If you’ve done keyword research in the past, which I’d assume you have since you’re reading this blog, then you have probably used Google’s keyword external tool. It’s free and gives you a pretty good idea for search volume. I’ve never relied on the competition graph that they show, though. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve manually checked for competition and found it to be way off from what it shows.

Google now has an enhanced search tool for all your keyword research. It is supposed to take your website’s keywords and compare them to the volume of searches that are actually done. Ideally, it gives you ideas for keywords you’re not already using.

The Google Sktool was featured by BestRank.com as a must have research tool. So, today I was playing around with it, and I have to say I have big doubts about how accurate this new tool is. I’m seeing some very large variations between the traditional keyword tool and the new, search one. Take this for an example… I picked out a travel blog that had a post about Seychelles in it. Google’s Sktool gave me the following results:

Well, that’s not too shabby. It suggests “north island Seychelles”, which has over 1,000 searches on average every month and I didn’t come up with a crazy number of possible competitors. However, now I head to the good old, basic keyword tool. Here’s what it says for the exact searches on average per month:

What the heck? I don’t know about you, but dropping from over 1k searches to just over 200… that makes a difference to me. So I guess the question is which of Google’s keyword tools are more accurate? Sure, there were other comparisons I did that were, at least within the same ball-park. But there were many that were nowhere close. Have you used the new tool? Have you compared them?

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If you’ve done keyword research in the past, which I’d assume you have since you’re reading this blog, then you have probably used Google’s keyword external tool. It’s free and gives you a pretty good idea for search volume. I’ve never relied on the competition graph that they show, though. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve manually checked for competition and found it to be way off from what it shows.

Google now has an enhanced search tool for all your keyword research. It is supposed to take your website’s keywords and compare them to the volume of searches that are actually done. Ideally, it gives you ideas for keywords you’re not already using.

The Google Sktool was featured by BestRank.com as a must have research tool. So, today I was playing around with it, and I have to say I have big doubts about how accurate this new tool is. I’m seeing some very large variations between the traditional keyword tool and the new, search one. Take this for an example… I picked out a travel blog that had a post about Seychelles in it. Google’s Sktool gave me the following results:

Well, that’s not too shabby. It suggests “north island Seychelles”, which has over 1,000 searches on average every month and I didn’t come up with a crazy number of possible competitors. However, now I head to the good old, basic keyword tool. Here’s what it says for the exact searches on average per month:

What the heck? I don’t know about you, but dropping from over 1k searches to just over 200… that makes a difference to me. So I guess the question is which of Google’s keyword tools are more accurate? Sure, there were other comparisons I did that were, at least within the same ball-park. But there were many that were nowhere close. Have you used the new tool? Have you compared them?

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Hey as you know we are kicking off a new blog to give advice, updates and news on any thing related to Search engine optimization – we will also be throwing in freebies now and again for our loyal visitors.

To start off with we will be discussing the basic SEO principles that should be performed

 1. Do your keyword research before you even create your website or online business, try to find the most relevant searched keywords for your business – look at how many searches that keyword gets and most importantly look at the competition. There is no point trying obtain keywords such as “Dating” in the first year of your site as this is near to impossible to be achieved due to the mass amount of competition. A good free keyword tool to get you started is located at Free Keyword Tracker. Then go to register your domain, try obtaining a domain that is specific to your chosen keyword and register yor domain for atleast 3 years this way you will build up more trust than a yearly registered domain

2. Once you have chosen your keywords, then comes the design and implementation process – this is where you can carefully make the site SE friendly and write your initial unique content – although onsite optimization is not considered very important anymore we still believe it plays a major part in the overall ranking of a site so complete your meta tags, description and keywords. Once your site is complete make sure is is fully validated by using the W3 Validator.

 3. Now comes the process of getting your rankings so you will need to get plenty of links back to your site, the way to do this is to write unique content that webmasters will link back to, try to get links from relevant sites so if you have a dating site obviously get links from related sites. Although directory submissions have lost weight we still feel these are important in non paid directories – try to slow down the link process, do not be in a rush as you may get penalised if you try to get rankings within a month – SEO is a long and hard process and if done correctly is very rewarding. The main aim to concentrate on is to write unique content take park in discussions in forums etc – try to submit your site to the social media sites (this will be discussed at another time).

Good Luck on all you SEO efforts

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