Keywords Tip : Long Tail Keywords Improve Your Ad Copy

Keywords are the foundation to any copy or text you have on the internet. Since that is the case it is important to know exactly what they are and the function they perform. What's the big deal aren't they just words? Well yes and no. Keywords are the specific words you expand the rest of your copy around so that when people are searching for specific subject they are presented with results related to what they are looking for.

This sounds easy enough but the truth of the matter is certain words are very profitable and as a result very competitive. This can deter the inexperienced from entering the game all together. Some incredibly competitive categories are 'making money online', 'auto insurance', 'home loans', 'lawyer', and 'mesothelioma'. Meso what? That is or has been the number one and most competitive keyword for some time now, based on the million dollar court settlements related to this disease. Big law firms vie for top ranking with this keyword every day. The point is certain words and phrases are competitive for a reason. Money.

It is important to grasp this concept early on in you internet marketing journey to avoid a lot of wasted time and money. There are experts who do nothing but target these top profitable keywords making it seem impossible for the novice to carve out their position. You can do one of two things. You can learn the strategies and become an expert yourself or you can find ways to attract the overflow of people who are searching for related topics, but just not the exact keyword.

What I'm referring to specifically is 'long tail keywords'. There are tools that allow you to create these long tail keywords that have many people searching for them but little competition. That is the key and I'll repeat it. Heavily searched words and phrases with little competition. Let say you're offering vitamins and natural supplements on your website or you have an affiliate link to such a site, you might be ready to promote it. When composing your page copy or ad; find ways to use the lesser used word combination. For example, the word "vitamins" is very competitive, as well as the word "health", so find a phrase like "new homeopathic remedies" or "family health solution", or discount vitamins in Dallas, Texas".

Finding just the right combination won't happen instantly but once you find it run with it. This is what the top internet earners do. It takes experimentation and split testing but the results of the extra time spent is quite rewarding. A well written ad will bring in more traffic and well written copy will call the reader to action. It is also more likely that that copy will be crawled and appear in the result and rank higher natural when people are searching for that phrase. This is referred to as ranking organically.

Some more steps to take when composing an ad for a pay per click campaign are to make sure your keywords appear in your ad title and somewhere in your two-line description. Google will bold the keyword wherever it appears, so the more often you include it in your ad, the more your ad stands out. Google will also consider your ad more relevant to the keyword which can translate into a lower cost per click for you. Plus, your ad will appear more relevant to the person who typed in that keyword, so they’ll be more likely to click on your ad.

Another important tip regarding Google Adwords which is the main pay per click service is to set a daily budget and to use the adwords tool to set your bid for those words. Bidding of cours determines how often your ad will appear in the results. This is why it's best to look for those combinations that only cost around .05 versus $15 or $20 on up per click. Set your budget options to the standard delivery method so your ads show evenly over time. Then set the ad serving option to “rotate” so your ads are displayed more evenly. These settings will give you the best variety of searchers.

Keep all of this information in mind when composing page copy or ad campaigns. It will make the difference in how far your ad dollar goes. It will also make the difference in being organically ranked which is better than paid traffic to begin with. Just remember to use long tail keywords instead of the competive expensive words and to try a variety of combinations.

Top Ten Tips. Video Search Engine Optimization

Quick Video Marketing : Video Search Engine Optimization (VSEO)
Here are Ten Tips that will increase your search engine ranking both directly and indirectly.


1. Title - Should convey the subject of the video, grab the attention of potential viewer, and contain a keyword or two.

2. Tags - Should contain keywords, try unique combinations of over used keywords, sometimes this is unavoidable, but at least be accurate and try not to duplicate words too often.

3. Description - Fill with as many keywords and combinations of keywords as possible without being obvious. Search engines are aware of using words over and over but it can work to your advantage if you construct your copy to mix the keywords in with relevant copy. This takes extra time but it is worth it and is time well spent.

4. Links - Make sure you provide a link typed clearly or prominately displayed near or within your video. Youtube for example allows you to insert a clickable link, but it only works when preceeded by the http:// Take advantage of this.

5. Call to Action - Invite, tell, or ask the viewer what you would like them to do. Example: give me a call, visit this website, sign up for my newsletter, subscribe to my blog, by this t-shirt, etc.

6. Grab the attention of the viewer in the first few seconds. This is an indirect technique as it relates to VSEO but this will increase the likelihood of your video being watched in its entirity, shared, and watched more than once. When a video gets more views it starts to circulate and rank.

7. Keep the video short and to the point. 3-5 minutes is good unless instructional or full of valuable content. Again like #6 it is important to keep viewers interest and get message across.

8. Offer Value - If the content of your video offers good value. Be it of an informative or entertaining nature it will circulate and receives more views and acheive higher ranking based on this value. Hint: Funny is Money! If you can make people laugh use it (this is entertainment value), incorporate humor into your marketing or just some of your videos. The results can be viral.

9. Bookmark your videos using platforms such as Digg.com or Del.icio.us and inform your sphere of influence about your video. Use the features on sites like Youtube to share and send videos to your friends. Again this increases it's circulation.

10. Be accurate and honest - This of course goes for the content of your video and the product or service you represent, but as for all of the boxes to fill and categories to enter just be accurate it will pay to have targeted well earned visitors view your video and visit your website.

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