Chapter11.Choose Your Target Keywords


Chapter 11. Choose Your Target Keywords

Get out your crystal ball! That's one way to guess the words that searchers use. If your crystal ball is as cloudy as ours, however, you might want to use a few other methods, too. That's what you will learn in this chapter.

In the preceding chapter, you learned how to get your site indexed for organic search, but getting indexed is not enough. You need to get your pages to be highly ranked in the organic search results to generate traffic to your site. Or you need to invest in paid search techniques for your site's pages to show up on that search results page. No matter whether you are focusing on organic or paid search or both, you need to know which keywords searchers are using. If you do not know which words searchers are entering, you cannot purchase the right keywords (for paid placement), nor can you make sure those words are prominently featured on your pages (for organic search). Each time you embark on a new search marketing campaign, you will choose your target list of keywords.

In this chapter, we show you that choosing the right keywords for your search marketing campaign does not have to be guesswork. We explain the basics of keyword planningthe method by which you choose your keywords. This chapter covers the following topics:

  • The value of keyword planning. You will see how keyword planning improves brand awareness for your organization and how it helps you improve Web conversionsthe ones you chose back in Chapter 5, "Identify Your Web Site's Goals," for your Web site.

  • Your keyword planning philosophy. Most failures of keyword planning stem from misunderstanding the proper thinking behind keyword decisions. You will learn the philosophy of selecting "just right" keywords that are neither too broad nor too narrow.

  • Step-by-step keyword planning. We dive into the planning process itself, showing you three proven steps to select the right keywords for any campaign.

At the end of this chapter, you will be able to choose the best keyword targets for every search marketing campaign you undertake. Let's start by getting an appreciation for why keyword planning is so important.



    Search Engine Marketing, Inc. Driving Search Traffic to Your Company's Web Site
    Search Engine Marketing, Inc.: Driving Search Traffic to Your Companys Web Site (2nd Edition)
    ISBN: 0136068685
    EAN: 2147483647
    Year: 2005
    Pages: 138

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