Do you know to find your google ranking? Before we start; What are some reasons you would want to research your ranking or keywords? I can come up with a few good benefits for performing a keyword search analysis along with the competition ranking. How many can you come up with?

Find Your Google Ranking ~ Your Competition

To start off, it's the only way you're going to be able to locate high search volume keywords along with low competition for you to compete against. Researching makes it worthwhile finding a profitable niche, domain, and business name. (high search volume)

Besides, if you wanted to, you could build keyword lists and make a little extra money on the side. Not only that, you'll gain knowledge of all kinds of subject/topics. Such as, how your competitors are performing in the market.

Furthermore, your competition is spying on you right now. Needless to say, more or less it's all part of their plan. Shouldn't it be in your plan? Are you giving them something to worry about?

Following these guidelines in this tutorial will give them something to talk about. Before you know it, they're be watching you in a different way, talking about where did you come from. Meanwhile, you shooting all eyes on me.

Go ahead, say it out loud. It'll make you FEEL GOOD and help keep you motivated. Here's something else that may get you excited. I'm going to throw in a small step-by-step guide that's designed to get you ranking quickly in search engine results. How would you like your page to be ranking and climbing upwards towards the top?

KEYWORD RESEARCH GUIDE

Topic keywords:

• Start with a broad keyword from the topic you are going to research.
• Brainstorm related terms to the subject, place results on a spreadsheet.
• Break the keywords up into types.

Idea Category:

• volcano
• eruption types
• eruption prediction

Generic Category:

• eruption types
• eruption predictio
• volcanic lavaflow
• volcano lightning effect

Brand Category:

• 7 Essential life-saving tips to know before a volcanic eruption
• What to do During a Volcanic Eruption that can save your life
• Supervolcano Erupts! What to Expect Now

Analyze the Competition:

There are resources that will tell you how your competitors websites are doing. You can use a keyword tool like

Tools like Jaaxy or Open Site Explorer are great resources for performing researches on the competitions, site authority, page authority, spam scores, ranking, and other useful information.

Competitor Analysis Research:

• Site Size/Depth
• Content-Length
• Supporting Content
• Age
• Link Profile
• Analyze Your Competition In Google Search (can you rank for a keyword phrase?)
• Sites with lower content
• Not targeting keyword in title
• Keyword not in URL/slug
• Site less than a year old
• High Article Power
• Non-Branded websites like mine
• Low Competition
• Check competition backlinks
• Look at Competition authority

ROADMAP TO EASY HIGH RANKING KEYWORDS: How to find targeted keywords that you can easily rank high for in search results.

Super Easy: Top 10 has no On-Page Optimization for the keyword and are not strong domains.

Easy: Top 10 have a couple no On-Page Optimization for the keyword but are not authority sites.

Relatively Easy: Top 10 are Optimized for the keyword but no authority sites.

Medium: Top 10 has full On-Page Optimization and a maximum of a couple of authority sites.

Hard: Top 10 has more than three authority sites optimized or three sites with an excellent backlink profile.

Very Hard: Top 10 has 6 or more authority strong sites and backlink profile.

Want to know what you're going up against? Checking out how your competitors are doing will give you an idea what you'll need to be doing.

1. Using Google search engine, enter the keyword and the location you wish to target.
2. Looking at the search results, notice how they are displayed and their position. Pay close attention to the title, URL, and description. How many sites are targeting your keyword?
3. Visit the pages from the result you just received. Read the articles, ask yourself, what did you like about the post? What didn't you like about it, and what would you do to make it better?
4. Build your authority by offing more value to your reader's. By creating a post that hit on every topic your competition talks about in their article, you can do better if you add what your competitors left out in your post. Back it up with supporting links, images, videos, and a strong call to action. You want to offer your website visitors complete satisfaction.
5. Use Wealthy Affiliate keyword tool or your favorite method of finding high search volume and low competition keywords. It's best for a beginner to start off searching for long-tail keywords. Long-tail keywords, along with on-page optimization are easier to rank high in search engines, fast.
6. Create content that generates traffic, leads, sales, shares, and comments.

Long Tail Keyword

Activate involuntary hypnotic reflexes in the brain of your audience. Client and competition. Long Tail Keywords are a phase of 3 or more words that may point to a specific product, service, or idea

Example:

SHORT TAIL KEYWORD TERM = Knife (MONTHLY SEARCH RESULTS 30410 / COMPETITION 358)

MID TAIL KEYWORD TERM = knife sharpener (MONTHLY SEARCH RESULTS 6144 / COMPETITION 358)

LONG TAIL KEYWORD TERM = Victorinox swiss army knife (MONTHLY SEARCH RESULTS 605 / COMPETITION 95)

Notice how your long tail will return a low monthly search result. Always seek out the lowest competition number.

Long Tail Research Benefits

• Less cost for PPC
• More targeted keyword
• Conversion is more likely
• Specifically optimized for page
• Lots of content to produce
• Large number of terms
  

Low hanging fruit are keyword with under 100 competition. If you want to rank fast and high, seek them out.

• Wealthy Affiliate Keyword Tool
• Google subjection search bar
• Searched Related
• Keyword Shitter
• Keywords Everywhere
• Answer the Public
• LSI Graph Uber Suggest
• Soovle
• Bing (must have a webmaster account)
• MozBar ~ Google Chrome Extension
• SEO Quake ~ Google Chrome Extensio

Modifiers to be use before or after keyword

(Informational)

• Healthy...
• How do you...
• How to make...
• ...tutorial
• ...training How to...
• ...guide
• Easy...
• Compare...
• Eliminate/get rid of/ prevent/reduce...
• Faster...
• DIY...

(Simple Phases

• Best...
• ...for women
• Top...
• ...for kids
• ...for men
• ...brands
• ...Where to buy
• ...vs...
• Luxury...
• ...reviews
  

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FACT CHECK
source: JAKOB NIELSEN ~ E-Mail Newsletters: Increasing Usability (Update: a newer study found that users read email newsletters even more abruptly than they read websites.)