Personal Finance Stories » Keyword Strategies for WordPress http://www.coolchecks.net/blog Get rid of debt, manage your finances, increase your income and become financially secure. Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:16:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= Keyword Strategies for WordPress http://www.coolchecks.net/blog/internet/blogging-tips/key-word-strategies-for-wordpress.html http://www.coolchecks.net/blog/internet/blogging-tips/key-word-strategies-for-wordpress.html#comments Mon, 08 Sep 2008 04:16:05 +0000 Sherry Tingley http://www.coolchecks.net/blog/?p=177 Keyword strategies are becoming easier to create with new tools available to WordPress bloggers and to individual web site owners.  Ranking on the first page of Google results is not as difficult as you might think. With a little research and some good strategies in place, you can do quite well.

A keyword tool that is popular among many website developers is the  Word Tracker Free Keyword Tool. You will find that it does the brainstorming for you by giving you alternate suggestions for other keyword phrases.

A tool you can easily use to help you determine which keywords to focus on is listed below:

Keyword Suggestion ToolEnter Keyword

Search engine optimization using good keyword strategies will help your site gain top positions on Google, MSN and Yahoo search engines. Just this weekend I tested some keywords for my site. I logged in to my Google Webmaster Tools account and found out that I was getting traffic from a variety of key words that I wasn’t aware of.

The keyword results are listed below:

Key Word Date Position Number of Page Results
loved by many 9/7/2008 7 135,000,000
word mortgage 9/7/2008 18 26,200,000
20 blog 9/7/2008 4 22,200,000
submit your blog 9/7/2008 15 21,000,000
top blog wordpress 9/7/2008 7 17,300,000
wordpress top blog 9/7/2008 1 13,000,000
personal finance stories 9/7/2008 10 6,750,000
wordpress blogging tips 9/7/2008 6 2,380,000
blogging tips 9/7/2008 20 1,680,000
blog submission directories 9/7/2008 8 532,000
blogging tips plugin 9/7/2008 1 518,000
blogging tips plugin for wordpress 9/7/2008 1 513,000
places to advertise a wordpress blog 9/7/2008 1 356,000
blog submission plugin 9/7/2008 1 194,000

WordPress is extremely search engine friendly and with a Google Webmaster Tools account you can look up your results quickly and easily.

A very good key word strategy to use is to add a little hittail code to your site.  www.hittail.com has a service that will track every keyword people use to get to your site with and it will create a long tail key word list for you, listing up to 300 key words. All of this is done with one line of code.

Another very useful site for overall search engine optimization is at: http://www.webconfs.com/
They host 20 powerful key word tools free for anyone to use, so be sure to take advantage of them.

With all the good key word tools available for WordPress bloggers and web site owners, there are numerous opportunities for you to rank high in the search engines.

If you have a tool you like to use, please suggest one.

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This diagram gives you an outline of how you should place your key words in your articles or posts. If you go to
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/my-personal-opinion-90-of-the-rankings-equation-lies-in-these-4-factors where you can read about some other good keyword strategies.

Wordtracker Presentation

Max Holloway sent me this video that will help you learn why people would be willing to link back to your site. Good information for all website owners to learn.


By Ken McGaffin, developer of Wordtracker’s Link Building Tool

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