Ranking high for Top Keywords
As mentioned in my last post, I always do a bit of reasearch (whenever I find some time from my busy schedule) on the keywords, I want my sites to be ranked. One of my main income generating website on Baby Photo Contests - www.KidsandBibs.com is basically about baby photo, baby photo gallery and baby photo contests. So I am aiming for the same keywords and I want my site to be ranked high for these very competitive keywords. Ranking high for keywords which are not even searched makes no sense and it is not going to benefit your website. So when you use Google Adwords Keyword Tool, it gives you an exact idea about the search volume and also how many advertisers are actually after those keywords (not exact numbers though, but you get a rough idea). See the attached screenshot.
Doing SEO is an ongoing job. You need to keep working to maintain your rankings in the search engines. Recently I noticed that many visitors are coming from Google.com for keywords like baby photos , baby photo, baby pictures that is when I went in to check my rankings. It always used to be on 2nd page but to my surprise for both baby photo and baby photos, I am ranked on Page 1 and it was indeed a very good acheivement for me. I have attached the screenshot for my own archives 
The ranking keeps changing so having such screenshots in place will make a happy memory 
This is an update on my site’s ranking for the top keywords -baby photo and baby photos. See the competition, in Yahoo there are 368,000,000 web pages competing for baby photo.
Google.com - Baby Photo(out of 182,000,000 web pages)
KidsandBibs website - Ranked 2
Google.com - Baby Photos( out of 102,000,000 web pages)
KidsandBibs Website - Ranked 6
MSN.com - Baby Photo (out of 168,000,000 web pages)
KidsandBibs Website - Ranked 11
Yahoo - Baby photos ( out of 155,000,000 web pages)
KidsandBibs blog http://kidsandbibs.blogspot.com - Ranked 6
KidsandBibs Website - Ranked 14
Yahoo - Baby Photo ( out of 368,000,000 web pages)
KidsandBibs Website - Ranked 12
KidsandBibs Blog - Ranked 13
PPC Advertising on Popular Keywords
PPC advertising is pay per click advertising. The advertisers pay for the clicks. You might have often noticed those sponsored results on the top bar and side bar on Google, Yahoo, MSN, Alexa etc. I have tried using Google Adwords 2-3 times but I run the campaign for just 10-15 days and then when I see no result, I just stop the campaign. I just don’t have patience to wait and watch. For me, the result should be quick. I often noticed that the times, when I run a campaign on Google Adwords, my Adsense earnings drops. It might be just co-incidence or maybe Google has a policy not to drive traffic from Adwords and then use it for Adsense as they have to protect themselves with so many new MFA sites coming up everyday, with no content but just to make money.
For PPC, you should exactly know what you are targeting, what are the right keywords to aim for. The goal of finding good keywords is to build a table of keywords that can bring targeted traffic to your Web site and keywords that are often searched for, but still not so competitive as to make a top ranking next to impossible.
There are many ways to find a good related keyword. I am listing the ones, I use very often and they are good tools all free of cost.
1. Google Adwords Keyword tool to check out the related and most searched - https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal
2. WordTracker – You can check out the Free Keyword Suggestion Tool at http://freekeywords.wordtracker.com/
3. Overture - http://inventory.overture.com/d/searchinventory/suggestion/
4. Keyword Tool from SEO book - http://tools.seobook.com/general/keyword/
So when an advertiser is putting money on keywords, it is better to do some research and then aim for those keywords. Well it is interesting, but this baby site called babycenter(I love that website and it really is a good site for baby related stuff), must have also done some research and they have actually bided on my domain name as one of their targeted keywords both on Google as well as Alexa. So if you search for the term “kidsandbibs” or “kidsandbibs.com”, it shows the sponsored result from babycenter. So this shows that my site is indeed a popular one. Here are some screenshots from Google and Alexa.
My blog’s review on OurBlogReview
This morning when I checked my emails, I saw this email from Rachel Henderson and she wrote to me that she has posted the review and gave me the link to check it out. I must say, I was so pleased to read the good review about my site. And as per her words, she feels that it is the “BEST BLOG”, she has read so far :). I really felt good and since my blog is so new with a few posts, so such encouraging reviews will help me in making it better and informative. I do agree with her, about the cool colors I used, it gives a soothing and relaxing feel and that’s why I chose it
BTW the review on my blog Being Asha dot com goes like this -
“Being Asha dot com is a lovly girly looking blog. It has a great girly picture and the colour is a lovely relaxed blue - it really appealed to me and made me feel happy and relaxed before I even started reading. The articles are really long as to start with I thought this was not a good thing, but once I started reading, I realised that they were full of really useful information. For example there is an article all about robots (the web type !!) and it has so much information starting from a basic definition to a description of what they do. It has links to sites with more information should you need it. The articles actually reminded me of well written essays they have good structure and references and excellent detail. This is the best blog I have ever read - and I have read a lot!”
And the fact that it is not a paid review and it is a free review, makes me feel more good about it. So anyone who wants their blogs to be reviewed goto Rachel’s site at OurBlogReview and submit your blog for review.
