Stephan Miller
Building Websites, Traffic, and Income
A Huge List of Keyword Tools
There doesn’t seem to be a common consensus on what keyword tools are useful or whether you need to use them in the first place, but there are a lot and we will get to them. Sometimes I used them, sometimes I don’t.
There are tools that can build a mass of keywords and cost some money like Keyword Elite. I myself see no use of having 5000 keywords on a niche. I did maybe at one time. But it is much better to build a general overview of your niche with a knowledge of a few of the keywords people would use to find it. Then write articles that gravitate around a few main topics of the niche.
Some WordPress SEO Thoughts
I lay awake at night thinking of things like this. Not long. A few minutes or so. Sometimes I get an idea when I am driving. Sometimes I write the ideas down. Sometimes I see if they will pop back up on their own. The ones that do get focus. But I always give them a little freedom. That way they can tell their friends that I am a good home. And then I wait on the friends.
Long Tail Time Bombs
I knew I would have to explain this one today. If you noticed, I have a popular posts widget in the top right corner of this blog. This is based on Google Analytics stats. Well, today you may have noticed that one of those posts was the one about Rhianna being at the Smile Jamaica-Africa unite concert. I have a story about that. A really interesting one.
Looking at Links
There is more than one way to get traffic to your blog. I see a lot of emphasis placed on what I consider dynamic links. This is traffic from commenting on blogs that use nofollow, getting stumbled, getting your site on Digg and the like. These type of links depending on someone physically clicking the link to get to your site. This is a great source of traffic and deserves just as much attention as any, but I think that using it at your only source of traffic is limiting.
Optimizing for Hits You Already Get Part 2
Yesterday I said it is much more worthwhile to optimize your web site for the key phrases that show up in your statistics software. Today we will go over some ways to make this happen. All cms or ecommerce software is a little bit different, so knowing how your software works helps a lot in this step. And although I am putting this in the ecommerce series, it will actually benefit anyone with a site who wants more hits.
Optimizing for Hits You Already Get
SEO this and SEO that. SEO’s have a bad name, just like lawyers. But when you’re the one that needs one, all the lawyer jokes get dropped and you hire the best. And when you run a website, no matter why you run it, you want hits, so you can either hold onto your opinion of search engine optimization and get a tiny trickle of traffic or do something about it.
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