Financial Straight Talk Keyword Analysis Summary Quincy L. S. Bingham 5/31/2011
Project Description: Keywords are the words and phrases users use to do searches online. These words are not words that best describe a website although they should describe and be very relevant to the content on your site. The basic premise of keyword research is to target the keywords that your target audience is using to find your particular product online and direct these relevant hits to your website. A website that garners high volume, but low click thru rates is a website not optimized for its audience; Google will notice and proceed to devalue such a site. In doing my keyword analysis I started by using the Google Adword Keyword tool to search the site deemosierblog.com for keyword possibilities. We could just stop here, but using these suggested words and phrases would most definitely be premature. Google Adwords gives keyword suggestions based on the text found on the website, but only gives information such as competition and volume based on keyword by keyword bases without any correlation between the two. Google also assumes that your website is already optimized for the best keywords. Google also cannot determine what is directly relevant and what isn’t as relevant. In short, this is only a start. My next task is to use ratio of volume/competition ratio to better gauge the correlation between volume and competition. The goal is to select the keywords with lowest competition with the highest volume. I have used a more advanced formula to include relevancy. Relevancy is clearly based on my judgment. Based on my exposure to Financial Straight Talk and Dee Mosier, I have devised 4 basic subject areas that Dee Mosier covers in her online videos and websites, FINANCE FOR WOMEN & MINORITIES, GLOBAL INVESTING, PREPARATION FOR RETIREMENT, and GENERAL FINANCIAL LITERACY. Based on these 4 areas, I graded the keywords on a scale of 1- Excellent, 2 - Good, 3 Poor. I also sought after keywords that where related to these 4 key areas. The next task involves analyzing the current trends associated with the chosen keywords with Google Trends and Google Insights. This process usually reveals other related keywords that may have recently started to trend. This process should be an ongoing task. A google insghts wiki on igoogle can give constant hour by hour updates on trending keywords and topics. For the vigilant, a consistent, daily blog using trending topics and keywords can serve as a powerful tool to drive traffic to a website. The last focus of good keyword research involves the use of "long tail keywords". Long tail keywords are a goal mine. The truth is that 70% of all searched done online use long tail keywords. (SEOmoz Beginner's Guide To SEO) That means that most searches done online consist of keywords such as "places to buy cars in Chicago", “valentine's day gifts in Wicker Park", or "PNC banks in downtown Indianapolis". Using combinations of words and phrases given by Google Adwords and SEOmoz Term Extractor, I tested the validity of a range of long tailed keywords and kept the ones that were trending and high in the initial keyword analysis.
Another thing, don't be thrown off by mispelled keywords, a lot of times the misspelling of a keyword becomes so incredibly common that it ranks much higher than the correct spelling. It's the same philosophy in which a webmaster should buy closely related misspelling of domain names. Other considerations in the keyword research involve closely related keywords and how to differ in the eyes of the user. An excellent example is the huge difference in usage in between the search terms "global investments" and "global investment". The plural term of this keyword receives significantly less hits than it's singular counterpart. (85/35). The keywords that I have provided were chosen with the website: deemosierblog.com in mind. It is important to note that these keywords are a general umbrella of keywords to be used for the site and each landing page should have it's own set of keywords, preferably derived from the master list. With the importance of H1 and H2 tags in mind, I used the tab headings that were already in on the site as a model for a number of keywords. The keywords in blue represent keywords that either had a high competition, but relevant and trending enough to make an excellent Adword, had a low rating, but showed tremendous potential in Google Insights by a steady upward trend or breakout, or it was simply a word I judged to have tremendous potential over time.
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