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Little Book Keyword Research Ch9

ong>Resources for Chapter 9

Please read below to find the end of chapter resources from The Little Book on Digital Marketing (Keyword Research). Comment below with any relevant experiences or additional citations that would be useful to other readers. Please no spam.

End of Chapter Challenge

 

This end of chapter challenge will pit keywords against each other. The idea is to determine which would work better.

 

Both may not be a good fit but this should get you in the right mindset for making these decisions.

 

Write your audience below. This could be students looking for schools, or moms looking for two-year-old jumpsuits. Whatever it is, try to be as specific as you can.

 

Audience _________________________________

 

Next, using Google [6], search for broad keywords that fit your industry. For instance, if you choose students looking for schools it might be a keyword like “best universities” or “best schools on the west coast.”

 

Write down the top three results in Google

and what the pages were intended to have the user do:

 

Result ____________________________________

Intent ____________________________________

 

Result ____________________________________

Intent ____________________________________

 

Result ____________________________________

Intent ____________________________________

 

These results should be your broad match keyword competition. You should be able to see quickly if the results are too broad or if the users finding those pages would also be interested in what you have.

 

If you want to compete through SEO, take note of any advertising available on those pages or how competitive the domains are.

 

Do the same for phrase match keywords by picking an exact match keyword, and then researching through Ahrefs [7] any related keywords that would make up your phrase match keywords.

 

Once you have found keywords that would fall under phrase match do the same exercise with Google to see top results.

 

 

Result ____________________________________

Intent ____________________________________

 

 

Result ____________________________________

Intent ____________________________________

 

 

Result ____________________________________

Intent ____________________________________

 

Compare each result to determine which audience would be most likely to purchase from you.

 

Assuming both are good audiences, plan on a five percent (5%) traffic conversion for each one. Calculate the total number of visitors using Ahrefs keyword explorer [8] and multiply by .05.

 

Depending the cost to target keywords in each area, you should be able to determine

which keyword type is right for your business.

 

Citations

 

[1] Google Adwords help, https://support.google.com/adwords/answer/2497836?hl=en

 

[2] Search Engine Land,

http://searchengineland.com/

 

[3] The MOZ Blog, https://moz.com/blog

 

[4] SEO Chat Forums, http://forums.seochat.com/

 

[5] Ahrefs, http://ahrefs.com/

 

[6] Google Search, http://google.com/

 

[7] Ahrefs Keyword Explorer, https://ahrefs.com/keywords-explorer/