INFOGRAPHIC: Choosing the Best Keywords for SEO
Posted December 16, 2010 by DIYSEO Team (36 comments)
Ask anyone in the SEO industry how important keywords are, and you’ll get the same answer from everyone. Choosing the best keywords for your website is crucial in search engine optimization.
Keyword targeting is essential because SEO efforts can take time and energy, and you want to be sure that you’re rewarded with great search engine traffic. Therefore, it is important to find words that aren’t too competitive but provide good search traffic. The below infographic illustrates DIYSEO’s key tactics for keyword selection. The infographic displays the keyword selection process and uses the example of a New Orleans lawyer. When looking at the infographic, be sure to take a look at your keywords to make sure they follow these best practices.
We’d love to hear about your business’s experience with keywords! Do you agree with our list of top tactics for the keyword targeting process? What other recommendations do you have for people just beginning to choose keywords for their small business websites?
Categories: DIYSEO, Featured, Infographics
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Nolan Wilson at 1:48 pm
Great post! the way you explain the keyword research process is very clear and can be understood by anyone, regardless of their technical background
DIYSEO Team at 9:43 am
Thanks for your feedback Nolan! We wanted to display the keyword process as easy to understand as possible.
Cotskoi at 8:15 pm
Keywords require hours of research to find the right ones that fit your website needs. The presentation you put together on one page is great. I am using google keyword tool and getting to the “sweet spot”. Thanks again!
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Avi White at 3:17 am
Hi,
I believe the best way to really find out which keywords will work best for your business, is to start your marketing plan with a robust PPC campaign.
Use tracking phone numbers, record all calls, and use proxy servers for the ability to use different phone numbers in different ad groups.
That will give you a lot of data fast.
Joseph | Seo Services Goa at 10:09 pm
There is one step remaining. Write great content that includes one or two of the selected key phrases in a page keeping in view all recommended practices.
Barby White at 5:47 pm
Love the way you put this together in such an easy to understand form. My favorite thing her though is the graphic of the Greek house with the pillars to hold up the roof. If you are week on one of those pillars your house won’t stand. Thanks guys.
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Blog Marketing Experts at 5:09 pm
Great job identifying the easy steps to identify a good short list of keyword and keyword phrases. I have been using this exact method for all my offline clients. It works like gangbusters and the business owner is happy and the result is they get new customers from doing this kind of SEO.
Ramiro Rodriguez at 4:06 pm
Nice post. I needed a chart like this to study.
Digital Media Mam at 3:45 am
Thanks. I needed that! (: Great graph!
Robert Berube at 8:34 pm
Great Info graphic with a winning formula for SEO success. Perfect for those willing to devote the time and discipline it takes to get to the top, but also a sound formula for SEO professionals.
Salim Khayoumi at 2:09 am
Great visual aides. Obviously there’s a lot more to keywords in relation to SEO but great job explaining.
S. Engler at 3:41 pm
Great post! Thanks so much for compiling the one page thought process.
Don Morgan at 7:41 pm
Explains everything nicely.
Ben Blankenbaker at 11:45 pm
I’ll take all the tips anyone wants to toss my way. Thanks.
Debbie Thor at 11:16 pm
I love how your graphics clearly demonstrate step by step how to optimize your site with the best keywords. As always your presentation is spot on. Thank you.
DIYSEO Team at 12:10 pm
thanks Debbie!
Dan at 3:29 am
it seems the common knowledge is that google does not use keywords any longer in their search algorithm. am i misinformed?
Joe Henning at 10:10 pm
Is that the reason I am unable to even open the familiar green backgrounded Google Keyword Tool page???
Shelly at 5:14 pm
Just doing research on getting a website together for my new business. This article will help in my planning/development phases. Thank you!!!
Michael Del Mar at 2:50 pm
Infographics are the best way to showcase complex information. Great work.
DIYSEO Team at 2:55 pm
We agree for sure, Michael!
ron tucker at 7:22 pm
I’m finding out the hard way that keywords really are what opens the door to viewers and buyers. Thanks for this info.
Joe Henning at 10:13 pm
I wish a few paople would comment on Dan’s post dated 17 November 2011… Pleeeaaase!!……..
Mark the Personalised wine Guy at 3:08 am
Nice infographic, very clear and to the point.
stocking stuffers at 12:49 am
Like the sweetspot graph, I have also found that it is a great way to get traffic with low competition keywords. Thanks for article.
Succession Media at 1:22 am
Dont forget building and writing quality and original content that will appeal to your users and search engines. This can just as important as backlinking and keywords
roger at 8:28 pm
so far so good – clear and concise. Thanks for posting.
Peter Guiliano at 7:29 pm
another good seo is info graphics! so congratulations on hitting that one right on the head to add to the list
al at 7:26 am
In Step 3 of the graphic, I think the sweet spot is placed badly- I want high volume & low competition (as the text alongside mentions) but the “sweet spot” is mostly in the low volume & low competition quadrant.
DIYSEO Team at 11:42 am
It’s ultimately up to the business which route to go with. It’s much harder to find keywords with high volume and low competition but if you find some, that’s the way to go!
al at 7:30 am
As to @Dan’s question about keywords, the answer to that is yes and no. Google (and other search engines) ignore the list of keywords in the meta data in the head section of the HTML- in other words, you don’t get to tell the search engines what your keywords should be. Instead, the keywords are determined by the search engines (and the searchers.) So keywords are still a thing, but not an explicit thing.
Dickie O'Neal's Irish Pub at 1:15 am
Great graphic! Easy to understand. Reflects the kind of service I could expect from them.