SEO can be more exciting if you know how to choose the right keywords. In fact, having the right keywords on your website is one of the most important SEO strategies you can implement!
In this edition of Search Sessions, we’ll learn from keyword research industry leader Semrush. Senior Market Research Manager Fernando Angulo shares his proven strategies to help you be more effective and creative in your keyword research.
• Identify highly-converting SEO keywords for your business
Increase traffic after identifying more keywords for which to rank
• Find keywords in new, unique ways that your competitors are not using with Topic Research methods
• Boost revenue through more accurate keywords and increased search traffic with Voice Search
1. How to Identify
High-Converting
SEO Keywords for
your Website
WITH
Kristine Pratt
Director of Content
SEARCH SESSIONS
Fernando Angulo
Senior Market
Research Manager
Maja Teagle
SEO Manager
3. About
Semrush is a leading online visibility management
SaaS platform that enables businesses globally to
run search engine optimization, pay-per-click,
content, social media and competitive research
campaigns and get measurable results from online
marketing. Semrush offers insights and solutions for
companies to build, manage, and measure
campaigns across various marketing channels.
Semrush, with over 72,000 paying customers, is
headquartered in Boston and has offices in
Philadelphia, Dallas, Prague, St. Petersburg, Warsaw,
and Limassol.
Fernando has been with Semrush for 8 years and has
built its all-star marketing team. Being one of the most
recognized faces of the brand, Fernando is speaking at
50 top conferences worldwide each year.
Fernando specializes in B2B search marketing,
e-commerce, influence marketing and trained
marketing teams of companies such as Expedia,
T-mobile, Henry Schein and Bing.
http://linkedin.com/in/fernandoangulo
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Worldwide
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About
Fernando
Angulo
Senior Market
Research Manager
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specifically for small to
medium-sized businesses. By
supporting these businesses, we
(and you) are supporting the
backbone of economies all around
the world.”
78,000+
Keywords On Page 1
Of Google In 2020
30,000
Full-service Customers
17
Countries
2.3 Million
Keyword Rankings
Tracked Per Month
9
Languages
86%
Of Our Customers Get On
The 1st Page Of Google
Within 6 Months
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Writing
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& Build
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INTRO
When dealing with content, you realize that there is a multitude
of ways to get new content opportunities.
Start by optimizing the content that you already have, but also
by performing a keyword research in order to get new ideas,
and finally by analyzing your competitors’ content and keyword
profile.
7. Agenda
● Optimization of existing content
● Keyword research & Topic
analysis
● Competitive analysis
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Recommended workflow
1. Find SERP Features opportunities
2. Optimize target pages for specific keywords
3. Audit your content to identify your page’s weaknesses
10. 10
Discover content opportunities by identifying
SERP Features not linking to your domain
Optimize your content for
SERP Features in order to
improve your CTR
Organic Research
11. 11
Optimize content for Featured Snippets & People
Also Ask Featured snippets extract content from
the page that answers the query in the
most specific way
Research: How to optimize for FS?
PAA is needed when a user conducts a
search that either is not specific enough
to identify their true intent
Research: How to maximize PAA SEO
opportunities?
Organic Research
12. 12
Configure On-Page SEO Checker to get
optimization ideas for your target pages
Optimize your target
pages for selected
keywords in a specific
location
On-Page SEO Checker
13. 13
Review your content ideas & follow our advice to
improve your pages
Review your optimization list
to improve your SEO strategy,
SERP features, content,
semantic & backlinks
On-Page SEO Checker
14. 14
Run Content Audit to identify weaknesses in your
content
Content Audit helps you to find
pages that need your attention
Use Content Sets to easily
identify pages that could be
better optimized
Content Audit
15. 15
Connect your Google Search Console to analyze
articles’ performance Pairing Content Audit with
your Google Search
Console accounts will
ensure that you are getting
the most complete and up
to date data for your
articles
Easily export your URLs’
performance
Content Audit
16. 16
Review your article’s content and collaborate
with members of your team
Review your article’s content
and its performance, set tasks
and collaborate with your team’s
members
Content Audit
17. 17
Optimization of existing content
● Find SERP Features opportunities for your
domain with the help of the Organic
Research
● Configure On-Page SEO Checker to get
optimization ideas for your target pages
● Run Content Audit to audit your existing
content and see what content should be
improved
19. 19
Recommended workflow
1. Identify the audience interests for your topic
2. Analyze your users’ problematics
3. Find cost-effective topics & cost-effective keywords linked to that
topic
20. 20
Identify the most researched topics for your
keyword
Analyze audience
interest by topic
Sort keywords by
volume and analyze the
most popular semantic
groups.
Keyword Magic Tool
21. 21
Find cost-effective keywords by combining
keyword difficulty & volume
Find cost-effective
keywords
Use volume & keyword
difficulty filters to find
keywords with a high
volume and a low
keyword difficulty
Keyword Magic Tool
22. 22
Unlock a brand new source of targeted traffic
with the help of related keywords
Find variation of your seed keyword
Related keywords help you to
expand the breadth of your web
content coverage for your niche
topics
Keyword Magic Tool
23. 23
Consider most popular Questions for content
creation & optimization
Consider Questions filter to get
questions people type in Google
Use Questions to deliver interesting
content to your audience, it’s an easy
way to find content ideas that
matches your audience interest
Keyword Magic Tool
24. 24
Find questions that trigger Featured Snippets &
People Also Ask SERP Features
Find questions that trigger
SERP Features
Adapt your content to the
questions to get a higher
chance ending up in a
Featured Snippet or PAA
Keyword Magic Tool
25. 25
Identify topic ideas for a specific location
Find cost-effective
content ideas for your
location
Discover the most popular
headlines, questions and
related searches linked
to your topic
Topic Research
26. 26
Prioritize topics to find out the most effective
ones
Prioritize your topics
Filter by topic
efficiency to find
cost-effective topics &
make sure to keep an
eye on trendy topics
Topic Research
27. 27
Keyword research & Topic analysis
● Analyze the audience interest for your topic
or product with Keyword Magic tool
● Unlock a brand new source of targeted
traffic with the help of related keywords
● Analyse the problems around your topic or
product with Keyword Magic tool
● Find cost-effective content ideas for your
location based on popular or trendy topics
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Recommended workflow
1. Run a keyword SWOT analysis for up to 5 keyword profiles
2. Analyze the Search Engine Result Page to easily build your
website’s core semantic
3. Discover competitors’ best performing content
30. 30
Run a keyword SWOT analysis for up to 5
keyword profiles
Build your website’s
semantic core by
comparing up to 5
keyword profiles
Keyword Gap
31. 31
Check missing keywords that show a content
potential for your domain
Find keywords your
domain is not ranking for
but your competitor is to
get new content ideas
Keyword Gap
32. 32
Find competitors ranking for a keyword of your
industry
Find out who’s ranking for your
keywords in a specific location
Example for “industrial
automation”
Keyword Overview
33. 33
Analyze the keywords of your competitor’s pages
to easily get ideas to build your core semantic
Competitors’ product
pages can be a gold mine
to find keywords to build
your page’s core semantic
Keyword Research
34. 34
Discover your competitors’ best performing
content
Our Pages report helps you to
find the best performing organic
pages of your competitors
Organic Research
35. 35
Analyze your competitors’ best performing
content by category
Filter with keywords to find you
competitor’s most popular pages
by category
Organic Research
36. 36
Competitive analysis
● Conduct a keyword SWOT analysis by
comparing competitors’ keyword profiles
with yours
● Analyze the SERP with Keyword Overview
to easily build your website’s core semantic
● Keep an eye on your competitors’ best
performing content with Organic Research
37. Consumers are driving the conversation, and
they want to make educated choices
without intrusive ads - which they do not
trust.
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How to use + (Brand, Service, Product Name)
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Have the basic already working for your
users.
Using Paragraphs, Lists
and Table
44.
45. “I wrote and wrote brilliant content that was
original but nobody seemed to want to read it.”
46. Text length for Featured Snippets and voice
search answers is nearly the same for every
device: around 42 words in average
47. Conclusion
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How to Identify High-Converting SEO Keywords for your Website
By optimizing existing
content
By performing a keyword
research
By analyzing
competitors
SERP Features opportunities
with Organic Research
Ideas optimization with
On-Page SEO Checker
Audit of your existing content
with Content Audit
Cost-effective keywords &
users’ problematics with
Keyword Magic Tool
Cost-effective topics with
Topic Research
Keyword opportunities with
Keyword Gap
Core semantic with
Keyword Overview
Competitors’ best performing
content with
Organic Research
48. Thank You!
Reach out if you have questions!
SEMrush.com
f.angulo@semrush.com
Fernando Angulo
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50. Kristine Pratt
Director of Content
Fernando Angulo
Senior Market
Research Manager
Maja Teagle
SEO Manager
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