DAY 5: Evaluating Your Keyword Difficulty
March 10, 2010 by Tyrone
If you haven’t completed day 4 of the SEO course, you can review: DAY 4: Grouping Your Keywords before starting this post.
“Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.”
- Oscar Wilde -
Don’t bite more than you can chew!
This week, we have been working very hard on our keywords, from assessing our niche, building a keyword list, refining this list, grouping and classifying our keywords, there’s one last thing to do with our keywords, and that’s evaluating their difficulty.
Before you start, you want to make sure that you are going to optimize for the right keywords in the right order, or you may just fall into the swarm of sites that are never found on internet.
The truth is that 99% of those pages are no competition whatsoever to you, especially considering how well we already have prepared our keywords already!
Your competition lies with the other people with the same knowledge as you, the people in the “know” about SEO.
Forget about KEI
One of the most popular way people use to evaluate a keyword potential is the Keyword Effectiveness Index (KEI). That’s a huge mistake.
If the core theory of the KEI is correct, its real life application demonstrates that this index is very flawed.
Your “real” competition is not the number of result pages returned by Google during a search query, that’s only the “virtual” competition volume.
SEO 101
Anybody with basic knowledge of SEO is a potential threat to you, so you need to identify those people quickly.
In SEO it’s widely known that having your keyword in your page title is crucial and dramatically increase your chances to rank well in the search engines.
Your first task is then to identify those people, and for this, Google has a command line that makes this task a breeze: allintitle.
Since having your keyword in your page title is one of the most important on-page SEO factor, we must know who are doing so.
In the search field of Google, type the following command:
allintitle: “your keyword”
The number of results returned this time is the number of pages that have your keyword (in this example “nail polish”) in their page title.
Re-open your basic keyword list and add 3 columns:
- All In Title
- All In Anchor
- Difficulty
Become A Blogger Premium Review – The Blogging Gurus: Yaro Starak and Gideon Shalwick
June 25, 2009 by Tyrone
Keep reading below as I give you a sneak preview tour through the Become A Blogger Premium website, otherwise if you want to see the video now click here.
Many people come to my blog to read my reviews and look for advice from leading experts that I have interviewed. I’ve made it really easy for anyone to access this information and categorised all my reviews and podcasts into the Business Resources section.
In the Business Resources section you will find:
- Reviews of products I use
- Web services that I recommend
- E-books I have read
- Other useful tools
For a complete list of these resources visit the Business Resources section.
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A few people left comments on the podcast interview with Gideon Shalwick from Become A Blogger and it was very interesting to share with everyone who Gideon Shalwick was what Become A Blogger can do for them. It was not intended to be a review of Become A Blogger, rather an insight into how Gideon become successful in running his Internet businesses.
This article is intended to help you reach a decision on whether Become A Blogger Premium is the right blog coaching program for you and whether you need it to achieve success in your Internet business journey.
Before I give you a sneak peak of the program and also share with you my thoughts, let me share with you why I enrolled into the program.
Podcast: Linda Bustos From Get Elastic
June 19, 2009 by Tyrone
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The Girl Behind Get Elastic
Today’s interview is with Linda Bustos from Get Elastic. Linda is a wonderful and cheerful blogger who has done an exceptional job to grow Get Elastic’s blog with over 10,000 readers. She provides excellent tips on ecommerce and is an expert media analyst who knows how to engage readers through social media. Linda has also been named one of Vancouver’s Tech Women to Watch, placed #25 of the Top 100 Influential Marketers of the year and was the winner of Marketing Pilgrim’s SEM Scholarship for the article 8 Stupid Things Webmasters Do to Mess Up Their Analytics.
Furthermore, Get Elastic is also recognized by the Wall Street Journal as one of 15 entrepreneur blogs worth reading and ranks on the AdAge Power 150. I wanted to interview Linda because I wanted to find out how she grew the blog starting from a few hundred readers to over 10,000 readers a day in a short space of 2 years. Not only does she have a great readership, Linda is a true expert using her blog to market through social media networks.
Podcast: 15 Year Old Blogger From Teenius
June 15, 2009 by Tyrone
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The 15 Year Old Blogger
Simon Rogers is a 15 year old blogger who I wanted to interview and find out how he started to make money from his blog called Teenius. Simon’s blog came under my radar when his comments on a popular blog provided great value to the community of readers. (That’s also a tip on how to get yourself to stand out).
Around two years ago, Simon was looking to make some money for the summer and a friend showed him how to start making money from proxies, which he will share with you in this Interview. From there he stumbled across blogging which he initially didn’t like. Though, as you will soon find out Simon started to make money from blogging and the rest is history…
8 Steps To Achieve Top Rankings For Your E-commerce Business
May 19, 2009 by Tyrone
Recently I had a question from a member in a forum asking me about how to market their e-commerce business using search engines. In light of this question, I thought it was be good to share this with everyone. Getting your e-commerce business listed on search engines can be very rewarding and will drive more “free” traffic to your e-commerce business. I have personally used this strategy many times and it has helped me gain higher rankings for my own e-commerce websites. Not to brag or anything, I want to give you some examples of my success with achieving top rankings in Google: (click on image for larger version)
Keywords: Dragonboat Paddles:
