Post date: Oct 30, 2010 5:59:22 PM
Successful stores need shopaholics, not window shoppers. It
is the fashion bugs that stuff bank accounts, not the banal
browsers. Every brick-and-mortar store knows this rule, but
many online businesses forget this fact in the fevered
frenzy of Internet marketing. Their ambiguous keywords and
chaotic content may attract window shoppers, but loyal
customers are few and far between. What is the secret? How
to find good keywords?
In marketing vernacular, good keywords are targeted phrasesdesigned to acquire potential customers likely to convert toa call to action - aka, good keywords attract visitors likelyto enjoy the website and follow up.Good Keyword Strategies & TacticsUnfortunately, good keywords, like spouses, are hard tofind. But what makes a keyword good? Before beginning anexhausting trek to track down good keywords, a business mustidentify the goal of the keyword. Goals may include selling aservice, boosting website traffic, increasing conversionrates or acquiring new blog visitors. Choice of keywordsdepends upon choice of goal.Should a keyword be generic or specific? Generic keywords
are likely to attract more visitors but lower conversion
rates and SERP rankings, while specific keywords will
receive fewer hits but attract more focused visitors.
Ambiguous keyword phrases tend to be short tail, with only a
few terms, while targeted phrases contain many terms, called
long tail. Most SEO experts "ladder" their good keywords by
identifying an ideal future keyword, a generic goal phrase,
and an immediate specific keyword.
Most marketers use keyword analytic services to take the
mammoth amount of amassed information and separate it into
easily digestible morsels. Web analytic services can rate
time spent per page, point of entry and exit, demographic
and geographic trends, number of searches per keyword, and
more.
Warning & Caution
Many webmasters throw caution to the wind and rampage about
grabbing a term here, a short-tail phrase here and specific
long-tail phrase there. Good keywords should have a
consistent theme and should attract a certain calibre of
customer.
The late 1990s suffered from a viral Internet pandemic of
keyword stuffing. Writers crammed keyword after keyword into
blocks of text, and search engine algorithms were victims of
a bad case of information overload. Now, search engine
algorithms punish keyword spamming, so no keyword phrase
should be more than 8% of the total page content, and 2-5%
is the optimum range.
Window-shopping is fun to the customer, but worthless to the
seller. Hit-and-run visitors do not result in sales; it's the
shopaholics that make budgets. Good keywords make good
customers.
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