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This is continued from SEO Tips For Keyword Domination Lesson 3 for make money online review and other blogs.

In lesson 3, we learnt how to assess keywords and our competition. We learnt that we should not target keywords that are highly competitive even though they are the most profitable since it will be nearly impossible or take a very long time to rise above the competition.

LESSON 4 – USING GOOGLE FOR KEYWORD ANALYSIS

Once we have our list of 3 to 4 keywords, we need to go to Google and check out the competition to see exactly how hard it will be to optimize for the specified keyword.

Disclaimer: You’ll hear a lot of people talk about how “onpage optimization”, which are the things I’m going to be talking about below, aren’t as important as they once were. While that is true. It IS important to look at onpage optimization factors to determine if your competition really knows what they’re doing in terms of optimizing their websites.

Chance are, if they have good onpage optimization, their offpage optimization will also be good. Think of these steps as a quick and easy way to determine how competitive a market is before you jump straight into it. There’s my disclaimer. If you’re new to SEO and that didn’t make sense, that’s ok. Just ignore it. It’s not important, but was said for those people that like to nit pick at every comment made Moving on!

We’ll begin with the keyword “weight loss story”.

If we go to Google and type in the keyword “weight loss stopry”, without quotes, you’ll notice that the #1 ranked website for “weight loss story” is: (Side note: rankings can change in the search engines, so if this site is no longer ranked #1 when you view this yourself, chances are their competition has optimized their site better, and passed them up.)
http://www.runwalkjog.com/weight_loss_success_story.htm which is not a top level webpage, meaning it’s not simply http://www.runwalkjog.com/. It is a sub page off of their main homepage: weight_loss_success_story.htm

This is good news for us because, typically, if a website’s subpage is ranking well in Google, we have an immediate advantage if we choose to target the same keyword with our homepage (i.e. www.domain.com). For now, just take my word on this, as I will go into more detail why it’s usually easier to rank well for your homepage than any other webpage on your website.

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Next: LESSON 5 - PAGERANK AND KEYWORD DOMINATION
Pagerank is a word that newbies soon learn to love to hate. Unfortunately, pagerank is a factor when it comes to SEO, like it or not. The good news is that it is not impossible to go up against a higher pagerank site if yours is optimized better.

Previous lessons:
LESSON 1 - KEYWORD RESEARCH TOOL
LESSON 2 - CHOOSING THE RIGHT KEYWORDS
LESSON 3 - ASSESSING KEYWORD COMPETITION