Search engines for example: Alta Vista and Google utilize

Mathematical formula to scan your Website for keywords and decide how to list it.

All of them have similar criteria and practice, but the following

Tips are useful for keywords for most of them.
Each part of your web page is weighted for keywords.

You get points for:

URL - example if you sell a dream catcher on your site and the site

URL is www.dreamcatcher.com or net. You get higher rank than a site that does not have it.

This is a very bad idea and often promotes a cheap and bad site

To the high ranking in search engines, thus make you waste your time and money.

Site Title - example your web page is for masterpiece and the

Title inside the Meta tag is "unfinished masterpiece" you get the point.

keywords - Meta tag, example selling shampoo on your web site

You should include the words like: savage, toilet or daily.

This will give you additional points.

Finally the weight of your page counts for about 60-80% of your total score.

More words you use better for your page.

On this page you will find most common places to find the proper keywords

For your web site, as well as software and free keyword service.

In general follow the three point rule below:

1. Choose keywords that match the content of your web.

2. Check site how customers speak and search

3. Create pages with specific keywords

    Most of the pay per click search engines will let you use the database to find the keywords for free.

      However you pay after for this service when you use pay per click feautre. using Ouverture.com or 7search.com or ah-ha.com you will find the key word.
      But is a bit too late your site is already classified and you do not have much choice. Keyword selection should and must happen before you publish your site.

   Keywords

     are the terms or phrases that search engines or directory users enter into input fields, to find relevant Web pages.
      Your Web page has with right keywords will have ability to draw qualified traffic to your site.

     Main search engines and directories rank documents based on keywords and elements placement, such as an HTML title, files names and tags.

     This makes keyword position a crucial part of optimization.
Keyword optimizations focus on placing the best keywords in the most effective parts of a Web page's.

     You can fill keywords into a lot of different areas of your page, but the most important places are:

· Title tag,

· Heading tags,

· BODY text,

· Link descriptions (anchor names),

· Image attributes (ALT tags) texts,

· META Description tag,

· META Keywords tag, and

· other HTML tags content (like Author tag).

     Reminder:
the keywords must be brief and normal, as you target the words that people will use to find your site.

      By no means use the words that are irrelevant to your Web site content.
      Use keywords in lower case wherever possible, most search engine user's type their queries in lower case, and few algorithms are case sensitive.

      Keywords closer to the top of the page are considered to contain more weight than those towards the bottom of the page.
Keyword equilibrium is a sensitive issue.

       Burnt, and your site will be dropped from a search engine index for spamming.
      Steady monitoring of your keyword for positions will be your monthly task.

here is a very good starting point before you publish your pages:

WordCounter
http://www.wordcounter.com/

keywords:

about/contact, group variations, Roots.

Wordcounter ranks the most frequently used words in any given body of text.

Use this to see what words you overuse, or maybe just to find some keywords from a document.

Coming soon: do the same for Web sites, and uploaded documents.

The Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) is an education information network providing the public with ready access to education literature. ERIC is sponsored by the U.S. Department of .

VoyCabulary makes the words on any webpage into links so you can look them up in a dictionary or other word-reference-site of your choice, by simply clicking on the words.
     Anytime you find yourself reading a webpage with words you wish to look-up, try running the page through VoyCabulary and just click on the words! For instance, if you are reading a page with complicated words, like when reading Medical pages, or perhaps reading a page in Spanish and frequently need to look-up the English equivalents, see if VoyCabulary can help you out!

Finding a list of keywords which relate to your website is no simple task. Often, experts struggle on determining what are the best keywords which end-users actually search for. This tool determines what are the most popular keywords which people are searching for which relates to the content and theme of your site.

Web Thesaurus keywords
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Thesaurus Development Software
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makes it easy to create, browse, print, and maintain
different types of vocabularies and thesauri on a standalone
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SpellWeb is an evolving experiment in "sidesifting" the Web for useful patterns of information. While it can be useful, it is also for fun and the results are not guaranteed. If you enter two misspellings of a word, it will show you which one is more popular, though neither one is right.

Web Economy Bullshit Generator
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As anyone who has worked in a web-related business for two months (as I have) knows, most verbs are not verbs at all, but nouns.

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A great resource for IT executives and their speechwriters.

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Promotion Tip: How To Pick Your Keywords

Relevant, targeted keywords can get you to the top of search engine rankings and help you attract visitors interested in your web site's content and products.

For instance, suppose you sell home ice cream making supplies and attract visitors with interesting content about ice cream in general - like ice cream recipes.

Now you should have quite a few keywords and keyword phrases that succinctly describe your product or service.

First, select several top search engines and find out how many results each of your keywords or phrases return.

NetMechanic's Search Engine Power Pack includes a keyword popularity tool that tells you how many queries are made each month at the popular GoTo/Overture.com search engine.