1. Is the keyword related to the entire websites content?
2. Is the keyword you are aiming at in the title?
3. Have you typed the keyword in the article body in different forms? Like if you type LA Real Estate in your article a 100 times, Google will find out, type it in different ways like real estate in LA etc..
4. Is your article of any worth to human users?
5. Is your article getting links from other pages in your blog/website?
6. Have you used the bold tag in your article?
7. Is the keyword density good? at about 4 – 5 %, there are softwares to check this.
8. Is your article long enough?

If the answer is yes to all of these questions then you have to build more links but if its a keyword with low competition, you will get top SERP.

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Following is the version found by Richard Hopkins at ftp://ftp.ripe.net/iso3166-countrycodes, which is sorted on the name of the country.

This list was compiled on April 14th 1994. The author cannot
be held accountable for any mistakes which may occur.

AF Afghanistan (Democratic Republic of)
AL Albania (Republic of)
DZ Algeria (People’s Democratic Republic of)
AS American Samoa
AD Andorra (Principality of)
AO Angola (People’s Republic of)
AI Anguilla
AQ Antarctica
AG Antigua and Barbuda
AR Argentina (Argentine Republic)
AM Armenia
AW Aruba
AU Australia
AT Austria (Republic of)
AZ Azerbaijan
BS Bahamas (Commonwealth of the)
BH Bahrain (State of)
BD Bangladesh (People’s Republic of)
BB Barbados
BY Belarus
BE Belgium (Kingdom of)
BZ Belize
BJ Benin (People’s Republic of)
BM Bermuda
BT Bhutan (Kingdom of)
BO Bolivia (Republic of)
BA Bosnia-Hercegovina
BW Botswana (Republic of)
BV Bouvet Island
BR Brazil (Federative Republic of)
IO British Indian Ocean Territory
BN Brunei Darussalam
BG Bulgaria (Republic of)
BF Burkina Faso (formerly Upper Volta)
BI Burundi (Republic of)
KH Cambodia
CM Cameroon (Republic of)
CA Canada
CV Cape Verde (Republic of)
KY Cayman Islands
CF Central African Republic
TD Chad (Republic of)
CL Chile (Republic of)
CN China (People’s Republic of)
CX Christmas Island (Indian Ocean)
CC Cocos (Keeling) Islands
CO Colombia (Republic of)
KM Comoros (Islamic Federal Republic of the)
CG Congo (Republic of the)
CK Cook Islands
CR Costa Rica (Republic of)
CI Cote d’Ivoire (Republic of)
HR Croatia
CU Cuba (Republic of)
CY Cyprus (Republic of)
CZ Czech Republic
DK Denmark (Kingdom of)
DJ Djibouti (Republic of)
DM Dominica (Commonwealth of)
DO Dominican Republic
TP East Timor
EC Ecuador (Republic of)
EG Egypt (Arab Republic of)
SV El Salvador (Republic of)
GQ Equatorial Guinea (Republic of)
EE Estonia (Republic of)
ET Ethiopia (People’s Democratic Republic of)
FK Falkland Islands (Malvinas)
FO Faroe Islands
FJ Fiji (Republic of)
FI Finland (Republic of)
FR France (French Republic)
GF French Guiana
PF French Polynesia
TF French Southern Territories
GA Gabon (Gabonese Republic)
GM Gambia (Republic of the)
GE Georgia (Republic of)
DE Germany (Federal Republic of)
GH Ghana (Republic of )
GI Gibraltar
GR Greece (Hellenic Republic)
GL Greenland
GD Grenada
GP Guadeloupe (French Department of)
GU Guam
GT Guatemala (Republic of)
GN Guinea (Republic of)
GW Guinea-Bissau (Republic of)
GY Guyana (Republic of)
HT Haiti (Republic of)
HM Heard and McDonald Islands
HN Honduras (Republic of)
HK Hong Kong (Hisiangkang, Xianggang)
HU Hungary (Republic of)
IS Iceland (Republic of)
IN India (Republic of)
ID Indonesia (Republic of)
IR Iran (Islamic Republic of)
IQ Iraq (Republic of)
IE Ireland
IL Israel (State of)
IT Italy (Italian Republic)
JM Jamaica
JP Japan
JO Jordan (Hashemite Kingdom of)
KZ Kazakhstan
KE Kenya (Republic of)
KI Kiribati (Republic of)
KP Korea (Democratic People’s Republic of)
KR Korea (Republic of )
KW Kuwait (State of)
KG Kyrgyzstan
LA Lao People’s Democratic Republic
LV Latvia (Republic of)
LB Lebanon (Lebanese Republic)
LS Lesotho (Kingdom of)
LR Liberia (Republic of)
LY Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
LI Liechtenstein (Principality of)
LT Lithuania
LU Luxembourg (Grand Duchy of)
MO Macau (Ao-me’n)
MG Madagascar (Democratic Republic of)
MW Malawi (Republic of)
MY Malaysia
MV Maldives (Republic of)
ML Mali (Republic of)
MT Malta (Republic of)
MH Marshall Islands (Republic of the)
MQ Martinique (French Department of)
MR Mauritania (Islamic Republic of)
MU Mauritius
MX Mexico (United Mexican States)
FM Micronesia (Federated States of)
MD Moldova (Republic of)
MC Monaco (Principality of)
MN Mongolia (Mongolian People’s Republic)
MS Montserrat
MA Morocco (Kingdom of)
MZ Mozambique (People’s Republic of)
MM Myanmar (Union of)
NA Namibia (Republic of)
NR Nauru (Republic of)
NP Nepal (Kingdom of)
NL Netherlands (Kingdom of the)
AN Netherlands Antilles
NT Neutral Zone (between Saudi Arabia and Iraq)
NC New Caledonia
NZ New Zealand
NI Nicaragua (Republic of)
NE Niger (Republic of the)
NG Nigeria (Federal Republic of)
NU Niue
NF Norfolk Island
MP Northern Mariana Islands (Commonwealth of the)
NO Norway (Kingdom of)
OM Oman (Sultanate of)
PK Pakistan (Islamic Republic of)
PW Palau (Republic of)
PA Panama (Republic of)
PG Papua New Guinea
PY Paraguay (Republic of)
PE Peru (Republic of)
PH Philippines (Republic of the)
PN Pitcairn
PL Poland (Republic of)
PT Portugal (Portuguese Republic)
PR Puerto Rico
QA Qatar (State of)
RE Re’union (French Department of)
RO Romania
RU Russian Federation
RW Rwanda (Rwandese Republic)
SH Saint Helena
KN Saint Kitts and Nevis
LC Saint Lucia
PM Saint Pierre and Miquelon (French Department of)
VC Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
WS Samoa (Independent State of)
SM San Marino (Republic of)
ST Sao Tome and Principe (Democratic Republic of)
SA Saudi Arabia (Kingdom of)
SN Senegal (Republic of)
SC Seychelles (Republic of)
SL Sierra Leone (Republic of)
SG Singapore (Republic of)
SK Slovakia
SI Slovenia
SB Solomon Islands
SO Somalia (Somali Democratic Republic)
ZA South Africa (Republic of)
ES Spain (Kingdom of)
LK Sri Lanka (Democratic Socialist Republic of)
SD Sudan (Democratic Republic of the)
SR Suriname (Republic of)
SJ Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands
SZ Swaziland (Kingdom of)
SE Sweden (Kingdom of)
CH Switzerland (Swiss Confederation)
SY Syria (Syrian Arab Republic)
TW Taiwan, Province of China
TJ Tajikistan
TZ Tanzania (United Republic of)
TH Thailand (Kingdom of)
TG Togo (Togolese Republic)
TK Tokelau
TO Tonga (Kingdom of)
TT Trinidad and Tobago (Republic of)
TN Tunisia
TR Turkey (Republic of)
TM Turkmenistan
TC Turks and Caicos Islands
TV Tuvalu
UG Uganda (Republic of)
UA Ukraine
AE United Arab Emirates
GB United Kingdom (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern
Ireland)
US United States (United States of America)
UM United States Minor Outlying Islands
UY Uruguay (Eastern Republic of)
UZ Uzbekistan
VU Vanuatu (Republic of, formerly New Hebrides)
VA Vatican City State (Holy See)
VE Venezuela (Republic of)
VN Vietnam (Socialist Republic of)
VG Virgin Islands (British)
VI Virgin Islands (U.S.)
WF Wallis and Futuna Islands
EH Western Sahara
YE Yemen (Republic of)
YU Yugoslavia (Socialist Federal Republic of)
ZR Zaire (Republic of)
ZM Zambia (Republic of)
ZW Zimbabwe (Republic of)

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In my limited experience, I’ve found it takes 3-4 months minimum to know if the site you created will, one, rank well for your keywords, and, two, start to generate any income thats more than a buck a day. The $30 bucks a day I’m making now is from about 5 sites / pages. My game site is making about $20 of that a day, and then I have a few other sites that are mainly affiliate product sites that are making a couple bucks each from Adsense, but that’s not their main purpose. I created the game site back in November and in January I was about ready to dump it because I couldn’t get any traffic. All of a sudden about Feb 1, I went from 15 unique visitors a day to 150. And within a week I jumped up to 500. I checked Google and sure enough, I had 5 of my targeted keyword phrases in the top 5..and that’s where 85% of my traffic is generated. This shows HOW IMPORTANT KEYWORD RESEARCH IS…and on page keyword optimization.

Obviously at $30 a day, I’m no Adsense genius, but this is what I’ve been doing so far.

I create simple sites & pages. I’ve done crazy, elaborate sites before and they just distract people. Basic navigation structure and a good color scheme can go a long way. Make it look professional, but not complicated. Simplicity is the key and if you’re making a page just for Adsense revenue, don’t give too much information. Write a few paragraphs of good content, but don’t give all the information away…make them want to click on an ad to get more info. These simple pages make an average of a buck a day, and they took no time to make.

Don’t be afraid to create single page sites on a sub directory of your current sites. As you can see in the site I listed above, I just created a sub folder (name it with your keywords) and then created a page within that folder (use the same keywords to name the page). I like to create a cool custom header and use images where appropriate, along with some good, keyword rich content. Put your ads in there and you’re ready to go. You can make lots of these pages quickly. If you plan on submitting them to directories, you’ll need to find the directories that allow deep links, since that’s what these pages will be.

Get links wherever you can. I still like directory submission as the backbone of link building. Doing it yourself can be tedious, especially if you’re trying to build links for a lot of sites, so spend a few bucks and hire someone to do the manual submissions for you. You can find plenty of people here on DP who will do 500+ submissions for $20 bucks. It’s worth the time you save to go this route.

As for Adsense itself, I stick with the Square and Wide Skyscraper when I can, with a blended background / borders, and link colors that match the site design. This seems to be the method that works best for most.

I’m no SEO expert, but I can write decent content, and I just make sure it’s coherent, relevant, and has my keywords I’m targeting for that page. I use H1, H2 tags like everyone should, and make sure that my page Title always has my keyword phrase. I don’t worry about Meta tags much, but I put my keywords in and make sure my description has the keywords too. It can’t hurt.

I do all the social bookmarking stuff, but I don’t know how much I really get from it, other than a few links. I use Stumbleupon, Clipmarks, and all the big SB sites. They can’t hurt, so keep submitting.

Find blogs with content relevant to your site and make some quality comments on there. Most blog comments will let you put in your name, url and email address. In the name section, use your targeted keywords, or a variation of them. Then put your website in the URL area. When your comment is posted, the name will be your anchor text keywords and you’ve got a good quality targeted backlink. Don’t abuse the commenting tactic, and spread it around over as many blogs as you can.

I just started getting into article submissions, and it really is a good way to get backlinks that you create within the context of relevant content. EzineArticles.com is one of the best, but if you search here on DP, there are lots of people who have free article directories that you can submit your articles to.

Once again, traffic is the only way you’ll see an increase in your Adsense revenue. It’s just a numbers game. The more sites you have and the more people you have visit each site, the more clicks you’ll get. It’s a simple equation. So go do some niche and keyword research, make some quality pages. Put your nose to the grindstone and start building links. In a few months, you’ll reap the rewards. You can do this over and over again until you have your own little Adsense network. None of what I said here is a revelation to most of you, but it’s how I’ve been doing things, and it seems to be working a bit. Good luck.

How do Search Engines Work?
They look at page layout and markup as well as linkage data to determine the relative importance and meaning of a document. Search is still in its infancy. The primary relevancy driver for most competitive keywords is link text.

What is an SEO?
People who work on their own site or clients sites to boost their rankings in search engines.

How do SEOs Improve Site Rankings?
Making dynamic pages spiderable by removing session IDs (and other problems).
Linking to all pages on a site via text links (or image links) which search engine spiders can follow.
Using specific keyword rich page titles, headers, subheaders, internal linking, and page copy.
Building linking campaigns. Most links should use variations of the primarily keyword phrases in the link text.

What is the Most Effective SEO Techniques?
You should ensure that:

your pages are indexed;
your pages are well structured (with headers and subheaders etc.);
you use descriptive page titles and other page text;
and that you build many keyword rich inbound links.
Link building is usually the hardest and most powerful part of effective broad based SEO.

Why Search Engines like to use the Ethics Tag?
Pay per click advertising makes search engines billions of dollars of revenue each year. If you are spending money to manipulate their search results that means:

the search result quality may lower;
and (more importantly) someone other than the search engine is getting that money.

Is Search Engine Optimization Ethical?
Search engine optimization is just a means to help distribute your message. Nothing more, nothing less. Calling search engine optimization unethical is similar to calling creating a website or printing a newspaper unethical.

SEO can be used to push unethical ideas (racism, war, ignorance, sweat shop labor for companies like Nike, etc.). Just as frequently SEO can be used to push ethical ideas (equality, peace, education, safe and honest working conditions, etc.).

SEO itself should not normally be tied to any ethics guideline B/S. One can use SEO to push whatever ideas they like though.

Why do Search Engine Optimization Experts Use the Ethical Marketing Angle?
The SEO industry is often lacking in credibility. Its easier to use that as a branding angle than it is to be original and come up with your own.

Is Spamming Ethical?
Unsolicited email messages are spam because they shift the marketing time and cost from the marketer to the person opening their email. Because it steals your time (a portion of your life you will never reclaim) spam email is exceptionally bogus.

Can You Spam a Search Engine?
A search engine is not a person. A search engine is a tool. When their algorithm is messed up they push the blame on some “deviant” webmasters. The real solution of course is to make a better algorithm.

Webmasters who provide the content to fill the search results do not necessarily profit adequately for providing the content which allows search engines to deliver a ton of ads. Some of these same webmasters sell text links to other high margin or profitable sites. This is of course arbitrarily wrong because search engines want to be the middle man and want to profit from as many internet ad dollars as possible.

The Facts about SEO
Being an honest business person is a good thing. Hinging your marketing on ethics is a blatant display of desperation.
The goal of the SEO is to get the clients site to rank better for relevant search phrases to spread messages or create sales.
No matter what the SEO, search engines, or clients say: the SEO should put the client ahead of the search engines.
Certain methods are more risky than others and most sites do not need to be promoted via exceptionally risky methods.
Some SEOs are too aggressive, many other SEOs take money and do little work for their pay. You should research before spending money on SEO.
The ethical tag is a marketing idea used by:
people who are new to SEO and rather ignorant; or
unoriginal marketers who are severely lacking in creativity.
Since a search engine is a tool its not something you can spam.

When you exchange links with someone you always do the obvious, you check for the nofollow attribute, robots meta tag and iframe injecting. Those methods are used to “block” or “not give value” to outbound links on the web page, which would make your link to them a one-way link and much more valuable.

I’ve started to see lately a lot of webmasters using the robots.txt file to block link pages when doing link exchanges, yes a web page can have a Pagerank value if it’s only blocked by robots.txt, it won’t crawl or index the web page, but the inbound link value is still passed (I noticed this on my own web site, see bottom for example.).

So, another method to check when doing link exchanges is to verify the page(s) your link is appearing on isn’t blocked via robots.txt, or when you check your link exchanges to make sure they are still valid. I have a feeling most of you will run out and check this and find atleast one webmaster pulling this manipulative method off.

Example of Pagerank passed to Blocked Documents

http://www.domain.com/ask.html

The above URL shows a PR0 in the Google toolbar, what you should notice is it’s not N\A but PR0, meaning it is recieving link juice from internal\external links. This web page is blocked via my robots.txt file.

We can check the robots.txt

User-agent: *
Disallow: /sitemap.google.php
Disallow: /sitemap.yahoo.php
Disallow: /xmlrpc.php
Disallow: /ask.html
Disallow: /open.html
Disallow: /addcontent.html
Disallow: /search.html
Disallow: /contact.html
Disallow: /help.html
Disallow: /instantresponse.html
Disallow: /showcat.html
Disallow: /feed/
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /data/
Disallow: /install/
Disallow: /attachments/
Disallow: /font/
Disallow: /inc/
Disallow: /pdf/
Disallow: /sitemap/
Disallow: /template/
Disallow: /xml/
sitemap: http://www.domain.com/sitemap.xml