How To Choose Profitable Keywords For Your Blog

Alright. These tips are for getting your blog a good place in the search engines. Each blog has "tags" or "keywords" you can enter for each post. You should customize those to the most profitable keywords you can determine. But even tags are not the most important. The title of your blog should contain your most profitable keyword if at all possible. And you should use it as much as you can without it looking wierd, inside the content of your blog. All of this counts for blogs, websites, or anything else in a search engine for that matter.

Now the question is, how do you choose good keywords?

First go to Google Keyword Tool. Think up some words that have to do with your site. For this obviously it would probably be "make money online", "make money with blogs", "earn money online", "get rich online", "affiliate programs", "internet marketing". So forth. Don't be so generalized that it could have too many meanings, like "make money". Because thats not just making money online, but anywhere. You want to get your target audience, you don't want to have to compete against a whole bunch of other websites especially ones that have nothing to do with your subject.

Now just hit the "Go" button or whatever they call it.

Though I have my own complicated methods for searching for keywords, basically I recommend just sorting by the highest monthly volume for this month. Then looking through those and deciding what fits your blog and what doesn't. After you have a list of that, Google each one. On the search results, near the top right, check how many other pages appear for that keyword. That is how much competition you are dealing with. Under 2 million should be good for beginners, as a maximum. There is a formula you can use to figure out just about how easy it might be to get on the front page for that keyword. Just take the monthly traffic rating in the keyword tool, divide it by the number of "competition", and multiply it by 1000 so its easier to read. If that number is greater than 100, most of the time its a reasonable word you could appear on the first page for.

"make money" only has a rating of 31 going by my basic formula
"affiliate marketing program" would have a rating of 250

Another method you can combine, is once you find a good list of keywords, look them up in Google. Look at the best ranking sites for those words, see what keywords they are using, go to them and see why they are so popular. Learn from that and try to implement it yourself, or step it up and do better than them.

Here is a video from a class going over SEO. Its ten minutes long, and most of the useful information is after five minutes. Its long-winded but if you want to watch it odds are you will get something out of it