How to Increase Blog Traffic with Google Plus

A majority of the bloggers often find it difficult to increase blog traffic with Google Plus. If you are new to Google Plus and looking for ways to drive more traffic to your blog from Google Plus, you are in the right place. 

Moreover, if you have been using this platform for quite a long time with little success, you will find these tips useful to bring more traffic to your blog.

Google plus has emerged as the fourth largest social media platform after Facebook, Youtube, Twitter in terms of users.

However, the number of active users 0n Google plus are far less than the actual users. Less than 10% of the users in Google Plus actively post their content.

On the other hand, the platforms like Pinterest, Tumblr, Instagram, and Linkedin are the fastest growing network. If you have not joined these platforms, it’s high time you should join to capitalize on the future opportunities.

Let’s have a look at the current position of Google plus in terms of its popularity and number of users. 

                                                                  Source: Statista

The number of active users in Google Plus has increased by 3% in the third quarter of 2015 as compared to the first quarter of 2014. It shows that the platform is gradually gaining popularity.

According to Statista over 27% of the active users of Google Plus use the platform more than once per day.

Since a majority of users in Google plus do not actively participate and a large number of users reads the post rather than actually posting their content; therefore, it is important to design your strategy accordingly.

Let’s have a look at the countries where Google Plus is more popular.

                                             Source: Statista

The graph above clearly shows that in the majority of the countries more than 50% of the online population uses Google plus as a social media platform. Don't be surprised if you have a large number of followers from countries like India, Indonesia, Argentina, UAE or the US.

If your targeted audience is located in the countries where Google plus is more popular than you are missing a big opportunity to expand your business.

The majority of the visitors to my blog comes from Google plus. My Alexa ranking has improved by over 310,0000 positions in the past three months. Daily pageviews per visitor moved up 80% and daily time on site has increased by 102% as you can see in the screenshots. 

Let’s get back to the topic.

Here are some things you can do to increase blog traffic with Google Plus

Join the Google Plus communities to drive traffic from Google plus

Communities in Google Plus are the best source of increasing traffic to your blog. For example, if your blog is related to photography you can easily join various communities such as landscape photography, beautiful pictures, nature photography etc. You will find a large number of communities related to a wide range of interest including home design, cooking, blogging, traveling.

Your success in these communities depends on your ability to create great content and actively participate in these communities. Focus on a couple of communities rather than joining a large number of communities. Once you establish yourself in one community you can move to other ones to grow your audience.

Make sure to share your content with the community members on a regular basis. However, make sure not to spam. Each community has its own rules and regulations. Some communities allow you to post only one blog post others may allow you two or three. 

Strictly follow the guidelines of the communities you have joined and never make the mistake of posting a large number of posts in a single day. Make a schedule and post your content one by one to each community. Moreover, spend some time on these communities to read the content of the fellow bloggers.

Actively read and comment on the posts that you find interesting

Read the blog content of fellow bloggers in your niche and make sure to comment if you find it useful. If you can write something that can add value to the content that would be much better. Initially, focus on a few blog that you find worth reading and then gradually read more blogs related to your niche. 

For example, if your blog is related to cooking you will find many communities related to your niche. Join these communities and follow the bloggers.

Post your content at different times of the day

If you are targeting Global audience, you should post your content in the morning, afternoon and in the evening. Do not share all of your posts at the same time. Ideally, you should make a posting schedule and post every day at the same time. I experienced an increase of 10% in the readership the day I begin to post my content at different times of the day. 

Use images, quotes, graphs or chart in you post 

Google plus provides the convenience to the bloggers to share their content using images, quotes or graphs in their post. You can display any of the images or quotes in your post while sharing it with others.

If you find it difficult to attract your targeted audience using one image you can change it next time. Some users get attracted by the images in the post while others find graphics or quotes though provoking.

As you can see I have used authentic graphs and screenshots in my post to support the statements. Pictures are pleasant to eyes and quotes are food for thought. Similarly, graphs and charts help one understand the trends and facilitates the process of strategy development. 

Make use of hashtags to reach out to right audience

If you blog is related to   photography you can use hashtags to reach out to your targeted audience. One of the advantages of # tag is that it enables the Google to understand the content of your blog so that it can display your content to the right audience. 

For example, Traci Lawrance of Tracisworld.com frequently makes use of hashtags to reach out to the ideal audience as you can see in the screenshot. The hashtag resulted in 11 comments, and 6 plus one with just one share. 

She managed to improve her Alexa ranking by over 490,0000 positions in the past three months. How much Google plus is contributing to her success no one knows better than her. 

However, make sure to use hashtags correctly otherwise, it will not generate desired results. For example, if your blog is related to photography you can use #landscape photography, #nature pictures, #amazing pictures etc.

Make sure you post your blog content on regular basis

Don’t expect that people are going to find your content just because they are in your circle. You will have to actively post your content on various communities. The discussion sections of the communities are the great places to attract the ideal audience.

Posting your blog content on a regular basis will not only help you to increase the visibility of your content but also engage your targeted audience. A majority of the users in Google plus reads and reshare the content rather than actually publishing their own content.

• Read: 7 typical habits of successful bloggers

Use the platform regularly

The majority of the Google plus users use the platform only once in a while and thus, fail to take full advantage of this platform. You cannot expect to build networks on this platform unless you use this platform regularly. Make a schedule. If you already have a tight schedule and you find it difficult to spend hours for looking for new content, you should better focus on a few communities and log in regularly to check the updated content.

Respond to the comments of your audience

Google Plus enables you to link your blog with the Google Plus comment. This feature of Google plus enables you to read the comment of the audience right from your blog and you can reply to the comments from you blog comment box. Moreover, if you no longer wish to use this feature you can easily unlink it anytime

You might be wondering how responding to the blog comments improves blog performance. When your respond to the  comments, the potential readers get the impression that you are seriously pursuing your business or hobby. Moreover, sometimes it leads to constructive discussion. 

Responding to the comments results in an increase in the number of comments. The potential readers find posts with a large of numbers of comments more useful and interesting. So you can significantly increase the chance of attracting more readers if you respond to their comments.

At the same time, responding to the comments of the readers is a good blogging habit. It shows that you care for the comments of your audience and find it worth responding.

• Read: How responding to blog comments improve blog performance

Do not shy away to plus one the post you like

If you like a post, make sure to plus one it. Once you plus one a post, the publisher of the post will be able to see who has +1 the post. If you regularly visit the platform gradually every time you plus one a post the publisher will get to know more about you. It increases the familiarity and you stand a better chance of being followed back by other bloggers.

Use your picture or logo in your profile

Several users do not attach their photo or company logo in their profile that is why they fail to gain the attention of their targeted audience. When you use your profile picture in the social media platforms it enhances your credibility and you manage to win the confidence of your audience. 

It helps you build your brand image and users begin to recognize you from your profile picture or logo.

Use + tag of Google plus to mention the name of the influencers

The majority of the Google plus users are not active participants. They do not use Google plus frequently. Since a large number of users log in to the platform only once in a while, therefore, it is a better to use the + tag. The feature ensures that your message would reach the mentioned persons whenever they log in to their account.

Moreover, you can use the plus tag to attract the attention of your targeted audience or bring something important to the notice of your followers.

Focus on networking

If you follow the above guidelines you will not find it hard to build big networks on this platform. A majority of the bloggers find it hard to build a network. One of the reasons is that they believe if they publish their post regularly users will begin to follow them. It hardly happens in social media platforms. 

If you are not able to build networks on this platform you will not only find it hard to drive traffic to your blog but also fail to get followers. 

Share your latest content with your followers using email feature of Google plus

One of the advantages of joining Google plus is that it enables you to send personalized/customized email to your followers. You can send your content right in the email box of your followers. 

If you are a Blogger blogger just check the email list box while sharing content with your followers. It will help your followers to read your post right from your their email account.

However, make sure not to overdo it as it can be sometimes very irritating or inconvenient for your followers. Google plus has included this feature for you as well as your followers' convenience. So never use it for spamming. 

Do not forget to thank the people who support you

The plus one feature of Google Plus not only enables the users to appreciate the work of others but also helps the publisher to identify the right audience. Once you know your targeted audience you can simply thank them for their support. It will help you in two ways. First, it will help you grow your followers. Secondly, whenever you publish your next post they will be the first one to see your post.

Gratitude enables one to attract the right audience and helps in getting more likes. 

If you are determined to increase traffic to your blog with Google plus, take out time to thank your followers for their support.

It may not be possible for some of you to express gratitude every time your audience plus one your post, but occasionally you can thank them for their support.

• Read: 11 blogging practices that audience hates

Support fellow bloggers in their endeavors

Social media is not a one-sided communication unless you are popular enough to drive tons of traffic to your blog solely on the basis of your reputation or brand image. It requires you to actively support and communicate with fellow bloggers.

Support does not mean every time you see a post you have to read it thoroughly and comment on the post. If you are running against time, it is better to scan the post and if you like it make sure to plus one. However, it would be much better if you could comment and re-share the content. It will help you to stand out from the crowd.

Create your own page and community 

If you can spend some quality time to build community on this platform, it will be a great source of increasing traffic to your blog with Google plus. Having your own community provides you the opportunity to pin your popular post. Your community members are most likely to read, comment and plus one your post if you have pinned it. 

The more members you have in your community, the better it gets to drive traffic to your blog. However, building community is a long process and it may take years before you could start reaping its real benefits

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10 Signs You Should Invest In Keyword Optimization

If you are increasingly finding it difficult to improve search engine ranking of your blog, it is high time you should invest your time improving keyword performance of your blog. Despite quality content, a majority of blogs trail in terms of search engine ranking due to bad keyword optimization.

  

If you use keywords in your blog randomly without conducting Keyword Research, you are losing out to competition. Like you, I used to use the keywords randomly in my article. Since I had no idea how to use keywords effectively in an article I missed several opportunities to rank higher in search engine results.

The majority of the leading websites receive more than 60% of the traffic from organic search. Google is responsible for driving 90% of the organic traffic to the websites ranking on the first page of the search engines results.

According to Linksmanagement.com, over 42% of the organic visitors click on the sites ranking at number one position. More than 11% and 8% click on the sites ranking on 2^nd and 3^rd position respectively. 

However, the sites ranking at number 9^th position gets only 3% of the total traffic. Interestingly, if you rank at number 10 position on the first page you will get more than 10% traffic.

Overall, ranking your post on the first page is a great source of driving tons of traffic to your website. 

In today’s highly competitive blogging environment, you can use a variety of SEO tools to understand the loopholes in your article. However, there are some initial signs that show you should invest in keyword optimization.

Here are the 10 signs keyword optimization isn't working for you

1. Despite great content, you are not able to rank your post in the first 50 search engine results
2. You are not getting organic traffic
3. Your post gets decent number of likes and social shares but your post isn’t performing well in the search engine ranking
4. The pageviews of your post have increased significantly over the course of time but failed to show up high in the search engine results
5. Your post is relatively older and longer than your competitors still you rank lower in terms of ranking
6. Despite decent number of blog comments, the ranking of page has not improved
7. You regularly update your content but you are not getting positive results in terms of ranking
8. You have decent numbers of backlinks still you rank low
9. You have used internal links to optimize your blog post but it has not improved ranking of your page
10. You do not use plagiarized content and article rewriting tools for content creation but still, you are failing to rank higher in search engine results.

If the majority of these things are true, you need to do Keyword Research. To review your keyword performance you can take following steps

Check the current position of your page to identify wrong keywords

The tools like SmallSEO position checker show you the ranking of your page in the Google search results. It will give you a fair idea of where you stand in terms of ranking. You can use this measurement to create a more effective keyword strategy. If you are not ranking in the first 50 results it means you might be using a wrong keyword. Once you are able to identify the wrong keywords you can use right keywords easily.

Conduct keywords research to identify right keywords

The first thing that you need to review is the keyword you have been using to optimize your post. Then conduct keyword research. The keyword research will help you understand how effective are the keywords you have been using in your post to drive generic traffic to your blog. If you find that you are not using right keywords you must replace them with right keywords. Conduct keyword searches to find the right keywords for optimization.

Use the keywords in right place

Once you have conducted the keyword search, you will be able to choose the right keywords for your blog post. The next thing that you have to do is to use the right keywords in right places. A majority of bloggers fail to use the keywords in right places. Consequently, they fail to take advantage of the right keywords they have been using. Therefore, it is important that you should place the keywords in the right places in your article. For more details, you can read my post 8 things you must know about keyword SEO.

Update your post and check the results in a month or two

Once you have placed the keywords in right places you need to wait for some time to see the results. The smallSEO tool will help you understand the position of your blog post in the search results. Compare the results with your past keyword performance. If you find the results positive you are moving in the right direction.

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8 things you must know about Keyword SEO

You can significantly improve your search engine ranking if you know how to use keywords in a blog post. Keyword SEO begins with Keyword Research. Once you have searched the right keyword your next task will be to add it in right places in your article.

Beginner bloggers often find it difficult to use right keywords in right places resulting in loss of potential traffic. There are several things you can do to optimize your blog content using the right Keywords.

I am sure, as a beginner blogger, you would be looking for the answers to the questions related to Keyword SEO. Let’s cover all these questions one by one in this article.

1. How many times you should use keywords in an article?

Ideally, you should not use the Keyword more than 4 to 5 times in an article of 500 words excluding Meta description and HTML tags. Depending on the length of your article you can increase the number of keywords. 

However, the keyword density must not exceed 3%. That means in an article of 1000 words you should ideally use the keyword 10-12 times. However, some bloggers find a keyword density of 2% ideal for the blog posts. Since there in no hard and fast rule, you can use your discretion to determine the right density.

2. How to check the keyword density?

The formula that you can use to check the keyword density is (Number of Keywords/Number of words in the article)*100. For example, if you are using a keyword 5 times in an article of 500 words your keyword density would be (5/500)*100= 1%.

If you are using Keyword phrases you can use the following formula: (Number of Keywords*Number of phrases/article word counts)*100. For example, if you are planning to use two-word phrase “Keyword Tips” 5 times as a keyword in an article of 500 words your keyword density would be (5*2/500)*100= 2%.

Moreover, you can use several online keyword density tools to check the keyword density such as Small SEO tool density checker. 

3. How many keywords you should use in an article?

It entirely depends on the length of your blog post. If you write a short article, you should ideally target one keyword per post. Focusing on one keyword will help you compete effectively with the existing as well as potential competitors. 

On the other hand, if your blog posts are long and cover a topic in depth you can target 2 to 5 keywords. However, the most important thing is to target the right keywords rather than the number of keywords.

4. Where should you use Keyword in an article?

Ideally, you should add the Keyword in the following places in an article:

• Title
• Headings
• Body
• Images, charts, graphs (Title + Alt Attributes)
• At the last paragraph of the article
• Mega descriptions
• HTML tag

5. When should you add the keywords in your article?

If you want to take full advantage of your keyword SEO efforts you should add it before publishing your post. Once you have published your post, you might find it difficult to add the keywords in right places. 

When you add or remove a keyword after publishing your content, search engines might not be able to rank your post quickly. However, if you a great content you still stand a chance to rank higher in the search results sooner or later.

6. What type of keyword is good for SEO, Short Tail Or Long Tail?

You should use a mix of long tail and short tail keywords. If you own a small blog or website it would be difficult for you to rank higher for highly competitive one-word keyword or phrase such as Tablet, Best Tablet, or Cheap tablet etc. 

You can significantly improve your chances of ranking higher in search results if you target short tail or long tail keywords with medium competition and a decent amount of traffic. Such keywords will not only help you rank higher in the search results but also target the right audience that you can convert easily.

7. What if you use wrong keywords for SEO?

If knowingly or unknowingly you are using wrong keywords in your blog content, Google can penalize your site for misguiding public. However, more than the penalty the thing that will hurt you more is the overall drop in the performance of your blog or website.

When knowingly or unknowingly you use wrong keywords, the amount of time your audience spends on your blog drops. Consequently, your blog’s bounce rate increases. High bounce rate suggests that either your content is not engaging or you have used wrong keywords to optimize your blog post. Consequently, search engines will lower your ranking in the search results.

8. What if you do not use Keyword in an article?

If you do not use a keyword in an article if would be difficult for search engine to include your pages in the relevant search results. Keywords help search engines understand the content of your blog which in turn helps search engine to show your content in relevant search results. Therefore, it is important that you should use the right keywords so that search engines can index your content.

If you do not add keywords in an article search engines will crawl your blog content to identify the relevant keywords to rank your page. However, in this method, you will rank high in the search engines only if search engines find your blog content unique with a decent amount of traffic.

Conclusion

There is no doubt keyword plays an important role in optimizing content for search engines. However, you must not compromise the quality of your content in your effort to add the right keywords in your article. You should write your content keeping in mind your audience rather than the search engine. You cannot capitalize on your keyword SEO effort unless you know how to write great content.

Using right keywords in right places facilitate the process of content optimization but it can never replace the efforts you put in to create great content. In today’s rapidly developing technological environment you never know when the search engine might undertake the task of keyword SEO. At that time content quality will be the sole criterion of ranking higher in the search engines. 

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Keyword Research Tips For SEO Using Best Keyword Search Tools

Despite good blog content, many bloggers fail to rank their post higher in the search engine results. There could be several reasons behind it. However, one of the most common reasons is the use of wrong keywords or the use of right keywords in wrong places. In other words, bloggers fail to conduct right keyword research.

Conducting keyword research is a sure shot method of improving search engine ranking. Keyword planning requires a lot of practice. The more you practice, the better you become in keyword research. It not only helps you use right keywords but also enables you to use the right keywords in right places. 

Inability to use keywords effectively in a blog post is one of the reasons that most of the bloggers fail to rank higher in the search engine results.

In my previous article, I discussed some amazing tips to create a successful blog and I pointed out the importance of identifying the opportunity. You ability to pass on your blog content to the right audience is an opportunity in itself. Keyword planning enables bloggers to reach out to their targeted audience.

There is no use writing great content unless you know how to reach out to your ideal audience. If you know how to research keywords, you will find it easier to reach out to your targeted audience. Keyword planning is one of the greatest methods of targeting the right audience.

If you know how to search right keywords you can significantly improve the ranking of your pages in the search results. A keyword or keywords are the phrases or a single word that users use to find things on the search engines. People use different keyword phrases to search same things on the web. 

For example, if you are looking for equipment to lose weight what keyword phrases you will use. You could use a variety of words or group of words such as weight loss equipment; best equipment to lose weight, cheap weight loss equipment, or simply weight loss machines.

Therefore, the first thing that you will have to do is to identify the best keywords your targeted audience uses. This is the most difficult part of search engine optimization.

To make the task easier, there are several keyword planners available online that you can use free of cost. If you can afford you can go for the paid ones. Some of the best free keyword planners include Google keyword planner, Ubbersuggest, KeywordDiscovery, MajesticSEO, KeywordSpy, Bing Webmaster Toolbox, Moz Keyword Planner etcetera. The majority of these keyword research tools are available free of cost with limited functionality.

You can find many more paid as well as free tools that you can use for keyword research. However, the most important thing is to use keyword planner to your advantage.

Let’s check out in this article how to research keywords to optimize your blog post using free keyword planners.

We will use this article as an example to gain in-depth understanding of the concept step by step

Tips to Conduct Keyword research

Find your targeted audience

For example, this article primarily focuses on targeting users looking for keyword research tips. In other words, the bloggers who want to learn how to use keywords for SEO. The users who want to optimize their content for search engine results. So your first task is to identify the right keyword for your blog post.

Search keywords your audience might be using

To identify the keywords, you can either use your assumptions or you can use the available keyword planning tools. However, if you will use hypothesis along with right keyword planning tools you will get amazing results.

There are two ways to conduct this keyword research. First, you can use Google Keyword Planner tool to get keyword ideas. In this method, you simply type the main keyword term such as in this case Keyword. The Google keyword Planner tool will provide you several ideas related to this keyword. 

The tool will show you average monthly searches as well as the level of competition. The competition column shows the competition in terms of number of Advertisers competing for the keyword, not in terms of research engine results. Since Google Keyword planner aims at facilitating the task of advertisers to find right keyword to run their Ad campaign, therefore, it is important to use the tool wisely. If you do not find your ideal keyword in the suggested keyword ideas you can use the alternate method.

For this article, your first task is to identify the right keywords that you can use in this article. You can brainstorm or use your common sense and come up with some keywords and keyword phrases such as Keyword, keyword planning, blog post keywords, how to use keywords etc. Then open Google Keyword planner and enter these keywords to know how many people use these keywords to search things on the search engines. You will find the following results:

As you can see in the results the keywords you have planned to use in the article are trailing in terms of monthly searches. Your targeted audience is not using these keywords in large numbers on the search engines. 

However, there are some keywords that can be used despite low monthly searches as they will help in ranking higher in the search results faster. The long tail keyword like How to use keyword can be used as a keyword for this article.

If the keywords you are planning to use in your post are not used by your targeted audience you must conduct a Keyword search to find the right keywords.

Conduct keyword searches to identify the most appropriate keywords that your audience uses

Now your task is to use the right keywords that can help you reach out to the maximum number of readers using your keyword. You should not use the word “Keyword” as it is a general word and thus it is highly competitive as well in terms of page ranking. If you use general keywords in your article or blog post you stand a little chance of ranking higher in the search results.

Since your objective is to reach out to the right audience rather than a large of a number of web-surfers, therefore, you must use the most appropriate keywords. The keyword search tools like Ubbersuggest and keywordDiscovery will help you identify the other keywords users generally use to search the word Keyword. It will help you come up with some better suggestions such as Keyword Search, Keyword research, Keyword planning, keyword analysis etcetera. If you run these suggestions on Google Keyword planner you will find the following results.

Now the number of monthly keyword searches has increased significantly and this seems to be your targeted audience. However, there seems to a problem with using the term Keyword Search or Keyword Research as a keyword in the post. Users might be using these keywords to search something else on the web such as keyword research tools, keyword search software, keyword search meaning etc. Therefore, you will have to further refine this keyword.

Refine your keyword search

Since the objective of this blog post is to share keyword research tips, therefore, it is better to further refine the keyword. You can also use Google Search to identify the words that you can use before or after the term Keyword research as you see in the screenshot.

Finally, the best keywords with medium competition and high traffic that you can use are Keyword research, Keyword research tips, Keyword search tips, keyword planning and long tail keywords such as how to use keywords, how to search keywords and how to research keywords. 

Since it is not a good idea to use a large number of keyword in an article, therefore, you should ideally use 3 to 5 keywords in a post. Now let's have a look at what we have found.

This keyword combination includes short tail as well as long tail keywords. More importantly, it includes a mix of Keywords that can help you reach out to your targeted audience as well as rank higher in the search results faster for long tail or low traffic keywords.

The Blogger Platform allows users to use a maximum of 20 keywords in a page and 2000 keywords in a single blog. Although, it is a good idea to target a single keyword to optimize your blog post, however, using 3 to 5 keywords will enable you to identify which keyword is performing well in the search results. You can easily remove the keywords later that you find are not performing well in the search results. 

You can use Keyword Position SEO tool to check you page ranking for a particular keyword. Depending on your position you can add or remove keyword to rank higher in the search results. 

There are two advantages of using appropriate keywords in your article. First, it will help you to appear in your targeted audience’s search results. Secondly, you will be able to avoid unnecessary competition by using the most appropriate keywords.

If you use only Keyword Research as the keyword for this blog post you will have to compete with a large number of competitors. 

For example, if you type the term Keyword Research you will find more than 10 million results. On the other hand, if you type the term “keyword research tips” on Google Search engine you will find only 5 million search results. Therefore, you should always use combinations of keywords that can help to rank higher in search results.

  

The chart below shows the steps we used to conduct this Keyword research.

While using keywords in your article, you should also take into consideration the keyword density. High keyword density can adversity impact your keyword optimization efforts. Ideally, your keyword density should not be more than 3%. It should be anywhere between 1 to 3%. 

However, there is no hard and fast rule for keyword density as Google advice to focus on quality content rather than stuffing content with keywords.

It is better to focus on long tail keywords and low competition keywords. Long tail keywords are usually less competitive. One of the advantages of using low long tail keywords is that it enables your post to rank higher in search engine results faster.

Use the keyword in right places to get best results. If possible, you should use the keyword in the title of your post, headlines and at the end of the article. Do not forget to optimize images, graphs and infographics using alt key. Moreover, you must also use the Keyword terms in you Meta description and permalink of your blog post. 

However, it is important to note that there is no substitute for quality content. If you know how to use a keyword in an article, you will be able to make the best use of your quality content. If you are a victim of wrong Keyword SEO check out these 10 signs.

The keyword research tips boil down to following points

1.      Do not use general keyword terms unless you own a high authority domain

2.      You should not use highly competitive keywords if you own a small website or blog

3.      Focus on a few keywords rather than using a large number of keywords

4.      Use the keyword that your targeted audience actually use to search things on the web

5.      Do not compromise with the content quality while planning for keyword research

6.      Do not use the keyword term excessively in your blog post

7.      Use short tail as well as long tail keywords in your article.

8.      Use the keywords in the right places to generate desired results

9.      Use keywords to help search engine identify content of your blog rather than deceiving search engines

10.   start your keyword research with assumptions and end with identification of right keyword term

11.   It is better to target a small number of right customers rather than driving useless traffic to your blog 

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