Designing Your Squidoo
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In the first article in this Squidoo success series, we looked at the important question "How to find a topic for your Squidoo lens?"
This time we look at another important subject:
2. HOW TO FIND THE RIGHT KEYWORDS?
There are several steps.
1) Start by jotting down the obvious words that you already know.
If the subject of your lens is Positive Psychology, then that's one key phrase already. Whatever your topic is, there are probably a handful of obvious keywords or key phrase.
Here are some off the top of my head, as they say:
Positive thinking
Positive thoughts
Think positively
Be motivated
Power of positive thinking
2) Now you can take the phrases in your short list and enter them into one of the free keyword tools such as Overture (online) or GoodKeywords (a download). You can find these two through Google, but personally I prefer http://freekeywords.wordtracker.com which is also free.
Type the expression "positive psychology" into the search field. Without the quote marks, of course. Search engines are not usually case sensitive so it doesn't matter if you write in upper or lower case or Capital Case.
WordTracker will quickly find up to 100 of the top search results, along with the estimated daily search volume. Positive psychology is at the top of the list with 194 searches per day. That's 5820 searches per month for this phrase, if we multiply by 30 days. The other search results listed below this are perhaps too small to bother with, though some folks would and I'm not knocking them.
Ideally you want to select keywords for your lenses that have 2000 to 50,000 searches per month. Different writers suggest other numbers here so don't worry too much. Just grasp the main idea which is to avoid very competitive phrases and also dont bother with the ones that almost nobody is interested in.
Do step 2 for all the phrases you came up with in step 1. Then you'll be ready to get to work on the content of your new lens. Stay tuned...
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