Posts Tagged ‘Related’

Seo:Find Related Keywords

Monday, July 14th, 2008

Before you even build your website you need to determine what niche or theme your website is about. Same with any other page, there’s going to be main topic for it. Once you decide on topic, you need to find keywords and phrases that relate to your theme, analyze them and pick most relevant ones but they also should be keywords in “demand”. It would be a waste of your time to optimize your website for keywords that nobody is even searching for. How do you find in “demand” keywords? The most popular resources are WordTracker, KeywordCountry and KeywordElite. Using these tool’s you will be able to narrow your keywords to ones that have the highest search volume and not that many websites to compete against which is known as Keyword Effectiveness Index (KEI).

Related Keywords and Yahoo! Search Assist

Thursday, June 19th, 2008

Though Yahoo! Search Assist was launched in Yahoo! Search US back in October, Yahoo’s announcement (just a few hours ago!) of search assist being rolled out in other countries made me remember the importance of choosing your keywords.

One of the biggest mistakes you can commit in SEO is choosing only primary keywords that are too highly competitive and not optimising for other keywords that expound on those primary keywords. The emergence of Yahoo! search assist makes related keywords even more important. How so?

Search assist, as the term suggests, assists or aids users in narrowing down the search immediately by suggesting other related keywords as a search term is being typed in the search box. For example as I typed in Disneyland the following suggestions emerged, with the suggestions evolving as more letters were typed in.

* dis - disney, disney channel, dish network, discount tire, discover card
* disn - disney, disney channel, disney world, disneyland, playhouse disney
* disney - disney channel, playhouse disney, disney world, disneyland, disney channel games
* disneyl - disneyland, disneyland california, disneyland hotel california, hong kong disneyland, disneyland tickets

Participate at Related Forums & Blogs

Thursday, June 19th, 2008

Whatever industry or niche you’re in, there are bloggers, forums and an online community that’s already active. Depending on the specificity of your focus, you may need to think one or two levels broader than your own content to find a large community, but with the size of the participatory web today, even the highly specialized content areas receive attention. A great way to find out who these people are is to use Technorati to conduct searches, then sort by number of links (authority). Del.icio.us tags are also very useful in this process, as are straight searches at the engines (Ask.com’s blog search in particular is of very good quality).