Comments on: The Pitfalls of SEO – Keywords

By: jeux import uk

jeux import uk — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 20:50:10 +0000

Yeah i think so.

I beleieve that choose his keywords is one of the most important step in a wbesite’s life. Choose the good keyword and one step will be done.

By: SEOP

SEOP — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 03:12:32 +0000

Great tips. Thanks for sharing. Keyword research definitely is the number one thing to consider when doing SEO.

By: PPC Management | Mark

PPC Management | Mark — Wed, 05 May 2010 02:45:48 +0000

Keyword research is an important thing when embarking on an SEO or Pay Per Click campaign.

Yes everyone wants to turn up #1 for those hard keywords, but while they are wasting hundreds if not 1000′s of dollars on that, why not look at local or broader search terms. At the end of the day 5 or so longer tailed keywords may generate more traffic than the shorter keyword, and definitely a lot sooner too.

By: Pari sportif

Pari sportif — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 18:10:59 +0000

Nice theory. But in fact, It’s tough to combine SEO and ergonomy for user.
For example when you said “a paragraph should be included for each keyword targeted” on your webpage it’s totally impossible in the body of your article because it will boring for your user and you will definitely lose visitors…
We’ll see how Google Caffeine is aligned with this theory (websites relatifs to a keyword sentence not a specific keyword). So, wait and see?

By: Webdesign Rosenheim

Webdesign Rosenheim — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 07:32:49 +0000

Our experience is, that nothing is better than content! Do not just rely on optimizing your site towards keywords. Google seems to be “intelligent” enough to reward sites that provide real (and unique) content.
This may be no short term website “pusher” but in the long term your site will rank higher!
Nice post though!

By: Focus on Usability

Focus on Usability — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 21:28:06 +0000

A bunch of things to say to this:
1. Always focus on usability and the user’s needs. The reason why keywords are highlighted in search results is that Google is telling the user these are most relevant to what you typed. I like to use related terms (see point 3 below) but they are nominally useful to the actual user.
2. Googel Caffeine a game changer? I hope you are not a professional SEO telling that to your clients, Alan Write. And besides, local results, real time results, otehr vertical results all changed the game – I dare say a lot more than Caffeine will. Abdi is right that it is mainly about speed – Google’s and site’s page load speed.
3. I like Google’s keyword tool because I *think* the list of Additional Terms to Consider provides a hint of Google’s LSI, so you might use these in further content development or links from the page you are building.

By: pittfall

pittfall — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 16:37:27 +0000

Ben,

Thanks for the question. Actually depending on the type of keyword research I am working on will be the determination of the broad or exact match type. At the page level, I will always go for the exact match because this is the most realistic in terms of expectant traffic.

By: Ben King

Ben King — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 01:52:49 +0000

When you look this up on Google’s keyword tool, do you use Broad, Phrase or Exact Match?

I assume you use broad match however it would be good to know.

Cheers

By: Carter Cole

Carter Cole — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 20:35:57 +0000

i made a tool to compare Google and Google caffeine and after they turned off dev preview i got ip from mattcutts for the datacenter that is still testing it so i could keep checking caffeine results

By: creative_blondes

creative_blondes — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 13:37:46 +0000

May I just add that keywords are great, and people should use the Google Keywords tool always before publishing a post, because a tiny difference in the Title could make a great difference. But don’t spend any time on the meta tag keywords, google doesn’t give credits to that anymore.. not since a loong while ago.
Just my 2 cents

By: paris sportifs

paris sportifs — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 17:48:35 +0000

Abdi for me,

caffeine’s effects will be for 2010.
Google changes every time and we have to adapt us not google to us

By: Abdi Gulaid

Abdi Gulaid — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 10:32:09 +0000

Alan, is Caffeine really a game changer- from what I’ve seen to date it has only changed the speed at which sites get indexed – especially social media content… Very little has changed aside from that really.

What do you think?

By: cminusminus

cminusminus — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 23:07:01 +0000

One of ancient technique of wrestling up with semantic representation is acronyms. Unfortunately google and others fail royally at dealing with acronyms.

By: Alice

Alice — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:42:04 +0000

Thanks for the post. Ranking high for short phrases is such a pain these days… Every bit of info helps.

By: Alan Write

Alan Write — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:06:52 +0000

Google caffeine will be a game changer for SEO’s and all search engine optimization rules will have to be revisited. I have been using Google Keyword Tool for a while to find hot keywords which have less competition. Thanks for your article .. it was nice to read your perspective about keywords ~ websites

By: Jijo@ Blogging Tips

Jijo@ Blogging Tips — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:59:49 +0000

SEO and SERP are factors which we must take much care. Simple mistakes can outtake all our Search Engine Rank.
Your blog looks cool because the Nice font you have selected. I liked it very much. Keep blogging.

By: John

John — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:51:37 +0000

Thanks! I was a little confused about how to really go about optimizing for keywords. This had cleared it up a bit.

By: pittfall

pittfall — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:08:27 +0000

Alex,
I would work toward what keywords are related to the most searched terms. Not just focusing on “shoes”, but running shoes, dress shoes, casual shoes, whatever makes sense for the context of the page. Pages below this in the hierarchy may be better suited to be more specific and support the pages above. Thanks for the comment.

By: alex

alex — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:12:37 +0000

Thanks for this. Would you say it is very important to target keywords that will be searched specifically then? I know not many people use it but you can see the massive difference when using the quote marks.

By: Nick Stamoulis

Nick Stamoulis — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:41:53 +0000

Sometimes it is difficult to find exactly the right set of keywords for a specific type of website and the best you can do is come as close as possible and over lap as much as you can.