SEO Tips

While checking my logs for today I saw there is a huge increase in my traffic stats. Before when I was starting this blog I’m just advertising it to few popular webmaster forums and some other ways to get exposure. At the start it was really a struggle to get quality traffic supply. But one thing that I noticed after 8 months of existence of this blog. Still quality content is the king in putting you on the top of the SERPs. Checking my logs I saw few good keywords that I’m ranking. As an search engine optimization specialist for many years now I’ve seen that 60-80% of the traffic came from search engines. I’ve seen also few webmasters trying to trick search engines to get rankings from their SERPs.

Since the theme of this blog is about SEO Tips. I would give you some pointers on how I received traffic from SERPs by optimizing the keywords.

1. Research for the keywords regarding your niche/theme – Use keywords suggestion tool like Overture and Wordtracker to be able to analyze the keywords you need to use for your website.

2. Use PPC campaign keywords suggestion tool. Google has its own keyword suggestion tool to determine the keywords that you can use in your PPC campaign. This is pretty helpful because I can trace keywords and phrases that people using in their searches.

3. Use your competitors keywords – Just like the old saying, “Know your enemy”. Here is the technique that I’m using for few years now. Your competitors keywords is well researched especially sites in top 10 on SERPs for your niche. Use them.

4. Use Wikipedia keywords – Wikipedia is always been helpful to me. Especially in looking for keywords that I could use in our site. One thing that’s why I recommend Wikipedia is because the struture of the website is inter-connected on related subjects. So researching for keywords is not a hard task. Just follow the link on each topic and you will discover the proper keywords for your website.

5. Use DMOZ listings – Check the listings in DMOZ related to your niche. There are keywords there that your competitor is using on their website. So it would be easy for you to research for the keywords for your website. This is just an additional tips not really necessary. But remember you need to get many resources as you can in order to outrank the websites on top of SERPs.