Keywords and first five articles

[Sharon]

Hi,
I need some clarification with regards to keywords and articles.
You say in the manual to choose five articles from the pack and change the keywords. however what i do not understand is that once you have changed them, the keywords may not relate to that article?
or have i misunderstood?
(I had a keyword 'celebrity detox diet' but could not find anything relating to this?)
If the keyword needs to relate to the article, surely this would take a long time to try and match them?
Another question is this;
What is the best way to keep track of the articles you have re-written and used previously and also the keywords you have used? as i don't think it is a good idea to use the same articles/keywords over and over?
Hope this is clear and would appreciate anyones help as now i am just stuck on day two!!
Thanks,
Sharon & Stu.

[bizkit]

Hi Sharon and Stu

Best way I can reply to this is to tell you what I do and hopefully this will guide you:

1) I look at the keywords spreadsheet supplied in the pack, ideally you want keywords with high searches and low results. These tend to be the first items listed. I often check the results by doing a search on Google with the keyword phrase in quotes, I look for terms generally with less than 25-30K results but the lower the better.
2) Using Keyword Discovery I then do a search on the term and see if I can get suggestions for a longer string keyword incorporating the main kw phrase e.g. "best celebrity detox diet" "top celebrity detox diet" etc might come up, even a plural might come up e.g. "celebrity detox diets"

Now, I appreciate that you may not have a keyword tool that you can use so a simple way round it might be to put those terms into Google in quotes and see what results you get - you also want to look for people advertising on these terms.
Often times I decide to go with the keyword as supplied as results are low enough.

2) I use excel to keep a record of what articles I have rewritten and what I have done with it e.g. a column for posted to blog and a column for each of the article directories including isnare.
I also rename the article e.g. celebrity detox diet1 = article submitted to directories or celebrity detox diet2= article posted to blog. Then when I open the folder on my computer that contains the articles I can see which ones I have already used. I also highlight the keywords I have used on the excel spreadsheet so I can see what keywords I have already used.

Hope that helps
Jakki

[Sharon]

Jakki,
Thanks very much for your help..... much appreciated,
Sharon.

[Carm]

Hey Jakki,

Thanks for the spreadsheet tip for keeping track of the articles. I've been using folders within each pack, but the spreadsheet is a much better idea as it is all visible straight away.

Good one!!!

Thanks