{"id":565,"date":"2019-08-16T09:25:35","date_gmt":"2019-08-16T08:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.webforumet.no\/blogg\/?p=565"},"modified":"2019-08-16T09:43:22","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T08:43:22","slug":"proper-keyword-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webforumet.no\/blogg\/proper-keyword-research\/","title":{"rendered":"How to do a Proper Keyword Research?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How to do a Proper Keyword Research?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>It has been said: keyword research is the market research for the 21st century. It\u2019s not as easy to do as you would like, but much easier than you think. It is in the range of \u201cwe are going to show you exactly how to do it in this article\u201d. Let\u2019s get through the entire process and find your business the right keywords and learn what are the metrics you should be looking at during research.<\/b><\/p>\n<h1><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Keyword types<\/span><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You can categorize keywords in many ways. But when you are doing keyword research in order to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/roifoundry.com\/marketing-blog\/content-development\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">create high-ranking content<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the first thing you should look at is intent. Based on the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/searchengineland.com\/a-quick-and-easy-guide-to-understanding-search-intent-for-seo-317841\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">intent <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a user has when running a search query in Google they could be looking for different things. This means there are&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Informational keywords.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Transactional keywords.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Navigational keywords.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><b>Informational keywords:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the user is seeking information. They want to know when the Battle of Waterloo took place or how much horsepower a certain car has. Users running these queries are usually ones with none or weak purchase intent, at the most they are comparing different products &#8211; so they are the ideal audience of useful content.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Transactional keywords: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">phrases that communicate a strong purchase intent, many times including the word \u201cprice\u201d for example. They can be targeted with landing pages, product or category pages.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Navigational keywords: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">not really your ideal target audience, they are usually just trying to find sites or sections that they don\u2019t remember the URLs for. Just make sure you rank at #1 for your own brand.<\/span><\/p>\n<h1><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How to find keywords?<\/span><\/h1>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-574 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.webforumet.no\/blogg\/wp-content\/uploads\/search-for-keywords.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"459\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.webforumet.no\/blogg\/wp-content\/uploads\/search-for-keywords.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.webforumet.no\/blogg\/wp-content\/uploads\/search-for-keywords-300x143.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.webforumet.no\/blogg\/wp-content\/uploads\/search-for-keywords-768x367.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are many, many ways to create you first lists, and they don\u2019t even have to be precisely right, as later on you are going to validate these. First, try to come up with topics, phrases, questions that you ideal customers might type into Google and are relevant to your business. You can do this in various ways:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sit down and brainstorm a list with your colleagues.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Collect ideas from niche social groups, message boards.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Analyze messages that come through your customer support channels.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Look at the ideas Google offers (e.g. autocomplete suggestions, related searches, related topics in infoboxes, etc.)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Search for relevant content on YouTube.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Look at trending news and topics on niche sites.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Look at relevant trending topics on Twitter.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Have a go at Wikipedia.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Analyze the sites of your best competitors.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The next step is validating your keywords. You can do this with many online tools like Ahrefs, KWFinder, SemRush, Moz, Ubersuggest and so on. This is the hardest part, as you have to get used to the interface, but most of these tools are quite user-friendly and will guide you through the process.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What we will do is tell you what to look for when trying to find out if targeting a specific keyword is a good idea or not:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Search volume:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Make sure that your investment is worth it. There is no \u201cright\u201d volume, but the number of searches per month paired with the probability that users will actually click on results must yield a number of visitors that you can convert in high enough numbers that you have a return on your investment. (E.g. it might be perfectly enough to get 1 visitor with a very strong purchase intent on the site if you are selling sports cars, but you need thousands if you are selling mugs.)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Keyword difficulty (KD): <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">it would make little sense to target a keyword if all your competitors are burning their budget on it too. Instead, try to find keywords with low difficulty, relevant phrases that your competitors didn\u2019t think about creating content or running ad campaigns for.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Search trends: google trends:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> even you have found a keyword that seems perfect, first check it\u2019s popularity in Google Trends. It may seem like a good fit now, but if it\u2019s been on a downward spiral for a year, the investment may not be worth it even mid-term.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Relevancy:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> make sure that the keywords are really relevant to your brand and products. Phrases that are too general (e.g. \u201ccheap books\u201d) will be searched by a lot of people &#8211; but most of them will not be a part of your target audience. Also, they will most likely be too difficult to rank for.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We also have to talk about <\/span><b>long-tail keywords<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Based on length, we have three keyword categories:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Head: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">these are the keywords that contain only one word. They are usually too general to be useful.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Body:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> search terms containing a few words, indicating a more focused intent, like &laquo;cheap books&raquo; or &laquo;gluten free bagel&raquo;.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Long-tail: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">queries containing three or more words.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/yoast.com\/what-are-long-tail-keywords\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Long-tail keywords<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> are the most useful for us, because many times we can clearly identify the search intent and they also give us information about the user. E.g. if someone searches for &laquo;used parts ford focus long island\u201d, we know that they are living in Long Island, they own a Ford Focus that is most likely an older car, and they are in need of parts for it. This makes it easy to target them on a landing page.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So, if you have your keywords, how should you target?<\/span><\/p>\n<h1><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How to use your keywords<\/span><\/h1>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-569\" src=\"https:\/\/www.webforumet.no\/blogg\/wp-content\/uploads\/keywords.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"483\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.webforumet.no\/blogg\/wp-content\/uploads\/keywords.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.webforumet.no\/blogg\/wp-content\/uploads\/keywords-300x121.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.webforumet.no\/blogg\/wp-content\/uploads\/keywords-768x309.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.webforumet.no\/blogg\/wp-content\/uploads\/keywords-1024x412.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you want to create well-targeted content, the first thing you should do is choose a topic. Pick a <\/span><b>long-tail keyword that can fit into a coherent sentence<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that may serve as a title, preferably a <\/span><b>question <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">that is relevant. Create a working title using this &#8211; this will be our main keyword.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Next, try to find relevant keywords &#8211; online tools will have a lot of suggestions for you. These can serve as subheadlines.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Your task is basically to answer the questions asked in their keywords as well as you can.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>In the body, you shouldn\u2019t focus on using keywords <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8211; just write naturally, and relevant words and phrases will pop up in the text naturally. This way your article will be much more understandable to readers, and keyword density is not a ranking factor anyway for a long time now.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We also recommend creating long-form content, like skyscraper articles that can answer not only one, but many realted questions at once, this way your content can rank for more keywords and bring you more organic traffic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After publishing the content, pay attention to promoting it on your channels and also linkbuilding: try to get valuable links targeted at the page from high-value, relevant sites.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>In essence, this is it:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> if you check regularly what keywords you rank for and what results your content brings, you can start building up a strong authority for your site &#8211; which means your content and pages will rank even better, bringing you more organic traffic, leads and consequently, if you are good at converting them, customers and revenue.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So only one question remains: do you know yet what are your strongest keywords?<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":570,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sokemotoroptimalisering","uk-clearfix"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webforumet.no\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webforumet.no\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webforumet.no\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webforumet.no\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webforumet.no\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=565"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.webforumet.no\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":575,"href":"https:\/\/www.webforumet.no\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565\/revisions\/575"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webforumet.no\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webforumet.no\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webforumet.no\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webforumet.no\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}