What to do if you have too many keywords?

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Rock84

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I must say, I've never had this problem before, most of the time I'm struggling to even get 3 or 4 low competition keywords together for one niche but I've got a non-english website that I've been doing some keyword research on and at the moment I've got over 20 low comp keywords (no more than 100k competing websites). So I'm guessing I'll have to strike a few out and just use the top 4 or 5 in terms of traffic volume unless there is some sort of magical badass program that can batch optimise 20 keywords at once? So yeh, just looking for advice on what I should do.

Cheers,

Rob
 


Are you basing the "low competition" on anything besides number of Google results? As in, the on-page SEO, domain age, backlinks, etc. of the current top 10 SERP results? It doesn't matter how many competing websites there are; it matters how good those websites are.

Try Traffic Travis, SerpIQ, and/or Ultimate Niche Finder to get a much better look at the competition. Or you can do it manually, it just takes much longer.

Lastly, is 20 keywords really too many? If you don't have the time to add pages and target all the good keywords, that's a problem of working inefficiently, not a "too many keywords" problem.
 
I'm currently going through the keywords (I now have 28) and starting to scrutinise the SEO strength. Doing this with the SEO competition module in Market Samurai. I'll make a shortlist and cull any keywords that are gonna be too tough to beat.

But yeh, basically what you said, its more of a working inefficiency. I don't really know how to do manual SEO work on this many keywords effectively. I could easily group all the keywords into say 4 or 5 categories. Would the best way to handle it be to create blog content pages and target 3-4 keywords per page, and work on each of these pages one at a time?

Cheers
 
Rock84 said:
Would the best way to handle it be to create blog content pages and target 3-4 keywords per page, and work on each of these pages one at a time?

Cheers
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You'll get different opinions on this, but yeah, in a low competition environment you should be able to target 3-4 related keywords per page.
 
Elvis said:
You'll get different opinions on this, but yeah, in a low competition environment you should be able to target 3-4 related keywords per page.
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Weighing in with opinion #2 of 100. If they are that low of competition, just rank the homepage for all 20 something.
 
Cheers for the advice guys. Broland, my site provides a service that users will need to intereract with so it is high on practical usability, low on content (i.e. words), which is why I was saying I could start a blog under the same domain and just optimise that for the keywords I want. In saying that, if I had a internal backlink to my homepage, should the homepage then rank for all the keywords I'm targeting?

As for a professional, I would like to do that eventually but it's out of budget at this point, and I have the tools/time to do it myself, but it's something I will be doing once the site matures/cashes me up :)
 
Yes, I've been tricked once by that competition value in Google Keywords Tool. If you want to see how strong certain keyword is, consider using the Keyword Difficulty Tool from SEOmoz or something similar to that.
 
I've got Market Samurai, which after it's recent problems is working fine, and I am corroborating everything in google anyway before it hits my shortlist.

Thanks for the other tool suggestions, I'll look into them.
 
TOO many keywords?

or not enough content?

Keywords = projects. If you have too much on your plate, that means you're just gathering and not doing anything.

Too many keywords...that's a blessing, especially if they're good. No, you can't optimize all of them at once because until you optimize ONE of them, you have no idea where you can go from there.

Just do some work
 
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