I promoted a particular site in Google by using two keywords only. After two months of work, I applied very little progress in results. I consulted and found it best to promote a site on a larger number of phrases.
My question is - how many keywords you should promote on average to get good results?
(Assuming that budget is not very high)
Thanks!
Well, I think two keywords are not enough. you should pick up as many as possible good words. minumim 10-12.
well, this question is no meaning in SEO, because targeted keywords decided by you with your landing pages, how much you target you can there is no limitations in targeting
OK… So there are no shortcuts I guess… It is a lot of work, especially if the expression that is being promoted considered competitive.
Minimum 10-12 keywords it’s a lot.
Well, thank you anyway 
You need to promote your site for whatever keywords are relevant to it. There’s no point in arbitrarily picking words that have nothing to do with the site, but equally you don’t want to leave out words or phrases that are key to the site content. Think about the words and phrases that people might type into Google where you want your site to be a top ranking result. There ought to be more than one word that comes to mind there!
first thing for keyword i.e they should be relevant to your site. and they should have sufficient traffic at Google search.
So it doesn’t have to be minimum of 10-12 keywords? From what you say, the quality is more important than quantity, and even 5 keywords can promote better if they fit exactly to my website?
I really don’t get this whole “number of keywords” idea. Your keywords are the words you use on your site, the words you use most, the ones that describe your content best. You don’t need to choose them, they’re just there. Picking specific words to concentrate on at the expense of others can be a mistake. Build links from whatever sites are relevant. Use whatever words - in your content, in your links, anywhere - are relevant. Use synonyms to add a bit of interest to the text. Slavishly worrying about what keywords you are promoting is likely to make your site into a drudge.
OK then, how do you feel about long tails? i find it very useful in competitive keywords. in any case i started building “satellite” sites to some of my clients using automated generators for site building that are great in promoting few words since they are “SEO inside” by default. it helped me connect between the satellites that requires NO PROGRAMMING what so ever and takes few minutes to put on air, but the links are all connected to my prime sites in all sort of inside pages. what do u say?
It would usually depend on how relevant those keywords to your website contents including your domain name. As well as the potential competitor that you have to outrank to be at least first page of SERPs.
The best thing I recommend is to study using Google Keyword External tool to determine which keywords would have the most potential to gain you first page in SERPs while expecting a good amount of traffic from the estimated search volume.
Sounds like spamming to me.
Out of interest, have you ever read the book “The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More” by Chris Anderson? I’m willing to bet that many of those for “long tails” as a SEO tactic haven’t, because if they did they’d probably realise that it is applicable in a finite number of cases/situations.
I’m not saying that it can’t help, because it’s a tactic that apparently works at my current company. However, evidence would seem to suggest that you’re creating a LOT of extra work for little gain. As already mentioned, it’s often a tactic for people that haven’t really grasped what the long-tail theory actually is.
So, effectively, you’ve created a bunch of spam sites with filler content that link to your original site.
It’s a tactic that a lot of people use, and it’s a tactic that bite a lot of people on the ass when Google eventually catch onto what you’re doing.
There is as such no number of how many keywords you should target. Your focus should be on quality rather than quantity. It doesn’t matter how many keywords you choose, what really matters is the quality and relevancy of keywords.
A good combination of primary keyword selection supported by secondary keywords will ensure a well optimized page for that particular keyword. Primary keywords are those which are in your domain and title while secondary keywords involve a combination of short tail, long tail, synonyms, misspellings and LSI keywords.
I have been using” Keyword country “ to check the profitability of my keywords and it works for me.
i first list kws that are composed of 2 to 3 words and then run the listing on google adwords keyword tool and check supporting data from google before choosing what would be ideal for the site working with…
To my opinion, you should start by targeting one keywords. When the first keyword is ranked, only thereafter you should target others.
keywords? As in the meta keywords tag? I remember when that was introduced - spammers nuked it within 3 months. No search engine pays attention to that tag anymore that I know of because it just isn’t worth it.
I have a site that targets a single keyword phrase and does very well. I have another site that targets ~50 keyword/phrases and gets much more long tail searches.