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100 Popular Questions Asked on The Internet

January 15, 2009 by  
Filed under Blogging Tips

What are keywords?

On the internet keywords are basically what words the user types into the search engines to find what they are looking for. Keywords can be fun to research. This data is relevant to bloggers because it helps them know what to write about and what people are interested in.

Where do I find keyword tools?

There are a lot of tools on the internet that research the number of times keywords are searched for. One of those keyword tools is provided by a company called Wordtracker. Wordtracker has recently come out with a beta version keyword tool that will tell you what questions people are asking based on the keywords you enter. This keyword tool is very handy and a lot of bloggers will enjoy using it.

How many results for keyword searches are considered popular?

When you begin your keyword research, you’ll see that many questions get less than 100 searches. To be included in this list of 100 popular internet questions, I chose the majority of questions that had been asked over 400 times.

What keywords are people using in the questions they ask?

Being a curious person, I spent some time this morning researching keywords used in questions on a variety of different topics and chose to list 100 of the top ranked questions that people are asking. The number that you see represents the number of times that question was asked over the past 140 days.  You may be able to use these statistics to write your own blogging posts.  Spend some time using this keyword tool to help you with ideas of topics to write about.

100 Popular Questions Asked on the Internet 

 

Number Keyword Questions Times Asked
1 how much does beyonce weigh 2,650
2 who invented the computer 2,287
3 show aaliyah when she died 1,955
4 who invented football 1,834
5 doctor who 1,689
6 who invented the television 1,596
7 who invented velcro 1,577
8 who created the internet 1,522
9 what nationality is barack obama 1,483
10 how much does britney spears weigh 1,435
11 who invented the internet 1,403
12 who invented basketball 1,320
13 who invented soccer 1,175
14 who invented the telephone 1,164
15 who invented the car 1,162
16 how much does jennifer aniston weigh 1,135
17 who invented the ipod 1,103
18 who invented the radio 1,098
19 who invented the tv 1,070
20 who invented baseball 1,043
21 what does red pubic hair look like 985
22 how much should i weigh 956
23 what is the precursor of the internet 945
24 in what year was the first computer invented 937
25 what is love 917
26 how many gold medals did the u.s. women win in the olympics 884
27 why did the pilgrims come to america 875
28 how much does kelly ripa weigh 838
29 who invented the mp3 player 831
30 what does wii stand for 793
31 what does meerkat mean in south african language 788
32 how to draw cars 784
33 how to make paper guns 779
34 what is the definition of news media 771
35 where was barack obama born 770
36 who invented american football 706
37 who invented the cell phone 701
38 how much will the nintendo wii cost 700
39 scorpio behavior when in love 679
40 the black eyed peas where is the love 668
41 black eyed peas ft justin timberlake where is the love 668
42 who invented legos 662
43 who invented the snickers candy bar 659
44 who invented hip hop 656
45 who invented the world wide web 638
46 how many people die from cancer each year 636
47 where can i watch movies absolutely free 632
48 how to make a fish costume 631
49 what type of government does china have 612
50 who invented electricity 611
51 who invented video games 610
52 what causes cancer 604
53 when was the first television made 586
54 why are gas prices so high 578
55 when was the first mobile phone invented 574
56 when is high school musical 3 coming out 573
57 who invented the microwave 572
58 what type of government does canada have 568
59 how many people in the world have cancer 558
60 who invented the cd player 554
61 how much does jessica simpson weigh 547
62 what is computer software 538
63 why is education important 536
64 when does a scorpio say i love you 532
65 when were m&m’s invented 530
66 how many people died at pearl harbor 529
67 what is the best love match for sagittarius 527
68 how can win the heart of a aries man 519
69 who invented medicine 518
70 what time is it 516
71 who invented sign language 511
72 who invented the zipper 493
73 why is education so important 493
74 how much does mary kate olsen weigh 493
75 what is the food web of the grey wolf 483
76 how much money do you have to make to file taxes 481
77 how to get a capricorn man to fall in love 473
78 what kind of government does canada have 471
79 who invented the light bulb 467
80 who invented google 467
81 what does html stand for 459
82 who invented the airplane 448
83 why people love cars 443
84 why people love cars 443
85 what to say to someone who has cancer 441
86 who invented fireworks 439
87 who created the world wide web 431
88 who is the vice president 428
89 what are the most exciting jobs in the world 420
90 what type of government does france have 417
91 who invented the game of baseball 412
92 millionaires who give money to help 410
93 why is government important 408
94 where did our love go the supremes 407
95 who invented volleyball 403
96 how do you get a scorpio to fall in love with you 401
97 how to write a business plan 322
98 how much water should a person drink a day 316
99 how can i get money to start my own business 265
100 how to start a cell phone business 226

 

Using popular keywords in your writing will help you attract readers to your blog.  Be sure to use keywords that are meaningful to your readers and that provide answers to their questions.

What keyword tools do you use and why do you like them?

Keyword Case Study for WordPress

November 1, 2008 by  
Filed under Blogging Tips, Key Words, WordPress

Keyword strategies are so important to the success of your website business that they just cannot be overlooked. Although word of mouth adverstising is golden and frankly much easier than doing keyword research, using a good keyword strategy is mandatory. This article will go over some keyword strategy insights gained from a case study done over a four month time frame.

My previous article on keyword strategies for WordPress covered blogging tips and the question of where exactly in your posts do you want to see your keywords. While that strategy is the number one strategy you should use, you also should consider what happens to your website as a whole when you start adding good content on a regular basis.

The excel chart below (please click on it to enlarge it and read it well) explains an interesting thing that happened to www.coolchecks.net as a result of posting content to the blog a regular basis.

Many hosting companies provide website owners with a way to measure their traffic through a program called the Cpanel. Cpanel lets the webmaster control a lot of things on a website, but the thing I like best is the daily reports it can give you about your website traffic.

For my four-month case study, using the Cpanel web stats, I charted the results of the traffic I received from the keyword phrase cheap checks. This phrase is important to the site because the site sells bank checks.

When I charted the results I could see a dramatic increase in hits during the month of October, for the keyword phrase cheap checks. I had only changed a few words on the home page of this site to try to boost the rankings for cheap checks” and I posted to the web blog on a regular basis.

My monthly hits to the site with that keyword increased by 1273! So how did that translate into real progress financially? There was an increase in revenue from the site of $601.38.

keyword strategies for wordpress

Examining the results from the chart above brought me to wonder about another statistic that I could easily pull from the Cpanel. I wanted to know how many search phrases were used during each month.

The chart below will show you the total number of keyword phrases used to bring people to my site over a four-month period of time.

keyword strategies

You will notice a steady increase in keyword phrases. During October, there were 1299 keyword phrases people used to get to get to my site, while in July there were only 685. It appears that the number of keyword phrases almost doubled over four months.

There are several blogging tips you can learn from this keyword case study.

  • Adding content on a regular basis can dramatically improve website traffic.
  • The increase in traffic improves your keyword search results so you are ranked higher for the keyword you optimized for.
  • More traffic means more revenue.
  • Cpanel statistics are awesome and should be watched carefully.
  • One keyword phrase that you rank well for can affect the other keyword phrases and bootstrap them to higher search result positions.

When you are developing your website business, don’t overlook the importance of a good keyword strategy and the power that it has to improve your financial condition.

Keyword Strategies for WordPress

September 7, 2008 by  
Filed under Blogging Tips, Featured, Key Words, WordPress

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.

keyword strategies

keyword strategies

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