{"id":51,"date":"2009-01-04T00:14:54","date_gmt":"2009-01-04T05:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.slxls.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/04\/reoptimizing-keywords\/"},"modified":"2010-03-01T10:10:50","modified_gmt":"2010-03-01T15:10:50","slug":"reoptimizing-keywords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seoly.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/reoptimizing-keywords\/","title":{"rendered":"Reoptimizing Keywords"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently realized on one of my sites that I needed to reoptimize my site for different keywords.\u00c2\u00a0 Originally, long tail keywords were targeted with regards to seo, which consisted of the main keyword and 1 or 2 related search words.\u00c2\u00a0 After glancing at my <a href=\"http:\/\/seoly.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/18\/benefits-of-organic-seo\/\">organic seo<\/a> traffic report in Google Analytics, I noticed that I was actually getting more traffic from the main keyword than from all of the long tail keyword terms that I was targeting along with it.\u00c2\u00a0 In Google, the site ranked 3-8 for the long tail keywords and ranked 17th for the main keyword.\u00c2\u00a0 It was necessary to make some changes to the website in order to optimize it for the main keyword, which would greatly benefit the site regarding the traffic it would bring in.\u00c2\u00a0 The title tag of the site contained the main keyword and the majority of the long tail keyword, which gave it a length of 6 words.\u00c2\u00a0 To improve the seo of the website, the title tag was change to only include the main keyword.\u00c2\u00a0 This was the only change that was made on the website, but the results were quite incredible.\u00c2\u00a0 The website&#8217;s seo greatly improved for the main keyword to a rank of 9; although, the long tail terms did drop slightly to rank at 4-10.\u00c2\u00a0 The amount of traffic that was brought in by this seo reoptimization definitely compensated for the small loss in long tail <a href=\"http:\/\/seoly.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/06\/check-and-track-keyword-rank-in-search-engines\/\">keywords ranking<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 It is sometimes necessary to look at a site&#8217;s optimization for keywords and the traffic that they bring.\u00c2\u00a0 After comparing the keywords, it may be beneficial to reoptimize your website, so that you shift the keywords that the webpage targets.\u00c2\u00a0 Even a small change can produce impressive results regarding seo while reoptimizing a webpages keywords.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently realized on one of my sites that I needed to reoptimize my site for different keywords.\u00c2\u00a0 Originally, long tail keywords were targeted with regards to seo, which consisted of the main keyword and 1 or 2 related search words.\u00c2\u00a0 After glancing at my organic seo traffic report in Google Analytics, I noticed that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,56,25],"tags":[54,26],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google","category-search-engines","category-seo-search-engine-optimization","tag-keywords","tag-seo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seoly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seoly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seoly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seoly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seoly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/seoly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":427,"href":"https:\/\/seoly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions\/427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seoly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seoly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seoly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}