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I was in Health and Wellness corporate Sales for 20+ years then felt led by the Lord to return to teaching, which was my college

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Keyword, Niche and Market Research
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My website is about SLEEP - SleepBetterSoon.com - and I want to get several articles posted asap. I know the topics I want to write about (sleep science, snoring, sleep apnea)

you can always write them in sitecontent to get them off your chest and then look for keywords on those topics rather than getting disillusioned...and rewrite them
as others have said there is answertthepublic or soovle.com
or find forums to see what people are asking about
try to find questions on narrow topics that can be answered fully in about 1k-1.5k words
then you can create a few reviews but you need about 20-30 questions full of useful content first..
plan out the sections ( categories) of your site - don't make it too broad - so don't try to cover the whole of sleep as it is a huge topic.
maybe take a section - sleep problems or sleep apnea and concentrate on that at the start...
get known for that and you can broaden in the future.
good luck
phil

As mentioned in Live Chat, it is always better to find the keywords and to perform research before writing your content. If you do it the other way around, you run the risk of the content not answering the title or searches/visitors intent, as well as not flowing naturally within your content.

Sleep Science, Snoring, and Sleep Apnea are also quite broad topics, so having a long-tail keyword will really help. Unless you want to create these three posts as Pillar Posts, and then point all other posts that you create towards them. Bearing in mind that you will be very unlikely to rank for these pillar posts for many months, maybe a year or more.

Have you tried looking at the answerthepublic.com and the www.usetopic.com/people-also-ask websites, to find specific questions that people are asking, that you can then answer?

For example, Snoring alone has over 79 questions that you could answer (Image 1).

Hope this helps,
Chrystopher

Thanks Chrystopher,

I especially appreciate the two links you sent, I will definitely use them. It just seems like it's very difficult to find keywords with >100 Searches, >100 Traffic and

You're welcome :-) Personally, I would keep that list to one side, until your website is more established. "What is the importance of sleep" doesn't make grammatical sense to myself, but feel free to use it.

For a brand new website, don't be afraid to use keywords with Traffic around 30, as that's roughly one visitor a day, and it will help you to get Page 1 Rankings for every post that you publish.

If you are publishing 3 posts a week, after 1 year, you will have about 150 posts. If they are all targeting keywords around 30 Traffic, that will be about 1,500 visitors per month.

Whereas, if you were to target the keyword "why is sleep important", yes, one post might bring you in 800+ visitors a month, but not if you are not within the first 3 pages of Google.

It is far better to target lower numbers, but to actually get ranked and to get the traffic :-)

To do that, use the two links I sent, and find the questions that people are asking, then answer them to the best of your ability.

Once you have an audience and traffic, then you can monetise it by creating review posts etc and adding affiliate links. But first, you need an audience that you can help, and who will then in turn trust your advice and, therefore, your recommendations.

Hi - no, not really, because your keyword should be in your permalink, and once published, you shouldn't really change your permalink.

You want Google to start understanding what your content is about, to begin the ranking process, and that is done through your use of keywords.

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Write content first, then pick keywords okay?

Write content first, then pick keywords okay?

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Keyword, Niche and Market Research
Updated

My website is about SLEEP - SleepBetterSoon.com - and I want to get several articles posted asap. I know the topics I want to write about (sleep science, snoring, sleep apnea)

you can always write them in sitecontent to get them off your chest and then look for keywords on those topics rather than getting disillusioned...and rewrite them
as others have said there is answertthepublic or soovle.com
or find forums to see what people are asking about
try to find questions on narrow topics that can be answered fully in about 1k-1.5k words
then you can create a few reviews but you need about 20-30 questions full of useful content first..
plan out the sections ( categories) of your site - don't make it too broad - so don't try to cover the whole of sleep as it is a huge topic.
maybe take a section - sleep problems or sleep apnea and concentrate on that at the start...
get known for that and you can broaden in the future.
good luck
phil

As mentioned in Live Chat, it is always better to find the keywords and to perform research before writing your content. If you do it the other way around, you run the risk of the content not answering the title or searches/visitors intent, as well as not flowing naturally within your content.

Sleep Science, Snoring, and Sleep Apnea are also quite broad topics, so having a long-tail keyword will really help. Unless you want to create these three posts as Pillar Posts, and then point all other posts that you create towards them. Bearing in mind that you will be very unlikely to rank for these pillar posts for many months, maybe a year or more.

Have you tried looking at the answerthepublic.com and the www.usetopic.com/people-also-ask websites, to find specific questions that people are asking, that you can then answer?

For example, Snoring alone has over 79 questions that you could answer (Image 1).

Hope this helps,
Chrystopher

Thanks Chrystopher,

I especially appreciate the two links you sent, I will definitely use them. It just seems like it's very difficult to find keywords with >100 Searches, >100 Traffic and

You're welcome :-) Personally, I would keep that list to one side, until your website is more established. "What is the importance of sleep" doesn't make grammatical sense to myself, but feel free to use it.

For a brand new website, don't be afraid to use keywords with Traffic around 30, as that's roughly one visitor a day, and it will help you to get Page 1 Rankings for every post that you publish.

If you are publishing 3 posts a week, after 1 year, you will have about 150 posts. If they are all targeting keywords around 30 Traffic, that will be about 1,500 visitors per month.

Whereas, if you were to target the keyword "why is sleep important", yes, one post might bring you in 800+ visitors a month, but not if you are not within the first 3 pages of Google.

It is far better to target lower numbers, but to actually get ranked and to get the traffic :-)

To do that, use the two links I sent, and find the questions that people are asking, then answer them to the best of your ability.

Once you have an audience and traffic, then you can monetise it by creating review posts etc and adding affiliate links. But first, you need an audience that you can help, and who will then in turn trust your advice and, therefore, your recommendations.

Hi - no, not really, because your keyword should be in your permalink, and once published, you shouldn't really change your permalink.

You want Google to start understanding what your content is about, to begin the ranking process, and that is done through your use of keywords.

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Do I need to try to get my About page ranked, and if so, how?

No, you don't - and really, why would you want to? If you are following the training, it showed you to press the "no follow" button so that it wouldn't get crawled and, therefore, not ranked. Same with your privacy page.

Thank you!

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Get my about page ranked?

Get my about page ranked?

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Search Engine Optimization
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Do I need to try to get my About page ranked, and if so, how?

No, you don't - and really, why would you want to? If you are following the training, it showed you to press the "no follow" button so that it wouldn't get crawled and, therefore, not ranked. Same with your privacy page.

Thank you!

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Keyword, Niche and Market Research
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I do not believe that this was mentioned in any of the WA training but perhaps I missed it. After doing lots of keyword research in Jaaxy, I've just realized that I did not put

I don't use quotations when doing SERP research because in most cases, that's not what or how people are searching. You want to research and analyze the real search results that someone sees when they search.

Thanks for asking, it will try to research on this.

Scott has it right. Always something new to learn.

Lily 😁🎶

One item to know. Thanks for the information.
Kento

Putting them in quotes in an actual Google search will tell Google to show results for that exact pattern.

I learn something every freaking day at WA that never occurred to me. Thanks Scott.

Any time

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Putting keyword in quotes for google serp research?

Putting keyword in quotes for google serp research?

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I do not believe that this was mentioned in any of the WA training but perhaps I missed it. After doing lots of keyword research in Jaaxy, I've just realized that I did not put

I don't use quotations when doing SERP research because in most cases, that's not what or how people are searching. You want to research and analyze the real search results that someone sees when they search.

Thanks for asking, it will try to research on this.

Scott has it right. Always something new to learn.

Lily 😁🎶

One item to know. Thanks for the information.
Kento

Putting them in quotes in an actual Google search will tell Google to show results for that exact pattern.

I learn something every freaking day at WA that never occurred to me. Thanks Scott.

Any time

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Keyword, Niche and Market Research
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If a keyword in Jaaxy shows just a hyphen or dash, and no number, does that mean it's less than 1, and thus would have super low competition? So if that keyword has >50 Sear

Hi J.W. I thought I would answer your second question of how much traffic is too much. The answer is there is never too much traffic but in these keywords you will usually find that the amount of pages available for readers or QSR is very high too. That's a lot of competition!! You are looking for keywords that people search for but that need your opinion with less competition or below 100 QSR.
Low hanging keywords.

Lily 😊

Thanks Lily! But now I'm really confused.

Take a look at the attached list of Jaaxy data and tell me which keywords you would start writing articles on first, and why.

Appreciate it!

J.W.

I would go with 'Best sleep aid for insomnia' if this works in your niche. There is a huge amount of specific traffic to this search but a low QSR. My next step would be to Google this title and analyze the first page. Who is writing the posts? Are they paid ads from medical companies? Who are the other organic writers like yourself? Make a list of your competitors so you can track their posts.
In my guitar niche there are certain competitors who write posts. Some are big companies and other like myself are organic. I know it is unlikely that any post of mine will rate higher than a paid post or video. So I take that into account.

Hope this helps
Lily 😁🎶

Good morning to you, JW. I subscribe to Jaaxy and use it all the time. I have never experienced just a dash in place of the QSR number. Many times I have experienced a "blank" space where I click on the "Get QSR" and a bar will move slowly to the right until it either displays a number or a "Retry" error message.
What kind of keywords are you entering into Jaaxy?

To answer your second question, This is my formula that I use to determine if the keyword term is adequate to use.
Monthly Searches - 100 or more
Traffic - at least 50
QSR - less than 250

If the monthly searches are lower than 100 per month there are probably not enough people willing to purchase to sustain any income for your website. Likewise for Traffic, if the number is less than 50 your time is wasted in writing content because you won't get any visitors to your website. And lastly, the lower the number the better for QSR but anything over 250, or "Normal" is too competitive which means your content will never rank in the search engines.

I hope this helps.
Ken

Thanks Ken, I appreciate your quick response. My keyword was related to Restless Legs Syndrome, a sleep disorder, and I've attached the Jaaxy numbers.

Does a big Search or Traffic number mean it's too hard to compete with, and get ranked? If so, at what point is the Search or Traffic number too big - 300? 500? 1,000? 3,000? 5,000?

Thanks,

J.W.

Thank you for the screenshot of the search term, this is a great help. I plugged your search term, Restless Legs Syndrome, into Jaaxy. I took a screenshot of before I clicked on the QSR results, and then the second screenshot of afterward.
JW, your screenshot, unfortunately, doesn't show any search terms worth writing content about. The search volumes are too low as well as the traffic numbers. Remember, it is a combination of the numbers.
On the Monthly searches, higher is better but anything from 100 higher;
Traffic volume you are better to concentrate on numbers 50 or higher. Anything less than 50 you won't get any traffic, 1 to 3 visitors per month.
In the screenshot of the restless leg 2 it shows the QSR numbers plus the Domain name suffixes available. Ideally the .com is available - if it is - and the number ranges are withing the above parameters this keyword is a very choice (great) keyword.

This of course is my opinion and it is based on my experience.

restless legs syndrome treatment 595 102 122 Great
restless leg syndrome treatment 3799 646 162 Great
restless leg syndrome home remedies 4074 693 57 Great
restless leg syndrome symptoms 3640 619 183 Great

The sample above shows keyword terms that have the best numbers.
Great question. I hope my example helps you.
Ken

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If qsr shows only a hyphen in jaaxy . ?

If qsr shows only a hyphen in jaaxy . ?

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Keyword, Niche and Market Research
Updated

If a keyword in Jaaxy shows just a hyphen or dash, and no number, does that mean it's less than 1, and thus would have super low competition? So if that keyword has >50 Sear

Hi J.W. I thought I would answer your second question of how much traffic is too much. The answer is there is never too much traffic but in these keywords you will usually find that the amount of pages available for readers or QSR is very high too. That's a lot of competition!! You are looking for keywords that people search for but that need your opinion with less competition or below 100 QSR.
Low hanging keywords.

Lily 😊

Thanks Lily! But now I'm really confused.

Take a look at the attached list of Jaaxy data and tell me which keywords you would start writing articles on first, and why.

Appreciate it!

J.W.

I would go with 'Best sleep aid for insomnia' if this works in your niche. There is a huge amount of specific traffic to this search but a low QSR. My next step would be to Google this title and analyze the first page. Who is writing the posts? Are they paid ads from medical companies? Who are the other organic writers like yourself? Make a list of your competitors so you can track their posts.
In my guitar niche there are certain competitors who write posts. Some are big companies and other like myself are organic. I know it is unlikely that any post of mine will rate higher than a paid post or video. So I take that into account.

Hope this helps
Lily 😁🎶

Good morning to you, JW. I subscribe to Jaaxy and use it all the time. I have never experienced just a dash in place of the QSR number. Many times I have experienced a "blank" space where I click on the "Get QSR" and a bar will move slowly to the right until it either displays a number or a "Retry" error message.
What kind of keywords are you entering into Jaaxy?

To answer your second question, This is my formula that I use to determine if the keyword term is adequate to use.
Monthly Searches - 100 or more
Traffic - at least 50
QSR - less than 250

If the monthly searches are lower than 100 per month there are probably not enough people willing to purchase to sustain any income for your website. Likewise for Traffic, if the number is less than 50 your time is wasted in writing content because you won't get any visitors to your website. And lastly, the lower the number the better for QSR but anything over 250, or "Normal" is too competitive which means your content will never rank in the search engines.

I hope this helps.
Ken

Thanks Ken, I appreciate your quick response. My keyword was related to Restless Legs Syndrome, a sleep disorder, and I've attached the Jaaxy numbers.

Does a big Search or Traffic number mean it's too hard to compete with, and get ranked? If so, at what point is the Search or Traffic number too big - 300? 500? 1,000? 3,000? 5,000?

Thanks,

J.W.

Thank you for the screenshot of the search term, this is a great help. I plugged your search term, Restless Legs Syndrome, into Jaaxy. I took a screenshot of before I clicked on the QSR results, and then the second screenshot of afterward.
JW, your screenshot, unfortunately, doesn't show any search terms worth writing content about. The search volumes are too low as well as the traffic numbers. Remember, it is a combination of the numbers.
On the Monthly searches, higher is better but anything from 100 higher;
Traffic volume you are better to concentrate on numbers 50 or higher. Anything less than 50 you won't get any traffic, 1 to 3 visitors per month.
In the screenshot of the restless leg 2 it shows the QSR numbers plus the Domain name suffixes available. Ideally the .com is available - if it is - and the number ranges are withing the above parameters this keyword is a very choice (great) keyword.

This of course is my opinion and it is based on my experience.

restless legs syndrome treatment 595 102 122 Great
restless leg syndrome treatment 3799 646 162 Great
restless leg syndrome home remedies 4074 693 57 Great
restless leg syndrome symptoms 3640 619 183 Great

The sample above shows keyword terms that have the best numbers.
Great question. I hope my example helps you.
Ken

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I'm confused about how to pick the right keywords to write articles about. Once my keyword all have 50 Searches, I have two questions:

1) What's the "Sweet Spot" for num

Hi, I personally go for over 100 traffic and the lowest QSR as possible then I Google my title idea to see what the competition is using and how many paid adds are on the first page.
If there is a lot of competition I will modify my title to get an easier listing and recheck the stats in Jaaxy.
The goal is to find 'low hanging fruit's.

Lily 😁

It often depends on your niche and your long-term strategy. Generally speaking I aim for more than 50 searches and fewer than 50 QSR. But there are many factors to consider.

Once you've narrowed down a list of potentially good keywords, you want to move on to SERP research (search engine results page). Basically you're searching your keywords on Google to see what's coming up.

This will show you who your competition is and what Google is really looking for.

For example, you might have a low QSR of 20, but the first page of Google might be dominated by very high authority sites like Entrepreneur(dot)com or Huffington Post (or the big names in your niche).

These are basically corporate sites, some with million dollar budgets and we try to avoid competing with them when possible, especially when your site is new.

Having said that, if you notice that the content those big sites are providing is very thin or doesn't quite answer the search query correctly, there may be an opportunity there.

In that case, I'll usually go to the 2nd page of Google, 3rd and so on, to make sure there are no really good posts there that Google is not recognizing because if there are, there's a good chance my post won't get recognized either, no matter how good it is.

Likewise, you may have a QSR of 100, 200 or more, but when you look at the SERP's, there are not many thorough articles relevant to the query. There may be a lot of site/posts that mention the keyword briefly (which is why it's quoted in the search results) but only a few might really address the topic or the question they way it should be.

It can be a bit of tedious process and may sound a little confusing but it gets a lot easier and more intuitive the more you do it. Eventually you can almost predict where your post is going to rank before you even write it.

And then it takes times. Some of my posts didn't make it to the first page for several months or longer. But because I was very thorough with that content, when it did start getting traffic, it stayed on the first page and continued to climb the rankings. But that's only because it deserved to.

However, I've had some posts that I rushed through and the content was mediocre. They didn't deserve to be ranked near the top and I knew it. The content that was ranked higher was better than mine, so instead of moving up, those posts often fell back to the 2nd page.

There are always exceptions to this of course, but it's important to remember that when your rank increases, you're knocking someone else down a rank or two (or several). A lot of that has to do with deserving that spot.

And sometimes you might deserve it because your single post is better than all the others, and other times you might deserve it because your site "overall" addresses the topic better. Your overall body of work may be more complete and helpful, even if your individual post is not quite as good as someone elses.

When your site is new it's always a good idea to target some really low QSR numbers. Under 5 if possible, even if the searches are really low.

The reason for this is not necessarily for traffic, but to make sure everything on your site is healthy and there are no underlying SEO issues. If you can rank for those really low QSR keywords, you know Google is recognizing you and everything with your site is generally good.

And then later as your site gains authority you can target keywords that are more competitive.

Have a look at the trainings on keywords. Start here:

Best number of searches for keywords?

Best number of searches for keywords?

asked in
Keyword, Niche and Market Research
Updated

I'm confused about how to pick the right keywords to write articles about. Once my keyword all have 50 Searches, I have two questions:

1) What's the "Sweet Spot" for num

Hi, I personally go for over 100 traffic and the lowest QSR as possible then I Google my title idea to see what the competition is using and how many paid adds are on the first page.
If there is a lot of competition I will modify my title to get an easier listing and recheck the stats in Jaaxy.
The goal is to find 'low hanging fruit's.

Lily 😁

It often depends on your niche and your long-term strategy. Generally speaking I aim for more than 50 searches and fewer than 50 QSR. But there are many factors to consider.

Once you've narrowed down a list of potentially good keywords, you want to move on to SERP research (search engine results page). Basically you're searching your keywords on Google to see what's coming up.

This will show you who your competition is and what Google is really looking for.

For example, you might have a low QSR of 20, but the first page of Google might be dominated by very high authority sites like Entrepreneur(dot)com or Huffington Post (or the big names in your niche).

These are basically corporate sites, some with million dollar budgets and we try to avoid competing with them when possible, especially when your site is new.

Having said that, if you notice that the content those big sites are providing is very thin or doesn't quite answer the search query correctly, there may be an opportunity there.

In that case, I'll usually go to the 2nd page of Google, 3rd and so on, to make sure there are no really good posts there that Google is not recognizing because if there are, there's a good chance my post won't get recognized either, no matter how good it is.

Likewise, you may have a QSR of 100, 200 or more, but when you look at the SERP's, there are not many thorough articles relevant to the query. There may be a lot of site/posts that mention the keyword briefly (which is why it's quoted in the search results) but only a few might really address the topic or the question they way it should be.

It can be a bit of tedious process and may sound a little confusing but it gets a lot easier and more intuitive the more you do it. Eventually you can almost predict where your post is going to rank before you even write it.

And then it takes times. Some of my posts didn't make it to the first page for several months or longer. But because I was very thorough with that content, when it did start getting traffic, it stayed on the first page and continued to climb the rankings. But that's only because it deserved to.

However, I've had some posts that I rushed through and the content was mediocre. They didn't deserve to be ranked near the top and I knew it. The content that was ranked higher was better than mine, so instead of moving up, those posts often fell back to the 2nd page.

There are always exceptions to this of course, but it's important to remember that when your rank increases, you're knocking someone else down a rank or two (or several). A lot of that has to do with deserving that spot.

And sometimes you might deserve it because your single post is better than all the others, and other times you might deserve it because your site "overall" addresses the topic better. Your overall body of work may be more complete and helpful, even if your individual post is not quite as good as someone elses.

When your site is new it's always a good idea to target some really low QSR numbers. Under 5 if possible, even if the searches are really low.

The reason for this is not necessarily for traffic, but to make sure everything on your site is healthy and there are no underlying SEO issues. If you can rank for those really low QSR keywords, you know Google is recognizing you and everything with your site is generally good.

And then later as your site gains authority you can target keywords that are more competitive.

Have a look at the trainings on keywords. Start here:

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