The 10 Biggest Search Engine Optimization Mistakes: Number 9: No Content Keywords

You've spent weeks getting your website design right.searches for the word 'print' during the previous month.
Your website is fully 'optimized'. Or so you think. WhyNow select a phrase with somewhere between 500
are visitors not finding your website? You've probablyand 2000 search requests per month from the other
forgotten to optimize your content by adding keywordsuggestions below. For this example, I've chosen the
phrases!phrase 'overnight print' which has had 1328 searches
What do you mean by 'content'?the previous month.
You should know by now that you need to have aYou then take the phrase 'overnight print' and apply in
few hundred words of text based content on eachtwice in your page content and other important areas
page of your website to attract search engines andin your web page that should contain your keywords.
help search engines determine what each page isFor this example you would probably ensure that the
about.content is about a special 'overnight print' service that
How do I optimise my content?your company might do.
What you need to ensure is that your keywordIf you're a business that specializes in printing, other
phrase is included TWICE in your page content. I'm notcontent pages that you may wish to create that are
talking within any navigational menus. Your keywordrelevant to both our users and search engines could
phrase needs to appear, uniquely, twice, and on justbe based around the following keyword phrases found
the one page. Ideally at the start and the end of eachin the same search:
portion of page content. Note: This does not include1) Print to PDF
other previously discussed areas in which to house2) Print Management
keyword phrases such as the page title tags or the3) Digital Camera Print
page heading.4) Large Print
Make sure that you have the right keyword phrase5) Print Management Consultancy
You should have already decided on your keywordThe possibilities of finding relevant keyword phrases
phrase that you're aiming for on the page that you arethat you can base content upon for your website
writing content for. If not, go to the Overture Keywordaren't endless. Make sure that you maximise the
Selector Tool ( and select your phrase that you wanteffectiveness of each one.
to use. Ideally for internal site pages (not the homeDon't write your content for search engines
page) you want to be aiming at keyword phrases thatHowever tempting it may be, don't pull off as many
are no popular than around 2000 searches per month.popular search phrases as possible and insert them
Start by selecting a word that represents youinto your page content that isn't specifically relevant to
business genre. For example, if you are in the Printthose phrases. You'll turn off your visitors and search
Industry, type 'Print' into the Overture Keywordengines will catch up with you eventually.
Selector. At the time of writing, there were 63515