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How to use keywords to help attract visitors
Keywords are the words that people type into search engines like Google and Yahoo when they want to find information. For instance people looking for house plant information might type ‘house plants’, ‘houseplants’, ‘house plant care’, etc.
When you write your blog entry you want to use those same keywords in your blog entry. And use them in the post title. This will give you a higher placement for those terms and make it easier for customers to find you.
There are several free sites that will help you find and choose keywords:
Overture excellent site when up.
SEO Book Keyword Suggestion Tool
Free Keyword suggestion tool
Increase traffic and show off your photography
Several of my sites ( Herself’s Houston Garden, Herself’s House Plants, TimesToCome ) heavily use photography.
If you are using Google’s Webmaster Tools ( and you should be if you are not ) go to Dashboard->Tools->Enable enhanced image search and check the box and tell it OK. My traffic on those sites is up about 10% since I have done that.
I also have Coppermine Galleries on those websites and most every image has a link to a relevant blog post.
Flickr photos that I upload I now include a link in the description to a relevant page on one of my sites. I’ve gotten a little but not a great deal of traffic from those links.
