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How To Choose Keywords Before they Skyrocket in Popularity by: John Alexander Long before the days of researching phrases with the helpful online resources of today, the art of keyword/phrase selection was often left just to guesswork. However, guesswork by today's highly competitive standards is just not good enough. So how is it possible to select a powerful traffic-pulling phrase in this fashion without researching it in real time? Better yet, is it possible to choose such a phrase and get positioned before it becomes popular? Well of course it requires some research, but in a slightly different way. Every single day, we have a world of information that happens all around us. With all of the focus on the Internet these days, we need to also consider giving our attention to other medias as well. We have television programs, we have the news and the radio which all bring us current and upcoming events. With the news itself, there are often many ideas that can help the SEO to really think and plan ahead for some truly unique optimization strategies. I am talking about the potential of developing part of your client strategy around an upcoming newsworthy event. Of course it needs to be relevant and useful to the target audience. It also needs to genuinely 'relate'. If at first, it does not sound that exciting, let's think about it and give you an example. Here is a simple example. If I were promoting a video store online right now, one of the things that I might be doing would, would be to optimize a page for the single search phrase 'Johnny Eck.' Perhaps an information or a tribute page would work. But wait....Who was Johnny Eck, you ask? A way back in '1932
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