When I do research into starting a web site and i try and nail down some good key words and ideaS, I always come across something that makes no sense to me. When I search two words, for example Thai + chicken I get 738k results. When I switch the words around, chicken + thai I get 472k hits. Why the significant change in results considering the words are the same and even more or less mean the same thing? After all, you could say i'm going to have some chicken thai noodles, or you could say i'm going to have thai chicken noodles, same thing right? What difference does word order like that make, and how is it significant to SEO?
Can someone explain why...
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hummm....yes, ok. I guess what I'm getting at is if I have a web site that says chiken thai, instead of tai chicken will i still come on searches for tai chiken since both words are in the URL. Could something like that even be to my advantage since all the key words are still there, and there is less competition?
When you seo a site you don't [generally] go after ONE keyword, you kind of just try and dominate the niche as a whole. So you would want to rank for chicken thai, thai chicken, thai steak, thai meat, thai whatever. Not chicken thai OR thai chicken. It all depends on your strategy, niche, experience, time frame, and a lot of other factors.
That's what I'm trying to do. For example, thai basil chicken recipe get 600 hits a day, that's 18000 a month. I'm new at this, but if I wanted to get people into my Thai food recipe site, seems to me like this would be a great way. That's 18k people a month who like to cook Thai food and bother to do a search on thai basil chicken recipe with no competition in the URL'S and not that much in the titles either. Anyway, my original question was about thai chicken, if thaichicken.com is taken, would chickenthai.com be as effective? Maybe this sounds like a dumb question, but I don't know the answer and I do notice that a lot of the time i can get good niche domains by playing with the wording all the while keeping the same important key words in the URL.
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2. I don't know where you are getting your results but "thai basil chicken" gets ~120 hits a day or ~3,600/month. and "thai basil chicken recipe" gets ~30 hits a day or ~880/month.
3. You could rank for any of those terms with any url you want, it doesn't matter. It does help but isn't "required".
4. Keep in mind you will only get a fraction of that traffic. (CTR [click thru rate] isn't going to be 100% no matter what.)
If you go to this site, and enter thai, the 18th result is thai chicken recipes with 695 hits a day. I'm looking for a way to get traffic for a thai recipe site, this seems like a great place to start if I'm understanding this seo stuff.
Actually, i'm just trying to confirm that I have understood what I've been reading about. Find a way into a market by long tail key words. Does what I'm saying make sense?
This brings me back to wheather a particular word order makes a huge diference. I can't get thaichikenrecipes.com, but I can get chickenthairecipes.com. Will this still be effective (assuming content and other things are in place)?
Actually, i'm just trying to confirm that I have understood what I've been reading about. Find a way into a market by long tail key words. Does what I'm saying make sense?
This brings me back to wheather a particular word order makes a huge diference. I can't get thaichikenrecipes.com, but I can get chickenthairecipes.com. Will this still be effective (assuming content and other things are in place)?
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The difference in search results are because of the search engines will give more emphasis to words that are first in the order of words you are looking for, unless you are looking for the exact phrase by putting words in quotation marks: " "
Most people don't actually know how to use search engines properly. They think it's a matter of just typing words in and pressing search. Unfortunately, these are the people you are pandering to when you're working on a bit of SEO.
Most people don't actually know how to use search engines properly. They think it's a matter of just typing words in and pressing search. Unfortunately, these are the people you are pandering to when you're working on a bit of SEO.
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