What is a good keyword?

What is a good keyword?

A good keyword matches the user intent, allowing Google to think that your site offers relevant information. If there’s a disconnect between intent and your keywords, users would soon realize that your site does not have what they need, and they’ll leave or turn to your competitors.

How do you find keywords?

To find ranking keywords for your site or a competitors site using Keyword Explorer, follow these steps:

1. Type in your website URL into Keyword Explorer.
2. Select the country where you audience is based.
3. Click the Analyze button.
4. You’ll see Top Ranking Keywords.
5. Click Ranking Keywords on the left panel to view more keywords.

How do I find competitors keywords?

The 8 Best Tools for Finding Competitor Keywords

1. BuzzSumo. We’ve talked about BuzzSumo numerous times in the past, and that’s because it’s awesome.
2. SEM Rush.
3. SpyFu.
4. Ahrefs’ Keywords Explorer.
5. AdWords’ Auction Insights.
6. Crowdsourcing Keyword Research.
7. Tag Clouds.
8. WordStream’s Free Keyword Tool.

Is Google keywords planner free?

Keyword Planner helps you research keywords for your Search campaigns. You can use this free tool to discover new keywords related to your business and see estimates of the searches they receive and the cost to target them.

Where should SEO keywords be used?

Where To Use Keywords For SEO

• Page Titles. Optimizing page titles is part of technical SEO, and is a good starting point when using keywords for SEO.
• Meta Descriptions. The next important area for the use of keywords for SEO is the meta description.
• Subheadings.
• Content.
• Images.
• URLs.
• Link Anchor Text.
• Social Media.

Do SEO keywords need to be exact?

In general, it’s no longer necessary to worry about using your exact keyword throughout your content. If it sounds awkward or you use it too many times, you may even harm your content and SEO. Instead, focus on creating quality content that reads like natural speech and on providing context with your keywords.

Do keywords still matter for SEO?

Keyword Placement over Frequency So it’s important to know that SEO does still matter—to a degree. For example, it’s still very important that your long-tail keyword shows up in your page title, URL, subheaders, image descriptions, meta descriptions, etc. In other words, keyword placement is still important.