I am also interested in ranking for blog-related topics. Because I rank well for posts relating to Facebook competitions Spyfu gave me competitors who also ranked well for those terms. Spyfu gives you a list of competitors but you should also add your own to the list. Just a little bit of work could push them up onto page 1.
#Keywords everywhere no search volume update
It’s worth making a list of these to add to your update schedule. I found the section on posts that have either dropped off the first page or that are almost ranking on search engines the most interesting. Spyfu shows you data about the keywords you and your competitors rank for It shows you what you rank for, the history of your rankings for that keyword and it gives you a list of competitors. Start with your own site, add your URL to Spyfu. Spyfu can help you identify your competitors and find the keywords they rank for. If they have a lower DA (domain authority) than you there’s a good chance you could beat them in search results.ĭA is a score calculated by MOZ that estimates how likely you are to appear in search rankings. One way is to find out what keywords your competitors are ranking for. Keyword planner and keywords everywhere are useful tools for finding data on keywords but how do we discover those long tail keywords we talked about earlier? There’s no option to limit searches to Ireland we have to make do with UK results. It’s almost perfect, you can filter results by region but this is limited. Restore Google Keyword Planner search volume with Keywords Everywhere View search volumes for related searches at the bottom of each search results pageĮven better, it adds a column to Keyword Planner with search volumes. If you scroll to the bottom of a search results page you’ll get the same data for related searches. See search volume on each search you make with Keywords Everywhere It shows you search volumes for anything you search on Google. This is a browser extension that works with Chrome and Firefox. I’ve been using a cool tool as an alternative. For many of us that will be beyond our budget. If you want to see that keyword volume data on Keyword planner you have to run an AdWords campaign. Without knowing that we’re SEOing in the dark. The number of searches is the search volume. When we are targeting a keyword we need to know how many people are actually searching for it. In 2016 Google started withholding information about search volume from us. Googles own Keyword Planner used to be the go-to tool for marketers but things have changed. Now we know why we want to use keywords we need to think about how we can find the right ones for our site. More importantly, if you get your keywords right you’ll attract the right readers, the people who will become your customers and advocates in the future. So we need to be more cunning with our keywords, we need to both anticipate what our audience will be searching for and ensure that there isn’t too much competition for those keywords.įind the right keywords, optimise your blog posts for them and you will start to see more readers come to your site from search. The remaining 70% lie in what’s called the “long tail” of search” “…less than 30% of the searches performed on the web. Were they searching ‘Cats’ because they wanted to avail of your cat-related product or service or were they the internet marketer like me who wanted to see how many results they’d get?Īccording to MOZ simple terms like ‘Cats’ or in their example ‘Shoes’ account for It’s going to be hard to rank on page 1 for that search term.Įven if you did you’d need to think about the searchers intent. I just searched ‘Cats’ on Google and got 851 million results. In the early days of internet marketing, it may have been possible to rank on page one for the term ‘Cats’ but it’s going to be harder now. In fact, they are going to have to be more than one word long in today’s age of Content Shock. “A Keyword is a word or phrase – typically a phrase of two or three words – which has been identified as one which potential customers use when they are searching the internet.”Īs you can see from the quote Keywords can be more than one word long.