Just put in you keyword and find in the results hte prahses you should be targetting…
Or go and look at the Wordtracker suggestion page free keyword suggestion tool from Wordtracker
SEO for Your Website
Little Joomla SEO Book
The Little Joomla SEO Book
It is finally ready, My own Little Joomla SEO Book.
This e-Book is a free 22 pages file that you can download and is easy to use for everyone.
It is meant as a reminder for making your Joomla Based Website Search Engine friendly.
Click on the link for reading more on, and downloading The Little Joomla SEO Book….
Find the Right Bing, Yahoo and Google Keywords for your website
Target the right keywords to get more traffic
One of the most important things to do if you want more traffic is to look at what people really are searching for.
That is why it is really important to find the most relevant keywords for your website.
Here is how to do good research for these keywords.
There are several ways to learn about how people search the web for the topic of your website.
One of them is to do online research on what people use as a real search term if they are looking for a product, service or problem.
Keyword search example
For instance, you have a website to promote your website hosting company.
So you build your site, using the main keyword “Webhosting service” but visitors would not find you in the numbers you need.
You start researching Keywords and find out that people aren’t looking for “Webhosting service” that much….
Instead, they look for “website hosting”, “webspace” and “domain hosting”, so you start targeting these keywords and your traffic goes up..
Just to give you an idea about how you think people should find your website, and what they really use as search terms = keywords!
But how do you find out about these “real search terms”.
I will give you three possibility’s, two free tools, and one commercial.
Overture Good Keyword Selector tool
The first one is from Overture which is the main database for search engines like Yahoo.
Update: Overture is long gone, so I selected another link to provide you with good keywords.
So they have a good base for bringing in results for this tool:
http://inventory.overture.com/d/searchinventory/suggestion/
https://goodkeywords.com/webapp/
You should start with this page, just to find some basic stuff you can use later on in your quest.
Pro:
It is Free.
Con:
You just get the results from last month.
The results are limited to the search engines that use Overture as a database engine.
Google Keyword Selector tool
We all know by now that Google has a large portion of the search engine market.
So if it were possible to use a tool from them, that should give us more realistic results.
Because Google wants there AdWords advertiser to do well by targeting the right keywords, they created this little tool.
https://adwords.google.com/KeywordPlanner
And we can use it as well :-)….great for creating your keyword list.
If you use the tool, make sure you select “Keyword popularity” and if you get the results sort them on “Search volume”.
You can then click on “add” to place the keywords you want in the right-hand sidebar.
You can then download them as an Excel CSV file.
Pro:
it is Free to use
You can create your keyword list very easy
Con:
It is limited to Google search results and season influences.
Research of several keywords after each other will give you an error that you might use a program to utilize the tool and that you have to wait a period of time before you can use the tool again.
WordTracker Keyword Research Tool
This tool isn’t free, you have to pay to use it.
But you can get a Trail first to see if it works….
But you won’t get access to the really good stuff of WordTracker.
And it does, it will give you the best results of these three options!
And you don’t have to buy a Year subscription, you can buy a month, a week, or just a day….at very reasonable prices…
At the time a write this, a day at the WordTracker wonderful world of Keyword finding, will set you back a whopping …. $8.11…
Try to imagine what the results will bring in, money-wise if you are able to get more traffic…..
How does that compare with your $8,11 investment?
What do you get for this BIG amount of money?
They do have some limits on a Day account:
The daily standard usage limits for WordTracker are:
1500 keyword searches
350 lateral searches
250 competition searches
These limits are for searches you perform, not for results returned.
So if you search on 1 keyword and receive 500 results these only counts as 1 search, this way you can cover a lot of ground on just one day!.
Pro:
Large database with relevant results
One day will give you value for your money
Con:
You have to pay for the results.
Using Meta tag keywords
The keywords Meta tag
This is one of the three things that you have to work with, that aren’t directly seen by users on the web page.
But the work for the search engine spiders and visitors from these Search Engine results Page.
IBP SEO Search Engine Optimization Software
Search Engine Optimization Software
Should You use it and if so, do you need to?
And is there some software that really works and saves me lots of time?
You don’t have to use SEO Software if you don’t want to, or if you don’t have or want to spend your money on buying it.
But what if there was a piece of SEO software you can use to analyze your competitors and that gives you advice on how to get better results in the search engines for your website?
I will get to that question later on but first, let me tell you more about the way you could work on Search Engine Optimization.
Working on SEO Analytics
Everything you can do with SEO Software can be done by hand.
It just takes a longer period of time and a lot more knowledge to get the same results, but as said, you don’t have to use it, its an option.
There are some things you need to do if you want to get a better position in the major search engines.
First, you have to analyze the competition for your chosen keywords.
That means analyzing the top 10 for those keywords en compare them on all the items mentioned in this section of the Site, The SEO Bundled.
So that means for every site you have to:
- Analyze the URLs
- Analyze the page title
- Analyze the description
- Analyze the Text
- Analyze headings
- Analyze paragraphs
- etc
And you have to do that at least for 10 websites, for each keyword….
And after that you have to work through the results to see what, and how, to improve every aspect on your own website…
The advantage of really good Search Engine Optimization Software.
First I must say, as an IT Manager, I am not easily impressed by Software products.
And there is always room for improvement.
I have tried several packages of this kind of software and most of them promise more than they can deliver.
The One thing I like about this kind of software is that most of them have an item called “Top 10 Optimization”
In general, this means they do the comparison of the Top 10 Websites for you!
If you want to read more on this “Top 10 Optimization” then you can read more on
How to get high rankings in Google and Yahoo with IBP’s top rated Top 10 Optimize tool.
But the best part is, that this gives me a way of comparing the software packages and the results the bring in their reports.
The Best SEO Software is Internet Business Promotor
That is my opinion, you may differ.
But I found the software impressive, in speed and in performance
Here are some of the features:
- Keyword Finder
- Top 10 Rankings Optimizer
- Ranking Checker
- Competition analyzer
- Keyword Density analyzer
- …..the list goes on and on
I have tried it first with the free download and used the 30 days trial period.
You need those 30 days to check if you get the results.
Ordering IBP is 100% risk-free. Just Test IBP for 30 days.
If you don’t like the full version, you’ll get your money back.
Then I found myself buying this Software because it really works.
I must admit that I don’t use all the features, and still it’s worth every dollar I have paid!
All The customers from my part-time web design company are ranked within the top 10 of their chosen keywords, because I used this software to optimized their websites.
And that give me an advantage over the competition as well :-)
How about the Search Engine Results?
Naturally, You want some kind of proof that it really works what I tell you:
Check the major search engines on “netwerk documentatie” which is the dutch equivalent of “network documentation”.
On Google: Netwerk Documentatie
On MSN: Netwerk Documentatie
On Yahoo: Netwerk Documentatie
Or for a high competition term with Optimization specific for Google about the Dutch term that means “Network Management”
Lets do this on Google right now: “netwerk beheer”
Look for the website called www.netwerkdna.nl of www.networkdna.nl which is a redirect to the former.
I use the software below several times each month to keep up with the competition, and I am still ranking very well on the Keywords I target
Download the Free IBP Software Trail right Here
P.s There is a new version out that also give advice on Getting the right links to your site.
So, If I buy this software I will get into the top positions…..?
Just like that? NO, it is not by magic, you have to really work for it.
Reading the advice of the reports is one thing, implementing the changes is another.
The advice in the reports is Good, but use common sense with it, be critical and look if the advice will work for your website.
Learn some basic HTML skills and learn how to get the changes into your Content Management System or web pages.
But if you really want more visitors by getting better results in the Search result pages of the search Engines, this is going to help you a lot !!
Images for Search Engines
Let images help you to Improve your rankings
Images will bring some life to your site so it’s nicer for Your Visitors, but can also be a major asset for improving your Search Engine Rankings…
But You have to pay attention to the way You handle those Images.
Search Engine Spiders cannot index the content of an image (yet).
So what can we show the then You ask?
For starters put on the images itself so Your ..jpg, …png or …gif files
Yes, but that is not an improvement is it.
That’s right if you just place your images it is NOT an improvement.
Making Images work for You
What would happen if You would first rename your images to match the basic keywords of your site?
Now that is a possibility for optimization!
So the first thing You do is rename Your file like the one below, which is called improve-your-ranking-with-images.png
And then you must use the HTML “alt” tag for images.
This tag gives you a text, with most browsers, if you hover with your mouse over the image.
This is also done for text readers to give them an impression of the image.
If You use these text markers en renaming the right way, you are giving the spider some more keywords to index your pages.
Write your Page Description
Making Your First Impression on Your Visitor.
The Description tag is what people read on the Search Engine Results Page.
So make sure this First Impression is bringing in Your Visitor.
The Description Tag is right up there in the Search Engine!!
If you look at your own way of searching in Google, Bing, or Yahoo, you will probably do the same thing most of us do.
You will search on one keyword or more and check the results…
What do You check to see if the site has the information you want?
What do you read right there on the results page?
Exactly!! The lyrics are right below the Title of the Page you got served…
And what is the Site You will most likely visit First?
And again Right on the Money, You see NOW why this description is so important!!
NOTE: Google might serve you a portion of the page, a paragraph, or a text part.
But if there is no real part that is special on the site, you WILL get the description.o write your description with the keywords you seek and you use on the page.
But take time to write that First Impression!!
Make sure you talk to your visitor right there!! So YOU will have the site they want to visit FIRST.
So did You also Look at this Picture First, before reading the Text?
And what was your First Impression then of these Guys and Girls?
P.s. You must at least recognize Bill Gates in the bottom left corner.
Get your Title right
The first thing You HAVE to do is get your Title right
This one is really important.
The Title of your page is the First thing that search engines look for and display in the search results.
So you got to nail this one, or you lose every run.
The title of your site page article must be like a Newspaper Headline.
It must indicate to your readers what you want to tell them and tickle their curiosity to read on beyond the Title header.
Your web page title is the One Thing that stands out in the Search engines.
It is getting your ranking into shape and attracting your visitors to come in, together with your description meta-tag.
How to write good Titles?
Think up a good headline before you write your article!
Put yourself in the driver’s seat of the web surfer you would like to have as a visitor on Your site.
Thinks how you would search for the topic you want to address in your article!
Then do your keyword research and find out what people REALLY use as search terms to find information on that subject!!.
Then write your page title with the found major keyword, or a nice combination of keywords as a major part of the Headline.
P.s. Your title should not be longer than 64 characters.
