I want to make sure I understand this whole keyword strategy.
For example, say my keyword was - "cats and dogs"
That is a little short for a titl
Yes that works but you need to set the permalink (title) with your keyword first. This way the permalink is just the keywords you want to rank for.
I did training video about this. Creating A Permalink And Editing It For The Perfect Structure
Think about like this
If you wanted to find out about cats and dogs, how would you write it in Google?
What words would you write to ask Googke your question?
I understand what you are saying just trying to work out if keywords can be part of a bigger sentence like that?
Does google still see cats and dogs? or has my keyword now become the whole sentence?
When you put that sentence into Google, look at the highlighted words and you will see the keywords.
Hope that makes sense
They are not my keywords. I am just trying to understand how it works, but I will now and see what I get.
Massive difference it results.
This is what I am trying to understand, so now my keyword has become How to care for Cats and Dogs.
Just because cats and dogs are in there does google not see that and now my keyword is the whole sentence?
Yes, now the whole sentence which will also be the whole title for one of your articles or were you thinking of it for a domain name?
No, just trying to get my head around using keywords correctly.
Cats and dogs were just an example.
So in your content you can not use your keywords in a sentence?
So can you do this
Cats and Dogs | How to care for?
Then will Google just look at Cats and Dogs as my keyword?
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Am I using keywords correctly?
I want to make sure I understand this whole keyword strategy.
For example, say my keyword was - "cats and dogs"
That is a little short for a titl
Jay did an excellent class on keyword research recently. You may find it helpful Researching and Finding an Evergreen Niche
Yes that works but you need to set the permalink (title) with your keyword first. This way the permalink is just the keywords you want to rank for.
I did training video about this. Creating A Permalink And Editing It For The Perfect Structure
Think about like this
If you wanted to find out about cats and dogs, how would you write it in Google?
What words would you write to ask Googke your question?
I understand what you are saying just trying to work out if keywords can be part of a bigger sentence like that?
Does google still see cats and dogs? or has my keyword now become the whole sentence?
When you put that sentence into Google, look at the highlighted words and you will see the keywords.
Hope that makes sense
They are not my keywords. I am just trying to understand how it works, but I will now and see what I get.
Massive difference it results.
This is what I am trying to understand, so now my keyword has become How to care for Cats and Dogs.
Just because cats and dogs are in there does google not see that and now my keyword is the whole sentence?
Yes, now the whole sentence which will also be the whole title for one of your articles or were you thinking of it for a domain name?
No, just trying to get my head around using keywords correctly.
Cats and dogs were just an example.
So in your content you can not use your keywords in a sentence?
So can you do this
Cats and Dogs | How to care for?
Then will Google just look at Cats and Dogs as my keyword?
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The last few articles I have done I have links in my opening paragraph because I think they are appropriate.
Not affiliate links just internal and external links. Is th
Already moved them Hugh, I thought it would be a better idea to put them further down for the reasons you stated
I wouldn't put links in the opening paragraph
I want my readers to be engage and continue reading my articles before clicking on the link
Hi, don't know if you have seen below tutorial How to Add Links to Your Content (Internal and External)
Yes I have viewed both of those thanks
I asked the specific question because it is not answered in those or anywhere else.
Is it a good idea to put them in opening paragraph?
I have since taken them out and put them further down in my content to stop people clicking off my site as soon as they get there.
I think that works better
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Where is the best place for links?
The last few articles I have done I have links in my opening paragraph because I think they are appropriate.
Not affiliate links just internal and external links. Is th
Already moved them Hugh, I thought it would be a better idea to put them further down for the reasons you stated
I wouldn't put links in the opening paragraph
I want my readers to be engage and continue reading my articles before clicking on the link
Hi, don't know if you have seen below tutorial How to Add Links to Your Content (Internal and External)
Yes I have viewed both of those thanks
I asked the specific question because it is not answered in those or anywhere else.
Is it a good idea to put them in opening paragraph?
I have since taken them out and put them further down in my content to stop people clicking off my site as soon as they get there.
I think that works better
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With the new SEO update, I have noticed it asked for internal and external links in your content, which I get and do most of the time.
I have noticed that I don't have i
Hi Dave,
You'll often hear people talking about "Google's 200+ alogorithm factors" that pertain to ranking.
From a personal perspective, two of these factors are more important than any other:
Relevancy and Visitor Experience.
The reason you have both external and internal links in your content is to satisfy both of these factors.
You add internal links in certain sections of your content to other relevant content on your own site, this enhances the visitor's experience - they have further material to answer any questions they may have.
You add an external link in certain sections of your content to someone else's relevant content, once again you enhance the visitor experience.
What you have done here could be considered "trying to game the system", which is never good.
What you have done is attempted to satisfy an inanimate object, your All-in-SEO plugin, while forgeting about relevancy and visitor experience.
You can have every single article on your site showing 100/100 in the AIO plugin and still never receive any rankings or traffic.
Are these plugins the be-all-and-end-all of ranking well?
Not in my mind.
These plugins a simply a guide.
However, Google will always reward relevancy and enhanced visitor experience.
Case in point:
I've checked through a number of my articles since I've updated the AIO SEO plugin.
I have many articles which show 90+/100.
I also have over 30 articles which are languishing in the low-60s/100 according to the AIO SEO plugin.
All of these articles are ranked on Google in position 1,2 or 3.
This is simply because I have remained relevant in my content and "answered any questions" that a potential visitor may have around the subject matter.
I have provided further information through links, opinions and videos, where appropriate.
I have satsified the need of the customer and I have NOT satisfied the need of a piece of software.
Hope that helps.
Partha
Hi, and yes that does help. What an awesome answer, makes perfect sense, thanks for the detailed explanation.
LINKY!!!!!!!!!! LOL
Just read it, thanks.
Currently studying up on Divi as we speak.
I'll let you know what I think once I get to understand it a bit better.
Partha
The best practice for SEO is to link without thinking about links. If you start linking to things because you believe it will help your site perform in better in search engines as opposed to linking to things because you believe it'll help the visitor, that's when you will run into problems.
Yes by using internal links you show that your website links together and post are relevant to each other and that you are covering the topics of your niche.
Thanks for that, I have watched that video before and understand how all the different links work.
It is just that when you change an external link to a pretty link you can change the score on the AIOSEO so then as far as SEO goes is it considered an internal link for SEO even though it is an external link?
I guess AIOSEO sees it as an internal link because the pretty link has your domain name in it.
You should still have a true internal link but was wondering if a pretty link is enough because AIOSEO sees it as an internal link.
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Links, external, internal does it matter for seo?
With the new SEO update, I have noticed it asked for internal and external links in your content, which I get and do most of the time.
I have noticed that I don't have i
Hi Dave,
You'll often hear people talking about "Google's 200+ alogorithm factors" that pertain to ranking.
From a personal perspective, two of these factors are more important than any other:
Relevancy and Visitor Experience.
The reason you have both external and internal links in your content is to satisfy both of these factors.
You add internal links in certain sections of your content to other relevant content on your own site, this enhances the visitor's experience - they have further material to answer any questions they may have.
You add an external link in certain sections of your content to someone else's relevant content, once again you enhance the visitor experience.
What you have done here could be considered "trying to game the system", which is never good.
What you have done is attempted to satisfy an inanimate object, your All-in-SEO plugin, while forgeting about relevancy and visitor experience.
You can have every single article on your site showing 100/100 in the AIO plugin and still never receive any rankings or traffic.
Are these plugins the be-all-and-end-all of ranking well?
Not in my mind.
These plugins a simply a guide.
However, Google will always reward relevancy and enhanced visitor experience.
Case in point:
I've checked through a number of my articles since I've updated the AIO SEO plugin.
I have many articles which show 90+/100.
I also have over 30 articles which are languishing in the low-60s/100 according to the AIO SEO plugin.
All of these articles are ranked on Google in position 1,2 or 3.
This is simply because I have remained relevant in my content and "answered any questions" that a potential visitor may have around the subject matter.
I have provided further information through links, opinions and videos, where appropriate.
I have satsified the need of the customer and I have NOT satisfied the need of a piece of software.
Hope that helps.
Partha
Hi, and yes that does help. What an awesome answer, makes perfect sense, thanks for the detailed explanation.
LINKY!!!!!!!!!! LOL
Just read it, thanks.
Currently studying up on Divi as we speak.
I'll let you know what I think once I get to understand it a bit better.
Partha
The best practice for SEO is to link without thinking about links. If you start linking to things because you believe it will help your site perform in better in search engines as opposed to linking to things because you believe it'll help the visitor, that's when you will run into problems.
Yes by using internal links you show that your website links together and post are relevant to each other and that you are covering the topics of your niche.
Thanks for that, I have watched that video before and understand how all the different links work.
It is just that when you change an external link to a pretty link you can change the score on the AIOSEO so then as far as SEO goes is it considered an internal link for SEO even though it is an external link?
I guess AIOSEO sees it as an internal link because the pretty link has your domain name in it.
You should still have a true internal link but was wondering if a pretty link is enough because AIOSEO sees it as an internal link.
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Hi All
I have found what I think are a few good keywords recently.
I will give an example It's 4 words that make perfect sense, so I can use it easily in sentence
just check who google is returning on page one for that keyword
with a score of 91 with 0 competition then there maybe a load of high authority sites there and that is the reason no one else has bothered with it.
you can check this with jaaxy's search analysis tab...
even though you will have the exact keyword, if you are not competitive with the other sites then google will still return them above you....
remember keywords are one of over 200 ranking factors, but don't let that put you off going for this keyword.
see who is on page one and what type of content they have - check whether it fulfills the query fully - if not there is your gap....
it will still take a while to start ranking - you need to get trusted by google
check out what questions there are at the top and the bits at the bottom along with the autocomplete as you are typing it
good luck
phil
Thanks for the response Phil, makes sense, I am still trying to get a good understanding of keywords and researching them, your response has helped.
Dave
Go for it. You have nothing to loose other than the couple of hours spent writing the post and potentially everything to gain.
Is this keyword good give me your thoughts?
Hi All
I have found what I think are a few good keywords recently.
I will give an example It's 4 words that make perfect sense, so I can use it easily in sentence
just check who google is returning on page one for that keyword
with a score of 91 with 0 competition then there maybe a load of high authority sites there and that is the reason no one else has bothered with it.
you can check this with jaaxy's search analysis tab...
even though you will have the exact keyword, if you are not competitive with the other sites then google will still return them above you....
remember keywords are one of over 200 ranking factors, but don't let that put you off going for this keyword.
see who is on page one and what type of content they have - check whether it fulfills the query fully - if not there is your gap....
it will still take a while to start ranking - you need to get trusted by google
check out what questions there are at the top and the bits at the bottom along with the autocomplete as you are typing it
good luck
phil
Thanks for the response Phil, makes sense, I am still trying to get a good understanding of keywords and researching them, your response has helped.
Dave
Go for it. You have nothing to loose other than the couple of hours spent writing the post and potentially everything to gain.
Hi
I am only a few months into my affiliate journey and totally understand that it takes time to get traffic to your site, then sales, I get that.
Today I started thi
A lot of it is about time.
Take into condsideration that every day 547,000 new websites are put up. Many of those don't last past the 6 month mark but Google has no idea which ones will stay.
And bear in mind that is actual websites not posts or pages which will number several hundred thousand more.
As you continue to add more content that is relevant to your keywords Google will sit up and take notice and realise you are in it for the long haul with the intent to produce quality content that the reader will benefit from.
It is then that you will start getting ranked.
Truse the system and keep adding content - don't worry about the other stuff which you have no control over - it will all come eventually.
Best of luck
Thanks for the reply, that is how I thought it worked, I just started thinking about it today and wanted to make sure I have not missed something.
I will just keep targeting the Low hanging fruit and try to write quality content.
Thanks, Dave
You are first indexed by Google when your website or post is first discovered
Ranking comes later and this is the position on the page that Google place your article
I really hope that helps
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Ranking and indexing - how does it work?
Hi
I am only a few months into my affiliate journey and totally understand that it takes time to get traffic to your site, then sales, I get that.
Today I started thi
A lot of it is about time.
Take into condsideration that every day 547,000 new websites are put up. Many of those don't last past the 6 month mark but Google has no idea which ones will stay.
And bear in mind that is actual websites not posts or pages which will number several hundred thousand more.
As you continue to add more content that is relevant to your keywords Google will sit up and take notice and realise you are in it for the long haul with the intent to produce quality content that the reader will benefit from.
It is then that you will start getting ranked.
Truse the system and keep adding content - don't worry about the other stuff which you have no control over - it will all come eventually.
Best of luck
Thanks for the reply, that is how I thought it worked, I just started thinking about it today and wanted to make sure I have not missed something.
I will just keep targeting the Low hanging fruit and try to write quality content.
Thanks, Dave
You are first indexed by Google when your website or post is first discovered
Ranking comes later and this is the position on the page that Google place your article
I really hope that helps
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Jay did an excellent class on keyword research recently. You may find it helpful Researching and Finding an Evergreen Niche
Excellent, thank you.