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Google Keywords Tool Guide

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If you have thought about starting your own website or already have one, and have done any research at all, you have read about the importance of keywords. Everything on the web is driven by keywords. It’s the fuel the Internet runs on. One of the ways to get great traffic to your website is through the Google Adwords program. You select the keywords you want to bid on and set up the budget you want to use to get traffic based on those keywords from websites that utilize the Google Adsense program and other sources. There is a tool to help you choose the best keywords to bid on that you definitely need to know about. I just learned about it from a friend, so we are going to learn how to use it together. Open a new browser window and copy and paste this address into your address bar. https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal If you are not sure about all of the terms used in association with keywords and Google’s Adwords program, click that very first link that says, “keywor...

Google Wants To Help You Succeed

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All too often, we see Google pictured as the "evil" company who’s just out to get you, and to make your life miserable. While at times it might seem that way, it's just not true. No… Google is not going to come banging on your door to sit down next to you and help you design your website, but they do provide a wealth of traffic assistance for the webmaster who’s willing to look for it. Take the Google sitemaps program for example. Google wants to know about ALL your pages. When you consider the billions of webpages that are on the Internet now, that’s a daunting task. The way that they discover YOUR pages is by "spidering" your website. This is also called crawling. This is done through automated robots that will look through your website and follow the links to discover other pages. When it does, it puts those pages into a database, which they will use to ultimately decide which page will get listed and which one doesn’t. If you make this process easy for them,...