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New Squidoo Tool For the Captains Friends - Keyword Analysis

As some of you may have noticed, there is now a new ‘Squidoo Lens Tools‘ section of Captain Squid. Over time, I will be building this up with some personal scripts that I have written as well as some of the great tools I find online.

The first addition to this new section of the Captain is a keyword Analyzer. Simply put in your lens URL (without the http://) and it will return a list of keywords pulled from your lens.

Tip: Make sure that any keywords highlighted in yellow are also in your Tags.

Tip: Take your top 3 or 4 keywords and combine them into multi-word phrases in order to attack that long-tail you hear about.

Example:

When I entered my Pirate Costume Lens into the generator, I received the following keywords:

pirate 109
costume 46
costumes 45
girl 38
lady 32
pirates 28
female 27

So, in order to come up with quality tags, I then combined these keywords into multiple word ‘long tail’ tags like so:

girl pirate costume
female pirates costume
lady pirate costumes

etc. etc.

When google checks your page, it reads the tags first (not assigning any special weight to tags that I can see) and then reads your content. I’ve found that the closer the two match, the more long-tail terms I get hits for.

- The Captain

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