Margaret Duarte

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Quick Keyword Magic

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A quick word on keyword magic.

Keywords are the words people type into a search box when they’re looking for something online.

It’s important that you use keywords in your posts if you want to lead readers from search engines to your blog.

Pay special attention to the words you use in your blog titles.  Title words often weigh more heavily with search engines than those in the text of your post.

Keyword Magic

How do know what keywords people are likely to use in their searches?

A site called Mike’s Marketing Tools offers the top 500 searched internet keywords compiled from a database of over 330 million search terms extracted from popular metacrawlers.

Use them in your posts.

Also, there’s a box called “Labels for this post” or “Tags” on the bottom or side of your post entry field.  Put your post’s key words there.

For more on keywords, go to:

Keyword Optimization.

Keywords definition.

Enjoy!

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About Margaret Duarte

Former middle school teacher, Margaret Duarte, lives on a California dairy farm with a herd of “happy cows,” a constant reminder that the greenest pastures lie closest to home. Margaret earned her creative writing certificate through UC Davis Extension and has since published four novels in her “Enter the Between” visionary fiction series: Between Will and Surrender, Between Darkness and Dawn, Between Yesterday and Tomorrow, and Between Now and Forever. Her poem and story credits include SPC Tule Review; The California Writers Club Literary Review; finalist in the 2017 SLO Nightwriters Golden Quill Writing Contest; First Place winner for fiction in 2016, Second Place winner for fiction in 2018, Honorable Mention for fiction in 2019, and Gold winner for fiction in 2020 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLISHERS AND AUTHORS Book Awards Competition; 2019 California Author Project winner for adult fiction.

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  1. L. A. Lopez says

    Those key words are so important, not only in the title, but in the body of the text. All anyone has to do is google a word and you might just pop up..

  2. Margaret Duarte says

    So true, Lee. Even as I write about it in this post, I realize I don't use them enough in my posts and to great enough advantage. It's a learning process as just about everything else.

  3. Patricia Lynne says

    Great post, has me thinking now. I use labels, but keywords in my posts… I don't know. I should know better, I have an online store and I went through every listing to make sure keywords were used. Why haven't I don't the same for my blog?

  4. Margaret Duarte says

    Hi Patricia. As I told Lee above, this is a learning process. I must constantly remind myself to use keywords in my blog posts, and often don't use them to their best advantage.

  5. bernadine says

    Hi Margaret,
    Key words are very important, no only in researching on the internet, but when writing! One always needs 'a catch phrase' or 'key words' to capture the reader or an editor in the first sentence/paragraph to 'lead' them to read more!
    berandine

  6. Margaret Duarte says

    Hi Bernadine. Yes, a key word is like a "catch phrase" or "hook" in a sentence or paragraph, be it in fiction or nonfiction. A blog is a good way to learn the lesson well. You have very little time to hook the reader into reading your post once he or she visits your blog, let alone getting them to find your blog in the first place via a keyword search on the Internet.