Instant SEO boost using Google web history, 70 extra visitors a day
It can be tiresome doing keyword research on your content; especially when the post takes 30 minutes to write but requires 40 minutes of keyword research to be succesful. But there's an excellent SEO tool sitting directly under your nose (probably) and you're not using it.
Google Accounts Web History
That's right, you. If you've got a Google account and remain signed in to it, Google records every search you make. This means that you can go back in time and look at items you've been searching for.
Okay so why is that helpful?
Because keyword research is an attempt to emulate real searches - whereas you were actually searching for something.
How can I use this as an SEO tool?
Well supposing you were searching for something within the niche of your website, found the information you needed and did something with it. Maybe you found the advice to be really poor and found a better way of doing it? Either way you've got something to say on the topic. What you entered into Google was the question and you've now got the answer (provided it's your own answer, don't just steal other people's content/ideas and claim them to be your own). So if you write that answer into a post and publish it using your search query as the title = SEO win.
Evidence
It works especially well with very specific queries. For example I recently installed Ubuntu on my laptop but couldn't get any sound. I searched for hours to find the proper solution but it wasn't overly apparent. I fiddled around on my laptop and finally got it working. Obviously I published the solution on this website with the question I was asking Google as the title. This was an instant, quantifiable SEO win.
Numbers
On the day it was published that article received 28 Google visitors. The following day it received 65. Since then it has been averaging around 70 search engine visitors each day (which isn't a lot overall but good to a single piece of content).
So ask yourself; is there anything you've been searching for that you can publish a solution to? This saves you the time of keyword research and the content should be easy to write too. However it can deliver decent traffic for the future without any effort on your part (after all, an extra 70 visitors a day doesn't hurt anyone).
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Tak my advice & stick with Microsoft, a lot of this open source & ’free’ stuff is a vehicle for spyware.
You can google a thousand ways to improve your SEO, but one thing that I noticed that worked really well is advertising in fansites or a certain related product that your working with. It’s affordable for advertising, and it spreads the word around like crazy. So in essence, if it spreads the information a lot, more websites will talk about it, more people will come, you get a bang for your buck and your indexing goes up after all that.
Hopefully this will help someone, my 2cents. In return I’ll try what OP said and post a link to a good website about learning Japanese for free: http://www.jappleng.com/
Feel free to Google Jappleng in about 3-months or so to see if it gets good ratings since this project just started out. As of right now (june 4th, 08) there are about 1,200 results. Will SEO be FTW?
//will try the google history thing too, thanks!
Chuck
(1). You must have a paypal account (www.paypal.com).
(2). Send through paypal $1.00 to each of the 6 email addresses on the following list: #1: cal30m2@aol.com
#2: jagger5285@aol.com
#3: rr-813@hotmail.com
#4: andydonovan-uk@hotmail.co.uk
#5: Sandra.Schueller@t-online.de
#6: pegdarlene@yahoo.com
(3). Under subject of payment put:** Email List**
(4). Under comments put:** PLEASE PUT ME ON YOUR EMAIL LIST**!
(5). Now copy this letter by simply placing your cursor at the beginning of this letter and dragging it to the bottom of this letter. Select *copy* from the *edit* menu. This will copy it into your computer’s temporary memory.
(6). Open a blank notepad file. Select *paste* to get a copy of this letter.
(7). Remove the #1 email address from the list. Add your email address to the #6 spot on the list.
(8). Save this letter (notepad file) as a txt file.
(9). Search various newsgroups, on-line forums, message boards, bulletin boards, chat sites, discussion groups, online communities, etc. to post this letter. Use any search engine (GOOGLE.COM; YAHOO.COM; ALTAVISTA.COM; EXCITE.COM; NETSCAPE; INTERNET EXPLORER; ETC)-use subjects such as “millionaire message board”; “money making discussions”; “money making message board”; “business bulletin board”; “money making forum” or “opportunity message board” etc.
(10).**** YOU MUST POST 200 OR MORE MESSAGES****!!!!
(11). Post a new message select *paste* from the *edit* menu. ***REMEMBER THE MORE YOU POST THE MORE MONEY YOU WILL MAKE***!!!!!!!!!
(12). You’ll receive money in a few days! Give 10% to church or charity (reap what you sow)-put aside 30% for taxes-save, invest, or enjoy the rest of the money!!!!!!
I know it is... that’s why I concentrate on getting as much free traffic to my website as possible. Here is one great source that has helped me a lot. http://www.easy-viral-traffic.com/members.php
Will have to check out using Google history for SEO purposes.