Comments on: Keyword Research Tips To Help You

By: Nick Stamoulis

Nick Stamoulis — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 11:08:17 +0000

Hi Nikoletta,

It seems that a Greek keyword research tool could be a great opportunity for someone to create for the industry…

Anyway, best of luck!

Take Care,
Nick

By: Nikoletta

Nikoletta — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 08:27:46 +0000

Thanks for your reply Nick, I have already tried them but nothing is working… Unfortunately as it seems Greek market is not yet supported fully by a keyword tool! I may try to contact them then!

Thanks again,
Nikoletta

By: Nick Stamoulis

Nick Stamoulis — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 19:20:29 +0000

Hi Nikoletta,
Did you look at Keyword Discovery or Wordtracker yet? Maybe even contact them and ask if they have something for you…

Best of luck,
Nick

By: Nikoletta

Nikoletta — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 14:56:49 +0000

Hi,

The article and comments are very helpful. Since you mentioned Greek, I am doing some SEO in UK for Greek customers (I am Greek too). I am facing a big difficulty though… I haven’t found a keyword research tool that supports Greek words, with Greek characters (not only Greeklish), that can suggest Greek keywords or search the Greek websites as well as with the English ones. Google keyword tool produces some, but irrelevant and not correct most of the times. Other tools do not even accept Greek characters. Does anyone have any tips on that? A useful keyword tool for Greek?

By: Efi Makridou

Efi Makridou — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 23:03:24 +0000

Geia sou Cindy!

Well, the above phrase is exactly what we call “Greeklish”
My website allows to visitors to post their content, so writing in Greek or Greeklish depends only on them. This is a motorcycle classifieds website.
The real problem is that greeklish is very popular because you don’t have to alt-shift to switch languages on keyboard and (mainly) you don’t have to be good on spelling!
So more than many of the Google searches are in greeklish and you definitely have to keep this in mind when you are doing SEO.
The Greek meta tag is a good idea and I think it is already considered in the code but as you realize the main problem is not on the site content but at the Google searches

Cindy I think you know strangely much about Greek music!

By: Nick Stamoulis

Nick Stamoulis — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 12:01:42 +0000

Hi Jimmy,
Thanks for reading!
For keyword research I recommend: Wordtracker and Wordstream, but I find Keyword Discovery to be the most accurate and useful keyword research tool.

Thanks Cindy for helping answer Efi’s question!

By: Cindy

Cindy — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 03:47:44 +0000

And a typo – can you tell it’s Friday?! (Sorry Nick!)

EL is the content language code for Greek.

By: Cindy

Cindy — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 03:46:36 +0000

Hmm, that didn’t copy my code…

The Greek meta tag would be:

open pointy bracket
meta http-equiv=”content-language” content=”en”
close point bracket

By: Cindy

Cindy — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 03:45:20 +0000

@ Efi …

I assume that you have different pages of your website that are actually written in Greek? (as opposed to “Greeklish”).

You can include a languarge meta tag so that Google/screen readers (etc) can pick up the language of the content on the page…

So Greek would be:

Otherwise, I would suggest that you include both the english word, and the greeklish spelling options (as I would type it into a search engine (eg: Notis Sfakianakis, Noth Sfakianakh, Sfakianakhs etc) as keywords for that particular page…. but don’t go too crazy with all the variations, just use the most common…

Geia!

By: Jimmy Ng

Jimmy Ng — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 23:48:42 +0000

Concerning the keyword research tool, you recommended Keyword Discovery. Is there any other tools (free or paid) would you suggest?

By: Nick Stamoulis

Nick Stamoulis — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 20:18:37 +0000

Thanks everyone for reading the kind words! I am happy you found value and my article helped you with your keyword research efforts!

Take Care!
Nick

By: ahmet

ahmet — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 19:39:48 +0000

Keyword Research is too essential. This is the beginning process of SEO. Likewise, looking at your competitors will allow you to get an idea of what they have done to get their campaign right and you will learn a greater idea of what it is that you may have done wrong.

By: Tempguest

Tempguest — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:34:07 +0000

Hi Nick.

Thanks for providing us wonderful clues.

I am totally new to this game. By visiting some site how can we locate what keywords they have used?

Tempguest.

By: Lorraine C. Grula

Lorraine C. Grula — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:12:09 +0000

Hi Nick
Another great article! My question was the same as Jason. Keyword research can drive me a tad crazy because of all the million and one variations on every single phrase. I personally decided to not put much effort into those kinds of variations. My guess is that as the algorythms evolve, those variations will be taken more into account. When writing my articles, I try to use as many as is naturally comfortable. I never go overboard with it because then the copy is not fit for human consumption. Maybe I am all wet but that is what I do. Thanks Nick, always a pleasure.
Lorraine

By: chris

chris — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:27:16 +0000

Thanks for your tips nick, this is one thing that I struggle on is using the right keywords and maybe thats why my sites are taking so long to generate traffic.