Understanding Keywords In SEO, Guide For Newbies

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Understanding Keywords In SEO, Guide For Newbies







When you are just starting out as a fresh blogger, obviously you have little first-hand knowledge about blogging and its dynamics. With time as you dig deep, you find helpful information about improving your blog and its content, which in result do wonders for your ranking and generate more traffic. Many experienced bloggers put their emphasis more on “Keywords” as it’s the initial step to optimize SEO. Now let’s talk about some fundamental principle of keywords and understanding its significance in your blog posts.




Ø    What Are Keywords And Their Role In Ranking Pages:



Keywords are words, phrases or snippets in your article which make it easy for people to find what they are looking for on search engine, so if they are user friendly and demand based, more likely readers will get connected to your website material resulting in elevating your traffic percentage on site map. You got to use your keywords like it’s a magnet and it has a temptation attach to it, otherwise people will navigate to other pages and you will be hovering around down below. Every year search engine is coming out with new preferences and it automatically identifies keywords in your published post in order to rank it for user experience.



You also have to ponder on, why some of your posts are getting more clicks and some are having medium traffic driven to them. Google changes its Algorithm many times to produce quality based content by detecting keywords and ranking the site on top of search engine. Doing keyword research once and thinking now you are done with it is simply not a good strategy for becoming a trusted and successful blogger. Inducting keywords in image file name, meta tags, body text, title and URL can help a great deal in SEO.




Ø     Tools For Keyword Research:



There are number of tools out there to perform keyword search, some are completely free and some are paid as they offer advance level research. As a beginner go with free ones and use them to their full potential, if you actually want to achieve something.


1.     Keyword Planner



Keyword planner is a helpful tool to monitor campaigns and finding keywords ideas and their performance value index. It’s totally free but a bit tricky to understand. Nonetheless you can go to different alternatives also.


2.   Wordtracker


You can also go to wordtracker, it gives you thousands of keywords and their SEO competition, Volume, Pos and other details, making it easier to decide what keyword is worth investing in.


3.   Semrush


This is a paid site but they offer free trial as well, if you want to explore your methods of keyword research, it can assist you fully about what kind of keywords are in business. If want to check the performance of top ranked sites, you can put its URL and check what kind of method and keywords they used to climb up.







Here’s a good example of finding keywords, its showing details about Competition (how many people are working on it) and Volume (describing number of monthly searches on that particular keywords) and CPC rate (cost per click).



Google always piling up data all the time from searches happening in its engine, so you can find out easily which keywords are accessed by people more on monthly basis and you can start working around it by filtering those keywords that got minimal searches. Long tail keywords and Short tail keywords are both applicable but Long tail words are more effective in drawing large traffic to your site. That doesn’t mean that you go long to extra-long.




Ø    Density And Placement Of Keyword Matters:


Maintaining keyword density is very essential because when the bot crawl your site, it regulate your page by looking at keyword density. Refrain away from adding too many keywords or you will ruin things for yourself. Every blogger has a fair idea of establishing density by using LSI keywords, this combats the issue of Google Panda penalties. I am sure, you don’t want your site to be marked as spam and risking losing it, so be tactical in your approach towards SEO.





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