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Hello, hope all my followers reading this are doing well and kicking butt on their websites.
I'm running a toy review website that has my input and what my 7-year old dau
I actually target one main keyword in my post and add 5 - 7 more secondary keywords in the content. Just make sure they are closely relevant to the main keyword / topic..
100 keywords. Most of them related to the niche and each other..
I would rather put 5 keywords in each post and only write 50 posts instead of writing 100 posts targeting one keyword each
You do not want to repeat the same keywords across all of your posts. A better strategy is regularly targeting NEW keywords. A new keyword or keyword phrase for each new post.
As an example, 100 new keywords, with one keyword on each post is better than using the same keyword in 100 posts.
In addition, you can include secondary keywords using synonyms or words with a similar meaning, and relevant keywords.
If the searcher puts quotes around the keyword, then you're in luck! Most people using search will not use quotation marks, and it does not help ranking.
You would need to use a keyword tool to find out the traffic volume and QSR - true competition - for any keywords you decide to use to know its potential.
~Jude
I do get what you're saying Jude, with the branching away from using just the one. But in my case, my question would then be about branding. Doesn't sticking to just one - being the place to find the best toys for girls - make it easier to brand that way and therefore review after review after review for years make you become an authority in that niche for that repeated keyword in due time.
Kind of similar to how my website is stayathomedadreviews...so through the sheer force of tons of content creation where stay-at-home dad is wriiten often enough, at some point my site would start to hit for people just searching stay-at-home dad.
Not necessarily something I'm pushing per say, but a byproduct after awhile of the content creation and branding.
Or am I offbase? Or thinking about this the wrong way?
Appreciate the message and hope to talk again soon.
- Bill
Targeting the same keyword in every post is, in my experience, a mistake and a missed opportunity.
You will end up competing with yourself and will reduce your chance to gain traffic from other keywords.
I learned this lesson the hard way.
Each page is a chance to bring in more traffic for different keywords.
~Jude
That does make sense and the type of counter thought I had that made me ask the question. Interesting stuff and appreciate the back-and-forth Jude
Yes it always help. Note that you can also put your main keyword at other places in your contents, not only in the title.
Yeah absolutely I think its more important to find keywords that can flow through the content than only caring about the title. In another example we reviewed a Monster High Playset. That word happened to have a good QSR so that makes it easy. Pretty hard to tell the story of my daughter playing with a Monster High Playset without mentioning the Monster High Playset. Haha.
For me the content of the story I'm trying to tell about the product comes first, finding usable keywords is secondary cause a useable one will usually already be there based on the writing.
Using what are called 'LSI' words are helpful. They are simply keywords that are related to the main one. These are good to use, so, whether you have been here only a week or two or have been doing this for years, you have learned enough to apply what seems to be appropriate (because it is) to your mind set...!
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Would using a secondary keyword in all articles help?
Hello, hope all my followers reading this are doing well and kicking butt on their websites.
I'm running a toy review website that has my input and what my 7-year old dau
I am with what many have said here. I attended have one focal keyword within every article that I create. What I do on most occasions though is in to extend that keyword to a longer tail keyword phrase.
For example, if my keyword was:
credit card debt
I might extend this to a much longer phrase:
what to do when you're in credit card debt
Something that gets searched in Google and can easily be discovered with some keyword research and using the Alphabet soup technique. Alphabet Soup Technique - Using Google Instant to Find Keywords As I create my content I always include my keyword within the title of the post, within the first few paragraph in the contents, And then I write the article naturally.
As you do this you are naturally going to rank under many other keywords that are within the content of your article. So not only are you piggy backing more rankings within the longer phrase keywords that you put in the title and that you used to "extend" the keyword, your content will get ranked as well under many search terms.
I had literally had a single post rank under hundreds of keywords over the years.
I actually target one main keyword in my post and add 5 - 7 more secondary keywords in the content. Just make sure they are closely relevant to the main keyword / topic..
100 keywords. Most of them related to the niche and each other..
I would rather put 5 keywords in each post and only write 50 posts instead of writing 100 posts targeting one keyword each
You do not want to repeat the same keywords across all of your posts. A better strategy is regularly targeting NEW keywords. A new keyword or keyword phrase for each new post.
As an example, 100 new keywords, with one keyword on each post is better than using the same keyword in 100 posts.
In addition, you can include secondary keywords using synonyms or words with a similar meaning, and relevant keywords.
If the searcher puts quotes around the keyword, then you're in luck! Most people using search will not use quotation marks, and it does not help ranking.
You would need to use a keyword tool to find out the traffic volume and QSR - true competition - for any keywords you decide to use to know its potential.
~Jude
I do get what you're saying Jude, with the branching away from using just the one. But in my case, my question would then be about branding. Doesn't sticking to just one - being the place to find the best toys for girls - make it easier to brand that way and therefore review after review after review for years make you become an authority in that niche for that repeated keyword in due time.
Kind of similar to how my website is stayathomedadreviews...so through the sheer force of tons of content creation where stay-at-home dad is wriiten often enough, at some point my site would start to hit for people just searching stay-at-home dad.
Not necessarily something I'm pushing per say, but a byproduct after awhile of the content creation and branding.
Or am I offbase? Or thinking about this the wrong way?
Appreciate the message and hope to talk again soon.
- Bill
Targeting the same keyword in every post is, in my experience, a mistake and a missed opportunity.
You will end up competing with yourself and will reduce your chance to gain traffic from other keywords.
I learned this lesson the hard way.
Each page is a chance to bring in more traffic for different keywords.
~Jude
That does make sense and the type of counter thought I had that made me ask the question. Interesting stuff and appreciate the back-and-forth Jude
Yes it always help. Note that you can also put your main keyword at other places in your contents, not only in the title.
Yeah absolutely I think its more important to find keywords that can flow through the content than only caring about the title. In another example we reviewed a Monster High Playset. That word happened to have a good QSR so that makes it easy. Pretty hard to tell the story of my daughter playing with a Monster High Playset without mentioning the Monster High Playset. Haha.
For me the content of the story I'm trying to tell about the product comes first, finding usable keywords is secondary cause a useable one will usually already be there based on the writing.
Using what are called 'LSI' words are helpful. They are simply keywords that are related to the main one. These are good to use, so, whether you have been here only a week or two or have been doing this for years, you have learned enough to apply what seems to be appropriate (because it is) to your mind set...!
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I'm at the part of training where I'm supposed to use the Site Comments feature for the 1st time but when I click on the "OK Sounds Good Let Me Get Started" button nothing happ
I was trying to offer comments to the other sites to build my credits, not request comments. But it wouldn't let me proceed past a certain page when that get started button wasn't working, but it must have just been a minor temporary glitch or something because it let me proceed this morning. Thank you for the replies however, they are always much appreciated.
Did you offer 2 comments first? You need to do that to gain 2 credits which you can use for asking one comment
Here is how to write a good comment How to use the new comment feature and how to write a good comment
Why won't site comments work for me?
I'm at the part of training where I'm supposed to use the Site Comments feature for the 1st time but when I click on the "OK Sounds Good Let Me Get Started" button nothing happ
I was trying to offer comments to the other sites to build my credits, not request comments. But it wouldn't let me proceed past a certain page when that get started button wasn't working, but it must have just been a minor temporary glitch or something because it let me proceed this morning. Thank you for the replies however, they are always much appreciated.
Did you offer 2 comments first? You need to do that to gain 2 credits which you can use for asking one comment
Here is how to write a good comment How to use the new comment feature and how to write a good comment
Hello everyone, hope you are all doing great!
I'm writing a post but would also like if my posts got categorized into the menus (pages) at the top of my website.
I
This is money! I dug around the search engine for hours yesterday before asking the question and you just end up down a rabbit hole of only kinda similar answers, or things that only sort of make sense to a newcomer going through the training.
This is exactly what I was looking for and had trouble finding.
You're a rockstar Marion!
Hey Bill,
Here's a tutorial to show you how to add categories to your menu: Add categories to your menu
You can create any kind of custom menu you want whether it's a page a post or an external link. Just start playing around with it make a new menu in WordPress customize it however you like.
This distinction gets queried again and again. Answers can be found in abundance in the magnifying glass query bar at the top of your screen! I Am Confused About Pages and Posts
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Should I copy a page into a post?
Hello everyone, hope you are all doing great!
I'm writing a post but would also like if my posts got categorized into the menus (pages) at the top of my website.
I
This is money! I dug around the search engine for hours yesterday before asking the question and you just end up down a rabbit hole of only kinda similar answers, or things that only sort of make sense to a newcomer going through the training.
This is exactly what I was looking for and had trouble finding.
You're a rockstar Marion!
Hey Bill,
Here's a tutorial to show you how to add categories to your menu: Add categories to your menu
You can create any kind of custom menu you want whether it's a page a post or an external link. Just start playing around with it make a new menu in WordPress customize it however you like.
This distinction gets queried again and again. Answers can be found in abundance in the magnifying glass query bar at the top of your screen! I Am Confused About Pages and Posts
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The places to find free photos in Kyle's Lesson didn't contain any. Looking specifically for pics of old table top hockey games from varying decades. Anyone know, outside of a
https://commons.wikimedia.org
Search table hockey.
Wikimedia commons images are free to use.
~Steven
Awesome, hadn't occured to me that seeking owner permission would be a way to go about it and didn't know about clicking on tools with google images...much appreciated everyone. Good stuff.
Have you tried google images? Make sure to click on tools and select those labelled for reuse.
When people put those games for sale on Ebay, couldn't you contact the owner and ask him if you can use the images?
I have done exactly that Loes ... so, yes, some owners have no issue. Having said that ... ALWAYS keep copies (printed and electronic) of having received that permission ... juuuuust in case.
When searching, I found several being offered on Kijiji too ... another source to ask the owner permission.
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Looking for usable pictures of old table top hockey games?
The places to find free photos in Kyle's Lesson didn't contain any. Looking specifically for pics of old table top hockey games from varying decades. Anyone know, outside of a
https://commons.wikimedia.org
Search table hockey.
Wikimedia commons images are free to use.
~Steven
Awesome, hadn't occured to me that seeking owner permission would be a way to go about it and didn't know about clicking on tools with google images...much appreciated everyone. Good stuff.
Have you tried google images? Make sure to click on tools and select those labelled for reuse.
When people put those games for sale on Ebay, couldn't you contact the owner and ask him if you can use the images?
I have done exactly that Loes ... so, yes, some owners have no issue. Having said that ... ALWAYS keep copies (printed and electronic) of having received that permission ... juuuuust in case.
When searching, I found several being offered on Kijiji too ... another source to ask the owner permission.
See more comments
I am with what many have said here. I attended have one focal keyword within every article that I create. What I do on most occasions though is in to extend that keyword to a longer tail keyword phrase.
For example, if my keyword was:
credit card debt
I might extend this to a much longer phrase:
what to do when you're in credit card debt
Something that gets searched in Google and can easily be discovered with some keyword research and using the Alphabet soup technique. Alphabet Soup Technique - Using Google Instant to Find Keywords As I create my content I always include my keyword within the title of the post, within the first few paragraph in the contents, And then I write the article naturally.
As you do this you are naturally going to rank under many other keywords that are within the content of your article. So not only are you piggy backing more rankings within the longer phrase keywords that you put in the title and that you used to "extend" the keyword, your content will get ranked as well under many search terms.
I had literally had a single post rank under hundreds of keywords over the years.