To make money targeting keyword phrases you have to know what the keywords are and you have to get them on the internet in a meaningful way.

I am now on page one of Google for over 1500 unique keywords.

Some of them include real good ones like make money at home, make money quick, make money now, quick money, article writer etc.

Others include longer phrases like make money with how to articles, starting an mlm business online, making money using the internet and so on.

Google offers a free research tool that really was designed to benefit Adwords advertisers, but we can all use it here: https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal

Wordtracker offers a free version of their keyword research tool here: http://www.wordtracker.com/

If you are beyond the basics and really want to build a very large in depth keyword list I suggest you check out Keyword Elite. You can easily generate keyword lists of over 10,000
keywords in a few short minutes and if you work at using those can create traffic and make money that will be around for you for a long time.

Blogging and social bookmarking using basic seo practices in the blog article can help anyone quickly get their traffic numbers up and land them on page one of Google eventually. Jack Humphrey talks about this in “The Authority Black Book” which is free and really should be required reading for anyone wanting to get traffic via blogging.

Hyperlinking your primary phrase as many ways as possible really helps too. I have started hyperlinking make money at home in all of my forum posts because I want to get back to the top 3 for it and now I am #7 and climbing. I will do more of that in the bio box of my articles which will help too!

Anyway target long tail phrases for traffic and spreading the backlinks around. Target your primary and secondary phrase in as many ways as possible which will add up over time and get you up the search engine ladder for really meaningful keywords.

This takes time and really is for people who want to build an authority type of website. Your goal is to be found as many ways as possible. People search with so many different words that it only makes sense to try and be there as for many of those when they are looking.

The other thing is to make money targeting keyword phrases you have to work at it all of the time. This can be fun and if you will stick with it you will eventually outlast your competition.