All keywords are not created equal, some words pay more than others, much more in fact. High value and profitable keywords tend to have high CPC (cost-per-click). The terms like “structured settlements” and “mesothelioma lawyer” have incredibly high CPC, which more likely can produce incredibly high AdSense revenue if they show up on your site, so those keywords are also considered as high paying AdSense keyword.

Unfortunately hundreds of thousands of other webmasters are “on” to this practice judging by the number of sites created regularly to capitalize on the phenomenon. So, where does this leave you? Out in the cold? No, by going after “lateral” keywords and terms you can produce a site that is even more profitable than these other sites. I will show you how you can do just that.

What is “high paying lateral keywords?” Essentially, these are keywords or keyword phrases that webmasters dismiss as not being relevant or are unrelated to certain high paying keywords. For instance, you know that the phrase “home loan remortgage” has a nice payout. You gear your article or page accordingly to have AdSense produce the lucrative ads and, instead, you come up with ads that are relevant but not big payers. Should you give up? No, of course not. Instead, research similar keyword terms that can also serve up high paying ads and go with them. In this case the following could be considered:

mortgage loan

bad credit remortgage

remortgage problems

mortgage refinancing

As you can see, each term contains the keyword “remortgage” but other words are added. These “lateral” keywords/terms may be paid even more than the “home loan remortgage” terms. In addition, some nice ads were served up too.

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Posted on April 30, 2010 in High Paying Keywords | No Comments »

One of the key elements that determine web page rankings is the number of high quality links pointing towards that page. Combined with the keyword density of that particular page, these factors will determine where your web page appears when a search is initiated. So, the proper link building will boost your website popularity and ultimately bring more visitors on your site from search engine.

Let’s say you have a website on “washing machine”. Now, one of your pages is dedicated to “front load washer”, which is also the key phrase you optimized the page for. A good keyword density is not enough, however, and if you want to tank high you need to get as many incoming links pointing towards that specific page as possible.

While links pointing towards your domain name are valuable, you actually need to get links pointing towards that particular page in order to get the best results. The best way to build your links is using anchor text optimization, which is part of off page search engine optimization (SEO) strategy.

Anchor Text Definition

What is anchor text? It is the text that becomes your link. The anchor text is the one that you can insert in an HTML code so that your link is actually a series of keywords or a keyword-rich phrase. The importance of hyperlink anchor text is high because it tells the search engines that the page the link is pointing at is focused on the topic described by the keywords.

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Posted on April 30, 2010 in SEO | 3 Comments »

Keyword analysis is one of search engine optimization strategies that is directed towards finding out the hidden keywords which would help in increasing sales conversion ratio. The main idea behind keyword analysis is to figure out the right keywords that would effectively increase search engine optimization. Keyword analysis would also help web owners in ppc (pay-per-click) advertising i.e. Google AdWords and Yahoo Marketing that would further increase quality traffic to their websites. Keyword analysis is one important stride in developing a web page that is sure to have a good search engine ranking.

Keyword analysis entails for keyword research which is a process involve in the generation of keywords. Just how do we generate keywords? These keywords that are going to be used will depend on the business or industry and their services. Keywords and their monthly search volumes are generated by keyword generating tools (reference: Keyword Research Tools). Then, you have to analyze further the result from this keyword generating tool to come into conclusion of what keywords you will use to optimize your web page or other analysis purposes. You can compare these keywords across keyword analysis tools in order to remove some of the commonly repeated keywords. Different keyword tools may give different results. (more reading : How Accurate Are Keyword Tools? ) It is not always wise to use all the highly searched keywords or high search volume. That’s why you need to perform keyword competitive analysis at the next step.

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Posted on April 14, 2010 in Keyword Analysis | No Comments »

The advance of information technology and revolution of internet have changed conventional competition and marketing completely. Now product has to be marketed on the Internet equally forcefully to compete and remain in the market. Nearly all kind of products can be ordered online.

There are billions of websites in the Internet today, and it is increasing the toll every second. So daily internet surfer cannot remember addresses of all websites. They can bookmark some websites but most of the time they have to search for new products, topics, and hot news. So, they go to search engines to check the relevant websites. As competition is already severe in all niches. Thus webmasters have to work hard to remain competent and relevant in the eyes of major search engines like Google to bring visitors and new customers for their niche keywords and to remain at top in their niche.

In this situation webmasters and internet marketers have to know the exact competition and aware of competition level for their niche keywords. As they know importance of search engine optimization to bring their site at competent place for their niche keywords so they need technical information about their competitor web pages. Therefore, they are required to do competition analysis as part of their search engine optimization effort. They need information of their competitor web pages like number of back links of domain, page rank of domain, back link to web page, page rank of web page and most importantly information about all in anchor, title and text rank of their competitor web pages in Google.

Currently webmasters and internet marketers have to struggle a lot to determine competition for their niche keywords but you can use keyword competition checker available in the Internet to make their life easier. NicheWatch.com and SpyFu.com are some of websites that provide free SEO analysis tool. For more advanced software tool, SEO Elite is highly recommended for helping your competition analysis.

With these competition checker tool, you just need to enter the niche keyword and the tool provided by these websites give all technical information required to assess competition level for their niche keyword at one place in very comprehensive format.

Posted on March 21, 2010 in Keyword Analysis, SEO | 2 Comments »

We all want to know how keywords affect our page rankings in Google, the most important search engine. But we’ll need to do a little work to find out the answer. Many say keywords are the key to good search engine rankings, although they aren’t at all the only factor.

Keyword Rankings

If you need a keyword tool to help you decide on your keywords, you can use the free tool i.e Google AdWords Keyword Tool.  This keyword tool allows you to test your keyword rankings by showing you statistics on recent searches for them. It’s a great tool when you have no clue which keyword you should choose, as it can give you a list of terms that were recently searched on.

Keyword Density

Keyword density refers to the number of the keywords contained within your text relative to the amount of text there is. Preferred keyword density ratios vary between search engines, but you should generally try to keep them between two and eight percent (major search engines prefer the lower end). Keyword analysis tools can help to optimize a web page’s keyword density.

However, many SEO experts will tell you that the keyword density of your text is not a very important factor, and that you should be careful not to overdo it. So is there a limit? How many times should you use your keywords? SEO experts won’t be able to answer these questions for you, because no-one is really sure of the answer. The best answer is that it changes regularly, and you can never be sure. You have to experiment to see what works for you.

Location of Keywords

When testing the effects of keyword location, we found that pages with the keywords at the top and bottom of the page ranked higher on Google than pages with the keywords in the middle.

Many other search engines also give keywords more or less weight based on their location, but keep in mind that each search engine’s algorithm is different. Here’s a list of how most search engines prioritize keyword positions, from most to least:

• Domain name
• Page title
• Headings (i.e. H1, H2, etc.)
• Body text (the first 2 to 3 KB usually counts more)
• Meta tags (especially description)
• Links (including keywords in the URL or link text of links to you)
• Alt text (the ‘alt’ descriptions for your images)

Really, though, keyword density is one of those areas where you’ll have trouble on your hands if you try to second guess the search engines. Be cautious.

As your knowledge about SEO continues to grow, you will begin to see how SEO fits into the overall scheme of things. Knowing how something relates to the rest of the world is important too.

Posted on March 18, 2010 in Keyword Analysis, SEO | 1 Comment »