Posts Tagged Keyword Research

Is Your Social Media Content Keyword Optimized?

08 Mar 2011

We’re big fans of keyword research here at Room 214 because it’s at the core of many of the services we offer including business intelligence, search engine marketing and social media monitoring.
However keyword research isn’t just for optimizing websites or building out pay-per-click campaigns anymore. Utilizing keyword research for social media optimization has become an important tactic for improved online visibility. Why do you need to worry about including high quality keywords in your social content? By “high quality”, I am referring to those keyword phrases that are very relevant to your business, have significant search volume and in some cases have low competition.
1. For Greater Social Network Visibility
YouTube is the second largest search engine in the world, behind Google. Twitter search is widely used and incorporated into many 3rd party clients/tools. Facebook search… well Facebook search is awful but has to improve at some point. Optimizing social content with…

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Keyword Infighting

29 Aug 2006

One of the more common SEO problems we see with our client’s websites is that they target the same keyword phrase on multiple pages. Many people think that the more a keyword in placed on a website, the better the organic search results – wrong. SEOmoz recently referred to this as “Keyword Self-Cannibalization”, an appropriate term I think. They broke down 3 major issues with targeting the same keyword phrase on multiple pages:

Forces the search engines to choose which page is the most “authoritative” or relevant to that subject on your site.
Creates additional competition for rankings – you’re vying against yourself for position in the SERPs.
Dilutes the potential ranking ability of a single phrase by spreading link power, keyword targeting, and anchor text on your site across multiple pages.

Speaking of keywords, an interesting new service called HitTail was recently brought to my attention. This free service (for low to medium traffic sites)…

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