Posted by Ray White on October 13, 2009 Comments (2)

On the internet, keywords are terms or words that relate to particular topics. Keyword research will involve various aspects, such as finding sales oriented keywords or driving maximum qualified users to increase their online sales.

Keyword research is the first step towards a successful search engine optimization campaign. You have to be very careful when selecting keywords, as targeted keywords are essential for a website.

The selection of keywords should be based on aspects such as product names, services, brands, or general terms. They should be words or phrases that people looking for sites like yours would use as a search on a search engine. Don’t forget about targeting geographical terms; you have a global presence on the internet.

When doing keyword research, you should do a thorough market research analysis to find the best keywords used by search engines to find products and services online – and find out what keywords are targeted by your competitors who are doing well in marketing on the internet.

The first step in finding the best keywords is to make a list of the products, topics, and services that you offer. You can also make good use of your website logs to learn which keywords have brought you the most traffic in the past.

Select keywords that clearly define your business and products to drive traffic from the search engines. There are some websites which get high levels of traffic through general keywords although they might not end up being sales. You don’t want to get your visitors’ hopes up from the search only to be disappointed when they get to your site.

There are numerous tools available which will help you identify keywords that are suitable for search engines. The challenge here, is to determine which keyword is the best to generate traffic that will convert to sales.

Keyword selection is just one part of optimizing your web site for organic searches. If you would like to learn more about search engine optimization, John Alexander of Search Engine Workshops has a free newsletter that you can sign up for at

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It’s a short daily email that contains one SEO tip. Takes just a minute or two to read. I don’t get anything for telling you about it, except for the satisfaction of sharing a resource with important people like you.