TweetWe all know that analyzing the competition is critical if you want to get ranked in Google but what most people don’t tell you is that looking at the anchor text backlinks for your target phrase is the most important part of this type of analysis! I know you may have been taught to search [...]

TweetIf you are trying to rank an article, website, or other page on the web then knowing how many sites are competing for your keyword phrase can be helpful. Unfortunately, there is a lot of misinformation about how to tell just how many competing websites for your keyword there actually are. Why Searching In Quotes [...]

TweetPerhaps the most important part of keyword research is checking out the competition.   If you are going up against a bunch of PR6 10 year old domains you might have a big fight on your hands and it makes sense to know this ahead of time so you can judge whether or not it is [...]

TweetThese days, it’s not enough just to find keywords that have low competition (and, hopefully lots of searches) you also have to target ones that will be profitable. But what makes for a profitable keyword? I don’t know what other people use as criteria, but for me a profitable keyword is one that is a [...]

TweetDid you ever work your butt off on promoting an article or page on your website only to get it to page 1 on google and see virtually no traffic for it? Frustrating,   isn’t it? I can tell you it’s happened to me many, many times and it wasn’t until very recently that I discovered [...]

TweetWhen I first started making sites, I would come up with a list of keywords and add articles to the sites – one for each keyword. I figured that the more keywords or phrases I targeted, the more traffic I would get. This sounds like a pretty good plan, right? But, I was making one [...]