I never have put any thought at all into what keywords I rank for or potentially want to rank for. Instead, I work on building content that is focused on the user, not the search engine. If I'm lucky enough, users will link to it, which will improve my rankings in search engines for natural terms contained within the page.
I think that one of the mistakes a lot of people who go after specific keyword terms make is that they pick keywords that are sales pitch buzzwords, and aren't even actual query terms that users are very likely to type into the search engines. If you write your copy with natural language in mind, you'll appeal to users, they'll link to you, and your search engine rankings will improve for natural language phrases that users are likely to Google for in the first place.
Last edited by cscgal; Nov 8th, 2007 at 12:49 am. Reason: Typo
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