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#SMX #11D @ChrisChurchill
Taking Your Content To The Next Level
Keyword Research &
Copywriting For Search Success
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#SMX #11D @ChrisChurchill
• President & CEO of KeyRelevance, LLC
• Member of Founding Board of Directors of Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization (SEMPO)
• Member of the Founding Board of Directors of the Dallas/Fort Worth Search Engine Marketing Organization (DFWSEM)
• Author at Search Engine Land & Web Marketing Today
• Longtime Speaker & Instructor at Search Marketing Expo (SMX), Search Engine Strategies, PubCon, and other conferences
• Masters degree and over 17 years online marketing experience
Speaker: Christine Churchill
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§ Keyword Research – What is it? Why do it? § How to do KW Research in 2016
§ Developments That Changed Keyword Research (Knowledge Graph, Hummingbird Algorithm)
§ Keyword Tools
§ How to use Keywords to Optimize Content § Online Copywriting Tips
What We’ll Cover
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Keyword Research Fundamental step to all online marketing
Keyword Research is the process of researching to identify the keyword terms customers use to find your products and services
Keyword Research helps you get inside the mind of customers
Keyword Research gives content marketing a good start
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People use search engines to find you on the web Engines use text to categorize pages
Research unveils terms people actually use
KW Research improves performance of online marketing
Why Do Keyword Research?
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How to Do Keyword Research
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Keyword Research is an Iterative Process
Brainstorming &
Discovery
Keyword Expansion
Keyword Evaluation
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Keyword Brainstorming and Discovery Phase
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Create Keyword List Using Diverse Sources
Brainstorming session – no judging words at this stage. Goal is to cast your net widely and generate broad list.
Keyword lists from within company
§ Review company web site and print collateral
§ Press Releases § Often too much insider jargon
§ May or may not be customer’s lingo
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Learn the Lingo of the Customer
§ Customer interviews § Customer Surveys and Focus Groups
§ Talk to support or sales personnel who talk directly to customers
§ Review discussion forums, user generated content, blogs, social media
The best keywords come straight from the customer’s mouth.
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Speak the Language of Customer
Increase conversion by speaking the customer’s language
Correct bad keyword choices Missing traffic Missing sales
Discover new keyword opportunities -‐ Find overlooked or new keywords
-‐ Take advantage of longer tail phrases “Duplicate a CD” vs “Burn a CD”
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The Long Tail Finding New Opportunities
Based on frequency graph
Chris Anderson wrote book about it § Describes it as new economic model
§ Unlimited selection – Amazon books, iTunes
§ Idea is that non-‐hits can make money based on sheer volume
Popular phrases on left – highly competitive and expensive. Less popular on right – lower volume
“20 to 25% of the queries that Google sees today have never been seen before.” – Udi Manber, Google VP of Engineering
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Create Keyword List Using Diverse Sources
• Online Blogs and Magazines
• Company and Product Reviews
• Online Thesaurus
• Search in Google with tilde ~ for synonyms
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Review Competitors
§ Look at words they are buying in PPC & targeting in SEO
§ Review their web site
and collateral for keywords & related terms
§ Get competitive insights and ideas on overlooked terms
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Use Site Search Data
Site Search Box
• Reveals keywords and expressions that visitors are actually using / wanting
• Acts as a direct feed from the visitors brain
• Make sure you collect site search data – can tie it to your analytics for easy viewing
Downside is data is limited and site search is usually a fall back when users can’t find what they are looking for on your site.
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Developments That Changed Keyword Research
Google Knowledge Graph
Hummingbird Algorithm
Not Provided Keywords
Other Recent Algorithm Changes
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Knowledge Graph
“The Knowledge Graph enables you to search for things, people or places that Google knows about—landmarks, celebrities, cities, sports teams, buildings, geographical features, movies, celestial objects, works of art and more—and instantly get information that’s relevant to your query. “ Source: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/05/introducing-‐knowledge-‐graph-‐things-‐not.html
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How the Knowledge Graph Changed Search Critical first step towards building the next
generation of search
• Taps into the collective intelligence of the web and understands the world a bit more like people do
• A step toward artificial intelligence
Google now has a database on entities and understands relationships between different entities
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What is Hummingbird Algorithm?
According to Google the algorithm (announced Sept 2013) delivers better results that are "precise and fast" -‐ like a hummingbird. It’s Google trying to figure out user intent and improve conversational search. Google wants to match the meaning, rather than pages matching just a few words.
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Do We Still Need to Worry About Keywords?
Hummingbird is an overhaul of Google’s algorithm, but many of the old parts are still used.
Google’s semantic analysis considers the language in your content
-‐ so you still need to use keywords and related phrases on the page to communicate to users and Google what the page is about
-‐ means on-‐page optimization is still beneficial
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Tips on Surviving After Hummingbird & the Knowledge Graph Create high quality longer content that establishes your site as the place to go for answers Develop ways to increase the authority of the site Become a leader in your vertical
Show leadership thru social media, links, user metrics, online relationships
Google has made it harder for “fake” authority to win. Going forward you have to earn your position.
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The New Approach To Keyword Research Focus on the user intent behind the search term
-‐ Try to develop content that delivers answers to what the searcher wants
Stop focusing on exact match phrases
-‐ Look more to long tail and related phrases -‐ Build a vocabulary of terms that are related to the phrase
When doing KW research now, research core phrases plus related, synonyms, and words that frequently occur with your main terms (co-‐occurrence) Google’s move toward Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI) and recent Google Patents dealing with re-‐ranking of results suggest that using synonyms and co-‐occurrence terms has benefits
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Keyword Research Tools
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Benefits of Keyword Tools
• Saves money and time • Provides insight outside of your site • Identifies keyword opportunities you might miss • Offers popularity numbers you can’t get from your own analytics • Moves you beyond keyword assumptions • Allows you to compare phrases
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Free • Google Keyword Planner Tool • Google Webmaster Tools
• Google Trends
• Google Display Planner
• Google Instant
• Google Related Searches
• Bing Keyword Tool
• Bing Intelligence Tool
• Bing Webmaster Tools
• AnswerThePublic
• Amazon Suggests
• MetaGlossary
Keyword Research Tools Fee Based
• WordTracker
• Searchmetrics
• Hitwise
• WordStream
• SEMRush
• ComScore
• SpyFu
• Long Tail Pro
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Google Keyword Planner
Oriented for Paid Search Must be Logged Into AdWords to Use Provides keyword ideas & monthly search volumes
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Google Trends Google Trends provides trends from
web searches, images, news, shopping and YouTube Shows seasonality of phrases Can compare popularity of phrases
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Google Search Console (aka Webmaster Tools) shows actual search queries
Shows up to 2000 top queries for the last 90 days Not affected by the Not Provided – this is limited but actual keyword data Provides Impression, Clicks, and CTR, but no conversion data
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Google Display Planner
Free Adwords tool
Built for display advertising in paid search but can give insights on keywords
Suggests related keywords
Gives demographic information on keywords
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Adwords Search Term Report Great for keyword discovery, but have to be running PPC
Query People Actually Typed
Shows you how customers are finding your ad. With the Search terms report, you can see the actual searches people entered on Google Search and other Search Network sites that triggered your ad and led to a click. Identifies new search terms with high potential so you can add them to your keyword list. Allows you to look for search terms that aren't as relevant to your business, so you can add them as negative keywords.
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Google Related Searches
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Bing Keyword Tool
-‐ Shows actual queries numbers (not rounded) -‐ Has 6 months of data -‐ Drill down by Country
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WordTracker.com
Data pulled from meta search engines Eliminates most skewing issues caused by robots Differentiates between singular & plural Offer Free Tool for trial
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Wordstream http://www.wordstream.com/keywords
Useful for developing your vocabulary of related terms for Hummingbird
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Google Instant Shows suggestions as you type
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Google Instant – Shopping Search Different set of keywords on Shopping search from regular web search
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Soovle.com Gives suggestions from different perspectives
Provides suggestions from Google Wikipedia Answers YouTube Bing Yahoo Amazon Plus option for15 other sites
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Ubersuggest http://ubersuggest.org/
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YouTube Keyword Auto Suggestions Shows popular video search queries
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Amazon Suggests
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MetaGlossary
Provides a definition and related terms
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AnswerThePublic.com Fun keyword tool that gives you lists of questions and phrases Excellent for giving content ideas or thoughts to flesh out an article
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Tag Clouds helps identify related terms
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A couple of things to remember…
No one tool has all the answers Don’t just extract keywords from a tool and run with them…review them for relevancy You need several tools in your toolbox Combining the tools synergistically works well. Some tools are better for certain functions. For instance, Google Instant is used for discovering new keyword phrases and Google Trends is good for comparing or identifying cycles
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Keyword Expansion Phase
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Target Variations of Your Keywords
Comparison (best, compare, reviews) Price (cheap, discount)
Product Description (green, plus size, unique)
Intended use (gift for mother, baptism gown)
Product (gift basket, mortgage, flight)
Location Action (apply, book, find, buy)
Season (holiday, Christmas, Halloween)
Abbreviations
Brand / vendor / manufacturer
Modifiers are great at helping you expand your keyword list, but remember to keep “user intent” in mind when you combine the modifier to the core term!
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Keyword Permutations
Mix and match terms to create new keyword phrases
Many tools that do this for you
Can use concatenate function in Excel or specific tool
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Using Excel to Expand KW List
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Group related keywords into lists of related terms
Remember to identify terms that frequently occur with your main terms
Do a series of keyword research projects on a site, not just one
Develop a keyword matrix
Keyword “Buckets”
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Evaluating Keywords
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KW Selection Considerations
• Relevancy to Site • Keyword Popularity • User Intent • Competition • Performance
Always test your keywords. Keywords can sounds like a good idea, but upon testing, they can fail miserably.
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Relevancy Considerations
Relevancy means choosing the keywords that best describes what the site offers Traffic alone isn’t the goal, you want targeted traffic that is searching for what you
sell
Best bet: Find words that resonate with your target audience and are descriptive of your site
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Popularity Considerations Popularity gives insight on traffic
potential Popular phrases
Less relevant More competitive Being popular Is overrated
Less Popular More Focused Less Traffic
Consider seasonality and cyclical popularity of phrases
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Consider User Intent Getting inside the searcher’s head
Understand the “why” behind the motivation for the search and you can better target how to respond § Research vs Purchase
§ Stage in buying process
§ Audience Demographic
Buying vs Browsing “car reviews” “fast auto financing”
“80% of all searches on the Web are non-‐commercial” -‐ Jim Lanzone of Ask.com
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Evaluating by the Stage in Buying Process
Keywords indicate where consumer is in the Buying Process
Match your content to satisfy the user’s intent when using the keyword
Problem Recognition
Information Search
Evaluation of Alternatives
Purchase Decision
Adapted From: Marketing Management by Philip Kotler
Select Alternatives
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Searcher Behavior
Three types of searches:
• Navigational
-‐ I just want to be at your web site.
• Informational
-‐ Do hybrid cars require special maintenance?
• Transactional -‐Interactive, purchase, subscribe, download
-‐I want financing to buy a hybrid car.
Adapted From: A Taxonomy of Web Search by Andrei Broder
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Results Pages Give Insight into What Google Thinks the Searcher Wants
Type the proposed query into a Search Engine Look at the kinds of sites and files returned
-‐ PDFs, white papers, in-‐depth articles – likely informational query
-‐ Ecommerce sites – transactional
-‐ Brand site – navigational -‐ Are Knowledge Graph Answer boxes returned? -‐ Are local results or shopping ads returned? Looking at the results can help you interpret what Google thinks the user wants
Do this on both desktop and mobile
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Evaluating KW By Competition Who Are Your Competitors?
Who is ranking for your main keyword terms?
Who has PPC ads? How well optimized are
competitors sites? Are they active on social media
and review sites? What is their link profile?
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Competitive Intelligence Tools
Hitwise ComScore Marketer Trellian’s Competitive Intelligence Keyword Difficulty Tool SpyFu SearchMetrics KeyCompete Compete SemRush KeywordSpy AdGooRoo Keyword Analyzer
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SEMRush
Provides: • Top Keywords • Rankings • PPC Terms • PPC Bids • Traffic Trends
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Searchmetrics Can Identify Co-‐Occurrence Terms, Competitors Terms, etc
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SEOMOZ Keyword Difficulty
Relative yardstick of difficulty
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SPYFu
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Test KW Performance Use PPC to test candidate KWs
Do keywords bring the amount of traffic you want?
Does the traffic convert?
PPC gives quick quantitative feedback on the KW performance while controlling costs. If works well in PPC, expand kw use in SEO, social and content marketing
Downside: Terms that work well in PPC are often transactional. You may have to expand your list to include informational terms
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Content Optimization
Putting the Pieces Together
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Everything Is Better with Chocolate Keywords • Web sites • Paid search • Articles • White Papers • FAQ pages • Product Feeds • News • Blog Posts • Press Releases • Images • Videos • Podcasts • Schema • Social Media • Content Marketing
Optimize all digital assets
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Good Online Copywriting Is a Balancing Act
You have to write to engage the human reader
You have to write so search engines understand relevancy of content
It is this talent for doing both that separates high quality SEO content from spam
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On-Page SEO Guidelines
Has to be NATURAL Elegantly work keywords into visible content on web pages -‐ Don’t stuff keywords -‐ Do the “Read Aloud” test to gauge natural tone
SEO helps good content get found
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On-Page SEO Guidelines (cont)
Think keyword phrase NOT single keyword
Create a matrix chart to assign different main phrases to different pages
Use synonyms and related words on page to reinforce main topic
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Where to Use Keywords On Site
Title Tags Meta Description
H Tags
Visible text on the page
Alt Attribute
Links and anchor text File names
URL
Schema code
Bold, strong, emphasized tags Breadcrumb Navigation
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Title Tags <title>Interesting Relevant Keyword Rich Blurb</title>
Most important “on-‐page” tag
Title contents appears in first line of listing on SERP so spend extra time to create compelling titles that grab attention
Include keyword phrase early in title
Should be unique…don’t use same title on multiple pages
Title should be accurate and reflect content of page
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Meta Description Tag <meta name="Description" content=“Compelling marketing message that reads well and contains targeted keywords">
Should provide a summary of the page and should be unique to the page
Frequently used as snippet on results page
Should contain keywords relevant to the page. Include synonyms and related words – don’t just repeat core terms
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Feed the Knowledge Graph Explicit method
-‐ Schema
-‐ Tables
Implicit method
-‐ On-‐page Text
Adds confidence in data for Google
Schema is helpful as a template to build out quality content
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Golden Rules for Writing Copy Talk about benefits, not features
-‐Tell them why they should care
Appeal to emotions and senses
-‐ most buying decisions are emotionally based
Solve problems and answer questions in your content
Don’t forget to include a “Call to Action”
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Develop Shareable Content Start with relevant interesting content
Include social media sharing and keywords in editorial calendar planning
Place sharing social share icons in susceptible moments – Make it easy to share
The Title can make or break your content so take extra time to create a compelling headline
Use a subheading to further entice reader
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Good User Experience Increases Share-‐ability
Include visually stimulating graphics
-‐ Good graphic draws reader in
-‐ Faces & bright colors attract the eyes
“Chunk up” the content layout to be more scan friendly
-‐ Use headers, subheadings & bullet lists to add hierarchy
-‐ White space is your friend
-‐ Keep paragraphs short
Avoid “noise” and distracting items on page
Don’t forget Google tracks user behavior
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Getting Your Great Content Found Online Mix in synonyms, long tail terms and variations
Replace duplicate content with original writing and use canonicals
Clean up the site -‐ Remove low quality pages, write longer deeper content
Link to related useful content
Be professional -‐ run link checkers, spell checkers and avoid foul words
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Points to Take Home
1. Keyword research Isn’t dead – helps identify user intent 2. Exact match keyword targeting is dead
3. Use keyword phrases, synonyms and related terms on the page, in schema code and in all digital assets
4. Use tools to increase productivity & provide insights
5. Test keywords for true worth. View popularity as traffic potential and consider seasonality and trends
6. Write to enhance the user experience -‐ Compose quality content that satisfies user intent and answers questions
7. Make content easy to read & share
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Thank You! Christine Churchill www.keyrelevance.com [email protected]
@KeyRelevance @ChrisChurchill
Questions?
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SEE YOU AT THE NEXT #SMX
THANK YOU!