free keyword research guide for search engine marketing - wordstream
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Keyword research is critical to achieving success with pay-per-click (PPC) and search engine optimization (SEO). Learn how to conduct keyword research in our FREE keyword research guide for search engine marketing.TRANSCRIPT
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Boston SEO MeetupEffective Keyword Research for SEO and PPC
Larry Kim, Founder and VP of Products, WordStream, Inc., June 15, 2009
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What is Keyword Research?
• Discovering & analyzing a company’s search taxonomy (the universe of search queries of search engine users that are relevant to an organization’s business)
• Leveraging the understanding of your keyword taxonomy to continuously inform and optimize SEO and/or PPC efforts
• It’s the most important task in search marketing since:– In PPC, you’re essentially paying for clicks on search queries– In SEO, you have to model your content around actual search queries– Do a bad job at keyword research, nothing else will work optimally in
search marketing
• Also potentially the hardest task in search marketing to do well
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Keyword Research Challenges
• Billions of Keywords to Choose From!• Keyword Suggestion Tools are Limited
– Popular keywords isn’t the same thing as relevant keywords– Same keywords available to everyone– “Low Resolution”, missing out on “Mid-tail” and “Long-Tail” Terms.
• Generating a keyword list isn’t “keyword research”!• Negative Keywords are critically important yet hard to
identify• How do you organize huge keyword lists?• How do you make keyword research dynamic and iterative?• How do you know where to focus your attention?• How do you co-ordinate a team of individual contributors?
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Tonight’s Agenda
• Keyword Research Best Practices for PPC & SEO
• Overview of WordStream Solution for Keyword Management
• Questions & Answers
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Step 1: Build a Keyword Database
• Treat your Keyword Research is a valuable, proprietary asset.
• Public Keyword Tools: – Keyword Suggestion Tools, Competitive Keyword Tools, etc.
• Private Keyword Tools:– Web Server Log Files, Keyword Reports from Web Analytics, Search
Query Reports from Google AdWords
• Aggregate all this data• Measure what keywords generated what outcomes (e.g.:
clicks and conversions, etc.)• Important note: Real data from private sources is worth
more than estimated data from public sources
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Step 2: Group and Organize Keywords
• A huge keyword list isn’t actionable for PPC & SEO
• You first need organize into smaller lists based on different keyword segmentations
• First Identify broad topics first, then create sub-groupings around more narrowly focused keyword niches
• Keyword segmentations should be discriminating
• Focus on traffic and goal producing segmentations
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Why Keyword Organization Matters for PPC
Optimize your campaign by following Google’s best practices for maximizing Quality Score (Relevancy)– Select specific keywords and negative keywords– Group together closely related keywords – Write relevant text ads and destination pages– Higher Quality Score: Better Exposure, Lower Minimum Bids, Lower Cost Per
Click– Makes bid manipulation more effective, improves conversion rates
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Why Keyword Organization is key for SEO
Author lots of
original Web Pages…– Specifically themed
around narrow subjects
– Includes long-tail keyword variations in the page copy
– Organize content with relevant intelligent information architecture
– Use as landing pages for PPC campaigns
– Repeat!
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Step 3: Negative Keyword Expansion
• Make sure your Negative Keyword Expansion is keeping up with your keyword expansion
• Keyword Research can reveal terms you’re inadvertently broad matched against
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Step 4: Make Keyword Research Continuous
• Re-factor new keyword opportunities into your existing keyword research
Conduct Keyword Research
Group, Organize,
Find Negatives, Prioritize
Keywords & Tasks
Act: Publish Ads for PPC and
Web Content for SEO
Obtain more
keyword data
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Step 5: Prioritize PPC & SEO Workflow
• Build up a database of relevant search queries, organize into smaller groupings of related keywords
• Systematically generate coverage in paid and/or sponsored listings by publishing Web content and ad groups.
• This can take forever, so prioritize: – Focus on keyword groupings that actually generate
traffic and conversions on your site.– Leverage PPC data to inform SEO if possible
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Step 6: Act!
• Don’t get too lost in dashboards and reports
• Stick to a plan: X new web pages or ad groups per week
• If you don’t add new stuff, you’ll probably generate similar results
• Repeat the process
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Summary of Keyword Research Best Practices
• Private & Proprietary Nature• Personalized and Based on Real Traffic &
Conversions• Keyword Grouping & Organization• Continuous & Iterative• Should include ongoing Negative Keyword
expansion• Data-Driven & Actionable• Should leverage both PPC and SEO data• Break down into prioritized tasks
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WordStream Overview
WordStream is a provider of Keyword Management
Solutions for working with large numbers of keywords to
build and optimize PPC and SEO on an continuous basis.
We provide search marketers with a private online
keyword workbench for conducting keyword discovery,
research, grouping & organization and workflow, as well as
integrated tools to take action on their keyword research.
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Keyword Aggregation
• Import Keyword Data from
a Variety of Different Sources
• Continuous Keyword
Discovery continuous and
dynamic
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Keyword Analysis
• Long tail keyword
analysis tools
• Determine what
keywords led to
what outcomes
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Keyword Organization
• Suggests ways to
segment keyword
lists
• New keywords
are automatically
organized!
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Actionable PPC & SEO Tools
• Turn Keyword
segmentations into
Ad Groups
• Associate
keyword groupings
with Web Pages
for SEO
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Negative Keyword Tool
• Suggests Negative Keywords
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PPC & SEO Workflow Tools
• Each keyword
grouping has
associated tasks
• Prioritize tasks
based on user
defined criteria
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Questions?
If you have any comments or questions about this presentation, contact Larry directly:
[email protected] http://twitter.com/larrykim
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