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Hi Simon, We are not expecting10K visitors a day. We just need a decent traffic like 200-300 Unique visitors per day.. Something around 10K visitors per month. According to semrush data: traitement acné 1300 (acné treatment)acné du nourisson 2400 (infant acne) I cant see more valuable keywords for my campaign. Do you think we can get more keywords?? Do you think there is a scope of gaining decent traffic from Google.fr to a french site?

Its really strange, some pages that Ive setup in the past rank on page 1 for what I though were low comp. keywords, yet the tool says they are 50%?

Thanks for all your replies. Totally agree, double checking manually is always worth doing and have always done, I was just wondering why they weren't showing up in my account. Looks like they're back again now though, so just a blip.

If you truly have 300 pages that you are trying to rank for you would need to create useful data for each of these pages.I am getting the felling you are doing your keyword research with "Broad" parameters instead of [exact] paramaters. If you are using Googles Adwords Tool be sure to check the [exact] box on the left side of the screen and uncheck the "Broad" box. 300 keywords is a ton of keywords to target, and usually executed by large e-commerce sites.

Sweet then you found what all SEOs should be looking for... Low hanging fruit FTW! WTF FTW lol

Personally, I don't like long pages of endless text, tend to be over-faced and move on. I much prefer something broken into bite-size chunks. However, you can't argue with the masses - I can't imagine reading a camera review on DP Review that is 14 pages long, but then all on one page! There should be no SEO downside whichever way you go, as long as the article is good.

Francisco: perfect..that is exactly what I was looking for.  I had learned about it in a seminar but didn't take good enough notes apparently! Thanks very much for the reply.  Perfect. kent

Ahhh ok. So i won't worry about the duplicate content so long as there is a substantial amount of good quality original content on each page. Glad to have an understanding on this as I found it a little confusing after reading about it. Thanks! Hal

Hi Cyrus, Thanks so much for the help, and thanks for the title examples I think you've set me on the right track now! Kindly, Hal

Thanks for your answer dey

1st off welcome to the great source of knowledge called SEOmoz & the world of SEO. if you only write the words WordPress SEO Google will understand that WordPress uses plug-ins because of so many other people on the web talking about plug-ins and the word WordPress put the real answer to your question is no you should not leave out key words and assume that Google will go about fixing it for you. If you want to rank for WordPress SEO plug-in you could do it by just including WordPress somewhere in your text Seo somewhere in your text and plug-in somewhere in your text separately then put them all together in a sentence that make sense and is something you would like to read yourself like "this is a fantastic new WordPress Seo plug-in that has helped me a lot." However to not go overboard and keep using the same words I will strongly recommend you try a WordPress plug-in called scribeseo it is going to tell you when you have passed your limit of using the same keyword too many times to post it will also tell you many helpful rules to blog by simply things like remember it must be 300 words or more 20 times a month minimum. Engage people please Google plug-in give it a try I think it will be a big help the best thing you could have done by far was join this community and I hope I have been of help to you sincerely, Thomas von Zickell

'training' is definitely considered to be a synonym of 'course' (search for "~training") - just a matter of to what degree. Run some queries in google and see how different they are. If you get the same results, they are exact synonyms. If the listings change, see how many of the same domains/pages are the same. That should give you a good idea whether they are considered close synonyms or not.

Yes, I would count those as branded keywords. They should be keywords or keyword phrases that are associated with your brand. Do they convert as well as some of your main branded keywords? That would give you a clue.

"So I guess if there is - (no data available) means not much people or noone is looking for it" As stated in my previous answer, no data available most most likely means that few or no people are searching for the term, but this isn't 100% certain. There are other possible reasons for seeing no search volume for a keyword. Google's publicly viewable search volume numbers are not always accurate, sometimes they have to block/hide keywords due to copyright or trademark issues, etc. I have also noticed that Google's localized search volume estimates may be more prone to errors than their global search volume numbers. I even once saw a keyword where the local search volume was higher than the global search volume, so the data isn't always 100% accurate. If you want to be more confident about the local search volume for a specific keyword, run an Adwords campaign for a short time.

Hi Again C Smith, Regarding this: "I bet there's a "best practice" implementation out there - perhaps an "Areas Served" channel, with the cities as sub-pages, and then some truly unique content on each page with some keywords seeded in." I recommend you take a look at this other discussion I'm having with a marketer whose client is a contractor in a service radius. View my very long, most recent comment toward the bottom of the thread to see my advice on how to do this legitimately (without being spammy): http://www.seomoz.org/q/use-schema-on-service-areas-page-for-local-business-2#post-123244 This is applicable to your business model, as well:)

Thanks. All the Russian employees at my company have asserted Google is barely used but it certainly makes my life easier if they are wrong!

The Google AdWords tool uses monthly figures. Note that the number is averaged over the previous 12 months, so it's not very useful for seeing seasonal variations. You'd need to use Google Trends for that.

If you consider the meta-description field "important as a ranking factor," you're simply incorrect, I'm afraid. It can have an extremely small effect inasmuch as it impacts click-through rate and pogosticking, but there are about 8,000 better things you could do that would make a bigger splash than optimizing meta-descriptions. If this is what your client wants, by all means go for it, but make sure they understand that this will not change their rankings significantly.

This is something you will have to decide on your own experience. I'm no expert on Photoshop and brushes, but if you believe it is extremely hard to rank, it might pay to look for another keyword term. I think what you are looking for is different ranges of keywords. You can use Google's Keyword Tool to look for different searches and the volumes. When you find a few you think you can rank for, go back to the keyword difficulty and see if the percentage is good for you. You can also do a search for "Photoshop Stroke Brushes" and see what comes up. If the first page on the SERP looks easy to infiltrate, go ahead and do it. Keyword analysis takes time and effort. Just because a word is difficult to rank for, doesn't mean you can't. Its all about effort.