keywords in your link exchanges

[oaklvr]

Make sure when you are giving your link to another site that you are using your keywords when you give this other site the title of your link and the description and make the link relevant to the site you are giving it to. If I am giving a link to a site that sells teddy bears - then I will send them the title of my link to be "Wrought Iron Bears for your Bedroom" and the description will be "Love Bears - Do you have any Wrought Iron Bear Curtain Rods, or Wrought Iron Bear Drawer Handles? You can get these at [Only registered and activated users can see links. ] and be enjoying these beautiful wrought iron accents today!"

I have had people come to my site - land on my links page because of the title and keyword rich description on my links page. They are finding others on MY link page. One woman even wanted me to go to the other site for her and order it or add the product to my page because she liked my site better than the site the link pointed to. It's crazy, but it's true.

Connie

[hwang]

Wow that's really something. It's amazing how you could actually manipulate the keywords to your advantage. It's nice to read actually experience which you encounter.

[oaklvr]

One thing that helps me is this:

I keep a list of my keywords close to my computer. Whenever I am typing something on the internet, I look at those keywords and see if I can fit them in somewhere in what I am doing. I also use as many of them as I can. You never know where the search engines will find you and the more times you use your keywords - even in your everyday, not your website stuff - it could help. It sure won't hurt.

Connie

[hwang]

Well mentioned here. I think I should work out the same like what you did here. It's great... That means you just write down the keywords and finding ways to insert it to your web contents. I'm sure in time to come your sites will be filled with all the important words and get noticed by search engines.

[oaklvr]

Yes pretty much that is it but keep in mind... if you are putting these words on pages in your website, make sure you also put these in your meta tags. Meta tags are what the seach engine crawlers are scanning. And I almost forgot about alt tags.... You should have alt tags with keywords also hooked to your pictures.

I also keep this list next to me for when I am not working on my website but when I am creating content in a blog or on a forum or even just in an email. Whenever I can I create links that link back to my sites also.

I can't express enough though the need to keep it natural. Don't just stick keywords anywhere you feel like it. Make it make sense to the reader and not be reduntant to the point where you can tell someone is just "stuffing keywords"

Connie

[hwang]

Yeah...that's great. But do you think that inserting too many meta tags is going to hurt your serp? I mean that will dilute the importance of each of the meta tags inserted. I would like to hear your opinion on this. What is the ideal number of meta tags to use in a site?

[oaklvr]

You don't want too many meta tags or too many words in each meta tag.

If you keep in mind that each page has a different topic than you can better use meta tags for each specific page.

Here are the most important meta tags
1)keyword meta tag - no more than 300 characters (including spaces)
2)description meta tag - no more than 250 character (including spaces)
3)Title Meta Tag - 40 - 50 characters - Keywords not words like "the" "and" "for"
4) h1 meta tags are heading meta tags. - Each page should only have one and again - unique for each page. There are two ways to go about this - you can create an actual <h1> tag and put the <h1> around your best keywords for that page or you can just remember to put a heading on your page by making the text look bigger and bolder than the rest of the page and by putting it at the top. If you created an actual <h1> tag - that should also be placed at the top of the page just under the Title.

Then use the keywords in your text on your page about 4 - 5 times each. If possible - not more than this. (remember - these keywords can be in your navigation, your footer links, your text, your title, and your heading.) Not 4-5 times in each one of these things - just 4-5 times somewhere on the page.

Do not use the same keywords, and meta tags for each page. Each page is unique. Each page should have keywords and meta tags unique to that page.

If you keep these things in mind. Use the amount of charcters suggested here than you won't overuse your meta keywords, tags etc and you will not have to worry about density.

Hope this helps.

Connie

[Derek]

Thank you oaklvr. I see your lesson very interest to learn. When I browse through topics here, there is techniques which I didn't learn before. If the keywords you exchange is not same, do that affect Search engine? If we want link exchange, that means we have to search out very hard. Do you think it difficult to find the same?

[oaklvr]

What you need to keep in mind is - exchange links with RELATIVE sites. If you sell bicycles - don't exchange links with sites that sell CAT LITTER.

You can, however, exchange links with sites that sell PALM TREES if you have a category on your links page called BEAUTIFUL PLACES TO RIDE.

See what I mean? Just make the links tie in with the subject of your website somehow.

Next thing to remember - when you exchange links - you send to the other website what you want them to display on thier site. You send them Keyword Rich text to display under your link.

Connie