| ign="center"> | | | | to focus on keywords that have around 1,600 to |
| Luck has very little to do with getting your website a | | | | 6,000 results in the "Local Search Volume" column. |
| top ten search engine ranking. However, planning, | | | | Fewer than 1,600 and you will not get enough traffic |
| research, and the proper action can make it happen. | | | | to make it worth your while. If you find substantially |
| One of the most important things to focus on that | | | | more than 6,000 there might be too much |
| makes it much easier to get a new website ranked | | | | competition. |
| within the first ten search engine results is to make | | | | As an example, let's take a look at the results for a |
| sure that the domain name is keyword rich. This | | | | keyword search for "bass fishing". At the time this |
| article will show you how to do that. | | | | article was written the term "trophy bass fishing" |
| The first thing you will want to do is pick the niche | | | | (without quotes) had a Local Search Volume of |
| around which you will build your website. It doesn't | | | | 4,400, so it's a potential candidate. |
| matter what field your website will focus on because | | | | Go to one of the popular sites that where you can |
| this method will work with any niche you can imagine. | | | | buy a domain name. See if is available. You'll find it's |
| However, if this is your first website, you may want | | | | already taken. But I do see that both |
| to focus on an area that you know about or would | | | | trophybassfishing.org and trophybassfishing.net are still |
| like to learn about because you will be investing quite | | | | up for grabs. Although a dot com URL would be my |
| a bit of your time and energy developing content for | | | | first choice, either of these would be good choices |
| your new site. | | | | as well. |
| After you have picked your niche, the next thing to | | | | Don't be tempted to buy a hyphenated domain |
| do is use a keyword tool to find a website name | | | | name. In other words, do not buy Also keep the |
| that gets a substantial number of searches every | | | | domain name pure and simple. Don't add any |
| month. Although there are a number of excellent | | | | additional words to the keyword. |
| keyword tools that cost a hundred dollars or more, | | | | If either the dot com, dot net, or dot org domain |
| there are also some great free tools available on the | | | | names are not available then continue your search. It |
| Internet. | | | | may take you a little time to find one, but there are |
| One of the best free tools is the Google AdWords | | | | plenty of good URLs still available. |
| Keyword Tool. Just do a search for "Google keyword | | | | Use this little trick and you will put yourself ahead of |
| tool" and this tool will probably come up as the first | | | | ninety percent of the people who build websites. |
| result. When you use this tool, if you keep the | | | | Once you've built your website it's important to build |
| setting at the default "Broad Match Type" you should | | | | backlinks to it. Backlinks will get you ranked higher in |
| find a lot of potential domain names. You may want | | | | the search engines and will keep you there. |