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3 Vital Keyword Tips for Maximum SEO Benefit for Your Blog

<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">A major part of the Search Engine Optimization activity and largely revolves around <em><strong>Keywords and Keyword Optimization<&sol;strong><&sol;em>&period; If you approach <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;newsforpublic&period;com&sol;7-seo-trends-to-watch-out-for-in-2016&sol;">Search Engine Optimization<&sol;a> in terms of keywords&comma; it is all about researching and choosing the right keywords and using it in the right manner&comma; in the right proposition in your website content&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<table>&NewLine;<tbody>&NewLine;<tr>&NewLine;<td>&NewLine;<&excl;-- top ad-1 --><br &sol;>&NewLine;<ins class&equals;"adsbygoogle" style&equals;"display&colon; inline-block&semi; width&colon; 336px&semi; height&colon; 280px&semi;" data-ad-client&equals;"ca-pub-4800536516440217" data-ad-slot&equals;"9937997884"><&sol;ins><br &sol;>&NewLine;<script>&NewLine;&lpar;adsbygoogle &equals; window&period;adsbygoogle &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&rpar;&period;push&lpar;&lbrace;&rcub;&rpar;&semi;&NewLine;<&sol;script><&sol;td>&NewLine;<td>&NewLine;<&excl;-- Home remedies for Irritable Bowel Syndrome --><br &sol;>&NewLine;<ins class&equals;"adsbygoogle" style&equals;"display&colon; inline-block&semi; width&colon; 336px&semi; height&colon; 280px&semi;" data-ad-client&equals;"ca-pub-4800536516440217" data-ad-slot&equals;"9937997884"><&sol;ins><br &sol;>&NewLine;<script>&NewLine;&lpar;adsbygoogle &equals; window&period;adsbygoogle &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&rpar;&period;push&lpar;&lbrace;&rcub;&rpar;&semi;&NewLine;<&sol;script><&sol;td>&NewLine;<&sol;tr>&NewLine;<&sol;tbody>&NewLine;<&sol;table>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;"><strong><em>Keywords form the basic foundation of your website<&sol;em><&sol;strong> which helps the search engines understand the theme and topic of your website in detail&period; This eventually helps in ranking your website on the search results for specific keywords to your targeted audience&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">In this article&comma; we are going to present you with <em><strong>three golden tips on Keyword Optimization<&sol;strong><&sol;em> which can enable you to extract maximum SEO benefits for your blog&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2 style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Tip &num;1&colon; Long Tail keywords<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;"><em><strong>Long tail keywords<&sol;strong><&sol;em> are regular keywords but contain more keywords in the phrase &lpar;more than 3 or 4&rpar;&period; Long tail keywords help you in <em><strong>narrowing down your search<&sol;strong><&sol;em> and <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;newsforpublic&period;com&sol;ways-startups-get-success-seo&sol;"><em><strong>enable the search engines to retrieve more specific results<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;a>&comma; much closer to what you are looking for&period; Since long tail keywords are searched less&comma; it will generally have lesser competition in the search engines&period; This gives you an SEO advantage and <em><strong>helps your website rank higher<&sol;strong><&sol;em> on the search results for those keywords pretty much easily&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">As a blogger&comma; you must try to incorporate more specific long tail keywords in your content that can draw more targeted traffic to your website&period; This is only possible through in-depth and highly comprehensive keyword research&period; A detailed keyword research will help you find out <em><strong>less competitive long tail keywords<&sol;strong><&sol;em> for your website&period; These keywords may have a lower search volume but it will certainly attract some highly targeted and quality traffic to your blog&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;"><em><strong>For e&period;g&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;em>&comma; If you are a dealer for air filters for Ford SUVs in Chicago then you must choose a more specific keywords &lpar;or long tail keywords&rpar; in your website content for drawing more targeted traffic&period; Some of the examples of such long tail keywords would be &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;<em>air filters for Ford SUVs Chicago<&sol;em>” or &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;<em>Chicago Ford SUV air filters<&sol;em>”&period; Some of the examples of less specific&comma; generic keywords are &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;air filters for Ford” or &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;air filters for Ford” or &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;air filters for automobiles”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2 style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Tip &num;2&colon; Targeting your Audience<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">After you have <em><strong>researched and shortlisted your targeted keywords<&sol;strong><&sol;em>&comma; you must incorporate them into your website content in the right manner&period; It should be done in such a way that your web pages or blog posts show up in the top slots of the search results when your target audience gives a query using a keyword phrase that matches your keywords of your content&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;"><em><strong>Targeting your audience<&sol;strong><&sol;em> is one of the most important aspects of keyword research&period; You must understand who actually&comma; are going to be your audience and then comes your entire work of <em><strong>keyword research and implementation<&sol;strong><&sol;em>&period; If you don&&num;8217&semi;t understand and properly analyze your audience&comma; then there in no point of writing content or keyword optimizing your website for them&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">The <em><strong>keywords should be sprinkled in your website content<&sol;strong><&sol;em> in the right proportions in the page title&comma; headings and main content of your web pages that matches the search queries of your audience&period; This will easily bring up your web pages or blog posts in the top 10 results of the search engine results pages&period; And this is e<em><strong>xactly <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;newsforpublic&period;com&sol;the-ultimate-seo-guide-2016-for-preparing-your-blog&sol;">what Search Engine Optimization is all about<&sol;a><&sol;strong><&sol;em> if you talk in terms of keywords&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">The positions of the keyword in the body of the article is one of the most important parts of <strong>on-page optimization<&sol;strong>&period; As stated earlier&comma; the page title and headings are the most important places where your keyword must be present at least once&period; Here are some of the most<em><strong> important aspects about Keyword Placement in a nutshell&colon;-<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<ul style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">&NewLine;<li>The keyword must be present in the <strong>TITLE<&sol;strong> of the pages as it holds maximum importance for the search engines&period; If possible&comma; make the keyword available at the first position of the TITLE&period; Various SEO research’s shows that the presence of the keyword in the very first position of the TITLE yields much better results in the SERPS&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<&sol;ul>&NewLine;<div style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">&NewLine;<ul>&NewLine;<li>The keywords must also be well placed in the <strong>HEADINGS<&sol;strong> of the content&period; The headings refer to the H1&comma; H2&comma; H3 and so on tags&period; The H1 heading should be used in a page only once and the keyword must be present in it as it holds good correlation to better rankings&period; The keywords must also be made available in the other headings if possible&period; But keep one thing in mind&comma; <em><strong>keyword placement should look very natural and not spammy<&sol;strong><&sol;em> at all&period; Otherwise&comma; it will irritate your readers and will make you a victim of SEO spam&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<&sol;ul>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">&NewLine;<ul>&NewLine;<li>The presence of the keyword in the <strong>BODY<&sol;strong> of the content uniformly is also very important&period; These keywords impart relevancy to the page or the site&period; Using the keywords properly and uniformly in very important&period; The primary keywords <strong>MUST<&sol;strong> be present in the first 100 words and the last hundred words&period; And in the rest of the article&comma; it should be present uniformly&period; Not only the primary keyword&comma; but the <em><strong>LSI keywords<&sol;strong><&sol;em> must also be taken well care of&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<&sol;ul>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;"><em><strong>QUICK TIP&colon;<&sol;strong><&sol;em> <em>If you are using a WordPress&period;org&comma; self-hosted blog&comma; I would highly recommend All In One SEO Pack Plug-in for you&period;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><&excl;-- Text ad only --><br &sol;>&NewLine;<ins class&equals;"adsbygoogle" style&equals;"display&colon; inline-block&semi; width&colon; 336px&semi; height&colon; 280px&semi;" data-ad-client&equals;"ca-pub-4800536516440217" data-ad-slot&equals;"3260728686"><&sol;ins><br &sol;>&NewLine;<script>&NewLine;&lpar;adsbygoogle &equals; window&period;adsbygoogle &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&rpar;&period;push&lpar;&lbrace;&rcub;&rpar;&semi;&NewLine;<&sol;script><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2 style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Tip &num;3&colon; Keyword Density<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;"><em><strong>Keyword density<&sol;strong><&sol;em> is another Search Engine Optimization aspect that will help your web pages to cut through the competition and stay on top of the search results&period; The ideal keyword density for SEO for your <em><strong>targeted long tail keywords can be anywhere between 1 to 1&period;5&percnt;<&sol;strong><&sol;em>&period; Don&&num;8217&semi;t ever try to over optimize your site&comma; as Google and Bing are clever than you and will surely catch you if you do some thing unnatural and spammy&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;"><em>Let me give you can example<&sol;em>&comma; how higher keyword density can make your content look extremely spammy to both the readers and the search engines&period; Suppose you are writing an article of 3000 words with your primary keywords to be <em>” Dog Foods”<&sol;em>&comma; and you take your keyword density to be 5&percnt;&period; Then you will have to use your keyword <em>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Dog foods”<&sol;em> 150 times&period; Now just try to imagine a situation where your readers will find the same keyword <em>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Dog Food”<&sol;em> again and again&period; It will make the article look extremely spammy to both the readers and the search engines and there are huge possibilities of getting your site penalized for <em><strong>keyword stuffing or keyword cloaking<&sol;strong><&sol;em>&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">You can easily find out the keyword density of your articles and blog posts with the help of any of those free keyword density checker tools available on the internet&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">But it’s a good thing to keep note of the formula for calculating the keyword density&period; Here it is&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>Keyword Density &equals; Your Targeted Keywords &lpar;Divided by&rpar; Total Number of Words in your Article &lpar;Multiplied by&rpar; 100&period;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">I am sure these 3 search engine optimization tips and techniques on keywords will surely help you attain better rankings in the search results and improve your website traffic by leaps and bounds&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Remember that&comma; the right keywords are the basic pillars of your online business&period; So always be sure to spend enough time in research to choose the most appropriate and profitable ones for your website&comma; which can easily convert dull&comma; cold visitors into piping hot prospects&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

Hardik Patel

Hardik Patel is a Digital Marketing Consultant and professional Blogger. He has 16+ years experience in SEO, SMO, SEM, Online reputation management, Affiliated Marketing and Content Marketing.

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