Looksmart Keyword Help

Please help a newbie

[cheater copperpot]

Hello All, I am finally ready to submit a new site of mine to yahoo. My site has a keyword laden domain name of cheap-widget-online. Obviously i would like to gear my keywords most towards that. Now I have 10 keyword to put in. This site only focuses on buying one thing and thats "widget".

They say dont repeat keywords in the FAQ but how can i do this if my site only focuses on "widget"?

I was thinking for the keywords:
widget
cheap widget
widget online
cheap widget online (is this on necessary, because of the 2 above?)
cheapest widget
buy widget
widget online(necessary?)
buy widget online(necessary?)
etc

is this the way to go? or should i just list widget once, than do the other keywords seperately? I really wanna get this right, but my idea seems like the only way to go no? Any advice is greatly appreciated.

[Dino_M]

My keyword "books" gets used all the time no probs!

[cheater copperpot]

so i can repeat the keyword in all 10 slots?

[cheater copperpot]

Anyone else? I dont want to blow my 100 bucks for nothing. You know what im saying? The 10 slots that you have to fill with keywords or keyword phrases on the submission page.

[listings.looksmart.com...] <-hope this is OK

See my post above for my question.

Thanks for any help.

[darnbarn]

Your best bet for finding the best keywords to use, is to look at one of the tools available for seeing what searchers are looking for. The overture keyword suggestion tool and wordtracker are good for this. You can search for "widget" and then see what the most popular terms are that contain that word, that real searchers are typing in. Also, think like the consumer, is there another name that people refer to as "widgets"? Pick the most popular 10 that sound like people looking for your product. You will get your best results this way, but don't just pick the top 10 most popular, pick the 10 best suited to your site. This will get you the maximum amount of targeted traffic. Another strategy is to choose a few phrases that do not have as much competition as the others. Check each one of your terms by doing an msn search for each term and see how many of your competitors have web directory listings for that term. For some highly competitive terms, there may be several pages of competition, so including a couple less popular terms that only have a few listings makes sure that you are on the first page of results.

I like to choose a few of each... just make sure that your picking terms that will bring you targeted traffic. If the second most popular term is "how to fix a widget" and your site does not offer that info (or sell it), you will probably get better results for "cheap blue widgets" even if that recieves 10% the search frequency.

Since you will be paying per click, make sure you choose the terms that you think will give you the best shot and getting a good conversion ratio, not the just the most traffic.

Since the directory results are only displayed for exact search term matches, they can contain the same word, just don't repeat the exact phrase. "blue widget" and "blue widgets" return two different results, so they are technically two different terms.

[cheater copperpot]

Thanks darnbarn, just what I was looking for. Well im off to submit. Wish me luck!