I cant stress enough how important it is to keep yourself informed of what is working in the engines. What I do is to run some of the most competitive serps every week or so just to see whats on top and to investigate why.

Without this knowledge how do you know what will work on the easier serps and what the trends are in each engine? Thats right you wont. Everyone who makes their money by getting sites ranked in the serps should, in my opinion, have an intimate knowledge of what the big guys are doing to game the system.

Here is an example of the sort of thing I do (Click the thumbnail to see it full size) - typically I will spend an hour or so each week drilling through this data to see what I can learn. Then I use that data myself, its amazing how much data people let slip by on the net that could be golden for them.

The image below is for a serp I dont track - if you dont know what phrases to look for go get a job doing something else.

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