In a recent conversation with Brian Hawkins, we briefly touched upon on the issue of whether niche marketing was time-consuming.
It IS if you choose the wrong keyword phrase(s) to target.
Say you’re targeting for keyword “blogging tips“, it takes an enormous amount of link building to rank high on Google. Contrast that with another keyword, “blogging tips for dummies“, you’ll probably need minimal backlinks to rank on the first page of Google.
That’s the power of knowing which keyword(s) to target.
Building an authority site – in any niche – is time-consuming, so is making yourself popular on the Twittersphere.
But the whole idea of creating niche site is to set it up, write keyword-rich relevant content, ping it and leave it to the mercy of Google to come and crawl your site – with little maintenance thereafter.
If you target the right keywords AND after you survive ‘Google dance‘ and ‘Google sandbox‘, it should be on its way to the top #10.
If it doesn’t come anywhere near the first page, build your links with article marketing.
And you move on the next one.
It doesn’t matter whether you’re writing for your next blog post, creating Squidoo lenses or hubs or building your next niche site.
The rules remains the same.
The question is how to choose the best keywords for your website.
Just ask the men in the pink suit.
PS: TSB has officially joined the rank of PR4. What a wait!
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this can help to others to understand more about the blogging and also the keyword..Nice post.
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Umm, hmm…did I miss something?
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Umm, hmm…did I miss something?
No, if you did click the link where it brings you to the next article on “how to choose the best keywords for your website?”
;)
My bad. ;)
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Careful my friend! =)
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I think you self don’t know that what is that. Because you are confused or miss guided.
Yes niche keyword research is very vital to it (plug new service http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=1360427)
Though again you have to pick ones with traffic. In your example ‘Blogging tips for dummies’ gets 0 traffic while ‘blogging tips’ gets about 325 daily.
If I were to target a keyword based on traffic numbers only with my normal filters. I would target the keywords ‘blogging for dummies’ (95 searches per day though there is an ebook with the same name) or ‘money for blogging’ which gets 75 or so searches and could be taken with a 200 or so targeted links or even ‘blogging ideas’ which gets 45 searches per day and could be in the top 3 with little work and top space with some clever link building.
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Though again you have to pick ones with traffic.
You’re absolutely right, Donace. I was merely making a point with the above example.
Anyway, nice service you’ve got there on DP. BTW, what’s your main keyword research tool?
Yan
I use a combination of free tools by google and seo/keyword elite for the most part.
Just reading your Post.
no doubt keyword research is important to build up an authority blog…
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I agree with you but if a content is just based on keywords, to me is not unique. Like the keyword search for “Make Money Online.” only 4 blogs are good blog with good content on the first page, the rest are just B.S content.
Keyword research is important but still it won’t win the position for word of month marketing.
That is why, social media marketing comes in to play as part of word of month marketing.
I believe in the future SEO and Keywords will no longer be use, but social media marketing that will take over the Google’s Spider.
People wants good information not keyword base content.
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I believe in the future SEO and Keywords will no longer be use
Interesting thought!
It takes a while for someone to “really” understanding the difference between organic marketing and social marketing. You’ll come at it later, I’m sure.
In the mean time, be the baddest blogger in town.
Yan
i am agree and i am trying to playing with targeting keyword to get a good position in search engine.how are you bro?
Hi Yan –
Right – we ask the man in the pink suit, but the question remains WHAT do we ask him?
The answer to THAT question is the magic bullet we all seek. And if you do find this answer don’t publish it, just use it and you will be the next Bill Gatez.
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but the question remains WHAT do we ask him?
See my reply to Dennis above. Anyway, how are you, Rhys?
Lo Yan!
I’m going well [as long as I remember to take my Prozac&*$%#!!]
;-)
This is what I am applying to my newest site. I have a mistake on my first, second, third, and my fourth blog but I am glad to say that I am able to learn from my mistakes.
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Love what you’re doing on your blog, Paul. Thanks for dropping by and look forward to seeing more of you.
Yan
Congrats on the PR update Yan. You deserve it. As for your minisite strategy I am not crystal clear how much or how little effort you put into the minisites before you leave them to the mercy of Google? Do you have some unwritten rules that you follow?
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Well, I don’t sweat much for Google. It’s too much of a competition. Given a choice, I’ll optimize for Yahoo and MSN traffic. They have better CTR than Google (I’m sure you’re aware of it)
And depending on how profitable the keyword is, if I don’t rank anywhere on the first page of Yahoo, I’ll probably add more relevant contents and build more backlinks naturally.
Other times, I’ll just create and forget them. At the end of the day, I’m only risking the cost of a domain.
Yan
Very sensible tip Yan. Really a good reminder for those who run after ‘make money online’ err… yours truly inclusive.
And congrats on PR4 :)
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Targeting keyword or keyword choice can make or break your campaign. This is always the backbone.
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This is very interesting post, this has quite valuable information, thanks for sharing the same
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This article gives the light in which we can observe the reality. this is very nice one and gives indepth information. thanks for this nice article
Thanks for excellent article. It is really important to read articles like this before starting a new blog. It helps one to find out what he needs to do to get his site listed on the first page of Google.
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Blog post is so important when ranking for a keyword, especially if it’s long tail. I love link building if it doesn’t take much to rank for it the search engine too, but it does take time. Just know which keywords does makes the most sense.
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Hi Yan: I guess niche blog development inferring from what you have said is like shampooing — lather, rinse, repeat! Thank you for a great article.
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Hey Raj
Good to see ya again here. It seems like you’re now on multiple niches.
Oh yeah, I kind like your analogy. Pretty much the same as shampooing, if you say so… ;)
Yan
That’s alot of SEO pros recommend long tail keywords before trying to target highly popular keywords. It takes alot of constant effort to build up..
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Yan? No hi from you? haha been some time since I commented here man.. Nice stuff!
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You’ve got a “Hi”…. ;)
This post is so important for increasing a ranking of blog keyword, especially if it’s long tail. And that is great way of link building, blog comment is alot of SEO pros recommend long tail keywords before trying to target highly popular keywords. It really help to increase a site ranking.
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This is very interesting and informative article. Its very useful for those who are looking for these kinds for information. Thanks for such nice and helpful article and we are still looking forward to for another one.
Great tips… certainly makes sense to target for the long-tail…
Regards,
Karl
I think for those really making online business as the main income stream, it’s obligatory to do the best to shoot the target at the top.
while for those who don’t, it’s an encouragement. but it’s very important to target the right keyword.
Yan, i have a question.
i just read recently that 95% of blogs have been abandoned; and based on Technorati report only 50,000-100,000 blogs are making good business.
i guess there’re plenty of reasons. but do you think it’s also because they are building on the same niche, which causing them lot of hardwork, headaches, and eventually abandon ship before reaching to the top in google?
Hey Harris
I guess the primary reason why most ships (blogs) were abandoned is because they boarded the ship thinking that it’s gonna be easy sailing, making money online.
Of course, it’s tough trying to compete with any authority site in any niche. The late comers find it even much tougher. So when the money was just a fraction of what they used to make offline, the inevitable happened.
Little did they know that make money blogging is just a myth. Anyone tells you otherwise is probably selling you products or ideas that helps her to make money online.
Agree?
But to get such kind of keywords I think you will have to use many tools.
Rite now I am using google adwords and some other paid software as well. So far these long tailes keywords are really useful to me and I am getting good amount of traffic from search engines.
Really good numbers of unique visitors.
Its very cool info. keyword target is best idea of get high ranking for site.
Yoohoo Yan! Where have you gone to?
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Keyword phrases are quite important. Sometimes you need to target a little bit of everything to see what is working best.
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Hey yan its very long time for a new article. we are looking forward to for it. thanks for your help to make my blog better. your tips are great.
Getting high ranking in search engine is not instantaneously link building requires perseverance, consistency and ongoing effort. Keyword plays important role in link building, keyword analyzation is needed to target best keyword to work on so effort won’t be wasted.
Hey, my wife and I are regulars on your blog. We haven’t seen a post in quite sometime. Are you still updating it?
It is what will gets 75 or so searches and could be taken with a 200 or so targeted links or even ‘blogging ideas’ which gets 45 searches per day and could be in the top 3 with little work and top space with some clever link building.
Oh my god Yan.. really not coming back?
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I’m back – at least for today…. ;)
Surely if your content is relevant to your site, all of your keywords will be in the posts anyway? With good quality content, maybe keyword work isn’t so much effort?
I have moved on to a less competitive niche keyword at the moment and find it more rewarding than niche keywords such as MMO , etc.
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In my experience it does take more time, but is often much more rewarding. I have found that I struggle in markets where I am not focusing on a particular niche.
Where are you Ben … no post from you in these days. I hope everything is fine at your end.
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Everything is fine here. Thanks for your concern, ZK. I’ll be back shortly.
Thanks for the mention Yan. I can’t believe it took a month for me to notice. I’m very glad I found this post it clears up a few things and I was just about ready to put away the niche site idea. It’s nice to see you here :)
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Well, it took me a month to come back to TSB too so we are even I suppose…. ;)
Wow, thats really interesting!! Thank you so much for your great tips. It helps me a lot and I will definitely come back and check out your site :-)
You site and the topics you’ve posted about are very informative things..It is really hard to find sites like this on the internet..I wish you luck on the road you’re headed..thanks..
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Another very nice post!
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The Twittersphere is definitely the place to go if you want to build business for your brand. I would suggest the Twitter search too due to keyword match in the system, really cool. Nice article here.
Best Regards,
Jermaine
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This post is very interesting and I am going to do this practically by
applying into my life. Life is not a game. Live your self without
bluffing and cheating.
Play fairly..
Great post, it can help others, especially blogger to understand more about blogging.