Keyword research is probably not the first thing you do when writing posts. To be honest, I don’t either – I write depending on inspiration and I don’t take the time to make my content keyword rich.
But when I look back at my Analytics data and see how successful past posts are, I always want to update the content a bit and make it get even more traffic.
So if you’re fed up with the Keyword Tool or simply don’t trust it that much, here are a few tricks and trips I’d like to use to get more keyword data:
1. Google Suggest is a nifty tool not just for finishing the search terms you are entering. It also serves a list of related keywords that have been search before by people like you. To me, it serves as an inspiration for developing my content further. For example, when searching “keyword research tools” I will find some other potential keywords such as “keyword research tools for seo” or “keyword research tools review”. Try playing with different sets of keywords and synonyms to get a wide array of potential keywords.
2. Related searches are yet another tool in Google’s arsenal that delivers some nice insights. To get some related keywords, simply go to Google, search your main keyword and see the bottom of the page for some of Google’s suggestions. Taking the same example, a search for “keyword research tools” gives me some interesting options “keyword research tips”, “powerful keyword research tools” or “keyword spy tools”.
3. Analytics data is one of those things that keep on giving even after you thought you discovered all it had to offer. What I do when I need to optimize a given page is I go to Analytics, find the page in the Content section than check the entrance keywords. This will show me all the keywords visitors have used to find my post and check the ones with little traffic and/or higher bounce rate. Those last will be the keywords I need to improve on to get higher rankings.
Now it’s your turn. What are some good ways to research keywords apart from Google’s Keyword Tool?
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Another nifty way of doing keyword research is to search for the base keyword in different popular article directories or big sites. For instance searching ezinearticles.com or buzzle for a particular keyword, would give a lot of related keywords that are present in their site.
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Thanks for giving this useful suggestions…Keyword research is a essential step in SEO .
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Keyword research playing main role in our campaign because If we are going with improper keywords then traffic will not be a part of our core business goal.this traffic is only increase our website credit not our business.
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Google Trend does help a lot in keyword research.
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I agree dissemble your draw out part about taking a break regularly. stable is important to not always rest assured about the post you are writing, honest helps a lot taking some time off because you may receive more ideas from the outside.
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Choosing the keyword is the main thing for an website or blog i suggest an strategy to use is Google analytics or word tracker
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i always use google suggest and relate search that is great way thank for share
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Great tips ahead! In SEO, there are a lot of ways to research an effective keyword for higher page ranks. I recently use Google suggest in finding some keywords and so far it really works.
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Keyword selection is the most important and critical part of SEO. To get on top in SERPS this is the most important work.
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to choose the keyword for the article is one of most important thing .to get the traffic from the search engine thnx for the share its going to help me a lot
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I love that you are reminding to keep keyword research on our minds, I have to admit it is a bit of an issue for me.
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Keyword research is very important before starting up any optimization and you’re right Google analytics is very helpful. I guess, there’ s no accurate keyword research tool, it’s up to you on how you made it possible to make your keywords be on the line for competition.
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Great Knowledge keyword research is main thing for making looking term profit for blogger.It’s a technical way to analysis long term profit for future for a blogger good income source.
I used google trend and adword for keyword analysis but your tips is something looking changes.
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A combination of Google Suggest and Analytics data would result into a better keywords research. Actually this is the first time I’ve heard about this Google Suggest, but I think I already saw this.. Not so sure. Definitely will try this out!
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Great post. I will look forward to more :)
It was actually my first time to hear about Google suggest. Unlike with the other two steps, I already know it before. Yet, most people still prefer those automated software which they could easily make use of and could give them instant result by just few clicks.
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in my mind i believe can be improve your blog in nomber one in google
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is very good key word reaserch we must believe that
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Nice tips. I have been using Google suggest for a while now and it works like a charm. Great idea about analytics. I musty admit that i do not use or check my analytics as much as I should. I will keep that one in mind.
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Keyword research is really important in all aspects of your business. Posts, articles, titles, profiles, etc. These are really good tips that you share. I think the key is to be aware of your target market and Google Analytics gives you good information on how your site is being searched.
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Haha! I caught on to “Google suggest” some time ago! It works like a charm!
Happy New Year all!
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I actually tend to search my posts keywords on google afterwards, its not that I write them for the keywords, but my website is so strong that it bumps new posts into 1-3 places, which is great.
I use all three every day. Nice post.
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Google suggest and Related searches are really great … Haven’t dug much into analytics data, will be doing it
Great share Bogdan !!
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Google suggest is an excellent way to find out what people are searching for. Hats off to google for coming up with such a technology, most of the time I don’t even have to complete my search terms and it auto completes for me.
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This is worth-sharing! This is a wonderful way to start 2012 with better ways in researching keywords.
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thnx for such a nice information.i was tired for finding this type of post but in the end i found ur article…thnxxxx bro !!!
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Nice post. I am making a New Year’s resolution to do better keyword research after reading your post…thnxxx bro !!!
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you didn’t mention the top keyword tool google adwords it’s also an nice tool to research keyword with free of cost
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I use all these tools when I do my keyword search. Another thing I do is, when you type in a keyword into Google’s search box, just below it, it tell you how many people have search for that keyword. The bigger the number, the more people have search using that keyword.
Those are some great tools. Thanks for sharing. I also use market samurai, google webmaster tools and statcounter. They help me find out where my traffic is coming from and what traffic to expect.
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Good post. I am making a New Year’s resolution to do better keyword research after reading this one.
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I love that you are reminding to keep keyword research on our minds, I have to admit it is a bit of an issue for me.
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I was not aware of the Google Suggest, it seems like a very useful free tool. And if there is anything I like better than a useful tool then it is a useful tool that is free! :P
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Its better to have search box in the site powered by Google. Set the Google analytics account to track the site search. So that it is easy to track what users search in my site. And more likely to use those targeted keywords.