Keywords

[wildmind]

I am not clear on how you find "long tail" keywords. What about KEI? I'm not sure if you're searching exact phrase or not, because you don't talk about quote marks but parentheses which I don't see.

Can you tell me what you do in Keyword Elite. That is one of my tools of choice, too, along with several others?

Perhaps give an example from goodkeywords.com for the folks who don't have more expensive tools.

You seem to be saying choose a search term for which Google returns a SUPPLY of < 1,000,000 sites on an exact "keyword phrase" search (WITH the quote marks) Is that right? Doesn't DEMAND matter?

[habelow]

Lots of great free articles on keywords at www.seo2020.com

[dturner]

I think I missed the link the in guide for how to find this...

Demand does matter, but I'd rather go after 100 keywords that each have 200 searches each, but only a few thousand or a few hundred thousand competition, instead of 1 keyword that has 20000 searches but has 20 million in competition.

As you rank for those smaller keywords, you'll not only be building your search traffic almost straight away, eventually you'll be able to target that main keyword and get into it far quicker because you already rank for those 100 other keywords and have already built a lot of links and content etc.

Daniel

[wildmind]

I guess my question was poorly stated because I got off track due to my confusion about one thing the guide said specifically about 1 million results. Sorry

The guide recommends we use the "final" Excel spread sheet included with each article pack, where you've already done the keyword researchc for us (thank you).I think that's a great idea. I don't want to re-invent all the keyword research.

All I was trying to get you to do was to make a comment on HOW you recommend we use the "final" Excel spreadsheets. (it would have helped if I'd SAID that ops: )

They have a column for KEI, for example and another column for R/S Ratio (Results/Searches) and another for Results. I can sort the xls file on any one of these columns to get a nice set of keywords based on that criteria.

I assume you've done testing. Is it better to use R/S or KEI and what range have you found that should we be homing in on?

Is there a minimum number of searches below which it's not worth our while?

I was looking for an answer like "look for the ones with at least 50 searches (or 1 search or 500 searches) and an R/S ratio above XXX (or a KEI above YYY) but not off the scale too out of range large

[dturner]

This is actually a video, I'll link to it when it's uploaded to the site (it's pretty simple, plus it gets even better soon... which means i need to do a new video but that's ok... hint on why it gets better, we're brining even more into the keyword research)

Daniel

[edseward]

Has this video been posted? I looked for it but did not find it.

Ed

[gillian]

Here it is:

http://www.plrpro.com/members/data/v.../longtail.html

Gillian

[cobwab]

Originally Posted by dturner

This is actually a video, I'll link to it when it's uploaded to the site (it's pretty simple, plus it gets even better soon... which means i need to do a new video but that's ok... hint on why it gets better, we're brining even more into the keyword research)

Daniel

Hi,

We get articles to rewrite. We change the title so as not to be the same as other rewritten articles. I use "allintitle" to make sure that the title I change to is unique because I don't want to get rejected by the article publishers for using a title that is already in their db. If I don't change the kw I end up with a bunch of other PLRPro members using the same kw. I could be wrong, but I would rather not be lumped in with similar blogs, having the same graphics and the same article title.

But this unique title is not in the keyword list so I am confused as to how we can rank high in Google if we are not using long tail keywords as the title of our articles.

Where do the article titles come from? Are they selected from the kw list and are already long tail?

What if we pick a long tail kw that has nothing to do with the article body. Is that legal or will it cause the article to be skipped by the search engines? It doesn't make much sense to have an article about dog breeds and give it an allergy title just because it is a great long tail kw.

I am hopelessly confused and afraid I have been doing this rewriting the wrong way.

Can anyone clear up my confusion?

[golfer57]

Hello,
I am going to try and answer some of your questions that make sense and avoid the ones that don't make sense to me.
When you are changing your article and you use the longtail keyword from the list, I would make sure that the title has the longtail keyword in it.

What if we pick a long tail kw that has nothing to do with the article body. Is that legal or will it cause the article to be skipped by the search engines? It doesn't make much sense to have an article about dog breeds and give it an allergy title just because it is a great long tail kw.

Why would you pick a longtail kw that has nothing to do with the article??? Remember, PEOPLE are reading this. That is your number one concern. Write to people and not to search engines. Your statement above is correct about the dog breeds.

So you select a ltkw that you want. Rewrite the article using the ltkw and then make a title that is about the article which is about the ltkw. So the title makes sense to the article.

If you don't use the ltkw in the title you are right you are not going to rank in google for that ltkw thats for sure. So write your article around the ltkw, when you are done, you now know what the article is about, so write a title that makes sense to the article and hopefully you will include the ltkw in the title.

I rewrite my articles before I change the title. I find it easier to make a good title, after I have rewritten the article because I now know what the article is about, in depth and it is easier to write a good title.

Hope that helps,
Steve

[nasph]

Walt,

The main thing (as Steve said) is to make sure that the ltkw fits in the title and appears at least 5/6 times in the text, even use the resource box to link to the ltkw to a post on your blog that has that word or a very similar word in too.

Guys, take a look over at copyblogger.com, on how to write great titles, Brian explains how to write in a really great consistent manner - good for beginners too.

The key thing here (for me anyway) is the write a good article which has two results:
1. A person clicks through the resource box to the blog, then clicks on adsense or an affiliate link.
2. SE's pick up the ltkw and rank me well for it, pushing me up in the serps and resulting in visits and clicks on adsense.

Nick