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Great advice in this thread.. Thanks folks.

I admit, I have found myself looking at Google Analytics and wondering why we don't get more search engine traffic.. 

Pretty much all we get is people searching for "see debt run".. lol.

We will keep focusing on content and writing good articles, and try not to look at that stuff for another couple of months :)

I agree, great info and thank you all for taking the time to post.  It helps us…newer folk to the blogging community understand everything. 

seedebtrun said:

Great advice in this thread.. Thanks folks.

 

I admit, I have found myself looking at Google Analytics and wondering why we don't get more search engine traffic.. 

Pretty much all we get is people searching for "see debt run".. lol.

 

We will keep focusing on content and writing good articles, and try not to look at that stuff for another couple of months :)

Have you tried looking in your Google Webmaster Account to see which keywords you're ranking for?  You can get a good list of "potential" keywords that you're getting impressions from.  It's definitely a start! 

Jen @ Master the Art of Saving said:

I always write what I want to say first, then fill out the info into the All In One SEO plugin. I don't really worry about writing for SEO, I let that happen on it's own. Personally, some (not all) of the bloggers that write for SEO—just kinda suck. I'd much rather read what they really want to say than the version that will get them better ranking and traffic. Just my opinion.

Correct, first write what you want then modify here and there as per keyword demand.

Example, I received a guests post "pors and cons of self-filing tax return" After my research I changed the title to

"pros and cons of preparing your own taxes", changed a few in-body sentences, added a few keywords in all-in-one-seo box and published.

I do that little tweaks on post written by me as well but only after the post is ready.

I agree. I was all about SEO for about a week. It was just too much work imho and I would much rather focus on writing what I want to write about, not simply appeasing the search engines.

With that said, some of the suggestions offered on here are excellent. And look into some plug ins like All in One SEO Pack.

Jen @ Master the Art of Saving said:

I always write what I want to say first, then fill out the info into the All In One SEO plugin. I don't really worry about writing for SEO, I let that happen on it's own. Personally, some (not all) of the bloggers that write for SEO—just kinda suck. I'd much rather read what they really want to say than the version that will get them better ranking and traffic. Just my opinion.

Very well said.  I just write for writing sake.  I do add the SEO stuff and if it sticks, great, if not well I just hope people enjoy the posts :)

OneCentAtatime said:

Agree with everything. but that low competition is for the advertisers. It indicated there's not much competition for that key word. So as a ad seeker I would be more interested in those as those will cost me less money per click.

 

As a publisher we can still target high competition, but that only ensures higher per click revenue, as competition drive the price up.

For SEO this metrix doesn't have any significance

Aaah, great. That is new to me. Learned again something. I always thought that "competition" was also an indication for how much SEO competition there is for that keyword. This is a crucial difference. Thanks for pointing it out.

Big popular keywords, here I come. Now the advertisers will start knocking the door ;)