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 All About Keywords

Now that you’ve learned how to show up in search results, let’s determine which strategic keywords to target in your website’s content, and how to craft that content to satisfy both users and search engines.

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Keywords are important because they tell search engines about the content of your website's page. “Keyword” is also a term that's used to refer to the words and phrases that people enter into a search engine to find information that they're looking for.

Keyword research provides you with specific search data that can help you answer questions like:

• What are people searching for?
• How many people are searching for it?
• In what format do they want that information?

 Types Of Keywords To Optimize Your Writing Piece: 

1. Long-tail Keywords
2. Primary Keywords
3. LSI Keywords
4. Broad Match Keywords
5. Phrase Match Keywords
6. Exact Match Keywords
7. Negative Keywords
8. Informational Keywords
9. Navigational Keywords
10. Commercial Keywords
11. Transactional Keywords
12. Generic Keywords

 

How do I figure out what keywords to use?

The answer is that what you want to rank for and what your audience actually wants are often two wildly different things. Focusing on your audience and then using keyword data to hone those insights will make for much more successful campaigns than focusing on arbitrary keywords. Try to include them in the following places:

• • • Title
    • Headings and sub-headings
    • Introductory sentence
    • Concluding paragraph
    • Anchor text (text you hyperlink to other related pages on your site)
    • Title tags and meta descriptions or tags if possible.

What is a Keyword Research Tool?

A keyword research tool helps you find topic ideas that people are searching for on search engines like Google, Bing, Amazon, etc. This helps you find content ideas that your customers are looking for. You can then plan your content strategy to cover those topics in your blog posts and landing pages.

Keyword research tools also help you see both seed keywords and long-tail keywords where your competitors are ranking at the top. You can then improve your content to target those keywords and steal their traffic.

Here are some free keyword tools to help kickstart your SEO with zero investment:

• Google Trends
• Keyword Generator
• Keyword Sheeter
• Answer the Public
• Keyword Surfer
• Keyworddit
• Google Search Console
• Questiondb
• Bulk Keyword Generator
• Google

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