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Rethinking The Fundamentals of Keyword Research With The Insights From Big Data

DDavydoff
September 19, 2019
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Rethinking The Fundamentals of Keyword Research With The Insights From Big Data

DDavydoff

September 19, 2019
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  3. We walk
    our talk ;)
    ~60% YoY ARR growth
    ~15x search traffic
    growth in 4 years

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  7. Traffic to #1
    701
    10,351

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  8. Traffic to #1
    701
    10,351

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  14. Average #1 page ranks
    in Google for ~1,000*
    other keywords
    https://ahrefs.com/blog/also-rank-for-study/
    *based on Ahrefs' study
    of ~3 Million search queries

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  15. Traffic to #1
    Keywords of #1
    701
    10,351
    169
    2,385

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  16. The search
    demand curve

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  18. How much traffic can you get
    from the "Top Keyword" alone?
    Photo by Matt Artz on Unsplash

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  19. In 48.7% of pages*
    the "Top Keyword" brings
    <30% of total search traffic
    Gyarados
    *based on a sample of 11,694 random pages with
    >1,000 organic search visits in the US

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  20. How to apply
    this knowledge?
    photo by alireza naseri on Unsplash

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  21. Traffic to #1
    Keywords of #1
    701
    10,351
    169
    2,385
    Don't stop here

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  22. Traffic to #1
    Keywords of #1
    701
    10,351
    169
    2,385
    Analyse this!

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  23. https://ahrefs.com/blog/keyword-traffic-estimation/ https://ahrefs.com/blog/long-tail-keywords/

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  26. 51,818 visits/mo

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  34. "keyword research tools"
    6,457
    19,671

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  35. "what is SEO"
    25,686
    42,823

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  36. https://ahrefs.com/blog/ranking-number-one-is-overrated/

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  37. How to
    outperform #1?
    Photo by Jon Tyson on Unsplash

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  38. Broad
    topic
    +
    more
    links!
    https://ahrefs.com/blog/search-traffic-study/
    (~920 Million web pages studied)

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  39. The secret to ranking #1:

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  44. What nailing
    search intent
    looks like:

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