If “Get more by spending less” is your
motto, then you are reading the correct blog post. It is important to seek out proper
methods of finding the right keywords. In this post I will be describing some
tricks to find the correct keywords (also known as labels or tags in some
parts of blogosphere) for your articles.
1.
See what the search
engine suggests your audience
One
of the most useful places to do so is search engines themselves.
You
can begin to enter a potential keyword and the search engines will make suggestions
for related keywords as well. There are tools to scrap search engine
suggestions for particular keywords but since I thing that they are little
black hat I don’t want to go on explaining about them in the post.
2.
Use your mind and
knowledge of language
Another
way of budding and generating keywords is merely through a ‘Use of related
words’. For this purpose, just choose
some term that is related to your post directly and then alter it into other
terms that visitors might type into the search engines to find your product or
service.
For
instance, if you own a cat grooming business you could use a simple term like “cat
grooming” and then take that term and amend it to get another keyword that you
think users will search for.
In
this case it may also be “Kitty grooming” or “animal grooming” While these keywords
actually mean the indistinguishable thing, you are simply increasing your chances
of obtaining more hits to your blog or website. This might require thinking on
your part, but this method usually yields the best results.
3.
Watch your
competitors
Do a
little homework and find out about your competitors and other blogs with
similar content or larger name brand stores that come up on keyword searches
having good budget for SEO. Take note of terms that competitors are using and keywords
that they are not using. That way, you can dominate in both search engine
terms.
4.
Use Google keyword
tool
You
can also make use of the Google Keyword Tool for searching what type of
keywords people are typing in Google and in what volume. You can use the tool
to find amount of competition for the keyword.
5.
Add keywords keeping
visitors in mind
Remember
that articles are written for humans not search engines. Keep this in mind and
add relevant tags and labels to your blog that can help your visitors to
navigate to related post as this is their true purpose.
Additionally,
remember that if you are not getting results do not stick to certain keywords
for very large amount of time. If you wish
to change the content of your blog posts to maximize traffic that you receive
feel free to do so.
So
next time you are adding labels/tags to your blog post I hope you will remember
these tips and will make a quality contribution to blogosphere.
