persona driven keyword research
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Spoiler Alert: It’s in disarray
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Most keyword research is just a list of keywords and search volumes. That’s not strategic enough for any initiative let alone Organic Search or Content Marketing.
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Some keyword research is entirely metric driven, including conversion data and business value. This is better, but still not enough.
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Good keyword research includes some determination of intent. The best you see in the wild is “transactional, informational and navigational” determinations of keywords.
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The abstraction of keywords has removed us from the idea of a person looking to do something.
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I won’t get mad if you tweet this. Here are some examples of ambiguous keywords.
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Marketing automation is the cross-section of the skillsets that many of us already know and love.
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Marketing automation is the cross-section of the skillsets that many of us already know and love.
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Marketing automation is the cross-section of the skillsets that many of us already know and love.
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Marketing automation is the cross-section of the skillsets that many of us already know and love.
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Marketing automation is the cross-section of the skillsets that many of us already know and love.
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Marketing automation is the cross-section of the skillsets that many of us already know and love.
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The days of Google just matching keyword to keyword are over. Keywords are matched to ideas and entities and your strategy must reflect that.
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A keyword is a straw man abstraction of a user and their intent, mapping that to the specific type of people visiting your site gives a better understanding and helps improve targeting
through content and metadata.
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Mapping keywords to the phases of the consumer decision journey provides more granularity to the understanding of what users are actually looking to do with their search.
[flowers]
[when do roses bloom]
[what flowers for a first date]
[buying chrysanthemums]
[flower a month club]
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Keywords are gone and Google provides more than enough data to determine what types of users are coming to your site. Use that in context of landing pages, internal search and
channels
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A journey map is a depiction of the steps that a user must go through to accomplish a given task or series of tasks. For example this is a journey map of someone traveling to the LEGO
theme park.
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The best way to build a user journey is to leverage ethnographic research tactics online through a combination of iterative social listening and keyword research. Check out my Mozinar that discusses this
http://moz.com/webinars/understanding-your-audience-using-social-media
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@joannalord explains this best in her Quick Guide to Customer Journey Mapping
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The output of your personas should include user needs and goals which will make it clear what users are trying to accomplish in context of your product. Map those to each phase.
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Map those goals to different touchpoints and ultimately different searches.
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Although the Adwords Keyword Planner lacks some features of its predecessor it, it’s still the best source of keyword information. ProTip: Just put in a domain name and see what
keywords Google automatically associates.
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SEMRush continues to improve its UI and its data. It’s a great source for both keyword and market research. They also have an API http://www.semrush.com
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KeywordTool.io is the replacement for UberSuggest and since YouTube Killed their Keyword Tool. http://www.keywordtool.io
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Bottlenose Sonar is a social listening tool that highlights queries and their relationships based on Twitter conversations. It’s a great method for identifying keyword opportunities in
real-time. http://
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You don’t have to be a coder to use APIs. Using Postman allows you to test out API calls with no code at all http://www.getpostman.com
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GrepWords provides a robust API for keyword data.
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Keyword Studio is a suite for keyword research where you can do many of these tasks in one place. My favorite feature is the automatic categorization.
http://www.keywordstudio.com
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One of my favorite features in Keyword Studio is its synonym matching within the category hierarchy.
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Using AlchemyAPI you can extract entities from pages and improve keyword research. http://www.alchemyapi.com
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SearchMetrics provides co-occuring keyword optimization tool once you have a campaign set up http://www.searchmetrics.com
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STAT is personally my favorite rankings platform because of its native app-esque UI and the ability for easy tagging and segmentation http://www.getstat.com
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I mentioned some APIs which may seem daunting, but if you’re comfortable with Excel and VBA you can get your API data directly in Excel with some VBA using Excel-REST.
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You don’t have to be a coder to use APIs. Using Postman allows you to test out API calls with no code at all http://www.getpostman.com
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The team at BuiltVisible have an SEOgadget for Excel that allows you to pull from a number of APIs including GrepWords. http://builtvisible.com/introducing-seogadget-excel/
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When I originally started doing these we would take all of the keyword research data and marry it with audience surveys on SuryveMonkey Audience
(http://www.surveymonkey.com/mp/audience)
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A well-designed User Journey is more than enough to determine where keywords fall. Determining the thoughts, questions and feelings of your target audience helps you
understand where keywords will fall.
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The keyword portfolio includes a number of data points on each keyword that allows it to inform strategic planning, content strategy, content marketing, SEO and Paid Search.
This usually includes some combination of Word Count, Avg Monthly Search Volume, Historical Traffic, Share of Voice, Google Ranking, Cost Per Click, Quality Score, Target Persona, Need State, Keyword Segment, Conversions, Landing Page, Target Landing Page, Page Entities, Rank Zone, Ranking Difficulty.
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Calculate the word count of your keywords using this formula. This allow you to quickly filter for head terms, “chunky middle” and long tail keywords.
=IF(LEN(TRIM(A1))=0,0,LEN(TR
IM(A1))-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A1,"
",""))+1)
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Share of voice is an indication of the amount of traffic a keyword could potentially drive vs. how much is being captured. A Share of Voice of over a 100% means that you’re capturing
more traffic than expected.
Note: This is far less effective given (not provided), but Share of Voice is still a metric that the C-Suite understands.
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Niels Bosma’s SEOTools allows you to pull analytics from GA directly within Excel. However it may be just as easy to export from GA.
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With the BuiltVisible (fka SEOgadget) method of visualizing + the wealth of data we collect we can now visualize keywords based personas, categories, need states, search volume
ranges, or whatever data point we choose.
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Marketing automation is the cross-section of the skillsets that many of us already know and love.
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Using all the data that you’ve collected on the data sheet, create a PivotChart.
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Select Keyword, Avg Monthly US Search Volume and Google Ranking as your values. Then add a Report Filter based on Need State.
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You can set the report filter by any of your categorization data points. In this case we’re using Need State, but we could use Persona or Keyword Segment.
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Sort the report from top to bottom and largest to smallest so we have an easily readable chart.
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Select your ranking data and format the data series to plot the rankings on the secondary axis.
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Format the rankings Axis with a minimum of 1 and a maximum of 20 with the values in reverse order.
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Change the rankings chart type from bar chart to line graph.
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Remove the line from the line graph in Format Data Series.
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You now have a compelling chart that highlights keyword opportunities with regard to their search volume, need state and rankings. Size accordingly and copy the sheet changing the
need states until you’ve done all keywords.
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Let’s call it “Rank Difficulty”
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Fundamentally, I love Moz’s Keyword Difficulty as a metric. In fact I’m a small part of the reason why it’s now available in the Mozbar.
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I’ve been thinking a lot about keyword difficulty lately and I think it needs some work. Check out this workaround by Trung http://upstreamist.co/relative-keyword-competition
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Moz’s Keyword Difficulty score is great for sites that are not key players in the top 20, but it’s not actionable for a site that is competitive. Therefore Keyword Difficulty should be
calculated with regard to site performance.
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This code comes from the MozBar. This may be an indication of absolute difficulty, but that’s not necessarily actionable. It’s also a surprisingly simplistic calculation
Pulls the top 20 of the SERP
Gets PA for all and sorts from highest to lowest
The 5th result is the keyword difficulty.
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With the number of linking root domains to a given site being one of the strongest determinants of whether or not it will rank, an actionable metric should identify that
deficiency.
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First step is to pull the top 20 rankings. SEMRush is the fastest way to get this.
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Then you have to identify your landing page if it’s not in the top 20. site:[domain.ext] “keyword”
Site:domain keyword
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I prefer Ahrefs for this, and you can use their batch tool to pull the metrics for all 21 URLs. Alternatively, you can use a batch Moz tool as well.
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Compare average link deficiencies based on the target rank zone.
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This leaves you an actionable metric to filter keywords by as well as an action plan for the numbers of links that will be required in order to get into your target ranking zone.
Avg LRD deficiency
Top 20 # Links to Build
Top 10 # Links to
Build
Top 3 # Links to
Build
100.00% 112 168 78.33
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