The traveling salesman in the opening scene of “The Music Man” was right: “You gotta know the territory”. That applies to YouTube, too. Answer these questions about the most successful and popular videos for your keywords (the ones on page 1 of the search results): • What is their title? • What is their rank in YouTube? • What’s their page rank in Google? • How many likes and dislikes do they have? • What are the tags for these videos? • What YouTube category are they in? • Where can you watch them to understand them better? This... [...]
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The key is to understand the current top 10 sites. What do they have in common, keywords, especially? When you understand how they got to the first pay of Google, you’ll have a good idea how you can get there, too. Manually, this is a challenge to accomplish. That’s why Keyword Genetics was invented. This new software, in fact, does even more. But first, you supply a keyword, and it does all the work to search Google, find the top sites, and find their commonalities, the keywords are they targeting. It will find single words plus multiple word phrases that your competitors are using.... [...]
The latest MOZ blog post is titled “Keyword Targeting, Density, and Cannibalization – Whiteboard Friday”. Rand Fishkin says, “Enough has changed about keyword targeting that it’s high time we offered a refresher. In today’s Whiteboard Friday, Rand lays out best practices for targeting, and clears the air about density and cannibalization in today’s world of search“. Keyword Targeting, Density, and Cannibalization – Whiteboard Friday MOZ Blog [...]
There are billions of Google searches every day. And the searchers use many keywords (billions) in these searches. If you use Google’s webmaster keyword suggestion tool, you will only find the tip of the iceberg for keywords related to your niche. There are many keywords being searched that don’t show up in the results by Google. Andy Black has just released a new software tool to uncover keywords that would otherwise be hidden away, relevant keywords that most marketers never know about. He calls his new tool Keyword Spinner.. This new tool can help you not only uncover new keywords,... [...]
If you want to get the best results from your marketing efforts, you need to discover what people are wanting to buy. The way to do that is to understand the keywords that people use in their searches when they are ready to buy. This information is available, collected by several prominent websites. Google comes to mind, of course, but there are others with data that may be even more valuable. Market Research Hero gives you critical keyword statistics, based on data found around the web, “on a silver platter.” You are never more than a few clicks away from your answer. Think of all... [...]
Ricky Mataka, Dan Lew and Mike Young have just announced the newest and possibly the easiest keyword analysis tool ever. Keyword Winner finds keyword suggestions in seconds and rates them for likely profitability, based on competition. This keyword tool integrates into WordPress and suggests keywords while you are blogging, saving you a lot of time. When you write a post, run the tool, select the keywords you want, and the tool can add them to the post for you with just one click. You can add the selected keywords to the title, the tags and include them in the body of the post, all at once, using... [...]
The latest article on ‘Business 2 Community’ is titled “What Keywords Say About You (And Your Business)”. Zsolt Bicskey says, “As most marketers know, keywords and phrases are a major reason business-based websites show up on search engine result pages (SERPs). Keywords, however, are much more than this. Knowing what keywords say about you is essential for marketing your business and positioning it as high as possible on sites like Google, mobile-based browser apps, and other resources people use to learn more about your brand. For starters, let’s take a look at different... [...]
Mike Tyler just released Niche Genie, to help us overcome the problem of too much niche competition. You need to uncover keywords that hundreds of other marketers haven’t flocked to. Tyler offers his new software to help you dig into a niche and find where you can make inroads and build a business without a lot of competition. For over 2 years, Tyler has been building software to help niche marketers improve their results., including Amazon Niche Finder and Instant Backlink Magic. Niche Genie builds on the expertise developed in these earlier projects. Your success requires that you clearly... [...]
The latest MOZ blog post is titled “How to Build Your Own Mass Keyword Difficulty Tool”. Martin Macdonald says, “Combining a few readily available tools in creative ways can give you everything you need to measure basic ranking difficulty for any number of keywords. This post shows you how”. How to Build Your Own Mass Keyword Difficulty Tool MOZ Blog [...]
Sean Colman says you don’t have to do any SEO if you don’t have any competition. You just need to find the low competition keywords related to your niche. Keywords like this are almost always “long-tail” keywords, and are highly targeted to small sub-niches. Colman has created a new training program showing you how to find these low-competition keywords. He calls it Keyword Mole.. Besides showing you how to find these keywords yourself (and you can do it using free tools he describes), Colman has provided you with a huge list of these long-tail keywords he has developed,... [...]