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3 Keyword Research Trends to Reshape Your Content Optimization

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No matter what your content marketing strategy is, keyword research is the fuel. Keywords inform marketers as to what their audience strives to know, let them monitor their competition, and offer a constant source of content ideas. Now, the approach to keyword research is different from what it was even a couple of years ago.

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5 Brands Share Their Content Marketing Process

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We trained our editorial team to do basic SEO analysis using Moz and SEMrush to analyze the potential search volumes of the keywords targeted in the new piece of content. Use @moz & @semrush to analyze search volumes of keywords targeted in new #content, says @MassimoCw. Click To Tweet. Researching.

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Improve Your Productivity With 8 Content Marketing Tools

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SEMrush is a great tool to help you assess competitors’ traffic on Google and the keywords for which they are ranking. Enter your competitor’s web address in the SEMrush SEO toolkit and see a list of the keywords for which it ranks on Google. This quick way of doing keyword research can identify some target keywords.

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How to Get Ranked and Read With the Topic Cluster Content Model

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An SEO strategy that focuses on topics rather than keywords, the model is an intent-based approach that simplifies blog archives by creating content around one central topic – referred to as the “pillar” page or post. Pillar-cluster #content technique is #SEO strategy focused on topics, not keywords, says @EliseDopson.

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7 Powerful Tools to Automate Tedious Content Marketing Tasks

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Ahrefs for SEO, keyword research, and more. The tool comes with alerts for keyword mentions, backlink analysis, keyword research , SEO site auditing, rank tracking, and more. It’s an easy way to find high-volume, low-difficulty keywords your competitors are ranking for but you’re not. I filter them by keyword difficulty.

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How to Stop the Vanity of Your Search Metrics

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Imagine you publish two blog posts. You also can use Keywords Everywhere , a free Chrome extension, for search volume and costs per click. Keyword search volume. Keyword volume is generally used to understand how popular a keyword is and to predict how much organic traffic a page would get if it ranked for that keyword.

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How to Make Your Content Powerful in Eyes of Searchers (and Google)

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However, I’m not merely talking about properly optimized content that has the right meta information, links, keywords, and technical SEO. The site averages 27,600 in monthly organic traffic, which would cost nearly $96,000 to replicate by paying for those same keywords on Google AdSense. The content is not only keyword optimized.

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