Keyword Research
Almost all SEO begins with keyword research. Understanding what people are searching for and how many people are searching helps form a solid content strategy.
Beyond the basics, keyword research encompasses many more advanced considerations, including SERP features, keyword search intent, competitive analysis, and even internationalization.
Read the latest Moz posts on keyword research. We’ve also included links to our most popular keyword research resources to help your SEO journey.
Keyword Research : Everything you need to get started with keyword research.
Keyword Research Learning Center : Our free keyword research learning hub. Here, we’ve gathered our top resources in one place.
How To Find A Competitor's Keywords : Find out what keywords your competitors are ranking for with this easy workflow.
Keyword Explorer : Want to dive in? Try our top-rated keyword research tool, with over 500 million keyword suggestions.
Find Striking Distance Keywords With Moz Pro : How to quickly locate, track, and label these keyword opportunities in Moz Pro in this Whiteboard Friday video
How to Use Keyword Clustering to Seamlessly Optimize Your SEO Content
Keyword clustering is the SEO tactic to use if you want to seamlessly optimize your SEO content and streamline your workflow at the same time. The best part? It’s fairly simple, and SERPs give you all the information you need to make an informed decision on exactly how to do it.
Using Keywords in YouTube Videos: How to Get More Views
The key to getting more views on YouTube isn’t to be special enough or loud enough to get noticed, but to tag your content with detail-rich identifying information, making it searchable for viewers already looking for videos like yours.
How to Optimize for Your Own Branded Search
Brand-driven search is so much more than the URLs you see ranking for your brand name. It’s an ongoing process that will result in higher conversions and more predictable buying journeys.
Daily SEO Fix: Advanced Keyword Explorer Metrics and Reporting Tips
In these Daily SEO Fix videos, we show you how you can use Moz’s keyword metrics to help you evaluate how much of an impact ranking for certain keywords will have.
Long Tail SEO in 2021: How You Can Have It All or Die Trying
Due to Google’s advancements in Natural Language Processing, the long tail of search has exploded. However, I will argue that NLP has also imploded the long tail, and understanding how and why may save our collective sanity.
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How to Use Low Search Volume Keywords to Optimize B2B Tech Content
For competitive niches, small addressable markets, or both, turn to this proven approach when trying to grow targeted organic traffic and brand awareness: targeting low search volume keywords.
How to Select Meaningful B2B SEO Keywords
It’s no secret that B2B marketing is different than B2C. The sales cycle is longer, there are multiple stakeholders involved, and it’s usually more expensive. To market effectively, you need to create content that helps, educates, and informs your clientele. The best way to do that is to identify the keywords that matter most to them, and build out content accordingly.
Fast & Featured: How Entities Can Help You Conquer Snippets in Less Than 4 Minutes
Larissa Lacerda of Rock Content demonstrates how to win snippets quickly by focusing your strategy on search entities.
Finding Keyword Opportunities Without Historical Data
3.5 billion queries are searched every day, and 525 million of those queries are brand new. That is a huge number of opportunities waiting to be identified and worked into strategies, optimization, and content plans. The trouble is, all of the usual keyword research tools are, at best, a month behind with the data they can provide.
Daily SEO Fix: Collecting, Organizing, and Tracking Keywords with Moz Pro
We want our customers to know the most effective ways to use Moz Pro to get keyword data, so we’ve put together these Daily Fix videos to help you do just that!