By SY (aka Hospitalera), on March 20th, 2012 
Before I explain the last steps it takes to finish moving sites and data out of Keyword Strategy, let me first make a few points clear:
I still believe that the concept behind Keyword Strategy is valid: To build thick websites around a topic you know actually something about by targeting different (long tail) keywords with one article each and to interlink said articles in a way that makes sense to human readers and search engines alike. That is, in my opinion, still the best long term strategy to build a profitable website that weathers all the internet storms …
But as the tool is now, with its core features stripped down, it is simply not worth the monthly subscription for me …
So, in case you are in the same situation, here the links to my previous blog posts about how to move your data and sites out of . . . → Read More: Good Bye Keyword Strategy – Last Steps
By SY (aka Hospitalera), on March 18th, 2012 I never thought I would have to write this post – nor the ones to follow, but with the recent removal of core functionality of the Keyword Strategy tool it became necessary. For more background information see this blog post >Keyword Strategy Suicide<, So, here we go, a step by step instruction on how to back up all your data from Keyword Strategy to your own computer / hard drive:
Create a new folder and name it something memorably, like ‘KST Last Back Up’. Log into your Keyword Strategy dashboard and go to your first project. Select the keywords tab. Click ‘export’ in the footer. Select ‘all’ and ‘csv’. Change name of file to something like mywebsitekeywords and save to hard drive. Note that you can’t export the keywords you have blacklisted, if you want to keep these, you need to ‘un-blacklist’ . . . → Read More: Leaving Keyword Strategy – How to Back Up Your Data
By SY (aka Hospitalera), on March 17th, 2012 
Keyword Strategy just committed Internet Marketing Suicide!
Coming back from a nice dinner in town with my husband, I noticed the following email from Fraser, from Keyword Strategy, in my inbox (filler words removed and ‘bolding‘ by me):
“… we’ve decided to retire our Auto-Update browser extension. This is the extension that gathers ranking and competition data from your browser and uploads them into your Keyword Strategy account. This method has been a technical support nightmare for us, trying to maintain it on multiple browser platforms; furthermore, it’s not a sustainable method for determining competition because it’s not compliant with Google’s Terms of Service.“
That I completely understand, in fact I have questioning this practice previously on the KST forums. This will affect how I can track rankings on content that I have on third party websites like Wizzley – but I do understand this decision and, to . . . → Read More: Keyword Strategy just committed voluntary suicide ;-(
By SY (aka Hospitalera), on February 18th, 2012 Confused about Keyword Strategy? Drop a comment with the problems you had using it!
Yesterday evening, my time, I was chatting with Fraser from Keyword Strategy via Skype and he told me that a big percentage of trial users don’t click on the ‘Get Keywords’ button even once! I was like ‘Auch?!?!?!’
I mean, seriously, people take a few minutes out of their busy lives to sign up for a new tool and then don’t even try out what it does? Why signing up for a keyword research tool and then not doing any — drum roll please — keyword research with it???
We chatted a bit more and Fraser made me the generous offer of doing a screen share video with me where we’ll try to tackle the most common stumble stones for new users. So, here is where you come in, the expired trial user of Keyword . . . → Read More: To All Expired Trial Users
By SY (aka Hospitalera), on February 4th, 2012 
Click image to try it out yourself
I am actually not obsessing about rankings anymore, I am more obsessed about traffic With Google personalizing search results more and more, the first page of Google, as we knew it, could be soon a thing of the past. But sometimes, when I try out something new, I want to see some yummy data to get a better impression on how things are going and what is work or not working. And as I also just ‘talked’ somebody through the whole process ,via email, I thought that it would be a good idea for a blog post! Never waste content you have already half written
Until now I have used Market Samurai to do this, but it is not displaying rankings as we know it anymore. If you haven’t an idea about what has happened, have a look at . . . → Read More: Keyword Strategy Tips 4 – Tracking Web 2.0 Articles
By SY (aka Hospitalera), on January 16th, 2012 
Lis published a few days ago an article with the catchy title >Right Keywords + Right Platform = Cash!<, where she advocated to use another, additional, tool to Keyword Strategy in order to find long tail keywords, that is keyword phrases that are longer than three words. I disagreed, we do disagree often by the way, but we are still friends, at least I hope so
I have no clue about Myanmar, but I do know a lot about Prague – and how to use the Keyword Strategy Tool
So I offered a proof, and run into a major problem, her seed keywords were ‘Myanmar Travel‘ and I have no idea about the locations and geography of that part of the world. I simply didn’t know if a certain exotic name is that of a town in Myanmar or that of a beach . . . → Read More: Long Tail Keywords – Can you find them with Keyword Strategy?
By SY (aka Hospitalera), on January 10th, 2012 
Just in time, with the beginning of the New Year, my case study site has been re-indexed by Google If you haven’t a clue what I am taking about, you might want to have a quick look at my previous article >Keyword Strategy Case Study 1 – My Set-Up <. Here is what I have done, what I haven’t done plus a short status update.
Niche / Topic: Theology Published Articles: 4 Indexed Articles: 5 (see below) Rankings: highest 37, lowest 290 in Google PR: 0 (from PR-) Back Links built: 0 Visitors: 0 Income: 0 (No ads etc as of yet)
Follow the Keyword Strategy Case Study! Click image to see all posts already published in this category!
The Problems
The site had fallen out of the index due to the fact that there was barely any content on it and with barely I mean . . . → Read More: Keyword Strategy Case Study 2 Reindexed 
By SY (aka Hospitalera), on December 21st, 2011
Follow the Keyword Strategy Case Study! Click image to see all posts so far published in this category!
With the New Year approaching I thought it might be an idea to do a case study on Keyword Strategy by taking a domain I own, but never did anything with, put a site on it and document and publish the sites development in terms of traffic and income. Don’t die of the shock just yet, I really did say I will, for the first time ever, publish my income publicly – but only for this one site If you want to get a monthly ‘make money online income report’, >sign up to Lis’ Z-blogger newsletter on her site< – Well worth it, btw!
With this case study I hope to accomplish several things:
Keeping me focused. That is perhaps my biggest internet marketing challenge – to rinse . . . → Read More: Keyword Strategy Case Study 1 – My Set Up
By SY (aka Hospitalera), on November 30th, 2011 
Ok, I couldn’t resist the silly title inspiration, in exchange I promise to keep this blog post shorter than usual. Actually, if you are not already using Keyword Strategy it is pretty useless anyway for you anyway, so why not head over to my >>>Keyword Strategy Review<<< and see what all the fuzz is about?
Still here? OK, so I assume that you want to know more about how to make the most out of Keyword Strategy’s tagging feature? Here first an introductory video about how to get keywords for your site (I have some additionally tips on this one, but that is enough material for an own article) Just watch the video, but don’t do anything just yet, pretty please, I explain why in a sec!):
Here why should get your head around tags and tagging in Keyword Strategy first and then start . . . → Read More: Keyword Strategy Tips 3 – Tagging along with Tags
By SY (aka Hospitalera), on November 28th, 2011 
I was planning to publish this, How to write a blog post with the Keyword Strategy tool, a little bit later in this series, but as Lynn from College Athletic Scholarship asked a related question on my previous blog post ‘Keyword Strategy Tips 1 – How To Clean Up a Messed Up, sorry, an Established Site’ I decided to publish it earlier. The good thing is also that this blog post is even useful when you are not using Keyword Strategy, but it gets easier if you do . Here a link to my ‘Keyword Strategy Review’, in case you haven’t an idea what I am speaking about. Now to Lynn’s question and my usual long-winded answer to it:
“Thanks for a helpful article. I am not clear on a point. If you have several keywords going to the same url. Is this ok?”
. . . → Read More: Keyword Strategy Tips 2 – How to Write a Blog Post
By SY (aka Hospitalera), on November 24th, 2011 
Keyword Strategy Welcome Screen – Click to enter!
Lets face it, we all have them, sites that we love, that are old, at least in the terms of the internet, and that don’t perform as we think they should in the SERPentines. Or you have a site that used to do well, but suffered during the last panda updates. Reason being for both is that these sites come from the times when we haven’t had a clue about how to write reader-focused and keyword-focused content at the same time. If your site targets the same keyword with multiple posts, also called overlapping content, this can give it the look of a ‘content farm’ in Google’s eyes! There are two ways of solving this dilemma, ditch the site and start from scratch or try to save the site taking advantage of the content that is already indexed and ranking. . . . → Read More: Keyword Strategy Tips 1 – How To Clean Up a Messed Up, sorry, an Established Site
By SY (aka Hospitalera), on November 1st, 2011 As I have mentioned the Keyword Strategy Tool aka the Fraser Method already several times on this blog, without explaining it much, I thought it might be a good idea to write a proper review about it and use that to point people to instead of repeating myself over and over again in the comments or on Facebook … So here you go and, as nearly always, pour yourself something nice to sip as this will be a longish blog post BTW, if your approach to website building is to find a keyword that might pay well, build a website with a few dozen posts / pages about it that consist mainly of content you found on the internet and have re-written to make it ‘unique’ and then to build back links to your site until you die, this method is not for you. Have a look at some . . . → Read More: Keyword Strategy Review
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