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Google auto suggests good keyword phrases for keyword list building

For a real quick and dirty method of building a keyword list, I just use Google’s handy auto suggest.

As you know, Google.com helpfully tries to guess what you’re searching for as you type, even going as far as telling you how many results there are for that phrase. So toss one of the more general keywords relevant to your subject in there, and Google will suggest other phases that are usually related. If the phrase comes up in the auto suggest, you can bet people are searching for it. If it’s a relevant suggestion, it gets added to my keyword list. Poor boy’s list keyword phrase builder.

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In Wordpress 2.x under Settings > Reading, you can set a number for “Blog pages show at most”.  This applies globally, however.  I discovered a method to make your home page to show only the latest post, while allowing all other blog pages to respect the “at most” number.

In index.php, just before the loop, I added the following line:

<?php query_posts('showposts=1'); ?>

Basically, that sets up a preemptive query and grabs only the latest post, rather than allowing the loop to query the latest “at most” number of posts.

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