Avoiding keywords in optimization

[cdxx]

Hey hi...

I am making a list of keywords I want to concentrate on.
My nitch is renting paris apartments for tourist, but when I realize this is going to be a very competitive area, I decided to get focused on something else. Since 5 of the apartments are located in 1 area, I am going to use this area as my main keyword.

This is where my question begins. If you are typing in google 'renting paris" you get tons of apatments for rent. Google assume that you are searching for apartments since it's the most desireable 'renting' in paris.
Can I avoid 'Renting' as a keyword since it's already related to paris and apartments? or else I can use renting and skip 'apartments' as a keyword since my domain name has renting + paris .

I am trying to focus other words than those that people use milions of times. I want to make something more specific in order to avoid competition, so BIG words - I want to concentrate just on few of them and leave space for the new keywords (those more specific) ...

What's the best approach you would use if you were in my possition?

Cheers.

Guy.

[fish_eye]

Hi Guy,

You may want to post this question in the Google specific forum [webmasterworld.com].

Also, when you say "keyword" do you mean the "<meta name="keywords""?

[Dave_A]

Hi ya,
my advice to you would be to try and make your keywords different by mispelling them.
Often people type the wrongly spelt word into a search engine.
So renting could be put in as say BENTING and then you would get hits, a mis spelled keyword can attract hits because the search engines have pages of the same keywords, so if you put mispelt ones in the SE will direct the query in your direction if the word is spelt wrong.
I run a search engine in New Zealand and the other day someone searched for bitfull with no results, the they tried Bitbull and got around sixty matches when they were looking for pitbull which was a type of dog.
Needless to say they buggered off to a web site via a link.
If you are going to focus on a small area, try to find out if the area has a nickname or may be known locally as something else.
That way you will get more hits.
Avoid common words if you can because most engines pick up links from a couple of places within the page and balance it against the content

I hope this helps