How to Find Highly Profitable Keywords

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We could talk for days about all of the elements needed to make a successful website and we wouldn’t be wasting any of our time, there are a lot of optimization and content elements that could have you redesigning your site over and over. But to get right down to the grind, keywords are the most important aspect of a site, no ifs ands or buts. If you fail with your keywords, it would be just about impossible to imagine how your site could be successful. Let’s talk about the number one most important element of all, how to find highly profitable keywords.

Highly Profitable Keywords

Everyone knows that keywords are crucial to a site, however what makes a keyword are good keyword? What are the guidelines that let you know how to find highly profitable keywords and not ones that will sink your ship, so to speak? The answer is that highly profitable keywords will be words or phrases which are frequently searched for in major search engines, but that are not already being used by a large amount of websites. Sound tricky, doesn’t it? Well, it is a bit tricky; however that is the magic of the Internet. And we will discuss several ways on how you can find highly profitable keywords to either optimize your site better or to get a new website off to a great start.

One of the first things that you may wish to do is to get out a pad of paper instead of getting on the keyboard. Brainstorm for a few moments. Your site must have a theme, it must have a focus, a certain set of words that tell what your website is about. The secret is to slightly change those words so that they are still words that are searched for, but your competition is lower. For example if your site is about soap, millions of people type in the very generalized word “soap”, too many for you to compete against. Therefore, you will need to come up with profitable keywords for your site, and use a different keyword that does have a good amount of use, but not so much that you are hidden by your competition.

One great tool for finding highly profitable keywords is the Wordtracker. It functions as many keyword generators do, you enter the keyword that you had in mind and Wordtracker will suggest hundreds of alternatives, all similar to your idea, but slightly different, perhaps finding you that perfect niche that we are all in search of.

You may also wish to check out Google Adwords Keyword tool, originally meant to help advertisers figure out how much to bid on words, you can use this in much the same way. You can enter one keyword or several at the same time. It also allows you to filter results if you wish, for example one filter will keep out profanity. Then, suggestions are listed out for you along with number. You’ll notice that the numbers let you know how many times each certain keyword was searched for in the last month. In some cases information is not available, and while it is not stated, one would assume that the number is very low.

Keyword spy is another resource that works a bit differently. You can actually type in a keyword and it will let you know which sites are currently implementing that very same keyword. You can then also see which other keywords that are using as well.

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How to Increase Backlinks and Traffic For Your Site

Before choosing any link building campaign you must know which type of link building methods would really helps in increasing greater search engine ranking position results.

Some of the most effective methods to increase the number of quality backlinks which would in turn increase the amount of traffic to the web site is given below:

o Social Bookmarking - A relatively new avatar of a concept developed in the 1990s, it essentially tags one or more web sites that a person or a group of people have found useful and informative and which they think they will want to return to. These tags can be saved, shared publicly or privately and are a great form of free advertisement through 'word of mouth' interactions on the internet. If the quality of articles is good, topical, updated regularly and overall have a good reputation, getting a good amount of relevant traffic is almost guaranteed if you include articles or comments that have links coming back to the desired web site.

o Blog Comments - There are more than 70 million blog sites on the web and the number is increasing every day. There would be hundreds if not thousands of blogs relating to what a person does or feels and commenting on these while including a backlink to the appropriate web site is an assured way to drive traffic to that site.

o Article Distribution - There are a large number of websites that a person can use to post articles on subjects they are interested in. While a number of these are free sites, there are others where a small or large fee is involved. There are also services which take these articles and submit them to many websites which the individual writing the article may not be even aware of. It is necessary to write good quality articles preferably on topics that are highly topical and which either the general public or a group of people with special interests would find interesting and / or informative. Having backlinks to your own web site and using appropriate key words in these articles that have been written for submission to other web sites is sure to increase traffic to your site.

o Forum Posting - Discussing specific topics or subjects with others who have similar interests leads to the establishment of online communities called forums. By being a regular and knowledgeable contributor to these forums, in the form of comments and short posts with a backlink to his or her own web site, a person can drive up the traffic and increase their page rank.

The more common methods to increase backlinks and thereby traffic to a web site has been mentioned above, it is best to use a combination of these and some others options like creating viral reports, to get the best results.