Almost all SEO begins with keyword research. Understanding what people are searching for and how many people are searching helps form a solid content strategy.
Beyond the basics, keyword research encompasses many more advanced considerations, including SERP features, keyword search intent, competitive analysis, and even internationalization.
Read the latest Moz posts on keyword research. We’ve also included links to our most popular keyword research resources to help your SEO journey.
Keyword Research : Everything you need to get started with keyword research.
Keyword Research Learning Center : Our free keyword research learning hub. Here, we’ve gathered our top resources in one place.
What is search intent and why does it matter? : Learn more about the power of search intent and how to use it in your keyword research strategy.
Keyword Explorer : Want to dive in? Try our top-rated keyword research tool, with over 500 million keyword suggestions.
Find Striking Distance Keywords With Moz Pro : How to quickly locate, track, and label these keyword opportunities in Moz Pro in this Whiteboard Friday video
It's probably crossed your mind before. Should you optimize for your competitors' branded keywords? How would you even go about it effectively? Well, in today's Whiteboard Friday, Rand explains some carefully strategic and smart ways to optimize for the keywords of a competitor, from determining their worthiness to properly targeting your funnel to using third-party hosted content for maximum amplification.
Should you ditch keyword targeting entirely? There's been a lot of discussion around the idea of focusing on broad topics and concepts to satisfy searcher intent, but it's a big step to take and could potentially hurt your rankings. In today's Whiteboard Friday, Rand discusses old-school keyword targeting and new-school concept targeting, outlining a plan of action you can follow to get the best of both worlds.
The goal I am hoping to achieve with this post is to provide some actionable research tips for finding content ideas that you can use for your campaigns. My agency IMA Interactive provides SEO services for the professional services industry, so it was my original intention to help those with the same type of clients. But, I am happy if I can help any...
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It's no secret that Google keeps a lot of secrets. From keyword data to link data to traffic data (and surely more), there's a lot that we could benefit from — if they'd only share it! Since that's not likely to happen anytime soon, Rand takes us through various ways to access that all-important data in this week's Whiteboard Friday.
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Today, it's my pleasure to announce some exciting news. First, if you haven't already seen it via his blog post, I'm thrilled to welcome Russ Jones, a longtime community member and great contributor to the SEO world, to Moz.
Keyword research and content creation have a major aspect in common: We can choose a wide range of topics (or keywords), from very broad to very narrow. In today's Whiteboard Friday, Rand shows us how that parallel affects the decisions we make as marketers.
Don't sleep on Google Autocomplete for helping you uncover some low-hanging fruit content ideas.
With the right combination of data, we can get a great sense for the relative value of keywords within certain markets/niches. In today's Whiteboard Friday, Rand shows you how.
From selection to the actual research, keywords simply aren't the same beast they were five years ago. In today's Whiteboard Friday, Rand shows you how to do keyword research in 2015, ensuring you don't harm your site with obsolete tactics.
As searcher behavior gets more complicated, we as marketers have to evolve our approach to keyword research. Here's how to match your keyword research process to your customer's purchase journey.
Can learning about Inverse Document Frequency teach us to create better content? It can, and this article explains how.
Using a hypothetical client, Jeremy Gottlieb shows you just how much keyword research you can get done in 90 minutes (and walks you step-by-step through how to do it).