As I have discussed before, the keywords you choose can make or break your site-building efforts. Most people choose high-traffic keywords with strong competition or low-traffic keywords that don’t get any visitors. Others choose better than that but select keywords that don’t bring buyers. None of these situations is of any use to you. All of us who build websites know that it takes time to build up traffic, and you can build for months with little to show for your work. This means that it’s even more critical to ensure that the keywords you choose have a good chance of ranking and bringing targeted visitors. And that’s where the golden ratio comes in. The golden ratio is the calculation done between the traffic volume for that keyword and the number of sites ranked in Google with that keyword in the title. The traffic volume must not exceed 250 searches a month, and the number of websites with the keyword in the title must not exceed 63. You can use whichever keyword tool you like to get the search volume, but you have to use Google for the ranked sites. The way you find how many sites have the keyword in the title is this. In the search field, type allintitle:your keyword. For example, this search allintitle:make money online for beginners in Australia turned up 39 results. Ubersuggest tells me that no one searches for this keyword, but it came up in the Google suggestions, so someone must have typed it in. What it does tell me is that I could rank this keyword on the first page of Google with minimal effort. Let’s try one with more traffic. The keyword phrase the best way to make money while you sleep has between 10 – 100 searches per month but only five pages with the words in the title. You could have a page on the first page of the search results within 24 hours. I dug this one out in the Google Adwords tool, which is free, but not particularly helpful as far as search volume goes. I hope this explanation is helpful for you. Let me know if you use this and what results you get. Regards, P.S. Spending the time to dig these out can be tedious but worth every minute. No, I don’t have a tool to help with this – yet. As far as I know, there is no tool to automate this, which is excellent because it means that most people will not be bothered to put in the work required. Once you have 20 pages bringing in 100 visitors a month, you will have a website with more traffic than 80% of the Internet. Over a year, you could have 200 pages ranking for these golden keywords and be in the top 10% of all websites for traffic. Do you think you could make an income from 20,000 visitors per month? How would you write 200 pages in a year? Simple, write one per day. Consistency and persistence win every time. A little help doesn’t go astray either. Check this out. https://go.wm-tips.com/frase. |