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Tags: $100 Million Dollar Challenge, Marketing Tools, Russell BrunsonAnalyzing Keyword Competition
There’s so much competition for keywords these days that it can sometimes appear impossible to find a keyword to break into a niche. However, if you do a little digging, you might very well come up with a clearer picture of the competition you’re facing and discover it’s not quite as bad as you initially thought.
Let’s go through an example. Let’s say you’re in the acid reflux niche and you’ve found the longtail phrase “foods to avoid with acid reflux” that you think has some potential. When you enter the phrase into the search engines, though, it brings up over one million competing pages. That’s discouraging.
Remember though, this is a broad term search. That means that the results aren’t just for your phrase, but also for any combination of words that can be formed using the words in your phrase. For example, in those one million results, you’ll find that “acid reflux foods” are included, and “avoid acid reflux” and “avoid acid reflux foods” and countless other combinations.
But we’re just after the phrase “foods to avoid with acid reflux.” So the next step is to enter your keyword phrase into the search engine using quotes around the phrase. Now, you discover that the competition for that complete phrase is only 6,680! That’s wonderful! It makes it much easier to go after that phrase.
And there’s one more step you might want to look at and that’s how well these pages are optimized for the search engines. Particularly, we’re interested in knowing out of those 6,680 pages, how many include the keyword phrase “foods to avoid with acid reflux” in their page title. This is important, because the search engines rely on page titles to tell them what a page is all about.
So, this time you enter this into the search engine … allintitle:foods to avoid with acid reflux. What comes up? Only 93 pages have that keyword phrase included in their page title. That tells you that if you build a page around the phrase “foods to avoid with acid reflux” and you include the phrase in the title of your article and in the title of your page, you’ll have an excellent chance of ending up on page one of Google.
It’s a good phrase to go after.
Tag: Keyword Tools
Finding Keywords The Easy Way
Keywords are foundation of how people find what they want on the Internet. They enter their terms in a search engine and that search engine gives them a list of web sites that meet those terms.
So how does the search engine know that the web sites they list will meet the needs of the visitor?
There are a variety of ways. One is by the number and quality of links that lead back to each web site from other web sites. Another is the content contained on the web page and how closely it relates to the search engine terms that were entered. Another way is by reading the meta tags, which list keywords that are applicable to the web site and give a bried description of the what the web site is all about.
How does this serve you?
It makes it easy for you to discover the most important keywords in your niche.
Let’s say you’re in the menopause niche. You enter “menopause” into Google’s search box and up comes a list of the top menopause web sites according to Google. Start at the top of the list, go to each site, and view the page source. To view the page source in Internet Explorer, go to page in the upper right hand corner, and down that menu to “view source.” To view the page source in Firefox, go to view in the upper left hand area, and down to “Page Source.”
Once the page source comes up, look for the meta tag that carries the keywords. It will be included above the command.
Here are some of the keywords I came up with in a few minutes for menopause using this approach: menopause, perimenopause, postmenopause, hormone replacement therapy, HRT, early menopause, menopause symptoms, premenopause, estrogen loss, bioidentical hormones, hot flashes, premature menopause, change of life.
Here’s a short-short video on where to look for keywords:
Tags: Keyword Tools, keywords, page source
Wordpress Link Cloak
I just came across this nifty little Wordpress plugin today. I wish I had found it about six months ago, because I invested in another program that essentially does the same thing but is much more complicated and much more expensive.
Okay, what I’m talking about is Wordpress Link Cloak. As the name implies, this a Wordpress plugin, so it will only work on Wordpress sites. Here’s what it does … it makes it effortless for you to assign a link (most often an affiliate link) to any keyword phrase, or multiple keyword phrases, you desire. Whenever that phrase appears in a post throughout your entire web site it will automatically link to the url you set. Plus, the link will be cloaked.
Let me give you an example. Let’s say you have a website about anti-spyware. You go into your Wordpress dashboard after downloading the plugin and activating it, select the keywords spyware and adware and assign them an affiliate link. Let’s say www.spywareaffiliatelink.com. The plugin will automatically cloak the link and place it within a folder that you name, for instance /like.
That’s all you need to do. Whenever you add a post to your website, if it contains the words spyware or adware, those words will be highlighted with whatever link color you choose, and if your visitor clicks that link it’ll take them to your affiliate product. Equally important, your visitors won’t be able to read the affiliate link, so they won’t be able to directly work around it.
It’s that simple.
Check it out for yourself: Wordpress Link Cloak
Tags: affiliate links, Affiliate Tools, Wordpress Link Cloak
Mixing Adsense And Affiliate Products
You don’t see these kinds of sites very often today, but in the early days of online marketing, there were quite a few web sites that were plastered with unrelated affiliate products. A single web site page might carry affiliate products for removing spyware from your computer, losing weight, and curing your acne.
Marketers have long since learned that web sites and web site pages need to be focused. Build a website around a single affiliate product in a single niche and you’ll be far more successful.
But you still see numerous pages with a mix of affiliate products and Adsense ads. In fact, many marketers will tell you to throw both up there and if the affiliate product doesn’t sell at least you have a shot at some Adsense revenue. Does this model work?
Yes, you might bring in a few cents here and there through your Adsense ads. However, if you’re serious about marketing the affiliate product, then I’d suggest you leave off the Adsense ads (which can actually encourage visitors to leave your page for what they perceive as greener pastures) altogether.
Instead, focus every square inch of space on that web page to promote the affiliate product. This means the content of the page, any banners or graphics, outgoing links … everything should be built around the affiliate product.
Don’t distract your visitors. Help them find the solution to their problem … the affiliate product.
Tags: Adsense, affiliate product, Affiliate Tools
Free Keyword Mastery Package
