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First, I apologize for all the questions!
But, so far I've been following the instructions in the training. In the videos Kyle keeps saying to target at least 30 avg sea
Well Jay the WA trainer recently did a live training on doing SEO. He wrote a post, then did the SEO etc.
Anyway his keyword (9 word keyword) had AVG of 144, Traffic of 25, QSR of 32, KQI of Great, and SEO of 92
If I understood him right, if the KQI was not great, he wouldn't have bothered using this keyword.
His article was about 1300 words so he expects to get ranked for loads of other keywords as well as his targeted keyword.
The avg searches a month that this keyword gets is pretty accurate, the QSR shows you many competing websites have those exact keywords in their title.
As a general rule of thumb under 300 is medium competition, under is low competition, and under 100 is very low competition.
For newer sites aim for under 100 QSR.
Keep learning on training videos that will help you to figure out how to use the keywords properly.
Jacqueline
Hi Tina, trust Kyle. Look for keywords that have are at least 30 searches.
Of course if you can choose between two keywords that make sense, you would want to chose one with more searches as long as it has under 100 QSR. (quality sites that you are competing against.)
Also remember that Google could potentially rank you for a variety of other keywords that occur naturally in your writing.
View each post that you write as almost like being a fish net. The more nets that you have, the great the chance of catching some fish. When you are first starting, you are trying to attract the little fish by using some of the lower searched keywords.
The big guys are going after the big fish. Yet, when the little fish start coming to your site, the bigger ones will start to follow - as long as you keep writing and publishing.
I hope this makes sense.
First, I apologize for all the questions!
But, so far I've been following the instructions in the training. In the videos Kyle keeps saying to target at least 30 avg sea
Sometimes there is a topic you need to cover. In my case it's a certain piece of scuba equipment or diving location that just does not have the traffic to get 100 average searches with any keyword. I just have to settle for something less.
Well Jay the WA trainer recently did a live training on doing SEO. He wrote a post, then did the SEO etc.
Anyway his keyword (9 word keyword) had AVG of 144, Traffic of 25, QSR of 32, KQI of Great, and SEO of 92
If I understood him right, if the KQI was not great, he wouldn't have bothered using this keyword.
His article was about 1300 words so he expects to get ranked for loads of other keywords as well as his targeted keyword.
The avg searches a month that this keyword gets is pretty accurate, the QSR shows you many competing websites have those exact keywords in their title.
As a general rule of thumb under 300 is medium competition, under is low competition, and under 100 is very low competition.
For newer sites aim for under 100 QSR.
Keep learning on training videos that will help you to figure out how to use the keywords properly.
Jacqueline
Hi Tina, trust Kyle. Look for keywords that have are at least 30 searches.
Of course if you can choose between two keywords that make sense, you would want to chose one with more searches as long as it has under 100 QSR. (quality sites that you are competing against.)
Also remember that Google could potentially rank you for a variety of other keywords that occur naturally in your writing.
View each post that you write as almost like being a fish net. The more nets that you have, the great the chance of catching some fish. When you are first starting, you are trying to attract the little fish by using some of the lower searched keywords.
The big guys are going after the big fish. Yet, when the little fish start coming to your site, the bigger ones will start to follow - as long as you keep writing and publishing.
I hope this makes sense.
In my research, I've found some keywords that have over 30 avg searches, but 0 QSR.
Am I right in thinking this is a really good thing--since I'd be the only person tar
Actually 0 QSR is great. No website to complete against but need about min 100 searches a month and maybe min 30 -40 traffic. Go and up your keyword(s) in Ubersuggest as a backup and check the competition.
Danny
Hmmm, I have searched for literally hundreds of keywords in my niche so far and I've never even -seen- min 100/30 traffic/under 100 QSR. I've found a bunch over 30 min traffic and under 100 QSR though, like the beginning training suggests. I suppose it's possible my niche just won't be profitable, but I guess I have to work with what I have!
If you are worried about your niche, go to Google Trends put your niche in and check the 12 month and 5 year trends. If over these periods, if the niche is steady or increasing, it is a good profitable niche. If not get rid of the idea.
Danny
Well, mine's a hobby farming lifestyle blog about chickens, ducks and horses. I'll never have the same level of traffic as "make money blogging" or the other profitable categories, but I know people will always be interested in farm animals, so I'm still going to try since it's my passion. Thanks for the input!
Yes I know. I was raised on my families farm. And after my mom died I inherited it and moved back. As a matter of fact, I just got finished planting a few tomato and pepper plants.
Your niche is nice but I don't think it will help with any money. I'm sorry to best so direct.
Danny
This is certainly not a technical answer. I try to not dwell on things that I can't control. Sometimes I feel like online, back in the depths of computer programming language there are little goblins running around that cause weird things to happen that make zero sense.
So, when I see zero QSR, especially on a good keyword, I think there may be a temporary glitch resulting in the zero QSR - especially on a good keyword.
I never trust that a word truly has a zero QSR. You can always type it into Google and see what kind of search results come up for the phrase. That is another way to get an idea of what your competition would be.
I don't believe it is working correctly. In Jaaxy I have never seen a 0 QSR. If there are avg searches I believe there will be a QSR.
Hi Tina,
All the wheels have been invented already, so a 0 QSR is always suspicious ... Usually it appears because the keyphrase is not a natural, grammatically correct term, therefore nobody will use it ...
I've seen it on phrases that are grammatically correct. For instance the one I just noticed it on is "mini horse farrier tools" which is definitely grammatically correct. There's tons of farrier tools for mini horses out there, but I guess nobody has targeted that specific phrase...? It's odd to be sure!
Hi - are you clicking "get QSR" in Jaaxy? We are given the Jaaxy Lite version, and you have to manually click to get the QSR results.
Yep, I always click the get QSR button. I've done tons of keyword research at this point but have a special list of the 0 QSR ones since I figured they were good to target... but I figured I might as well double check!
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In my research, I've found some keywords that have over 30 avg searches, but 0 QSR.
Am I right in thinking this is a really good thing--since I'd be the only person tar
Actually 0 QSR is great. No website to complete against but need about min 100 searches a month and maybe min 30 -40 traffic. Go and up your keyword(s) in Ubersuggest as a backup and check the competition.
Danny
Hmmm, I have searched for literally hundreds of keywords in my niche so far and I've never even -seen- min 100/30 traffic/under 100 QSR. I've found a bunch over 30 min traffic and under 100 QSR though, like the beginning training suggests. I suppose it's possible my niche just won't be profitable, but I guess I have to work with what I have!
If you are worried about your niche, go to Google Trends put your niche in and check the 12 month and 5 year trends. If over these periods, if the niche is steady or increasing, it is a good profitable niche. If not get rid of the idea.
Danny
Well, mine's a hobby farming lifestyle blog about chickens, ducks and horses. I'll never have the same level of traffic as "make money blogging" or the other profitable categories, but I know people will always be interested in farm animals, so I'm still going to try since it's my passion. Thanks for the input!
Yes I know. I was raised on my families farm. And after my mom died I inherited it and moved back. As a matter of fact, I just got finished planting a few tomato and pepper plants.
Your niche is nice but I don't think it will help with any money. I'm sorry to best so direct.
Danny
This is certainly not a technical answer. I try to not dwell on things that I can't control. Sometimes I feel like online, back in the depths of computer programming language there are little goblins running around that cause weird things to happen that make zero sense.
So, when I see zero QSR, especially on a good keyword, I think there may be a temporary glitch resulting in the zero QSR - especially on a good keyword.
I never trust that a word truly has a zero QSR. You can always type it into Google and see what kind of search results come up for the phrase. That is another way to get an idea of what your competition would be.
I don't believe it is working correctly. In Jaaxy I have never seen a 0 QSR. If there are avg searches I believe there will be a QSR.
Hi Tina,
All the wheels have been invented already, so a 0 QSR is always suspicious ... Usually it appears because the keyphrase is not a natural, grammatically correct term, therefore nobody will use it ...
I've seen it on phrases that are grammatically correct. For instance the one I just noticed it on is "mini horse farrier tools" which is definitely grammatically correct. There's tons of farrier tools for mini horses out there, but I guess nobody has targeted that specific phrase...? It's odd to be sure!
Hi - are you clicking "get QSR" in Jaaxy? We are given the Jaaxy Lite version, and you have to manually click to get the QSR results.
Yep, I always click the get QSR button. I've done tons of keyword research at this point but have a special list of the 0 QSR ones since I figured they were good to target... but I figured I might as well double check!
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I came to Wealthy Affiliate already having a blog with some posts already on it. While I am in the process of creating new posts, I would also like to go back and optimize my o
Hi Tina,
My answer to your question is, yes. If a post is not getting traffic because you haven't optimized that post for a specific keyword that gets more searches, then yes, you should make the changes.
Reusing content you already have is a wise thing to do!
However, your URL should not be completely different from your main keyword.
For example let's say your URL is: /how-to-lose-belly-fat
Don't optimize your post for something completely different like "Best food to lose weight".
The URL should be related to your keyword somehow.
I wouldn't delete posts, even if it's not ranking well. You can use that old post to link to another post, which is excellent for SEO.
If you delete a post, you have to perform a redirect. I believe lots of redirects are not good for your site as a whole. So, I would only delete a post as a last resource.
Thank you for your reply, especially for the suggestion to use posts that aren't great for SEO to link to other posts. I wouldn't have thought of that! It's a great way to make every post useful and make them "work" compared to what I have now.
Hi Tina,
Optimising old posts is always a task that needs doing at some point. To update information etc, but i wouldn't mess with the keyword.
Rewrite the article by all means, but if you change the keyword you will lose any rankings you currently have with that keyword.
Update the old post, and if there is another keyword you want to work with, write a new post.
thanks
Thank you for your input!
I have a few ranked posts I was going to leave the keyword alone on, but the majority of them have no traffic/ranking at all because I wrote them before I understood good key words. As in, some have a keyword like "white" or something awful like that.
So I was hoping to fluff up and reuse the nice content I've already written, but with a keyword that actually stands a chance of ranking.
I guess my question was more if a post from 2018 or 2017 can still rank or if I might as well just delete those posts and post the updated ones anew!
If it is evergreen content it will always rank. But if the keyword is really bad, then it might be worth looking at revamping the content under a new keyword. What you don't want for it to be considered duplicate.
Find a decent keyword, revamp or rewrite the content under a new post.
If you do delete the content, make sure you upload a new sitemap to the search engines prior to reusing any of the old content.
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Is it worth it to optimize old blog posts?
I came to Wealthy Affiliate already having a blog with some posts already on it. While I am in the process of creating new posts, I would also like to go back and optimize my o
Hi Tina,
My answer to your question is, yes. If a post is not getting traffic because you haven't optimized that post for a specific keyword that gets more searches, then yes, you should make the changes.
Reusing content you already have is a wise thing to do!
However, your URL should not be completely different from your main keyword.
For example let's say your URL is: /how-to-lose-belly-fat
Don't optimize your post for something completely different like "Best food to lose weight".
The URL should be related to your keyword somehow.
I wouldn't delete posts, even if it's not ranking well. You can use that old post to link to another post, which is excellent for SEO.
If you delete a post, you have to perform a redirect. I believe lots of redirects are not good for your site as a whole. So, I would only delete a post as a last resource.
Thank you for your reply, especially for the suggestion to use posts that aren't great for SEO to link to other posts. I wouldn't have thought of that! It's a great way to make every post useful and make them "work" compared to what I have now.
Hi Tina,
Optimising old posts is always a task that needs doing at some point. To update information etc, but i wouldn't mess with the keyword.
Rewrite the article by all means, but if you change the keyword you will lose any rankings you currently have with that keyword.
Update the old post, and if there is another keyword you want to work with, write a new post.
thanks
Thank you for your input!
I have a few ranked posts I was going to leave the keyword alone on, but the majority of them have no traffic/ranking at all because I wrote them before I understood good key words. As in, some have a keyword like "white" or something awful like that.
So I was hoping to fluff up and reuse the nice content I've already written, but with a keyword that actually stands a chance of ranking.
I guess my question was more if a post from 2018 or 2017 can still rank or if I might as well just delete those posts and post the updated ones anew!
If it is evergreen content it will always rank. But if the keyword is really bad, then it might be worth looking at revamping the content under a new keyword. What you don't want for it to be considered duplicate.
Find a decent keyword, revamp or rewrite the content under a new post.
If you do delete the content, make sure you upload a new sitemap to the search engines prior to reusing any of the old content.
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Sometimes there is a topic you need to cover. In my case it's a certain piece of scuba equipment or diving location that just does not have the traffic to get 100 average searches with any keyword. I just have to settle for something less.