If you really want a recommendation, I would recommend The Keyword Academy, run by Courts and Mark.

Read the articles there and if you find it helpful, sign up for their membership to learn the finer details.

Basically, if you get the right keywords working for your blog, you get all the search traffic. That’s why it is so important to pick the right keywords for your blog.

For example, if thousands are looking for “how to write a novel” (taking your blog as an example) in Google everyday and your blog is at the number one position of the Search Results page when they search for info on how to write a novel in Google, nearly all the thousands will click on that first result and thousands will flock to your blog.

The knowledge lies in how to find that strong keyword and how to optimize that keyword so it goes to the first position in the Search Results.

As in your mp3 experiment, you do not simply put in the keywords in the list and hope Google will find it. You can have a strong keyword with millions of Searches daily, but if your blog is not optimized for it, your post will not appear in the Search results and that’s why you don’t get results.

Unless, of course, if there are no one else writing about that particular word or term. Then Google will have no other choice but to put you in their results. That’s why, SEO gurus tells us to find keywords that are hotly searched, but sparsely written about by others. This way you have an easier time ranking for that word.

I love the photo! You spend a lot of time posting about keywords, and as a newbie blogger of only six months, I’m not sure I get the true importance of this aspect of blogging.

I try to put in keywords that align with the post, and when trying to use a wordpress keyword plug-in I click ‘tag the net’ and it often just lists all the words in the post.

Is there one place where a newbie can go to get the real insider’s understanding of keywords? It might have been on of your posts that mentioned the keyword ‘mp3′ was one of the hottest at the moment, so I did a voice recording of a post and added ‘mp3′ to the keyword list…it has yet to produce a hit. I realize there is more to it than just adding a keyword…but what is the other stuff?

What is the trick to getting clicks from keywords???

cheers

Curtis