Need Help With Seo Marketing
I have been reading and following optimisation tips for my website www.creditsider.com. The field I'm in is very competitive, so I am trying to target lower competition keywords. I am trying many things, but want to make sure I am doing this right. I don't want all the work to be a waste. Please take a look at my site, review what I've been doing below, and give me some SEO help if possible. Here is what I have done so far:
1. I researched less competitive keywords: I use these long tail keywords in articles as anchor text and sometimes when I desribe my site in directory submissions.
2. I write my own articles using targeted less competitive keywords and add them to my website first, then I submit to article directories. Not sure if submitting the same article to many directories will help because of duplicate content issues. Does anyone know for sure about this?
3. I submit to directories everyday, but many of them have a low pagerank. Does this matter? Do I need to target only high page rank directories? I don't seem to be getting many backlinks this way and I have submitted to over 100 directories, all which seem very professional.
4. I added a rss feed to my news section which updates articles daily, but this is from another web source, so isn't that duplicate content? I also started a blog through lifetype and will provide a link for the blog on my main website. I submitted the blog to the search engines.
I have an important question about keywords. If I choose a keyword that has no competition but only has about 1000 searches a month, is that a good keyword? The keywords for my industry are ridiculously competitive, so I have to be creative, but the keywords I have been using for my articles have estimated search results of 1900 or less. Is it worth to target these?
So many questions and so little time when you try to do this all by yourself. Any advice for better optimisation would be greatly appreciated.
1. I researched less competitive keywords: I use these long tail keywords in articles as anchor text and sometimes when I desribe my site in directory submissions.
2. I write my own articles using targeted less competitive keywords and add them to my website first, then I submit to article directories. Not sure if submitting the same article to many directories will help because of duplicate content issues. Does anyone know for sure about this?
3. I submit to directories everyday, but many of them have a low pagerank. Does this matter? Do I need to target only high page rank directories? I don't seem to be getting many backlinks this way and I have submitted to over 100 directories, all which seem very professional.
4. I added a rss feed to my news section which updates articles daily, but this is from another web source, so isn't that duplicate content? I also started a blog through lifetype and will provide a link for the blog on my main website. I submitted the blog to the search engines.
I have an important question about keywords. If I choose a keyword that has no competition but only has about 1000 searches a month, is that a good keyword? The keywords for my industry are ridiculously competitive, so I have to be creative, but the keywords I have been using for my articles have estimated search results of 1900 or less. Is it worth to target these?
So many questions and so little time when you try to do this all by yourself. Any advice for better optimisation would be greatly appreciated.
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Permalink Reply by TheMaster on -
1. I researched less competitive keywords: I use these long tail keywords in articles as anchor text and sometimes when I desribe my site in directory submissions.
Great strategy. Keep it.
2. I write my own articles using targeted less competitive keywords and add them to my website first, then I submit to article directories. Not sure if submitting the same article to many directories will help because of duplicate content issues. Does anyone know for sure about this?
Responded to this issue in your other discussion.
3. I submit to directories everyday, but many of them have a low pagerank. Does this matter? Do I need to target only high page rank directories? I don't seem to be getting many backlinks this way and I have submitted to over 100 directories, all which seem very professional.
Focus on PR4 and up. Use http://sponsoredreviews.com to give yourself a push in PR. Try and choose blogs that are in the same industry.
4. I added a rss feed to my news section which updates articles daily, but this is from another web source, so isn't that duplicate content? I also started a blog through lifetype and will provide a link for the blog on my main website. I submitted the blog to the search engines.
It should not count as duplicate content. Many companies have 5-10 blogs from all of the major free blog websites that are updated once every 3-5 days. Blogger and Wordpress can get pages indexed quickly with decent rankings for keywords also.
I have an important question about keywords. If I choose a keyword that has no competition but only has about 1000 searches a month, is that a good keyword? The keywords for my industry are ridiculously competitive, so I have to be creative, but the keywords I have been using for my articles have estimated search results of 1900 or less. Is it worth to target these?
A keyword is only good if it turns into a customer or revenue. If a keyword is only search 50 times a month and gives you 4 new customers every month, then it is worth going after. If you get 30,000 visitors a month and they do not convert then it is just a pretty nunber. You can use yahoo or google ppc to do daily tests to identify which words actually get traffic and convert to customers.
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Permalink Reply by Steve SEO UK on -
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