{"id":671,"date":"2012-02-21T16:07:52","date_gmt":"2012-02-21T22:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.techwaredist.com\/wordpress\/?p=671"},"modified":"2012-02-21T16:10:01","modified_gmt":"2012-02-21T22:10:01","slug":"seo-tip3-good-keyword-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.techwaredist.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/seo-tip3-good-keyword-research\/","title":{"rendered":"SEO Tip#3 &#8211; Good Keyword Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Optimizing your website for good, relevant keywords is probably the number one key to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.akaynastudios.com\">successful search engine optimization<\/a> for Google and Bing.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Use a great free tool like Google&#8217;s Keyword tool<\/li>\n<li>Start with phrases you think your customers will type into the search engines<\/li>\n<li>Target long-tail words (3 to 5 word phrases) as they are less competitive<\/li>\n<li>If you have mostly local customers, target phrases with your city or state name included in the phrase<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Once you have a strong list of the keywords and phrases you want to target, then write\u00a0high-quality pages within your site that have your phrases naturally\u00a0sprinkled into the copy. Work in\u00a0your keywords where it makes sense, but not excessively (keyword stuffing\u00a0could\u00a0get you penalized\u00a0by Google and it sounds awful\u00a0to your potential customers).<\/p>\n<p>Try and\u00a0target 2 similar keywords per page. Typically going for more that 2 per page within your site will not work.<\/p>\n<p>Need help with your <a href=\"http:\/\/www.akaynastudios.com\">website design and internet search marketing<\/a>?<br \/>\nCall Drew at 952-944-0083.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Optimizing your website for good, relevant keywords is probably the number one key to successful search engine optimization for Google and Bing. Use a great free tool like Google&#8217;s Keyword tool Start with phrases you think your customers will type &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techwaredist.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/seo-tip3-good-keyword-research\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-seo-tips","category-akayna-studios"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.techwaredist.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.techwaredist.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.techwaredist.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.techwaredist.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.techwaredist.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=671"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.techwaredist.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":674,"href":"http:\/\/www.techwaredist.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671\/revisions\/674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.techwaredist.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.techwaredist.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.techwaredist.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}