happywife
Joined: 14 Aug 2007
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#21 · Posted: 4 Feb 2008 17:23
Quoting: Newbie Shield WordTracker is one of several good tools. Never let it be your only tool. It's easily worth the 300 per year basic version fee though.
Wow! I didn't know the paid version was that much. I suppose it would be worth it if you were using it an awful lot. Keyword research is vital to driving free traffic.
I've used the free version of wordtracker on occasion, but with my SBI sites it comes with a brainstorming tool that leaves wordtracker in the dust (at least the free version).
Actually, it does use wordtracker as part of the resource. You get 25 searches automatically with each site and then if you run out you can purchase more fairly cheaply (I want to say 500 for 50.00 - but I may be wrong - old age again). Anyway, I've never run out, but I could see where you may need to buy more if you were researching a wide range of different topics.
Quoting: Newbie Shield SEO is quite a bit more involved than most imagine...even the big time gurus. Pardon me for saying this but few of them know of the complexity and sophistication involved in truly competing.
That is probably quite true, but the search engines change their algorithms regularly (or so I'm told) so it would be rather futile to constantly be trying to figure them out.
I've found that if you just write realistic content around your keyword search results they reward you with the ranking that you need. No sense stressing over it. It is definitely harder to rank with broader keywords (more competition), but even then, I think if you keep at it and continually add more and more solid content, you'll get there in the end.
Of course, I'm no guru, nor do I aspire to be one.  Just my thoughts.
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