Going To Market: Keywords and Backlinks, Part
1
by Donnie Smith
As I waded into the 'Make Money Online' waters
on the Internet, I felt I needed to do some research on what keywords might help
me generate traffic for my websites. I am very, very new to this whole Internet
marketing arena but at the simplest level it seems that the keys to generating
income are:
Blog >>> Choose Target Keywords >>> Write
Articles Incorporating Keywords >>> Create New Pages For Articles
>>> Link Article Pages To Blog >>> Link Article Pages To Each
Other >>> Populate All Pages with PPC Links >>> Submit
Articles To Outlets >>> Submit All Pages To Search Engines
Did
I say it was simple? As I said, I am new to this area so there may be a step or
two (or 5, or 10, etc...) I've missed. Your end goal is to get your links to
appear on the first page of the major search engines when someone searches on
your targeted keywords.
Smithutopia.com (http://www.smithutopia.com) was developed utilizing one of the leading
blogging systems today, Google's Blogger.com (http://www.blogger.com). A blog is a great place to cut your teeth
writing articles. As you post your ideas, situations, actions and events you
will notice that some of your items start to resemble articles. All it takes is
a little polish at that point to have a finished product.
How does all
of the above steps help you achieve the goals you have set forth? The magic word
is 'backlinks'. Backlinks are the links that people have placed on their
websites that lead to your website or any of the pages of your website. Several
of the major search engines place a high value on the number of links that go to
your website from out sites and thus place you in their search engine
accordingly. Here is a simple example.
Site 'A' has 1000 sites that link
back to it.
Site 'B' has 10 sites that link back to it.
Site 'A'
should place higher in the search engines when someone searches for a targeted
keyword/phrase that both sites covet.
At this point, some of the more
'seasoned' web gurus are crying foul at my above statement. Relax, I realize
there is more to it but I'm just taking one step at a time.
Next
time...Quality of backlinks, Placing targets on keywords
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Donnie
Smith is a technology enthusiast. He specializes in un-complicating the
complicated world of the Internet. You can read more about this subject and
others at his online blog, Smithutopia (http://www.smithutopia.com). Copyright
2005, Donnie Smith, All rights reserved.
