Excellent comment Aaron. I believe that you are right.

So a post targeting the phrase “make money blogging” could appear as:

“If you want to make money, blogging can be a great start.”

“Finally, I learned I could make money. Blogging was my answer.”

You also want to use Thematically Related Keywords. That sounds complicated, but it simply means that when Google sees an article about Pizza Hut (to use Garry’s example) it expects to see thematically related words on the page like “restaurant” or “carry out”.

Thanks dude.

If you were to write a post about a Pizza Hut pizza. You may mention those words once or twice but as you begin to write more about Pizza Hut and their pizza, the business starts to get referred to as “them” or “they” and the pizza starts to get referred to as “it”. Try to use less of the “He, She, They, Them, It” words.

That is one example.

2. Does your content contain focused keyword phrases?

I’m going to guess not, since I have not really done keyword research before creating my posts, I know many of the words I use in my posts are probably highly searched keywords, but I’m sure they’re not properly optimized. But when you say “focused keyword phrases”, what would be an example of that?

Should I research keywords first via google or yahoo to get highly relevant keywords first? and then write article/post around these keywords? I have been basically trying to write naturally and in doing so I’m sure I’ve neglected my overall SEO.

Thanks
Charlie

If you put these four into practice, you’ll notice a difference in not ranking better in the search engines but also you’ll capture the more interest in your readers.

I actually think you’ve got #3 and #4 nailed pretty good. These two attributes are things you do naturally just with your writing skills along. You know how to capture the attention within your writing and consequently, that also captures the attention from search engines.

I do agree, you need to do more hyperlinking your keyword phrases within your posts. Here is a very easy way to do that:

I used my site ChristineSenter.com as my test site. And here is the sad news.

1.) Yes-well at least I like to think so
2.) ?-That can go either way. Sometimes yes, and sometimes no
3.) No
4.) No
5.) No
6.) No
7.) Yes-But then I learned that from you
8.) Yes-But that’s kind of the same as number 7
9.) Yes-I keep 5 posts on the front page, and offer archives in the sidebar
10.) ?-Again, sometimes yes and sometimes no. This one goes in spurts. I get a run of links, then nothing for weeks on end.
11.) Yes-I know how to do that, no sweat