Integrating Awkward Keyword Phrases

by Sean Rasmussen on January 22, 2010

in SEO

People who do keyword research as part of their SEO efforts can make more money. Keyword research absolutely helps you create aggressive pay per click campaigns and improve your organic SEO.

Working With Awkward Keyword Phrases

Some of the words and phrases you’ll find in your keyword research efforts will be awkward keyword phrases, as far as getting them into your text goes. But having them in your text could be very beneficial, so here are some tips:

Awkward Keywords Add White Noise
• Add Punctuation
• Reverse the Order
• Ask Questions
• Subheadings
• Links

White noise words, such as:

• as
• of
• the
• and

Other similar words may help you work awkward keyword phrases into a sentence. If the phrase can be used without additional words, this is better than adding additional words, but adding white noise words will often result in a similar outcome as search engines may not see those words as important.

Punctuation can help as well. If you have a long tail keyword that includes a place name, for instance, punctuation can help. You can start the phrase at the end of a sentence and then continue the phrase at the beginning of a new sentence. The search engine will read those words as in close proximity and this could help you get indexed for the phrase.

Reversing the order of the phrase may help as well. Some words don’t fit very well into a sentence as they read in your keyword research but try mixing them up to see if they can work that way.

Weird keyword phrases that are regularly searched do come from people so it can be helpful to work a phrase in as a question. If someone searches for “Best widget supplier Sydney”, you can try working that phrase in like this: “Are you looking for the best widget supplier? Sydney has a lot of options but not all widget suppliers in Sydney are created equally”. You’ve used the phrase and you’ve also used a variation of that phrase in close proximity.

Sometimes a phrase won’t work well in text but could fit in a subheading. Keyword rich subheadings, especially if formatted with html tags such as H2 or H3 can really help you with your SEO as the search engines will see the content as more relevant to your subject matter.

Keyword phrase anchor text links are also extremely helpful. By taking an awkward phrase and using it in your website to point to another page or using it off the page pointing to a relevant page on the website, you’ll also be able to enhance your site’s visibility on search engines.

Adding “best widget supplier Sydney” to your resource box on an article directory submission or to a blogroll with a link could be an easy way to use awkward keyword phrases to benefit your internet marketing efforts.

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Have a most outstanding day.

Sean Rasmussen
Aussie Internet Marketing
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Eileen January 23, 2010 at 8:55 pm

Love it. Especially the Sydney recommendation. Thanks Sean, I’ve learned something today. (as if you haven’t given me enough to learn already). :-)

Regards, Eileen.

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Sean Rasmussen January 27, 2010 at 11:50 am

If you can learn something new everyday and apply what you have learned, you will be on your way to achieving your goals Eileen. Glad you got something from the article.
Regards – Sean

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Cemil January 25, 2010 at 9:44 am

Agree with Eileen here. If I am not mistaken the Sydney example is also a form of Geo-targeting?

I have used this before to talk about a great experience that I had in Sydney, and using some of the techniques that I learnt off Sean I did rank on the first page of Google (first article ever to do that) for some time (currently over-taken by local council websites).

But it was an eye opener on how the little things, put together well can make an impact.

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Sean Rasmussen January 27, 2010 at 12:44 pm

Hi Cemil
Any targeted keyphrase that has a location contained within the phrase is definitely a type of geo-targeting. Great to hear about your first Google front page listing, keep up the good work.
Regards – Sean

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Cemil January 28, 2010 at 8:31 pm

Thanks Sean.

You’ve been a great inspiration to me over the last few months. Having been to a few of your seminars, webinar’s, YOTA and reading your great posts have definitely helped me.

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Sean Rasmussen January 29, 2010 at 8:50 am

Thanks Cemil
I appreciate your kind words :)

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