I thought I would just jump right and say this - Perfect search terms are a pipe dream. What are perfect search terms? They are the terms which you SEO yourself for(and you think you’ll get magical traffic from), but aren’t necessarily the best ones. In fact, no search term can be perfect because everyone is different.

I’ll tell you why I think that they are merely a dream. Think of the hugely popular “make money online” search term. The websites in there are designed to teach somebody who doesn’t know shit about making money online, to do it. Therefore, they aren’t particularly web savvy. So, they are more likely to ask Google how to make money online. Like “how do you make money online“, so you aren’t reaching your target audience like you probably want to. And let me tell you, newcomers to the internet do search like this.

Now, I am not doubting that there are many people that do search the term, but I just don’t think its the right people. Also, if they were web savvy, they would not be searching Google for that type of stuff, they would already know the good places to visit for that type of info.

Many of you are probably thinking that this guy is an idiot. Well, maybe that’s true, but I don’t think that there is any perfect search term for you to align yourself with (except for obvious choices like cat food or something). We are lucky that Google associates  you with certain things, otherwise we would all be stuffed.

So, in conclusion, I still maintain that there are no search terms you can align yourself with only. Every term has too many permutations. What you’ve really got to look for are plain and simple linkbacks. Google will associate you with your topic anyways, so don’t worry. I would also align myself maybe with long-tail keywords.

I hope you’ve caught my drift here, good luck with your SEO as well!

PS: Don’t stop trying to get linkbacks, just don’t focus too heavily on one search term.

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