Keyword research for new website
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Hi guys, I'm pretty new to all this so please bare with me if I sound like a total noob. I've been tasked with doing keyword research for our new website to work out what we want to rank for.
We are a b2b outsource provider of telecommunication services, contact centres etc.
I'm looking for advice on how best to start the keyword research, what I should be looking for etc.
At the moment I'm using a list of keywords provided by the sales team, running these through uber suggest for other variations and then putting them through Google's keyword planner.
Once I've done that I'm looking at ones with higher volumes of searches with low competition. Is there anything that I'm missing? I'm trying to cross reference this with intent, looking for searches linked to people wanting help, a provider, to buy etc.
Thanks in advance for any help guys, I really appreciate it.
Leo
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I'd also try and group keywords onto pages semantically. The days of every keyword getting its own page are long gone.
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Thanks for your tips, especially about using the Moz difficulty checker rather than Google's Keyword planner. Seems so obvious now that you've said it.
Leo
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Thanks, I'm having a good read through you're guide now. There seems to be loads of really useful information in there.
Cheers Leo
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It sounds like you are doing keyword research for SEO. Though you mentioned the keyword planner keywords with high search volume and low competition. You know that low competition descriptor in the keywords planner is for SEM (search engine marketing - PPC). It has nothing to do with the difficulty of ranking the keyword. MOZ has a tool that you would have to scrub every keyword in to get the ranking difficulty.
Do not simply rely on your sales team for keywords. I would suggest you start from scratch yourself. Find the traffic yourself. If you let someone direct you you may miss great veins of traffic.
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The article from Alick300 is nice
I would really recommend you to focus your first efforts in long tails with not so much serp competences to start to generate the first traffic, that´s very important point in my opinon
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Hi Leo,
I am sharing one article on 'How to do keyword research . I follow all the steps mentioned on that article.One of the best article on keyword research I have ever found .
http://backlinko.com/keyword-research
Thanks
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