How Do I Send More Traffic To My Blog: The Answer is Keywords

I know you have probably heard this a thousand times, but the way to send more traffic to your blog is keywords. I thought that I understood keyword optimization a few months ago, but apparently I did not, because as soon as I finally figured it out and started using keywords effectively my traffic picked up tremendously.

The first thing that you need to understand about keywords is that some have a much higher usage than others. For example, two of the most highly used keywords online are hotels and music. However, these words also have been well saturated so you may not want to jump in an use them exclusively it is better to find a keyword niche.

A keyword niche can be a keyword or phrase made up a popular keyword but not the most popular, and it has not been saturated. This is difficult to find, but you can do it if you use tools such as google adwords or free software from goodkeywords.com.

Google adwords is absolutely awesome for looking up keywords and keyword phrases. They also have an option to see how much the click throughs are paying. The most important option is the one that shows you how much competition you have with that keyword. There is a rectangular box that is partially filled. That box next to the keyword shows the saturation of that keyword. If the box is completely full, like it is for music and hotels, you may not want to use that keyword. Key researching until you find a good keyword that is not completely saturated.

It does take some time, but when you finally find some keyword niches that work for you, you will be very happy. Now I know, how do I send more traffic to my blog?, keyword niches.

How to Find Current Keyword Searches

How to Find Current Keyword Searches

Keyword searches are very important to internet business, some sites try to charge you an arm and a leg for this information that you can find free.

DOGPILE - http://www.dogpile.com/info.dogpl/searchspy/I love this keyword search site because it is so up to the minute accurate. Filtered or unfiltered searches available.

ASK - http://about.ask.com/en/docs/iq/iq.shtmlAsk gives you various categories of top searches, usually a week or two after they were searched.

GOOGLE TRENDS - http://google.com/trendsHere you can find the top 10 or top 100 searches that google deems as trends. I sometimes find them too trendy. Compare multiple trends.

YAHOO - http://buzz.yahoo.com/Top yahoo keyword searches updated hourly. Very convenient and easy to use.

LYCOS - http://50.lycos.com/Top fifty searches, very reliable popular searches shown for each week.

GOOGLE ZEITGEIST - http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/zeitgeist/index.htmlGoogle's answer to the spirit of the times. Fun to play with. You can see hot trends or dig deeper to see trends in geographic locations, etc.

Current keyword searches is something that you want to spend time researching and toggling around and then you can make changes if you need to.