Friday, March 18, 2011

Keywords

Keywords are the words on a webpage that best describe that page
Keyword selection is the most important step to effective SEO
The keywords you use will be the phrases where you want to be highly ranked on SEs
Time and research should go into selecting the appropriate keywords before doing any SEO
What are the words one would use to find your site?

Continuation on how search engines work…
When a spider goes through a webpage, it determines the weight of frequently used words in the document, and considers them the most important in the document.
The more you use a word in important places, the more search engines give importance to it.
The words with highest weight are more likely to bring up your web page when used as a search term.


You must decide whether to focus on less frequently used keywords (niche) or compete for the commonly used ones.
Here are some tools you can use to see which keywords are searched for frequently
Google Suggest (beta) (free)
http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=1&hl=en
Google adwords
Offers a free keyword tool with its adwords services
WordTracker (paid)

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