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[GloballyRational]

So you're suggesting that specific keywords would be better than general ones? Wouldn't that be covered if I had separate keywords for each term? What I mean is... if I had "sterling, silver, jewelry" as separate keywords, wouldn't that be just as good as (or better than) having "sterling silver jewelry" as one keyword?

[Shopping4Coupons]

Originally Posted by GloballyRational

So you're suggesting that specific keywords would be better than general ones? Wouldn't that be covered if I had separate keywords for each term? What I mean is... if I had "sterling, silver, jewelry" as separate keywords, wouldn't that be just as good as (or better than) having "sterling silver jewelry" as one keyword?

The long tail keywords are better than short one word ones as long as they are ones that are actually being used for searches. That's where the paid version of Wordracker really shines. I think Rob owns the paid version and was advertising giving people the popular long tail keywords for people that asked him on another post here.

Let's take your last post for example Parsing a Country Song #1 | Globally Rational
by the way Wordpress is saving them as numbers not as words.

If you used music, Nashville, songs, country, for keywords you would be pretty low on the totem pole for each of those words. If you used "Nashville country music songs" for a keyword you would be much higher for that exact search. Now you have put yourself in a position for some people to find you.
Wouldn't it be better to be position #1 for 10 people than position #100 for a thousand people? I remember a good phrase "Niche marketing, divide and conquer".

[Shopping4Coupons]

Originally Posted by Shopping4Coupons

The long tail keywords are better than short one word ones as long as they are ones that are actually being used for searches. That's where the paid version of Wordracker really shines. I think Rob owns the paid version and was advertising giving people the popular long tail keywords for people that asked him on another post here.

Let's take your last post for example Parsing a Country Song #1 | Globally Rational
by the way Wordpress is saving them as numbers not as words.

Hey I see you changed the link structure to your blog and now you are #1 in Google for "parsing a country song" out of more than 30,000. See how easy that works? Plus the keyword specific backlink here helped I'm sure.

That's why good blog post titles are so important.

[MeiYah]

MeiYah

Originally Posted by Shopping4Coupons

For a limited time I will critique your blog on SEO and give you my opinion of what kind of search engine optimizing I think you should do for your blog to get it higher up on the search rankings for your particular blogs keywords.

If you see any results from our blog seo efforts together perhaps you could add a backlink to one of the blogs I write for within a related post of yours in the future. That's all I ask.

Realize that some keywords are very competitive and there are already many blog seo experts out there that have been doing this for a long time. It may be better to concentrate on a smaller niche and dominate it rather than be on page 10 for a common search term. You will want to have a good tracking tool like Statcounter installed to see just what keywords people are using to find you now compared to after any changes you make.

You can add your blog to this post and I'll reply here also..

[Shopping4Coupons]

Hi, I'm not too experienced with blogspot.


Who do you want as visitors and do you know what keywords you are looking to lead with?

With that information I can do a better job with researching your keywords and getting you higher in the search engines for them.

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Thanks for all the input on various ways to make sites for SEO friendly. The comments provided have been helpful.