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Opinion: Keywords that work  
In order to optimise your web pages for search engines, you have to ascertain what keywords you want them to be listed under. Sounds intuitive? It’s not.  

Imagine you want to optimise your products page for search engines. What keywords should you use?

Common sense dictates that the type of product you sell ought to feature pretty heavily – whether it’s ‘paperback books’ or ‘advanced CRM solutions’.

That’s not necessarily the case.

The most obvious words may in fact prove to be the most ineffectual at driving readers to your website. No matter how well your keywords sum up your web page, if no one types them into search engines, no one will find you.

What’s more, even if lots of web surfers are typing in your keywords, if you are competing against thousands of competitor websites, the chances of you achieving a high search engine ranking is slim. And there’s just no point being 12,020th on the search results for your product. Clearly, the best words and phrases to select are those that are:

  • typed into search engine queries frequently
  • subject to limited competition from other websites

And, of course, those that accurately reflect the contents of the given web page.

In reality, then, selecting the right keywords and phrases can prove the toughest (and often most time-consuming) part of Search Engine Optimisation (SEO).

But get it right. And the rewards are great.

Keyword selection services from Writing Machine
In addition to our SEO copywriting services, we can help you to identify the pages on your website which ought to be optimised for search engines. Crucially, employing an objective methodology, Writing Machine can then enable you to choose the most effective and appropriate keywords for those strategic web pages.

To find out how, simply email a Writing Machine Account Manager at info@writingmachine.com.

 

 
 

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Fact: 30% of all online searches use two words, whilst 24% use three words.

 

 
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