Google May Be Replacing Content as King
While great content will always get you noticed, I have come to the somewhat obvious conclusion that “Content is NOT King, Google is King” on the web. This is a slightly different mindset when it comes to getting traffic and marketing on the net.
This new mindset doesn’t change the fact that you still have to create great content, but it changes the way one goes about promoting that content on the web.
In the last few years, Google’s share of the search market has grown to 65% or much more in most areas of the world. This domination of online search puts Google in control of what content is seen – regardless of its quality.
It plays a major role in your content’s visibility, a role so great that without Google’s approval, your content is not exactly dead in the water, but your chances of succeeding is much less than with a thumbs-up from Google.
Linking To Your Site With Keywords
You have probably heard that doing keyword research is essential to your article marketing success. In learning how to submit articles, it’s crucial to learn how to properly use the keywords that you’ve compiled. This article will teach you what to do with your keywords in relation to your resource box.
There are two types of keywords that are in your list – the first is a shorter type that is 2-3 words long. This type of keyword phrase is one that you would like your website to get a high ranking for. In other words, when your target customers type this phrase into Google, you would like for your website to appear high up in the results list, ideally in the number one position.
The other type of keyword phrase is called a “long-tail keyword.” Those are longer phrases, usually 3-8 or more words long, and they’re ideal for using as part of your title and as the subject for your articles. These longer phrases are ones that you’d like your article to rank for (rather than your website).
When you’re considering using your keywords as part of the resource box, you’ll be looking at the shorter 2-3 word long phrases. These are the phrases that you want search engines to associate with your website.
Alright, so how do you use your key phrases in your resource box?
Latest Google Algorithm Update
Google has released a new update to their ranking algorithm this week, aimed at isolating and penalizing websites that use particular spam techniques. From the official blog post:
“In the next few days, we’re launching an important algorithm change targeted at webspam. The change will decrease rankings for sites that we believe are violating Google’s existing quality guidelines.”
So what constitutes a violation of Google guidelines? While deliberately avoiding being specific, Google has highlighted these tactics as problematic and likely to be targeted:
* Duplicate Content
* Keyword Stuffing
* Link Schemes
* Cloaking
* Deliberate Redirects
* Doorway / Gateway Pages
Keyword Blunders to Avoid
Keywords are a crucial part of your website’s SEO. Keywords are what people use to search for sites and if you are not using them properly, your site will not get found. Thus, you will lose sales and money.
If keywords are done correctly, it could mean substantial traffic and sales for your online business. However, the process of finding and using keywords is much more involved than you might think. Read the following to see if you are making any of these mistakes with your keyword research and usage.
1. Not Researching Your Keywords – To find the most successful and relevant keywords for your site, you must do some research. Find out what keywords are used the most and for what people are searching. Do not only take search numbers into consideration. Use the most relevant keywords for your site. You can find lots of free keyword research tools online.
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Long Tail Keywords for Niche Marketing
Long tail marketing consists of niche marketing to a great many niches, selling small quantities of many products or services to each. Customers are targeted with “long tail keywords.” What does the term “long tail” refer to?
Chris Anderson popularized the “long tail” in an October 2004 Wired magazine article. Long tail keywords and niche marketing go together on the Internet. To see the long tail, get a spreadsheet of related keywords with their monthly searches, sort the keywords in decreasing order by searches and make a graph of the searches. You should find a very few keywords with many searches and a long tail of the distribution with few.
Most of us can successfully compete only for keywords in the tail of the distribution. The questions are: Which keywords in the tail? And compete how?
You can divide the keywords four search bands: the super, the high, the medium, and the low search keywords. The border between low and medium searches can be set to somewhere around 500 searches per month; between medium and high around 1000; and between high and super around 10,000.
