Thursday, November 22, 2007

Eliminate useless keywords!

Want to find out which keywords are ranked higher in Google? Can't decide which of the two versions of the the given keyword would be more search engine friendly (so you think "car" and "cars" rank the same in Google? You couldn't be more wrong. Car has double the ranking potential as compared to cars. Was that an eye opener? Are you itching to find out how and from where I got the data from. Well hold your guns, that's what this post is about). So here are the steps that you need to follow to be more keyword savvy (choosing the right keyword is important for Google ranking and traffic);

  • The service is called Google Battle
  • Here is a description of the service from the developer himself (it will help you understand how the two keywords are compared). "Google Battle measures which of two terms has a higher Google rating by searching for term1 OR term2 and then counting the hits of either in the returned top 100.

    The current implementation only searches the snippets returned by Google; otherwise the whole thing would take a lot more time.

    There are a number of implementations out there that just show you the number of 'hits' each term has and declares the one with the most the winner. It think the OR approach makes more sense; by asking Google to provide us with a list that contains either keyword, Google with indirectly decide which keyword it thinks is more important. Therefore counting the number of occurances of the keywords in the resulting snippets makes sense. The number of hits of a term doesn't mean much; I can create a million pages with my name on it, but that doesn't make me as important as Paul McCartney (oh well, he has 2 million anyway)."
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  • And the results look like this Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket
    (amazing isn't it, men outdoing women by almost 50%). That's a fun tool too, compare different words to see which ranks better in Google (there are some interesting results from some previous searches on the page which you might find interesting (they will awaken the curious in you; even the human private parts have been compared).
Well that's all from me till the next post. Have a nice day and take care of yourself!

2 comments:

Migz said...

This is quite interesting and informative too. Just like your other posts, thanks.

Rashid Malik said...

These are very kind word that you have uttered in your comment. i am thankful to you dear friend, daducha!

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