Using Google Keyword Tool for SEO

It feels good to get first page for a phrase but is it really worthwhile? Not if it is not ever searched for. So how do you find how many times a phrase is searched on? Google Keyword Tool.
The Google Keyword tool is a free awesome tool for SEO.
It can be used to help select titling as well as anchor text that should be used to help move a phrase up in the ranking. It allows you to focus on phrases that have search volume. At the same time, it allows you to pick phrases you are likely to

How to Dominate Google – SEO Case Study

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I wrote this case study to show that one website can dominate Google if the proper SEO methods are used. At no time did we ever build unnatural backlinks, use any black hat techniques or any other methods that are against the TOS of Google. The site did take years to dominate its niche on Google, but if you are a legit company, then you understand that SEO is long-term strategy. SEO is not a sprint, it’s a marathon and the quicker you learn there is no way around that, the quicker you will be successful

How to Reach First Page Google with On-site SEO

How to Reach First Page Google with On-site SEO

How to Reach First Page Google with On-site SEO

What most people do not realize is that on-site SEO is way more important than off-site SEO or article marketing or backlink building or anything else someone tries to sell you. I have worked on websites where I ONLY performed on-site SEO services and they achieved first page Google ranking.

We own a website called www.howtogetridofstuff.com that only has 1,300 articles on it and it achieves 2 million unique visitors per month. 93.7% of the pages

American Health Journal and Video SEO

American Health Journal

There is a new website with thousands of medical videos at American Health Journal. Everyone is saying video is where the Internet is going, but how do you optimize a video website? The first question that comes up is, do you use YouTube or a video hosting service? With some testing I have done, YouTube certainly outranks any video hosting service on Google, obviously. But do you run YouTube videos on your website when you are trying to build a brand. Usually the answer is no, but I have seem some

How Much Is First Page Google Worth?

how much is first page google worth

How much is first page Google is a very popular question. You might be surprised on the difference between the #1 and #2 spot. There is no way to give exact numbers because of all the variables involved, but you can come pretty close. The first set of data you need is to know how many people are going to click on your website on first page Google.

This sample of traffic is from Chitika, which analyzed traffic entering their ad network from Google and broke it down by Google results placement. The

Increase Twitter Traffic

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Want targeted traffic from Twitter? How about an extra 100 or even 1,000 targeted, unique visitors from Twitter every single day? If that sounds good then keep reading.

I am sure you have been wondering how you can take advantage of all these social media sites. How do you drive people to your website via Twitter, Facebook or YouTube? For now we will concentrate on Twitter because it is much easier to drive more targeted traffic to your website from Twitter in less time.

We are not talking

Reaching #1 on Google with SEO Pledge

Reaching 1 on Google

Reaching #1 on Google can be difficult, but when you have a solid game plan with proven results, it makes the road to #1 so much easier. One of the key components of this process is content marketing. Content marketing is the action of taking content (an article or blog post) and submitting it around the Internet to build backlinks. That sounds pretty easy, right? It can be if the task is put in the hands of a content marketing expert like SEO Pledge.

 

Here are some of the key steps

A Tweet A Day Keeps You In The Game

tweet a day keeps you in game

Using social media sites like Twitter is still a mystery to some businesses. The overall objective today, is to keep the content flowing because search engines respond to fresh and unique content. For many companies, the goal is simply to keep their business’s name in front of consumers. To accomplish this, you should ideally promote your company’s content on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and your blog simultaneously, in order to stay in the game.

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Google Content Farm Algorithm Change – Top 25 Sites Who Got Demoted

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If you haven’t heard, Google recently changed their algorithm to combat content farms. That means websites with a lot of duplicate content got pushed down in Google’s rankings. Google doesn’t like when a website is created and most of the content is copied from other websites. They want the website that published the original content to appear higher in the rankings.

Lets take a look at HowToGetRidOfStuff.com, which is 100% article based and has over 275 #1 rankings on Google and over 500 first

Authority Sites Or Mini Sites?

Authority Website

Authority WebsiteWhat exactly is a mini-site? A mini-site will target a very specific keyword. So for example, if you are selling flowers, you can build New-York-Flowers.com, Miami-Flowers.com and so on. This will allow you to target that specific market much easier. Yes, it will take time to build the domain authority, but it’s much easier to reach the top of Google with very specific and highly optimized domains.

What is an authority site? Going with the same example, lets look at Flowers.com. You can build