What is
Keyword Research?
Google crawls the internet, page by page, reading the text you’ve written and figuring out what’s relevant so they can dish up the best results for those who are making a Google search. Having the exact keywords that people search buried within your content in a naturally written way is extremely valuable. Of course, it’s a little more complex than that, but this gives you a general understanding of why a keyword research agency would base its entire content strategy on keywords; it’s the foundation of many marketing methods, for example, it’s valuable to include keywords in Google My Business, Youtube Videos, in Google ads and of course for SEO. Without keyword research, your website may as well be a paperweight.
Importance of keywords in SEO
SEO can be split into two parts; content strategy and technical SEO. Finding Keywords that are relevant to your content strategy is extremely powerful in gaining momentum in your web traffic.
For example, if your copywriter wanted to write the term “SEO London” into your website content, you have a potential search volume of 8100 searches per month. Whereas if your writer chose to use the term “search engine optimisation London” you’d only get a potential search volume of 480 searches per month (still decent to be fair).
What’s more alarming is that most copywriters don’t think at all about search volumes. If they put in “SEO Battersea” which is where we actually work most of the time, there would be a grand Toal of 0 (zero) searches per month. You can easily see how off-track you can get if you don’t work with a keyword agency like Thinkroom. Again, it’s not as simple as writing the content and taking the set and forget approach. This is just a simplified summary to give you a base understanding.
Choosing the wrong keywords.
It’s easy to get keywords wrong; you can easily get excited about large search volumes, but if you don’t have the right insight of what’s highly competitive, you could be trying to rank for terms that other companies have had a stronghold over for years. You’re potentially going to get almost no short-term traction. Instead, you need both a short term and long-term approach to consider when choosing the correct terms.
It’s also easy to get mixed up in terminology from various industries; for example, you may think that “AC” is an electrical term, but people who are searching for AC are mostly enquiring about air conditioning. A marketing agency will almost always use a keyword research tool, such as SEMrush and spend hours in comprehensive research running variations of terms to discover user searches that people are looking for.
Unlock search engine rankings
Digital marketing begins with a SEO keyword research process, starts with a consideration of your target audience, and a competitor analysis. It investigates the search intent of search terms, whether the person searching wants information, or to buy. We measure search volumes and a keyword difficulty score. A keyword list is created and then each search term is designated to a specific page on your website, making sure not to cannibalise other pages or blogs. We call this a keyword strategy. Get this right and your marketing efforts will result in more visibility in the search engines and search results.
Related SEO Services
Marketing efforts in SEO strategy require a combination of techniques. Keyword data, technical optimisation, content strategy, content optimisation, local citations, local SEO optimisation, website enhancement, backlinking, UX & UI design, and more. It’s a digital marketing agency’s role to build an engine that increases organic traffic that leads to conversions. That engine needs to fire on many cylinders.
FAQ's About Keyword Research Agency Service
What are long-tail keywords?
Longtail keywords are phrases that someone might search when they're closer to making a purchase of a product or service. It's when a consumer is getting more specific about what they want. Often, there's a lower search volume for long-tail keywords, but the conversion rates are higher.