What Is So Important About Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Keyword Research?

You want to keep on writing for the next 100 years? Okay, then keep on doing what you are doing right now. If you are not making $1 a day and you have 100 hubs, then you are not getting the search engine traffic you need. You are also not targeting your traffic-- or using the right keywords.

You need links, and you need good quality links. Without links you will still find it hard to get keywords and get traffic as effectively with them. There are many ways of increasing traffic-- but links are needed. Again you have to use them all to make money effectively.

Each of your hubs has the potential to make money online, and build you business, and often all it takes is going to look at them and fixing up three things: One, your choice of keywords, two where, and how you put your information, and three a bit of SEO knowledge.

SEO at its finest is choosing words which will get search engine traffic, but will also give your content the quality boost it needs. Keyword research can help you by allowing you to "see" what people are looking for when they search online via the search engines.

Ever wonder where some people get these numbers for high paying keywords? You know the hubs, they annoying but also interesting, as most of them list the top 100 highest paying keywords found anywhere.

Often what these people do is go to Google AdWords and start finding the highest paying keywords. Then they write a hub with that and the prices. There is something interesting and yet so sad to this. They are looking for a quick buck. Unfortunately there is such a thing as Google AdSense and Search Engines and traffic and the Internet.

Do not think AdWords is useless. In fact it is very useful if you know what you are looking for an at. Do not look for high paying keywords, but rather the search engine traffic, and who is "competing" for these places. Use Google AdWords to learn and to find out what you can do to improve your websites and blogs and hubs. Keywords matter, and so does where they are placed on your website.

Using the keyword research tools that you can find on the Internet means that you will also need to look into what the search engines are ranking based upon this keyword. 

Let's take an example:

Say you go to a keyword tool and it saying that "writing for money" gets 1 million search engine queries a month, you will think that this is bad.  After all a million search queries on Google?  How are you going to compete?

Then you look at what the keyword is paying you, let's day it is $1 per average click.  So your mind begin to go into overdrive.  I mean let's say that the website that ranks the best is an article directory, so you think that this is great.

You write an article on "writing for money" and you wait for the money to roll in.  Not so fast... you didn't do any research.  You didn't ask yourself a number of important questions.

1) How long has that website been up for? 

2) Has this person done any linking to this site ( For the most part the answer is yes, they have)

3) Are people really searching for this term?  Not all of these million views will result in a "found what I need"  Some will not.  So, then you have to think, how many people will go looking for your website?

4) Are you really going to get a dollar per click?  Probably not.  Google has to get  paid, and others get paid etc.  You are not the only person who gets paid with one click.

5) Have you started to link to your work? If no, stop keyword researching and go back and do some linking.  This is needed if there are search engine updates.  Linking and keyword research go hand in hand.