Learn To Scuba Dive Guide Advice Tips
I want the keyword that I am targeting to be the very first thing on that title, not the other way around.
Next is a short 4-5 sentences opener, which spells it out to the reader searching for this kind of information, what the article content is to be about, I want to keep it short and snappy, attention grabbing, something that compels the viewer reading this little bit to want to delve in further into the main thrust, body of the article concerned, to find what other gems of advice, that I can offer to them, the reader.
Again here I want to open up the article in these 4-5 sentences using my chosen long tailed keyword.
Learn to scuba dive is a fast growing sport enjoyed by many people of all ages and backgrounds. In this article you will find some great tips and advice so that you can learn to scuba dive safely. We provide some excellent guidance which includes the following which you must be prepared to take on board if you want to take up this hobby or past time. Learn to scuba dive safely is your number one priority, please read on to find out more …
Now, again, I’ve used the long tailed keyword right at the beginning of this introduction, this taster of what the article is about, and I’ve also used it 2-3 times within this introduction, this will help this article to get into the number one position on Google very fast indeed which is your priority, to take advantage of that traffic from being in the first position of Google, ahead of all the other website competitors also trying to get into that number one position for this long tailed keyword.
The introduction also conveys the fact that you are highly responsible, your focus is on diver safety, which conveys trust to the reader and the introduction here comes across that you are a leading authority on this subject, which is a very good thing to try to do with your articles.
Next comes the main body of the article, again, try to start it off with your long tailed keyword, thankfully, “Learn To Scuba Dive” makes this task exceptionally easy.
The main body of the article should not in any way promote your own website at all - that, this, is very important. Just focus on providing for the reader very good and highly pertinent information, which will be highly valuable to them.
Try to keep your article between 400-600 words to hold the readers attention. This blog post is now up to 1,598 words and is an appalling example of using way too many words! (Hopefully, I still have your attention though and your finding this info useful lol)
In the main body of your article, try to use your long tailed keyword as often as you can, without overdoing it. Maintain good sentence structure and proper keyword density. (7-12% is a good rule of thumb) Create the impression that you are an expert in your field, if you are not already in this position. Make sure that you supply as far as possible, accurate information. You want to make this area highly useful to the reader so that they really feel benefited by reading it.
Next comes your biography box. In this section, you get the chance to really sell your website and the very real and positive benefits of getting the readers to come visit you. Keep it short, snappy, attention grabbing and give your readers a command to take direct action on their part, so that they really want to come visit your site to find out more. Make sure you include a link to your site and that it is displayed perfectly correctly, including the www. part of your url address.
Now, why EzineArticles first?
EzineArticles is the number one authority website article directory enjoying a high page rank.
This high page rank will help you to get your article as high as possible in the google rankings, usually Google One in a very short period of time, which is exactly why you are using them.
Your article will be accepted in about 7 days or less depending on your EzineArticle author status.
After your article has been submitted and approved to EzineArticles you can then submit this same article to other high page ranking article directories at a time of your choosing. You may wish to do this immediately or you may do it when the article that you submitted to EzineArticles is sliding back down the page, to increase again your chances of maintaining that Google One position.
For a current and complete list of article directory rankings week on week visit this site: Article Directory Weekly Page Rank Checker
If you have any questions at all about this article writing tutorial and how to out rank your competitors for long tailed keywords, please do feel free to post up your comments below, and I’ll do my best to answer you if I possibly can and in a timely manner too, hopefully, not as long winded as here!
Many thanks for visiting iSpyWithMy.com and reading this blog post.
If you do have any comment to make regarding this post, please do feel free to post them up below, all comments are appreciated and you can even post up your own links if you choose to as long as they pertain to the subject matter at hand.
12:26 AM on February 16th, 2009 1
Hello IspywithMy,
I really enjoyed your three-part article. In kind and understandable manner it was clarified clearly how many searches p/m and how many websites using the keyword should be. Also some examples how to use the keyword were given so clearly.
Keep up with your good job, IspywithMy, and I hope to be informed more through your RSS.
Thanks again,
Michael Blitchtein.
6:51 AM on February 16th, 2009 2
Hello Michael
Many thanks for your pm message at WebProWorld saying thank you for the above given information.
I understand that you would like some further assistance with some keyword research for your website:
http://www.healing-prayer.net
Ok, so I just looked at your Page Source information to find out what the keywords are that you are targeting for this particular website. I notice that the first keyword that you are targeting is ‘Metaphysical Healing’. (I’ll come to your other keywords in a minute)
So, first I want you to go to the Google External Keyword Tool which can be found here:
https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal
Leave all the settings on this page as they are, just type into the box below, Enter one keyword or phrase per line:
Metaphysical Healing
Then fill in the Captcha Code exactly as you see it, then click on: Get Keyword Ideas
2 Seconds later, voila! Your results are ready and we can see immediately that in January 2009 that there is under, Approx Search Volume January: 720 searches for Metaphysical Healing and in the next column along, under: Approx Avg Search Volume, that the number in there is just 390.
That is on average throughout the year, approximately 390 people are typing into the Google search engine, in the search box, Metaphysical Healing, each month.
Next, let’s just go to http://Google.com and there in the search box, type in this, exactly as it is shown:
“Metaphysical Healing”
This takes us to this page:
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=%22Metaphysical+Healing%22&btnG=Search&meta=
Now, you see the Blue bar (under the Google logo, it says ‘Web’, on that Blue bar, look to the right hand side, and you’ll see this:
Results 1 - 10 of about 37,700 for “Metaphysical Healing”. (0.15 seconds)
I can see on that page that your website is on Page one of Google, it’s not in the first position, which is unfortunate, it is instead, in the 3rd position position down.
Now, you might want to brush up your site tagline, where at present it says: Spirituality and Health based on Metaphysical Healing Prayer
Ideally, you want the keywords, Metaphysical Healing to be the first two words on this tagline of your website title, at the top of the page.
Also, your home page text could be brushed up just a little bit, not much though, and this should stand you in better stead of getting that all important #1 Google position.
You have a Page Rank of 4 for this website, and a Page Rank 2 website has beaten you to the Google first position, and therefore will be taking most of this website traffic for the 2 keywords ‘Metaphysical Healing’.
These are your other keywords that you are targeting:
prayer,divine,power,heal,love,spiritual,physical,health
These are all extremely competitive keywords and you don’t stand any hope of getting into the Google One position, for these keywords, so in effect, they’re not doing your web site much good.
You need to focus on long tailed keywords, which generate over 500 searches per month in their own right, with the number of competing websites vying to use these long tailed keywords, this number being as low as possible, as per the guidance in my above article.
So, first, you need to go back to the Google External Keyword Tool again.
This time, type into the white box, your present, second keyword, that you are targeting, which is, ‘Prayer’.
Prayer as a searchable word in Google, in January, had 823,000 people type it into the Google search engine, the average per month figure is, 550,000 searches.
Let’s go back to Google.com …
In the search box at Google, type this in, exactly as it is shown:
“Prayer”
Now, let’s check that blue bar out to see what it says on the right hand side:
Results 1 - 10 of about 81,500,000 for “Prayer” [definition]. (0.16 seconds)
Ok, so, that’s over 81 Million other websites are all vying to use ‘Prayer’ as a keyword on their websites and only one of them can get into the Google One position, for their website to receive a very, very high substantial number of all of those people typing into Google, this word.
Basically, you don’t stand much chance of getting on page one, let alone the first position!
So you want to be targeting long tailed keywords, with a relatively high number of monthly searches, with a low number of competing websiting vying to use that long tailed keyword and then do everything you possibly can to get that number one position, for that long tailed keyword.
It sounds complicated, but it isn’t really, with a bit of practice, everything will click into place for you.
If you need further clarification, just ask, and I’ll spend an evening or two, and write it out in the most simple step by step instructions possible.
You can apply the above technique/s not only to your website, but apply it to your article marketing also.
If you do have any further questions, please do feel free to ask or add your comments and I’ll be delighted to help you further.
Kindest regards.
Mark
10:40 AM on February 16th, 2009 3
Hello Mark,
I really appreciate your detailed clarification how to use those SEO tools on a practice. Even though I was asking for help about my http://www.christian-healing-prayer.net site I am so grateful for your example with my other site as well. If you are able to do the same with my christian-healing-prayer.net site I would really appreciate it. Of course I would like also to go forward and to find a right way how to write properly the body text (including articles pages). I am sooo grateful for your good will to help a newbie as myself.
With warmest wiches and gratitude,
Michael.
11:04 AM on February 16th, 2009 4
Hello Mark,
Please inform me what kind of proportion should be in ” ” or somehow between a number of searchers and a number of websites. What I’ve noticed the more keywords people type the websites usually use that keyword.
Thank you kindly,
Michael.
1:01 AM on February 20th, 2009 5
Hi Mark,
Though I have not heard from you please let me ask you one question more. In your instructions regarding searching for the right keyword in Google Adwords there are a few lines with the same key phrase sometimes?
Also would you be able also to help me with a spam which I receive regularly after my keyword problems?
Thank you so kindly for your assistance.
So warmly,
Michael.
1:09 AM on February 20th, 2009 6
My apologies not getting back to you Michael, I’ve been extraordinarily busy this past couple of days. I’ve made plans to spend more time on this blog again tomorrow morning (Friday), and will get back to you then and can hopefully offer you further assistance.
Must get to bed now, just put in a 19 hour day, must get some beauty sleep.
Kindest regards
Mark
10:45 AM on February 20th, 2009 7
Hello Michael
As promised very late last night, here I am to try my best to answer your questions, starting with Comment 4 above and your question there re:
Please inform me what kind of proportion should be in ” ” or somehow between a number of searchers and a number of websites. What I’ve noticed the more keywords people type the websites usually use that keyword.
Inbetween the ” ” you simply put a word/s that you think might return the kind of results that you are after. Just experiment. You can’t do anything wrong as such with this tool, the more you use it, the more you’ll get used to it, don’t be afraid of it.
The instructions may look complicated but in actual fact it is very, very easy to use, the more you use it, the better the results will be for you.
Just get an A4 notepad or similar and keep a pen handy to write down the results on, so that you can reference your findings easily after completing your research.
From looking at this data, you’ll know then what keywords to be going for, which will stand you the best possible chance of getting to the Google First Position for the keywords that you choose.
In your case, try out words such as these perhaps:
Prayer Hope
Faith Prayer
Healing Prayer
NLP
Reiki
Reiki Healing
Metaphysical
And so on and so forth, one at a time into the External Keyword Tool at Google. You know your subject best and the words to put in that box.
Then just scroll through the results, all the way to the bottom of the page, keeping a note of any that look like they might prove useful.
For example: I have a dating website.
I’ve got right in front of me, a notepad, with a long list of dating keywords on it.
To the lefthandside I’ve written down in a column all of the keywords, ranging from 1-5 words. The next column along shows me instantly the number of searches carried out in January, the next column the average number of searches, the final column the number of competing websites targeting that keyword (as per my previous instructions).
Keep to this format and you cannot go far wrong.
You want over 500 searches per month for any keyword and typically, as few websites as possible competing and/or using that keyword, again (as per my previous instructions)
Just persevere with it, you’ll soon get it Michael or ask a friend, family member or neighbour locally to help you with this to show you how it is done, I’m sure someone will be more than happy to sit with you, to take you through the steps one at a time.
In comment 3 above, you made the point about the body of your website.
Just use the keywords that you have found using the above suggested route to take. Build these exact words into the body of your content and use them as often as you can, whilst maintaining good sentence structure, which will be pleasing to read and useful for your readers.
Really, it’s not rocket science, there is nothing to be afraid of, just experiment a little first with the keyword tool to find some good to excellent results.
In reply number 5 above you say:
In your instructions regarding searching for the right keyword in Google Adwords there are a few lines with the same key phrase sometimes?
Don’t worry about it, is the short answer, just find something that you can use to good effect and pay this no heed. There’s nothing to worry about from that, if I am to understand you correctly.
Further, you ask:
Also would you be able also to help me with a spam which I receive regularly after my keyword problems?
Sure, run it past me and I’ll see if I can help you with it.
What is the spam that you are referring to?
Kindest regards and best wishes.
Mark
3:13 AM on February 22nd, 2009 8
Hi Mark,
Hope you had a good rest last few nights.
Mark, thank you kindly for your patience and your replies. Sorry I was not clear when I’ve inserted ” “.
My question was what kind of proportion between the searchers and all webpages should be? Say I have 10,000 (200 times more than 500) searchers I see the less webpages on that keyword is better but what if not 200,000 pages as would ideal but say around a few millions. Is it not good even though a lots of people search for that keyword?
Now my next question is whether you culd help me to install a Contact Form which is claimed the best on the Web regarding free of Spam. You can download here:
(link deleted by iSpyWithMy.com)
I would appreciate greatly if you could lead me through that installation process. As I’ve understood from its “read me” file after adding my e-mail address, my name, and website and inserting the symbols “CHMOD 666″ into error-log file we can upload that directory into a server deleting Validation and Test files.
Now please explain me what kind of files Validation or some other I need to insert into a contact page of my site and where in the body of that page it should stand?
I would be so grateful for your inputs and thank you for your time and good will.
So warmly,
Michael.
(Text edited by iSpyWithMy.com)
10:51 AM on February 23rd, 2009 9
Hello Michael
I’m not quite sure how I can really help you any more than I have attempted to do so already. Just experiment with the suggestions given above and you’ll soon enough get the hang of it.
If you want a contact form on your website, I would suggest that you use http://JotForm.com
I’ve had to edit your above comment which went to a download page.
Hope the above information helps you out and assists you.
Wishing you all the best!
Mark
12:43 AM on February 24th, 2009 10
Hi Mark,
Thank you kindly for your prompt answer. I would appreciate your help with my christian-healing-prayer.net site regarding the appropriate keywords as we’ve talked about that site from the beginning and I hope I would be able to go forward from that regarding my articles of my site as I really need to have help with them regarding SEO.
Mark, also is that site with CONTACT FORM reliable regarding spam?
Thank you sincerely for your great help,
Warmly,
Michael.
11:53 AM on February 24th, 2009 11
Hello again Michael
Again as regards the article marketing for your website, simply follow the instructions given in the main blog post, parts 1, 2 and 3.
If you follow those guidelines to the letter, you will receive more traffic for your website and in time, more natural backlinks, which again will assist you to receive more traffic and people interested in your website directly.
Article marketing does take time and the only way for it to start really benefiting you positively, is to simply get on with it and make a start writing your articles.
It’s ok if you make mistakes as you learn the ropes.
The biggest thing against you is procrastination, the sooner you get on with it, the sooner you can start to benefit positively.
As regards the contact form that I gave to you, JotForm, I don’t know that it has spam protection, this is out of my field of experience, although if a site is receiving only a little traffic in the first place, the chances of anyone receiving much spam is also very slim. If you do get it, just delete it, it only takes a few seconds literally to delete it as soon as it arrives, if this is a worry for you.
From my own experience, it’s not something you’ll need to worry about too much at this time.
Again, I hope this helps.
Kindest regards and best wishes.
Mark
11:04 AM on April 6th, 2009 12
Hello Mark,
I’ve lost your page and now I’ve found it again! Thank you so much for your guidance through the ocean of human storms and opinions. I am in a process of establishing new keywords for my site though it is not easy as it seems Adwords Google shows so different results with the Wold Tracker.
Thank you for that site regarding Contact Form. During last month I did install one Contact Form but I am not sure it passes spam. Sometimes it is not easy to define where spam and where not as a lie can be so subtle. I’ll try your Form as well. Thank you. And if any suggestions come to you how I can improve my ranking I would be so grateful to hear from you.
With warmest wishes,
Michael.