Comments on: Keyword Competition: What about Competitive High Paying Keywords?

By: Mikael

Mikael — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 15:18:26 +0000

Geoff, well you could put it like that but normally you’ll also have your main keyword in the long tail phrases but the reason why you don’t want to use long domain names is that it will not only limit what you’re site can be about but it also looks crappy when the url is very long.

By: Geoff@nanny jobs

Geoff@nanny jobs — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 21:12:18 +0000

Thanks Mikael. So often it is better to register a domain name that contains your “future keywords” (i.e. 6-18 months from now) not necessarily the keywords you would target at the beginning. That way your site can grow over time and you will have the extra leverage of these domain keywords once the time is right to target them. Is that a fair statement?

By: Mikael

Mikael — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 07:16:18 +0000

Hi Geoff,

yes you got it right. I would still suggest that you target the competitive keyword at some point down the road but only once you have gained enough strength to the site and have started seeing traffic from the less competitive phrases.

As for the weight loss industry I believe that there is room for more people as it is HUUUGE so I wouldn’t necessarily pick another niche but when that is said, there are easier niches out there

By: Geoff@nanny jobs

Geoff@nanny jobs — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 05:31:25 +0000

Thanks Mikael, this info is golden! Using this example, are you suggesting a good strategy be to register a domain like “www.weightlosssystem.com” (assuming it’s available) but not go for the phrase “weight loss system” until your site has aged and gained some good PR and instead go for a less competitive keyword phrase in the mean time? Or is it better to just forget that phrase altogether, find a less competitive keyword phrase and register a domain with that phrase in it instead?

By: Mikael

Mikael — Sat, 30 May 2009 07:36:52 +0000

Hi Manshu, no 10% is not high at all. But if you don’t know how to get that you might be right

There are people getting as high as 25% CTR but I personally haven’t been able to get that consistently (only once in a while).

By: Manshu

Manshu — Sat, 30 May 2009 01:57:57 +0000

10% is a bit high. I think that would really be closer to 1% and that would change the equation quite a bit.

By: Sire

Sire — Fri, 29 May 2009 06:19:47 +0000

There is no way I would intentionally misspell words in the title or text, and I wouldn’t worry about the meta, too much hassle, but I may be tempted to use it in the tags.

By: Mikael

Mikael — Fri, 29 May 2009 06:09:55 +0000

Thank you Yan. I might put that in as part of the ebook I am working on. I’m glad you liked it.

Sire, I don’t know if I would RECOMMEND it but I wouldn’t say not to do it either. I think the key element would be that you’re already getting searches from the misspelled term.

So what I would do is to not upfront specifically target anything misspelled but if you’re getting visitors from misspellings of the word then by all means add it to both the meta tags as well as the normal tags.

But keep from misspellings in the title and the text as that would look unprofessional.

By: Sire

Sire — Fri, 29 May 2009 05:22:02 +0000

When going for a particular keyword or phrases, would you recommend misspelling the them, perhaps in the tags or meta, as I’ve found I get a few hits from people’s misspellings in the comments.

By: Yan

Yan — Fri, 29 May 2009 00:35:55 +0000

Awesome tips, Mikael. You could easily wrap it up into an ebook and sell it..;)

Few would have gone to such a great length to show exactly how to study the “virtual environment” we are competing against.

And it’s true. Experience do plays apart when it comes to choosing the right keyword(s).

Yan