Getting The Right Keywords.

When I started this blog, I promised to share what I have learned and for the past week, I learned that getting the right keywords and using those keywords in our blogs will play a big part in the success of our blogs. I guess most of you thinks that they already know this. I too, thought I knew that getting the right keywords is crucial, so each time I title my post, I try to title it in a phrase that I think people might use when searching for such information.

Along the way, and after many many articles, I do have some post with the right keywords that ranks top in Google’s Search Results. However, these post brings only about five or six hits weekly and I am sure many of others are experiencing the same thing. This had me suspecting that what I have read about getting the right keywords and all those relative information are bullshit. I suspected that all those gurus are not telling me enough on how a right keyword can actually bring in thousands of hits monthly.

That was until I started reading Blogger Unleashed. It sort of lighted up a bulb above my head. I finally understood why even though the right keywords are ranking among the top in Google SERPs, but I am not getting the hits for it. The reason is so simple. It is because no one is searching using that term! Simple as that! There might be millions writing about that same keywords as shown in the Search Results and I might be ranked number one among the millions, but it is totally worthless if no one is Searching for that term using those keywords I have used and I am sure the other millions who has the similar keywords are not getting any either.

Getting The Right Keywords.

I did an experimental post yesterday using the term , “Can A Low Traffic Blog make Money” with the methods I have learned from Blogger Unleashed. It shot straight to number one in Google within 5 or 6 minutes,(another thing I learned about getting indexed by Google within 5 minutes) but when I checked my stats today, I got zero hits from that term. I think that confirms it. So what IS the right keyword and how do we determine that it is THE RIGHT KEYWORD? That is another thing I learned.

The Keyword Tool will play an important part in my blogging life from now on. There are so many out there if you would just Google for it. I can’t make any recommendations as I have just started using some of them so I don’t know how accurate they are.

The idea is, when you have brainstormed up a good keyword, use the keyword tool to see where that word stands. Check for the searches that have been done with those keywords. If the tool shows that there were thousands of searches based on that keyword, you know you have a good one in hand. But that is only the first step.

The next thing is to go and do a search in Google yourself with those keywords. Since it is such a terrific keyword, you can rest assured that there will be millions and millions of hits. You can also rest assured that all the high ranking blogs will be dominating the first few pages. Again, it will be a waste of time if your blog is nowhere compared to those high rankers. So it is back to the drawing board.

Rephrase all the right keywords again. Check again. Do it until you have come up with a phrase that is not so often used BUT still getting thousands of Searches. That, my friends, are the right keywords that you should use for your next blog post.

It is no easy task. Sometimes it is almost impossible, but there are other words. You can always blog about something less competitive. There is no point throwing yourself against a rock if you are just an egg like me. We will only hurt ourselves.