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The internet is all about words. This being the case, it’s essential to use the right words to get your business found. I’m going to share with you some top keyword research tips that could get you on the first page of Google – so listen carefully.

When it comes to keyword research, there are three questions that you need to find the answers to. These are:

Which words are being typed in to find a business/products like yours how many people are searching on those words how much competition is there and how strong are they

There are two free tools that I like to recommend my students to use. They are the Google Adwords Keyword Tool and Traffic Travis. Using these tools, you should be able to find out most of the answers to these questions. Looking at the source code of the home page of your competitors can also go a long way with helping out. If you look at the meta tags – keywords and meta description in addition to the title tag – you can see which words the competition are using to optimize their website. All valuable information for you to get into the search engine results race.

Step 1 -
Find your words. So in addition to looking at the sites of your competition, you need to go to Google Adwords keyword tool and type in the search terms that you feel most accurately describes your business. Try to stick to just 3 words in regards to the length of your keywords. Press the button and you will see many related terms, along with a bar that will signify how much competition there is.

Step 2 -
How many people are searching. Down on the left you will be given an option of ‘Exact’. Select this option to recalculate the figures so that you can see how many people are searching on a particular term. Personally I prefer to select keywords that have under 10,000 people searching per month. To be honest, I actually prefer the 4000 range. With some serious site optimization and link building, I can usually compete fairly well in that range.

Step 3 -
The competition. Once I have found a few sets of keywords that interest me. I write them on a piece of paper. Now is the time to fire up Traffic Travis for more advanced keyword research. I use this tool to study how well optimized the competition’s sites are. Use the SEO Analysis tool in Traffic Travis, to find out what the top 20 sites are and to look at their strengths and weaknesses. The tool will also provide a rating on how easy or difficult it will be to compete for any particular keyword. When you do this, mark down on your sheet of paper what the results are for each keyword and you should be ready to start using your results.

So there you have it, my own way of selecting keywords. I hope that you find it useful and practical advice that you can use immediately. I have been using this keyword research selection method for years and it never fails me.

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Andrew Holtom is an experienced and accomplished internet marketer. Andrew enjoys introducing newcomers to internet marketing, helping them to start, grow and profit from their own online business. Visit http://www.webmarketinformation.com where you can download a free 94 page guide to starting your own online business.

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How Do You Get Ranked High In Search Engines? What’s The Secret?

Links play a tremendously important role for the big search engines and their algorithms.

Google and its first algorithm started from these backlink calculations for giving specific positions to the sites in the search engine results. Google emerged from smart backlink calculation and the same the majority of other big search engines.

One way backlinks is one of the best and most effective ways to get high positions in search engines and milk these positions for targeted traffic. But getting quality one way links is a big job and it is need of a lot of time spent.

Free Traffic System – there my referral link is inserted – is a new project that helps you to get top quality one way links for free, in fact unlimited number of one way links, because you build as many as you need. Moreover, Free Traffic System has integrated a brand new concept of viral marketing, rewarding its members with bonus one way links.

Before getting to the viral part of the project, it is important to explain where exactly you are getting these backlinks. The backlinks are built inside real blog posts, not in the footer or blogroll – in the very body of the real, unique blog post. This is the most safe way to build one way links, because you give real unique content to the visitors in the blog posts and search engines will always welcome it – search engines were created to help people in finding quality information in the Internet.

You get backlinks from relevant sites that belong to real people in different niches. Natural, safe and smart way to build backlinks for free. You submit one article to Free Traffic System and it converts into up to 60 top quality one way backlinks! And – unlike traditional article marketing – no one will delete your backlinks from the article (like they do when stealing your content from article directories).

The viral part of Free Traffic System is simple – they reward people for bringing others into this free project. As example, you are receiving a bonus backlink on every 3rd post that people whom you referred to Free Traffic System are making. This means you get bonus backlink on article No 1, 4, 7, 10, 13, 16, etc. of all free member who got into the system via the affiliate link.

From its successful experience Free Traffic System team believes that 1st page in major search engines for your niche keywords is the best way to get stable and targeted traffic. During the prelaunch period of 2 months since September 2008, Free Traffic System has helped dozens of people to get the 1st page in Google and other big Search Engines. These people – Free Traffic System “success test team” – are simple people with web sites in different niches: health, arts, business management, currency trading, loans, computer games, advertising, spiritual improvement, etc. The proofs are published on Free Traffic System official page.

One of the some serious disadvantages of article marketing:

- when others republish your article they can delete your backlinks from article

This is a real problem. After you have submitted your article to one of the major article directories – you lose control over this article. Today lots of people are using different automatic tools to “harvest” these directories for content and republish its articles on their sites.

The problem is that more and more people started to steal your content from article directories and automatically DELETE your backlinks from the resource box. OR they steal just a tiny portion of your content (1st paragraph of your article, for example) and give a backlink to the article directory. This is great for article directory, but not for you!

With Free Traffic System you are guaranteed that pages where your content is republished will remain with YOUR backlinks. Those blogs who break this rule and touch your links (modify them/make them invisible/delete them) will be deleted from the Free Traffic System and lose access to quality content for life

- duplicate content problems

You see, when one and the same article is republished Google quickly “understands” this is a duplicate content and “sees” that a big portion of your backlinks is built from duplicate content pages. This is not dangerous and Google will not punish you for doing that, but it is rumored that Google seriously lowers the SEO value of backlinks built from duplicate content pages.

As every article can be republished on up to 30 sites in Free Traffic System, this means that one article with your bonus link equals to 30 backlinks from Free Traffic System. 2 articles = 60 bonus backlinks, 3 articles = 90 bonus backlinks. And this is in addition to the unlimited backlinks that you can build inside Free Traffic System yourself.

And the final perk of the viral strategy. If you add at least one WordPress blog to Free Traffic System, they instantly increase the number of bonus backlinks by 7%.

So, in Free Traffic System you will get:

- free backlinks that you build yourself
- viral bonus backlinks for affiliating people into the project
- viral bonus backlinks for adding your blog(s) to Free Traffic System

With these two great components: Viral Media Distribution and Free Traffic System you can be sure as only the sky will be the limit for your online business.

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