Keywords

[QuirkyMomma]

So now that I've found my list of keywords that are not in a saturated market (got the list from reading this post), what do I do with them?

Is it best to focus on one or two keywords or phrases? Is it better to pepper your titles and headings with them? Is tagging my posts enough?

[corcor]

Your main keywords should be in your title, if you can fit 2 in without sounding odd, do it. Tag with keywords, and fill your content with the keywords also.

You can focus multiple posts on certain keywords, then have both title and tag links with the keywords. It's just a matter of building links with keywords in the anchor text.

As I understand it google gives more credit to links of keywords than just plain text keywords.

[sitemarker]

Is it best to focus on one or two keywords or phrases? Is it better to pepper your titles and headings with them? Is tagging my posts enough?

it's all a numbers game. The more keywords, the better. Once you have your
well-researched keywords on file, put up a page per keyword, then optimise it. bookmark it , submit it to article directories, submit rss feeds etc, etc

[tobiasfransson]

While you explore exactly how to make the most out of your new found keywords
you can also start to list the writing ideas to each keyword so that you also have
a blueprint on what to write about for the respective keyword.

If one keyword has several sub topics you could write about write those down as well.

[stephen todd]

Originally Posted by QuirkyMomma

So now that I've found my list of keywords that are not in a saturated market (got the list from reading this post), what do I do with them?

Is it best to focus on one or two keywords or phrases? Is it better to pepper your titles and headings with them? Is tagging my posts enough?

Now you're out of the "mechanical" part and into the "art" territory

What you must realize is that it's not just 1 search phrase per post - it's a group of related phrases - you're page title must start with the main search phrase, but the on-page content must include related search phrases to support the main theme of the page

e.g. if you page was about "milk" then it shouldn't be about milk, milk, milk - it should be milk, milk nutrition, benefits of milk, types of milk, milk calories, organic milk

these semantically related milk phrases will support the "milk" theme of the page - and the more you can fit into the page content the better the page will rank in the search engines

even better, if you create a post for each of these semantic milk phrases - each containing the anchor text link "milk" which links back to your main "milk" page, then you stand a good chance of getting top rankings for "milk"

[annalaurabrown]

you also want to occasionally usually 1 link per post link to the various pages of your website using keywords.

[QuirkyMomma]

another duh moment, thanks bloggeries, I have not been using links of my keywords to other articles in my blog, I only refer to another post if I am mentioning something to do with that post. Example: If in the post about learning activities for the sense of touch I will refer to the playdough recipe I have, but not to the main page of preschool activities.

Thanks for another "duh".

[stephen todd]

Originally Posted by QuirkyMomma

another duh moment, thanks bloggeries, I have not been using links of my keywords to other articles in my blog, I only refer to another post if I am mentioning something to do with that post. Example: If in the post about learning activities for the sense of touch I will refer to the playdough recipe I have, but not to the main page of preschool activities.

Thanks for another "duh".

You'll like this - a wordpress plugin will do it for you

"SEO Smart Links" - you can set it to link 1 or several links in a post to other related pages of your blog - works on existing pages of your site - so you don't have to go back through your old posts

I suspect this plugin of being a resource hog - tried it on a high traffic site several times and had to disable it each time - should be OK for light traffic sites though

[QuirkyMomma]

A plugin! Love it! I think we definitely qualify as "lightly traffic" - Thanks ST!

[trytolearnmore]

Do not write to many keywords))) use one in title, one in the first sentence, two in the body... maybe one in the end