Spotty Lizard's Blog: Tag: Keywords

Recently I wrote an article about long tail keywords and explained what they are and why you need them. Today it is the turn to talk about short tail keywords. The word short tells you that theses are keywords which are not long. In fact, short tailed keywords only have one or two words. It’s also true that they are searched for more often than long tailed keywords. So when someone using a keyword research tool like Keyword Planner sees the large search volume, they tend to think it would be a good idea to use these keywords on their website. READ MORE

If simply finding keywords wasn’t enough, now you need to find long tail keywords. But what are they and how do you find them? Other than being a part of your on page SEO, do they have any purpose? Wouldn’t regular old keywords be fine? READ MORE

You’ve been reading about doing keyword research – great! So now you want to know how many keywords do I need? Well that’s a tricky one: how long is a piece of string. The range of keywords, the words and phrases people use to find your products or services, is enormous! It’s a matter of sifting through the keywords you found and then picking the best ones to use. But how many is too many? How few is not enough? Let’s find out … READ MORE

I’ll be the first to admit that it seems like everyone is being told to do keyword research. I’m also going to say that yes, you should be doing it and today I’m going to explain why. But if you’d rather get straight into it, take a read of my blogs How to Use Keyword Planner and What Are the Best Free Keyword Research Tools? instead. READ MORE