Let me break it down for you
Step 1: Content Not Keyword
A lot of people don't really understand how this keyword research thing work, they believe having the top key phrase on their website will generate a lot of traffic because that is what they read online. if you go to Google and search for keyword research tools, you will get a bunch of results and if you click any of those websites they are full of affiliate link prompting you to buy something in other for them to make money. they don't really give the full detail how you can rank your content in other to generate traffic.
maybe is not one of their business, and that is the reason why after spending a whole day doing your research you still don't rank high or get any traffic.
let me tell something
after doing your research, you need to provide quality content relevant to that specific key phrases, just because your keyword as 100,000 monthly searchers do not means you will get a bunch of traffic if you use that specific key phrases, even if you don't have any idea on what to write about it, hire someone to do the writing for you for a few penny.
Is true that people are searching for that keyword but you need to provide a good content relevant to that keyword so that Google can put you on the first page.
Step 2: Rank Your Keyword On Google
After doing your keyword research and write a good content to that specific key phrases, Google will put you on the first page just to test you out, your content will rank number 1 spot in Google. if someone search for that key phrases and they visit your website from Google search result, you need to make sure your content gets them attention to stay longer on your website.
because if they visit your website and your content is not helpful, not providing the information they really want. they would bounce back like Tiger to check other results.
then from that moment, Google will bring down your content from number 1 to 3, you will keep going down until they move you to the next page.
Step 3: Out Rank Your Competitor On Search Engine
you need to learn how to outrank your competitor to get your content on the number 1 spot on Google because result on the google first page gets 80% majority of the traffic. people who use Google will hardly click on the next page.
but how do you outrank your competitor
* Download SEO Quake and install it to your browser toolbar
* turn on SEO quake
* Go to google.com and type in your keyword.
* use SEO quake to check the backlink of your competitor content in the search result then copy the article URL and go to backlinkwatch.com paste in that URL to see where they got their backlink from.
* try to get a backlink for your content from that same page and also share your content on social media.....Good Luck with that...
To the Top Keyword Research
1. Serps
Serps is a free keyword tool that I personally use, they as some other features that I really like, it gives you a cost per click and volume. you wouldn't see a lot of free keyword tools doing that. you can download your result as CSV file you don't have to signup for anything to do that.if you go down you will see thousand of keyword result and instead of going to the next page to see more result just click view as a single page and when you do that you will get a ridiculous amount of keyword depending on what you search for. you can also use their filter is very powerful.
for example, if you are looking at SEO and you say I only want things that are talking about SEO tool. just type in tools in the second box then you will see a result that are talking about SEO and tool. Serps is a very powerful free keyword tool, you can check them out. https://serps.com/tools/keyword-research/
2 Answer The Publish
answerthepublich.com is a really good tool and I do use this tool all the time, it gives you all the question that are been ask in your niche. if you put in your keyword, you can also select a country on the right side and click get a question.
you may look complicated for the first time using this tool, it let you understand the question in your niche, it shows you what people are looking, what feature do they want, what kind of question are they asking about your product/niche. so it gives you an idea to create a blog post to answer this question. when people asking a question in your niche and if you create a content that answers that question, you will be there all time.
3. SEO CHAT
SEO chat as been around for a while and they also have several keyword tools you can check out. if you put in your keyword, you can select sources like google, bing, amazon or youtube or you can even select all and hit search.
these tools is really different, it as a three step process. after getting your result just select some keyword, as seen above, if you select a whole bunch of keyword, it does take a lot of time to process. after selecting your keyword then go ahead and click the run part 2 button.
it will give you a suggestion keyword, again select the top keyword that you want then click the run part 3 button. you will finally get your result. I only selected a few keyword that is why I got few results, but you can take your time to select the top keyword in your niche then you will get a bunch of them to choose from. visite SEO chat
4. WORDZE
wordze is been around for a long time and is a very powerful tool, you do need to create an account it's free. when you log in you will have two main options. Ultimate Research and Long Tail Keyword
Ultimate Research is one I use most but if you want to a lot of keywords you can run the Long Tail Keyword, wordze take longers than other tools to run, you can grab a cup of coffee while it running. another cool feature about wordze is, you can save and store your past project. and if you come back to the site you can click the see past project and view it. http://www.wordze.com/index.php
5. KeywordShitter
KeywordShitter.com as been stable for enterprise SEO team and SEO fast leader for years now, you will really find it useful. if I put in SEO you can see it pumping out keywords. if you don't want some keyword to appear on your list, just copy it and past it into the filter on the right side.
it would take it out, you can use the positive and negative filter on the right side to get the data more usable because is overload of keyword. http://keywordshitter.com/
6. Ubersuggest
I will be honest to say that I don't typically use it that much, you can download all the result just like the other tools. you can also get monthly search volume, CPC, competition, which makes the tools better. https://ubersuggest.io/
7. Keyword.io
Keyword.io is similar to some of the other tool I have talked about and is very useful. if you put in your keyword you will get your result on the left side and each of the key phrases you select will go to the right side. you have to signup to download the file if you go to export, you will see signup to use.
8. SEO Book
hopefully, you will find those tool helpful and if you have any question fee free to leave a comment below. if you love reading my article do subscribe to my newsletter to get more update direct to your inbox....