How to do Keyword Research for Blog Posts

I am sharing my exact strategy to find the absolute best keywords for my blog posts.

How do you do keyword research for blog posts? Find topics which people are interested in. You can do keyword research for your blog posts using

  • Forums
  • Research competitors websites
  • Use Google trends
  • Search in Google

What is keywords in blogging?

Keywords are the words people search for in Google. This could be a recipe, or how to take care of plants, it travel tips.

Today voice search has changed how search happens in Google.

Now people use more words or let’s say sentences.

What is point of keyword?

A keyword shows the intent of a person looking for something online.

If you as a blogger can understand this intent better, you can serve your audience faster.

What is an example of a keyword?

Think about what you had searched for in Google today.

Well, surprise surprise.. that is exactly an example of a keyword.

It could be anything you search in a search engine

  • how much does a baby weight at 7 months
  • What is the best dog food in the market
  • How do you paint your house

These are all keywords.

What is a good keyword?

A good keyword for a blogger is something which has decent search volume and is easy to rank for.

What is a good search volume?

Well I hand picked up a keyword which as per the research tools had zero search volume.

Even though it had a zero search volume I was sure that it was a good keyword.

How do you know that it is a good keyword?

As you start writing blog posts you will get a feel for different topics.

Intuitively you will know whether it is good or not. I do not rely on keyword tools. I rely on the search intent.

I also ask myself if I would be searching about such a topic.

if yes then I go ahead and write the blog post.

How do I find keywords for a blog post?

This is my keyword research strategy for coming up with blog post ideas.

I use this keyword research strategy to rank my blog posts easily. In this strategy I rely almost entirely on Google to find topics to write about.

Now these topics have good search volume, they have low competition and also have a decent search volume making it easy for me to be able to rank my blog posts.

The first is to identify topics.

While you are looking at topics to write about you need to keep in mind that Google is actually scanning your website and trying to understand how relevant your content is to what a person’s intent it

Google also wants to understand what your blog post is about.

Keyword research plays an important role in helping Google find your website and provide this information to the end user.

Let’s focus on topic research instead of Keyword research because what is more important in today’s age is to find topics ( for clusters or groups of keywords) so that you can write about these entire topics and rank for numerous keywords.

✔️ These have low competitive, good search volume keywords and topics which I have picked out and you can write on today.

✔️ I have done all the research for you if you are looking for Lifestyle blog post ideas 👉

How to do keyword research for Blog posts

  1. Find a core topic of interest.
  2. You can find topic by understanding the visitors ( which comes by experience). Look at forums, look at your competitors and perform competitive analysis.
  3. My favourite method is to look at Google I look into Google and I look at related topics.
    I try to find what are the topics, and what is the competition.

Competitive Keywords Strategy

I do not want to write on topics even though I know a lot about them if they are highly competitive.

If I really really want to handle those topics then I will write guides for those topics because I will not be able to rank my post otherwise.

  1. Make a blog post outline like I have shown you in this video and you can also use the staple pillar post concept which I have shared on my website https://indianmomvlogs.com/services/income-school-writing-service-content-writing-p24-articles-bonus-response-staple-and-pillar-posts
  2. I have many keywords which you can use right now.
    You can find these on my website just look at Indianmomvlogs.com and look for blogging ideas to find them.

These are easy to rank for topics which have good enough search volume and other competition.

How do I add keywords to my blog?

I include the keywords in the title. I use variations for semantic keywords through the entire blog post.

the topics which I showed you in the video I use them usually as header tags in my blog post.

How many keywords do you need for SEO?

You just need one good keyword. If you know how to or you are willing to spend some extra time then please do look for semantic keywords for LSI keywords.
This will help solidify your blog post and bring a lot of authority to your blog post.
Additionally they also provide you an opportunity to rank for multiple keyterms.

How do I find my niche keywords?

I use Google to find my niche keywords. I want to look around at my competitor websites.
I read a lot in my niche so that I am aware of what people in my niche are interested in.

How Long Should blogs be for SEO?

The length of the blog post totally depends upon the complexity of the keyword.
For highly competitive keyword make sure that you write really long blog posts, at least 3000 + words.

How many keywords can a page rank for?

A page can rank for multiple keywords. I have managed to rank my pages for many variations of the keywords.
I have achieved this by using the keywords and the variations in my titles, in my headers as image all text.

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