How To Rank High With Keywords
Keyword Factors To Aid Website Rank
Hi Folks a short blog on keywords as a lot of new members seem to be having trouble understanding the principles of using them. This means the where to and how to.
Anchor
One of the things you should concentrate on when writing your articles is to have relevant keywords in your anchors. Ideally, the same keywords you want that article to rank for.
Example: In this article for SiteProNews one of the entries is entitled How to Do SEO for a Brand New Website. To boost its rankings, you would link to it using SEO for a brand new website as an anchor. Get the idea now?
Title
Ideally, your keyword should be part of your title, and preferably at the beginning. However, if it’s a complicated long-tail keyword, you should sacrifice a catchy headline for a small SEO gain.
You can compensate with LSI (Latent Semantic Indexing) keywords and going for a long article
Content
This one goes without saying. No piece of content will ever get a high listing in the SERPs if you don’t add your very best keyword into it. You can read more on choosing keywords that matter to your business goals here.
Density
There has been a lot of talk about the right keyword density. The general consensus is that the right keyword density is between five percent and 2.5 percent.
One thing is certain: keyword-stuffed articles are a thing of the past. They will usually be labelled as spam by search engines and penalized heavily.
Your formula should rely on thorough keyword research, long form content and LSI keywords.
Meta Description
This is the one I see a lot of members skipping over, and certainly to their cost I might add. There is absolutely no excuse for skipping over it folks. Your keyword should always be part of your meta description. It is the best way to let search engines know what your page is about.
There you go folks and now I hope all those who are having trouble understanding where they go and the best way to use their keywords read this blog.
Please help them out by leaving your own tips and advice via a comment below.
Have a great week and be successful.
Robert Allan
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Hi! Robert,
Your post is awesome and complement to the best with the training on A Long Tail Keyword Question by boomerpg08.
Thank you for your joint effort in educating WA newbies.
Much appreciated,
Chin-Ti
Hello Chin-Ti and thank you for stopping by and leaving a comment.
Yes Rob (boomerang) has published blogs on Keywords as well and covers the subject very well.
An invaluable member of WA.
Hope you went away with a couple of tips you can put into practice with your own posts.
Enjoy your Sunday and the week ahead.
Robert
Of course, I have picked few tips to reinforce and correct my deficiency. Thank you for educating me.
Chin
Thanks for sharing this and for the great detail!
This makes things so much easier to understand.
I use the AIO SEO in the settings to fill in my meta description but not at the beginning. I used to do my own but Kyle mentioned it's automatically done.
Hello Patsy and thank you for your input.
Yes you can insert a general meta description within AIO but you should also have something relevant in the Description box at the bottom of your article when you have it in Edit Mode before you publish.
This is what the search engine sees and of course the people who are browsing the SERPs.
Makes sense, don't you think?
Have a great Sunday.
Robert
Hello Tania.
Thank you for your comment and hope you went away with a few how to and where to for your own keywords.
Enjoy your Sunday and the week ahead.
Robert
Hello Melissa and thank you for dropping by and reading the blog.
You are sure to have went away with a better understanding of keywords.
I have published other blogs on this subject so feel free to browse.
Enjoy your day and the week to come.
Robert
You right on with this Robert, great training. What approach should we have to our images? Thanks!
Hello David and thank you for reading my blog.
The Alt Tag should always be used within an image, especially the first image on the page.
Thereafter you can use secondary keywords (second best).
Hope you went away with a few tips you can use within your own posts.
Robert
Yes indeed Mike.
The where to and how to are the most important aspects of keyword seo to get right and in most cases right first time because ones inserted you shouldn't really change them except perhaps within the body of the content.
Thank you for reading my blog and for your comment.
Have a great Sunday.
Robert
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Great Info
Hi Dean and thank you for reading my blog.
Lots of good tips and advice for you to take away and put into practice.
Have a great Sunday.
Robert