How to search and use Top Keywords

A keyword is a term that captures the main gist of the topic in any of the document. These are the words which are used to retrieve documents or website from search engines. This is the reason why keywords are most important from SEO point of view. These keywords are the words against which search strings are matched in the search engines. Thus choosing the right keyword and then optimizing it properly is very important and most crucial stage in SEO projects.

Here we explain you how these crucial keywords should be chosen and used for optimization.

1. On your website the content is written in the form of articles. For getting keywords from those articles make a list of words which describe that article perfectly. Like for an article written on ‘hair loss’ then the word describing it can be: ‘Hair Loss’, ‘Reasons of hair loss’ etc.

2. Once you decide the type of words you want to use as mentioned above then Google those words and check the suggestions provided by Google from their keyword database. This database is prepared on the basis of most searched term related to the work you are searching.

3. Also at the bottom of the search engine result page you will find Relative search term. Note these terms as well along with suggestions.

4. After this visit the Google Adwords Keyword Tool, put your keyword and after selecting ‘Exact’ click on the Search button. This will give you ‘Monthly Search Volume’ and ‘Competition Level’ for that particular keywords phrase.

5. After getting this information you can select the proper keyword which is searched most and which can give you the best possible result.

a. Under normal circumstances ‘keyword phrase’ which are having competition level of 0.05 or less and monthly search volume 1000 or above.

b. This way you can have 3-5 keywords. And then these keywords should be used at all places in the article.

Once you have appropriate keywords which are to be used in the articles you are half way there. Now you have to take care of little things for using these keywords in the content.

Keyword Density

Percentage of time a keyword or the phrase appears on a web page compared to the total number of words on that page. So it can be calculated as:

((No. of time keyword occurrence * 100) / Total no. of words)

The keyword density that should be ideally maintained is 2-3% which is good for SEO’s perspective as well.

Keyword Stuffing:

Search Engines while indexing the website checks the words. If the same keyword is used many times to manipulate the search engine ranking then it is considered as keyword stuffing. This should be avoided as it does harm the rankings rather than proving useful.

All the SEO firms provide services of such optimization. The firm which provides the best possible affordable SEO packages with the assurance of better results for rankings should be chosen. Proper keyword optimization is very important for good results in SEO too.

About the author: Smartkathy works as an SEO team leader. She always asks her team to focus specifically on keyword optimization because it’s the base of the whole SEO project. She says that it is advisable to get the benefit of affordable SEO packages offered by an Indian company.