Here’s a quick tip for all those of you who enjoy blogging and want your articles (posts or blogs) to receive lots of traffic from the search engines …
For those of you who may not know, the major search engines (Google, Yahoo and MSN) pay particular attention to the title of an article blog (or post).
Google’s keyword analysis tool can tell you how many searches are regularly conducted for very specific keywords and phrases. It’s a fantastic free tool to use when you’re thinking of how to title your article.
Simply select which country you’re interested in (eg. use USA if the social / blog website is a .com), enter a phrase into the search bar, click the button, and see how many people search for that term (and many related terms) on a monthly basis.
Here’s an example to demonstrate …
Let’s say you are writing an article about kitten training. You’re not sure what the title of the article should be, and decide to utilise the free keyword suggestion tool provided by Google (hey, good thinking 99!!). Click on the next 2 images to see the 5 simple steps to take and Googles keyword suggestions (the image will open up in a new browser window when clicked on).
How to use Google's Free External Keyword Tool
How to use Google's Free External Keyword Tool
As you can see how to train a kitten is an excellent choice for our kitten training article, because out of all the keywords that have a search volume, how to train a kitten enjoys the highest number of searches year round (an average of 2,900 searches per month for the past year, and more specifically 5,400 searches last month – which happens to be June 2009 as the example Google keyword search was conducted in July 2009).
So for our kitten training article, we’d want to use the title How to Train a Kitten in order to attract the most viewers to our article (because that keyword receives the highest number of searches out of all the keyword phrases anyone has ever type into google over the past year).
We want you to enjoy the most traffic possible and hope this tip is of benefit to your future blogging endeavours.
PS/ If you need a tool to quickly and easily track the position of your website, article, blog, post, video, image, document or any other media in the search engines, then you should take a look at SERPtracker – a Windows application written to track, record and graph the ranking or one or more links for one or more keywords. Very power but very very simple to use. The finest SERP tracking software tool around.
Posted by Mark Read 
