seoboy - 4:52 pm on Jul 9, 2002 (gmt 0)

i've been working on a site for France, and with it recently live am finding less traffic than i'd anticipate. for example, i'm ranking well for the terms i've chosen in FAST, but have seen hardly a click from those listings....

the main problem is that i'm not clear on WHICH keywords i should be targeting. i have educated guesses, but this language in particular is difficult because of the various declentions (sp?)...

so, for example, i'm not sure whether i'm better off using "acheter X" or "achete X" or "achetez X", or "acheter de X" or "achetez le X"... you get the idea.

the new overture keyword tool should be a help (once its available) but until then i'm at a loss. i'm about to explore espotting.fr, but i cant find a similar tool at espotting.de anyway (only for UK)... so i'm not expecting to find one there... oh - and the google tool doesnt have much to offer either.

and a sub-question is with regards to the engines themselves...ie. how do THEY handle these variations? do i really need to choose at all, or do these words all get treated the same?

anyone have experience in this area that they can comment from?

thanks in advance.
seoboy

[edited by: seoboy at 5:05 pm (utc) on July 9, 2002]