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Today WebPages must compete for survival just like animals in the wild. Natural selection isn't just a concept limited to Mother Nature. Even in the world of cyberspace there is a “law of the jungle”. Search engine optimization or (SEO) lies at the core of this law. Many skills must be mastered to rise to the top. Three important ones are keywords, content and copywriting. Let's begin with the first of the three.

Keywords are extremely important because they act as a marker for search engines. Keywords can be placed anywhere on a website. Besides being noticed they must be carefully selected. You must take care to choose keywords that are not only relevant to your site but also that are likely to be used by those who are searching for what is on your site. Several things must be taken into account. Variations in spelling of the keywords as well as spelling errors can conceivably drive traffic to your site. The links in your site are a vitally important spot to place keywords because not only will they be noticed by search engines but they will also direct people to the other pages on your site thus increasing your ranking.

Content is the second factor here. Beyond the obvious fact that the content of your site is what people are going to read when they get to your site the content is the larger aspect of keywords. The keywords may be the specific point that a search may target but the better your content in both amount but quality the easier it will be to place you keywords. Imbedding keywords in content is one way to get them spotted by search engines but good content will force you to have good keywords. As it has been said the best way to hide something is in plain sight.

To better facilitate the use of the aforementioned factors you must understand copyright concepts. Certain things can be copyrighted and certain things can't. Slogans, titles, names and related items can't be copyrighted although titles can be trademarked. One important thing to keep in mind is how you use something. The context of how you use a word or phrase or what have you can violate a copyright or not. Copyright in many areas is tricky so be careful. Things created by the government are free domain as well as donated items or things people give permission to use by other people for any purpose.

Learn the rules before you play the game.

Creating keywords that match content is becoming a science in itself, which can get confusing and complicated. In its simplest form, the keyword/content matrix describes matching words you choose for copy on your website with content of your copy. Keywords are what search engines look for when they are researching what your site is about.

Before the explosion of the internet, we would search for what we wanted to read in a library or book store by title or subject or author. For example, twenty years ago if I wanted to read a book about gardening, I would go to that subject area in my local library. I wouldn't go to books about making wine to find gardening material. Cyberspace gurus simply adapted that system for internet use and expanded it when search engines were born.

The same is true for internet searching today. Your keywords need to accurately reflect what your site is all about. So let's take a look at some considerations for writing keywords.

Copy on a website needs to make sense and it needs to be easy to read. If keywords are overused, the content will be boring and it will be obvious to the reader that you just want to attract traffic to your site rather than provide quality information. A natural sound is appealing and readers will stay on your website to read your material if you remain focused on quality writing.

Check on the popularity of keywords that relate to your content. Even though popular keywords are used by hundreds of websites, you need to use them anyway, knowing you may not rank well in the beginning. Because of their popularity, your ranking will be ?diluted?. However, over time your rankings will improve, so don't be discouraged with initial ranking information.

Another strategy for use of popular keywords is to use them with qualifiers, which will help improve rank. Most commonly used qualifiers are geographic, targeting a specific city or state or country and sector, such as business or telecommunications. Thus while ?gardening xeriscape? might rank poorly, ?gardening xeriscape Arizona? might rank quite highly.

There is a lot to learn about matching keywords and content for maximum traffic to your site. Keeping some basic considerations in mind is a good place to begin.

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