can be easy to start to pick primary...

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Let’s Create the Ultimate List of Keyword Research Tools

We do know how important keywords are for any website. We do keyword research prior to developing and launching the site and we keep analyzing keywords throughout the whole site existence. And there's no denying the fact that we can't do without keyword research tools. Which ones are you using? Please let's (try to) stick to the following rules in the comments: Each comment should contain a tool (please no "Thank-you" comments - just to make the...

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Keyword and Niche Research with Yahoo! Answers

We've recently had a couple of tips here on brainstorming for new keywords with general Google search and  Wordtracker’s “Keyword Questions” tool. And here's another idea to get more keyword ideas: use Yahoo! Answers (hat tip to Dave). Clearly, Yahoo! Answers have been largely overused recently for (self-)promoting but there's still huge value there. Look at it as an additional provider of keyword phrases as well as an important...

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Look What People Ask in Your Niche

Today I decided to share with you (or remind to those who might have forget about it) a great tool that shows which questions a searcher tends to ask when using the specified phrase. This tool is ideal for a few essential tasks you probably tackle daily or weekly: Get new post ideas (Sometimes you are just stuck, so use it for inspiration); Content optimization (especially for titles: a title that asks a question will not only generate...

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