"keywords" field - best practices questions
Aloha folks,
I read somewhere on the forum here, that it is good to use lots of keywords to got more successful and verified submissions, even 100 of keywords. Makes sense, but I got a few questions about how that works.
Let's say that I am targetting "best product" as my main anchor text for a projects. Now there are many long tail variation to be found, such as "best product 2013", "best product for home use", "best product under $100", "best blue product", and on and on and on - you get the picture. So my question is - is there any point in putting all those long tail variations into the keyword field, or all will GSA SER just pick them all up anyway because they are all just extensions of "best product"?
I read somewhere on the forum here, that it is good to use lots of keywords to got more successful and verified submissions, even 100 of keywords. Makes sense, but I got a few questions about how that works.
Let's say that I am targetting "best product" as my main anchor text for a projects. Now there are many long tail variation to be found, such as "best product 2013", "best product for home use", "best product under $100", "best blue product", and on and on and on - you get the picture. So my question is - is there any point in putting all those long tail variations into the keyword field, or all will GSA SER just pick them all up anyway because they are all just extensions of "best product"?
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Do not take this to be thorough answer as I have posed a similar question of what are "best practices".
My thoughts are:
MORE DISCLAIMER: Both the "long tail" approach and the "related keyphrase" approach lead to diminishing returns. The results of the searches overlap each other much more than dictionary searches. If you niche is small enough to need both, you need to use a dictionary anyway.
It is only my humble opinion that related terms win with separate anchor text when used for SEO purposes.
Your answers cleared up my questions. Yep, I always pick my own anchor text and secondary anchor text, never the "use keywords as anchor text" option.
I do tend to pick out 10 to 20 keywords (for the "keywords" field) per project, all niche specific or very close, but I noticed they only go so far. I think I will start branching then to other non related keywords to increase links.
As a curiosity, how many verified links to you typically pull in per project, when the project is just backlinking 1 URL?
I have a wild definition of "project". I am making
If I could stay organized and spend the time, I would Supplement HQ and LQ paths with (related scrapes vs dictionaries) and (transient links vs slowly moderated links). That might mean 2^3=8 tier 1s; so I don't really do that.
The answer to the question you did NOT ask is, "by having separate projects to find relevant targets for the niche and for finding lots of links." The question would have been, "How do I maximize my penetration of my niche?"
I am not a link counter, but I do pay attention to link velocity and link lifespan. For ranking high domain authority items on domains like YouTube, I intend to maintain 20-30 links per day. Lately, I am not verifyign them until i launch a following tier. For my sites, I have been using SER as a supplement to Tier 1s from other sources.
Today, I will try to make my HQ tier 1s with Ultimate Demon.
I have been viewing SER as a tool to maintain link velocity until recently.
DISCLAIMER: Darren, I am still looking for people on this forum to share their best practices with me.
Having used GSA a bit more now, I can see that it is best to just put in "product" name and leave it at that, and pass up on all the overlap.