kdays.com » SEO http://www.kdays.com Make your day! Be part of the kdays.com community of bloggers, runners & portal managers ... Thu, 05 Jan 2012 02:34:07 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Day 21 – Booming Business of Blogging Experiment http://www.kdays.com/2008/02/04/day-21-booming-business-of-blogging-experiment/ http://www.kdays.com/2008/02/04/day-21-booming-business-of-blogging-experiment/#comments Mon, 04 Feb 2008 11:19:47 +0000 kdays http://www.kdays.com/2008/02/04/day-21-booming-business-of-blogging-experiment/ Starting in the world of SEO (Search Engine Optimization) can be daunting. I’m going to be approaching it one step at a time and I’ve decided to start with keywords. As I’ve mentioned before, Google’s Webmaster Tools are still showing keywords that look like the belong to my domain name before I took it on. They all relate to Canada and travel and they are definitely not words that even appear on my site even once. So, keyword optimization – what’s it all about?

The first step is to determine your keywords and keyword phrases and then sort by popularity. With a very young blog, like this one, you may not have the logs and reports to analyse keywords from hits. I’ve downloaded a copy of Good Keywords to help me understand what my site is saying to search engines. This will give me a good start in really looking at the way I use (if I do) keywords currently. A snapshot today shows:

Good Keywords

Looking at the Keyword Table in Good Keywords I can see that there is plenty of work to do. My next task is now look at refining and combining keyword phrases for maximum impact.

In the meantime I have also read about a couple of WordPress plugins that are available. I’ll report on my progress with SEO plugins in another post once I’ve had a further look.

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