10 Quick Ways To Kick-Start Your Profit Pulling Keywords

First, you must realize that targeting the right keywordsor phrases is the 'key' to making any kind of profit fromyour site. Choosing the 'right' keywords (the exact keywordor phrase surfers type into the search engines to find your site or product) can make or break your online venture.

How do you find these profitable keywords?

One simple way to do this is to just type your 'keyword' intothe different search engines - then take note of the number ofpaid adverts listed for your keyword. If there are no paidadverts -- chances are high that your keyword is not a payingkeyword.

Perhaps, a more exact way is to use Wordtracker or Overture.com,they will give you the numbers of searches made last month for thatkeyword, along with a whole list of variations on that keywordor phrase. Overture will also give you a list of who's bidding onthe keyword and how much they're willing to pay for traffic tothat keyword.

Getting a high ranking (at least on the first or second page)for a paying 'keyword' in one of the top search engines like Google, Msn, or Yahoo can set up a nice revenue stream on your site. It can mean a lot to your site's bottom line.

So try these 10 quick ways to 'kick-start' your keywords:

1. PPC - Pay per click, this is the ultimate kick-start method but you must know what you're doing! Paying for traffic or hits to yourtargeted keywords is probably the best and fastest way to kick-start your keywords. Use Google adwords or programs like overture.com to bidon clicks to your keywords or keyword phrases.

In PayPerClick marketing, many marketers target 'every' keywordfor the product they are selling, including misspelled wordsand phrases. They may then narrow down their list to only the 'keywords' with a high conversion rate, how many hits it takes to get a sale. One sale in 10 clicks and you could be on easy street. One sale in 1000 clicks and you're probably on your wayto the poorer side of town!

In other words, you could lose a ton of money if you're not carefulor prudent. Do some serious research before you jump into this arena.Recommended reading would probably start with Google Cash by Chris Carpenter.

2. Anchor text it to death! Especially if you're targeting Googletraffic, you must have your keyword or phrase placed in a many on-siteand off-site 'anchor text links' that you can possibly get.

Anchor text in an url link is as follows: This is your anchor text!

Off-page factors are very important to Google which ranks sites fromPR0 to PR10; the number of 'anchor text' links with your particularkeyword coming from high PR sites is extremely important -- the more high PR links you have, the higher the ranking for yourkeyword or site will be.

Some savvy marketers have found that it might be more cost effective tobuy 'keyword links' on high PR Sites for your targeted keywords ratherthan shelling out money over and over again for the PPC campaigns. One time or yearly purchase of certain high profit pulling keyword linksthat place your site or selling page at #1 on SERPs (search engineresults pages). A #1 spot on Google for a high paying keyword that can keep paying for years is worth its weight in gold. Notice the largenumber of 'moans and groans' whenever a major shift in Google'srankings occurs i.e. as in the Florida update.

If you're targeting Yahoo, make sure you repeat your keyword often, and at the top of your web copy page. Place it in your 'alt text' inyour website's images. But be careful, don't keyword spam by repeating ithundreds of times on your web page.

3. Plug it into your existing site. Professional marketers, plug in their keywords into their existing sites by placing links on all ornumerous pages on their sites. Some use a resource table at the bottom of eachpage, then when a new resource (keyword) comes along, they just update and plug inthis new link. Do a little homework, and check out how some major SEO siteshave this column of resources (keywords) listed on all their pages -- thus,providing a large number of internal links to their keywords -- directingor tunneling PR towards their most profitable keywords.

4. Place your anchor text link in your blogs. If you're a prudent marketer you will have already turned some of your site's normalofferings into blogs and rss feeds. Example, if you have an existing ezine ornewsletter, place an online version into a blog. If you regularly do companyupdates, news releases -- place these into a blog and rss feed.

5. Likewise, you can start a series of blogs on your keyword or subjectmatter. It has meant an overall increase in traffic and rankings to my sitesand perhaps more importantly the 'spider activity' has gone from almost nil to adaily infestation. Regularly 'ping' your posts by using sites likemy.yahoo.com, this will get your keywords spidered and indexed more quickly.

6. Place your anchor text links on marketing forums or on forums related to your keyword's subject. Forums are a great way to kick-start any keywords that you are targeting. The traffic is great and most of these forums are spidered daily.

7. Place your anchor text keywords on a high profile site. If you can get your keyword links on some 'major players', sites which have over a million links or more, do it! I have noticed my site is spideredmore frequently and by different robots after getting my links on sites likebuzzle.com and addme.com, it probably won't hurt your Google PR ranking either!

8. Place your anchor text keywords on high profile blogs. Again, don't keyword spam but try and build strategic relationships with top bloggers in your 'keyword' subject area. Then the mutual exchanging of links will fall into the natural scheme of things.

9. Write articles around your keyword topic, and submit them to ezinedirectories like ezinearticles.com and goarticles.com. Many marketerssuggest you NOT use your keyword in the Title or Body of your article!Place it instead in the anchor text link in your resource box.Reasoning behind this, your article may be picked up by some major sites withHigh PR rankings or ratings -- if you have the same article on your site -- youwill lose traffic to these major competitors. So you have to be a bit sneakyand carefully funnel traffic to your keyword from the search engines.

10. Start a viral 'keyword product'. Many professional marketers also place their keywords into a 'viral' product of some kind: a freebrandable ebook, free reports, mini-courses, or tutorials that can beused and passed around freely.

So next time, don't just place a keyword on your site and wait forsomething to happen, instead, take a more pro-active role by tryingthese 10 methods of kick-starting your keywords and you will immediatelysee results. They do work and the proof is just waiting your next move...

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