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I would like to know on what the best keywords that should I use for my site, I assume that if I’m going to choose unique keywords, then perhaps I can be able to raise my ranking but it would be mean less traffic, but if I will use popular ones(common), then it means increase in traffic but very competitive and not possibly reach number 3 in ranking. So what do you think is the best thing that I should do or choose?