Comments on: An SEO Experiment: Targeting One Keyword

By: Matthew Berman

Matthew Berman — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 06:51:00 +0000

Great post Jason. I like how you’ve not only provided content but a case study about your content as well. Win/win.

By: painter brisbane

painter brisbane — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 14:26:50 +0000

gr8 post btw however just to get it simple for a newbi if we turn or sites to blogs and post related content to small niches ( if the blogs arnt established ) we should achieve gr8 success in the short turn for targarted key words . but this is not to say we carnt use this method of your many times for the many key words we have ?

By: Magaret

Magaret — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 14:28:23 +0000

Very good experiment,I do a similar experiment before,the keywords is usb 3.0 front panel,but it didn't bring me good rank.

By: JasonFalls

JasonFalls — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 01:19:31 +0000

Honestly, I've never set links to no follow. In my mind, Google is better

because links are followed. Whether it benefits me or not, I just have

always felt like adding to its overall intelligence by allowing it to follow

links is a best practice.

As far as the H-tags, yes, you should optimize your page to include the

target keyword or keywords in as many of them as you can. It's like visually

bolding a phrase for humans … it makes the spiders say, “Oh … this page

must be about that topic.”

By: Social Local Mobile vSEO

Social Local Mobile vSEO — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 01:12:23 +0000

Jason, in your opinion, is it important to make sure your external links are set to no-follow? and must you code your target keyword with an H1, H2 and H3 tags for optimal on-page optimization?

By: etrog

etrog — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 13:13:44 +0000

Jason, as you said, the fact that you have an organic following, as well as great pagerank and plenty of legacy content supporting keywords like social media, which is also in your domain, must certainly contribute to your hovering in rankings there. But as you said, it is nice to think that you can twiddle around with your positioning by changing on-page seo factors.

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seo sem services — Sat, 25 Dec 2010 14:18:40 +0000

Very informative post.

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By: Kimbley Computer Services

Kimbley Computer Services — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 18:42:26 +0000

Interesting article.

By: Sarah Shields

Sarah Shields — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 07:37:12 +0000

Great explanation of long-tail keywords and the application to good SEO copywriting – thanks for sharing!

By: Keyword targeting

Keyword targeting — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 14:09:58 +0000

I do agree that on-site key-phrase targeting can be extremely effective, however it involves far more than adding it to the content, meta description and Title element. A high rank for a term such as “social media monitoring” is not a hard one to acquire looking at the competition and can be achieved with very little inbound, if you apply some clever targeting and decent on-site optimisation your away… (good little post, and does put the point across well)