If you want to learn the secrets to your competition’s success, you need to analyse their moves.  Google Alerts can help you do that.  Use it to do keyword searches and to help you get hand delivered information about your niche and your customers.

Google Alerts for Creative Research

There are loads of free Google tools to help you get information that can help you succeed. Get creative! Everyone needs to do creative niche research and everyone needs to do competitive analysis. Besides researching on the search engines, research for your keywords and research your competitor’s names and find out what’s out there that is making someone else money instead of you.  The results that get delivered to your e-mail could help you fine tune your copywriting skills, give you new angles to use for your article marketing and help you keep up to date on news in internet marketing by getting the infromation you want delivered to you so you don’t have to remember to go out and look for it.

Have a most outstanding day.

Dana Prince
Internet Marketing Blog
www.SeanSEO.com © 2008

The Google tilde operator (~) helps you uncover synonyms. This can be very useful to your SEO efforts when deciding on your targeted keywords.

How does the tilde operator work?

The tilde operator requires that you use the ~ at the end of your Google search so that Google will bold face any synonyms in the results. This can help you with your latent semantic indexing (LSI) efforts.

What is LSI?

Latent semantic indexing looks at related words and helps with the indexing of relevant websites. The theory is complex but in essence, the more words that show Google your site is relevant to your subject matter, the better chances you have of getting indexing for targeted keywords in your niche.

Some SEO experts pay great attention to LSI and some do not. It does stand to reason that you should at least consider it in your website optimization efforts along with other approaches such as Long Tail keywords.

How do I use LSI and the tilde operator?

When deciding to write articles or site content, look up synonyms in your niche and sprinkle those keywords throughout your text. This way, when the search engine spiders crawl your site, they’ll see relevancy in your pages and consider you to be an authority on your subject matter. This can get your more rankings for keywords as well as more traffic when people go looking for information on a particular subject.

Have a most outstanding day.

Dana Prince
Internet Marketing Blog
www.SeanSEO.com © 2008