One of our members asked for a study of keyword location on a page. Is it more effective to have your keyword mentioned in the top third, middle third or bottom third of a page?
A keyword generator – Is One Enough ?
If you want to create web pages optimized for a search engine, one of your first tasks will be finding relevant keywords around which the page should be built. The more specific you can be in selecting relevant keywords the better chance of getting targeted traffic to your web page.
Keyword Competition Analysis: KEI and Beyond
A poster at the ihelpyou forum has an idea for a site but before he launches he wants to determine the competition for his chosen keywords. Dan Thies, a “Super Moderator” at ihelpyou, offers some fantastic advice that applies to those analyzing business model viability or hunting for some less competitive keywords to optimize for.
Formula For Keyword Connectivity
The Search Engine Watch forum is off to a grand start with a hyper-scientific keyword research post from Orion, “a formal scientist, with special interest in AI applied to IR technology.” His posts focus on “keywords semantic connectivity and what it can do for improving success across search engines.”
Google Search Results Promoting Froogle Receiving First Keyword Ad Position
An anonymous Murdok reader pointed out an interesting issue going on with Google’s search results. A search of the keywords “Fathers Day Gifts” finds that Google is giving a link for Froogle the first AdWords position (highlighted by a blue rectangle) in the SERP over a company that bid for the very same ranking.
Free Keyword Research Tools
I was visiting Dan Thies’ revamped SEO Research Labs site and found a couple SEO tools he linked to that may help your efforts.
Keyword Research 101
As a search engine optimization company, eTrafficJams.com has a responsibility to help our clients find the right keyword phrases that will help them improve sales. Unfortunately, there is a widespread misconception that you need highly competitive keyword phrases that get the most traffic to do this. This could not be farther from the truth!
Keyword Ownership: What It Is And Where It’s Headed
Have you ever got one of those silly emails that offers to let you own a keyword? Silly question. How many such emails do you get every day?
Keyword Selection Strategy
Keyword selection is one of the first steps in implementing a search engine optimization strategy. It goes without saying that if you select and optimize for the wrong keywords, your overall optimization campaign is worthless. In this article we will cover the keyword selection process, tools available to assist you in selecting the right keywords, and how best to place keywords throughout your site.
Keyword Density Analysis
GoRank, an SEO tools provider, recently released a study of keyword density. I wrote them to ask if any of their results surprised them.