Yes - "Keywords" are important,
as is knowing Search Volume and Competition Level/Strength.
But you should not be creating pages based around such things.
Instead - you should be basing it around Prospects/Audience, and their Needs/Wants/Expectations.
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Where's the Buyer Guides?
Where's the Range Comparisons?
Where's the Spec/Tech Sheets?
(and at least 5 other content formats!)
These are the pages that help prospects to decide
not only what to buy,
but to buy it from you!
Something that's become readily apparent,
is that a large percentage of peoples
understanding of SEO
is somewhat skewed,
and they don't see/understand it from Googles perspective.
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#SEO
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In the most simplest view,
G see's 3 main aspects to SEO: 1) Crawling 2) Indexing 3) Ranking
And of those 3 aspects,
Google would prefer if people only focused on the first 2;
Crawling and Indexing.
G see Ranking as their job.
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The more you do around Ranking,
the more you can be seen as manipulating, or abusing, or getting spammy etc.
Instead, SEO should focus on:
* ensuring content can be accessed by bots
* G is able to parse (and render) the content
* G knows what should be indexed
:: 2- Dupes ::
G have stated that a significant part of the web (they've crawled) is duplicated!
And G tend to filter dupes - so a % of pages are unlikely to show, and thus generate no traffic.
:: 3- Bias ::
People go for Brands, Names etc.
They will get a % of clicks
I've said it before, and I'll say it again;
if you're primary motivator for GPing is "SEO Links",
you're doing it for the wrong reasons,
and likely to get it wrong.
Here's a whole bunch of reasons to do Guest Posts.