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		<title>Perfect SEO from Traffic Travis</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2012 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s already a lot of SEO products on the market today but only a few can stand out. Traffic Travis has been in the market since 2006 and it’s already refined to version 4.1. In my opinion, it’s the perfect SEO tool you can use. Why? It&#8217;s everything you&#8217;ll ever need in your SEO campaigns. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://94549d3l8wvlzabsx3j0j84sc9.hop.clickbank.net/" target="_blank"><img src="http://claytonjohnston.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/traffic-travis.jpg" alt="Traffic Travis Best SEO Tool" title="Traffic Travis: Ultimate SEO Software" width="250" height="250" class="alignright size-full wp-image-2181" /></a>There&#8217;s already a lot of SEO products on the market today but only a few can stand out. <strong>Traffic Travis</strong> has been in the market since 2006 and it’s already refined to version 4.1. In my opinion, it’s the perfect SEO tool you can use.</p>
<p>Why? It&#8217;s everything you&#8217;ll ever need in your SEO campaigns. You won&#8217;t need another SEO software because you can find everything in Traffic Travis: from PPC Monitoring, Search Engine Optimization to Market Research. It’s the <strong>number 1 SEO tool</strong> recommended by <a href="http://www.cnet.com/" target="_blank">CNET</a>, another proof that it’s one of the best SEO tool you can have.</p>
<p>With Traffic Travis, you can quickly do market research, keyword research, web page SEO analysis, link building and pay per click ad monitoring. It’s extremely user friendly too. You’ll find a very helpful video tutorial on every module. Traffic Travis is almost like Market Samurai, but with better keyword tracking and a much cleaner and user-friendly interface. Market Samurai seems to be better at keyword research and analysis.</p>
<p><strong>Here are Traffic Travis’ notable features:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Create comprehensive keyword list</li>
<li>Track and monitor your search engine rankings</li>
<li>Optimize your webpages in a flash with SEO Analysis</li>
<li>Spy on your search engine competitors and outrank them in a flash</li>
<li>Pay less and get more clicks with PPC Analysis</li>
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<p>You can <strong>Download a Free Version</strong> and install it on your computer. The Free Version has limited features though but you can immediately upgrade to the Pro Version for only $97 once you feel that it’s the best SEO solution for you. You can find the upgrade button below your Traffic Travis user interface window. The <strong>60 days money back guarantee</strong> also adds as a plus. You can ask your money back once you don’t feel like it can do the job.</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://94549d3l8wvlzabsx3j0j84sc9.hop.clickbank.net/" target="_blank">Download a Free Copy of Traffic Travis Today!</a></strong></p>
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		<title>Keyword Research Strategy 101</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 04:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Finding keywords]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Keyword Research Strategy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Keyword research has now become an essential part of a web building process for just about any type of web site. It is no longer enough to just have a fancy looking web site. In this article, we&#8217;re going to go through a basic keyword research strategy. If you&#8217;re new to the internet and just [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Keyword research has now become an essential part of a web building process for just about any type of web site. It is no longer enough to just have a fancy looking web site.</p>
<p>In this article, we&#8217;re going to go through a basic keyword research strategy. If you&#8217;re new to the internet and just about to set up your own web site, this strategy is for you.</p>
<li><strong>What are keywords?</strong></li>
<p>Keywords are simply words or, more often, phrases that you would like your web pages to be found with, in search engines. If you had a web site about babies, for example, you would want your web pages to appear when someone searches for &#8220;baby names&#8221; or &#8220;baby furniture&#8221; etc. You wouldn&#8217;t want your web pages to appear in search results for the keywords &#8220;fishing rod&#8221; or &#8220;hunting guide&#8221; because a person doing that search will not be interested in your site.</p>
<li><strong>Finding keywords</strong></li>
<p>The first step in your keyword research strategy is to find keywords that are relevant to your web site theme. A good place to start is to just brainstorm of words that you yourself might use to find your web pages. A big mistake that newcomers make is to stop at that. You may be quite surprised that the keyword that you think will be used by others may not be used by them at all.</p>
<p>Fortunately, there are keyword research tools out there that you can use to help you find out what terms are being searched for. One tool you could use is Good Keywords, which is a free keyword generator software that you can use to do a quick keyword research for your terms and their demand (i.e. how many times they&#8217;re been searched for in a month). You can download a free copy of Good Keywords from <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.goodkeywords.com/" target="_new">http://www.goodkeywords.com</a></p>
<p>Typing in the word &#8220;baby&#8221; in Good Keywords brings up the following results (first 10 only):</p>
<p>baby name	1016116</p>
<p>baby gift	760898</p>
<p>baby r us	493144</p>
<p>baby	474805</p>
<p>baby cds	109643</p>
<p>baby name meaning	103122</p>
<p>baby shower	89866</p>
<p>baby boy music video	88601</p>
<p>personalized baby gift	87855</p>
<p>baby shower game	78860</p>
<li><strong>Choosing keywords</strong></li>
<p>The second step in your keyword research strategy is to choose &#8220;good keywords&#8221;. As you can see, the &#8220;baby&#8221; theme is quite popular. Should you use all terms as your keywords? You could if you wanted to. Depending on the number of competitors you have (i.e. other webmasters who are targeting your chosen keyword), you&#8217;d more likely be better off focusing on a tighter theme. A quick search for the word &#8220;baby&#8221; on Google, comes up with 1,000,000,000 results. With so many competitors what are your chances of ranking in the Top 10? You could focus your entire site on just &#8220;baby shower&#8221;, for example.</p>
<p>To have a better idea of which keywords to choose, you could use a keyword research tool like WordTracker (<a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.wordtracker.com/" target="_new">http://www.wordtracker.com</a>). WordTracker provides information on how many times your keyword phrase is being searched for in a day, the number of competitors and something else called KEI (Keyword Effectiveness Index). All else being equal, the higher the KEI, the better.</p>
<p>WordTracker has a trial account you can experiment with but it brings back just 30 results, which is a good start to helping you focus on a niche. Typing in &#8220;baby shower&#8221; in WordTracker brings back the following top 5 KEI results for the following keywords:</p>
<p>152.264, baby shower footprint invitation</p>
<p>73.085, free printable baby shower games</p>
<p>61.711, free baby shower games</p>
<p>52.127, baby shower games</p>
<p>37.829, free printable baby shower invitations</p>
<p>According to WordTracker keyword research, KEI above 15 is a good keyword.</p>
<li><strong>Using keywords</strong></li>
<p>Once you&#8217;ve chosen a set of &#8220;good keywords&#8221;, you next step in your keyword research strategy is to actually use the keywords. You should start off your site by creating web pages with content optimized for the high KEI keywords. How do you do this exactly?</p>
<p>- Focus one keyword phrase per web page</p>
<p>- Use the keyword phrase in your web page Title Tag</p>
<p>- Use it in your keywords meta tag</p>
<p>- Use it in your description meta tag</p>
<p>- Have it appear in the first 250 words of your content</p>
<p>- Strive for 5-7% keyword density (5-7 keywords and/or keyword phrases per 100 words of text).</p>
<p>-Use your keyword phrase in your H1 tag.</p>
<p>-Use keywords and/or keyword phrases in your image ALT tags.</p>
<p>- Use it as the text to any outgoing links on the page.</p>
<p>- Have the keyword appear once at the end of your content.</p>
<p>There&#8217;s a lot more to keyword research then I have time to explain in this article. But this basic keyword research strategy should be enough to get you started in the right direction.</p>
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		<title>Keyword Research Using Google Keyword Tool</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 04:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Writing articles to promote a certain service or product online with a goal to reach a large audience with the help of search engines has much to do with diligent keyword research. You get your article to stand out from the heaps of other articles online by feeding the search engines with effective keywords. To [...]]]></description>
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<p>Writing articles to promote a certain service or product online  with a goal to reach a large audience with the help of search engines  has much to do with diligent keyword research. You get your article to  stand out from the heaps of other articles online by feeding the search  engines with effective keywords. To do this, here are some simple steps  on how to do keyword research effectively using Google Keyword Tool.</p>
<p>Google  Keyword Tool is a free and it provides high quality data which is  beneficial for you. First step is to set the location of the search to  suit the country in which your business in located. To do this you will  have to click on the Edit button and change it to Singapore for  instance, so that you will have results specific for Singapore. Key in  the keyword for example auditor SEO and leave the Use Synonyms checkbox  selected. Now click on Get Keyword Ideas.</p>
<p>You will the see that  the results are split into two categories; Keywords related to term(s)  entered and Additional keywords to be considered. Related keywords can  be found in the second list and transferred to an Excel file. Since the  target audience is in Singapore, you are more interested in the local  search volume than the global search volume.</p>
<p>The local search  volume for the term auditor SEO states Not Enough Data will be  translated to the value -1 in the exported file for Excel and you will  see that there is Low Advertiser Competition for the term. Point your  mouse on the green bar to check for alt text that will display  appropriate level of competition. Obviously now you have noticed that  auditor SEO is not a strong short tail keyword like SEO. By changing the geographical location auditor SEO to SEO you are now looking at a good  targeted keyword as it shows very high advertiser competition  represented by the green bar. For this, you will always need to select  the widest term specific for your industry. Since the service that you  cater is based around the term, it is a valid choice, and in this case,  it is SEO.</p>
<p>As you are interested in the Local Search Volume, you  will now click on the column heading Local Search Volume to sort the  results in a descending manner. Here, you will see all the keywords that  can become various categories. You are able to group them from the more  specific to less general terms to be used under each of the category.</p>
<p>Now  that you have known how to do keyword research, try it out! Keep in  mind that in many industries such as fashion and arts there is changing  trends which are represented by a change in keywords being used by  searches. Keep in tune with the shifting trends by doing regular keyword  research and keep your website up-to-date with new contents to attract  searches using the latest keywords. The constant research for keywords  can strenuous but is highly rewarding for your website and you should  start today!</p>
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