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How To Do Keyword Research for SEO

Keyword research

• Set up a spreadsheet template

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• Enter the page's topic into the spreadsheet

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• Google your first keywords

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• Substitute in syonyms

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• Get keywords from the Wikipedia article

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• Use UberSuggest to generate variations

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• Search in Quora

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• Search BoardReader

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• Reverse lookup with Google Keyword Planner

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• Reverse lookup with Ahrefs Site Explorer

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• Use Keyword Shitter to create long tail keywords

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• Use Ahrefs Keywords Explorer to generate large list of keywords

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• Remove duplicate keywords

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• Copy the remaining keywords into Google Keyword Planner

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• Remove the keywords that don't make sense

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• Filter by search volume

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• Remove irrelevant keywords

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• Remove high competition keywords (Ahrefs Keyword Difficulty score)

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• Remove low volume keywords (if there are better options)

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