Keyword Research

Keyword research: from ideas to realistic targets

Keyword research is the process of discovering what people search, understanding what they want, and deciding which queries deserve a page or section on your site.

A repeatable workflow

Start with seed topics tied to the audience and business. Expand the ideas, check intent, use metrics to narrow the list, inspect the live SERP, group searches that want the same destination, and map genuinely distinct intents to pages.

Use metrics as filters, not verdicts

Search volume and keyword difficulty are useful screening signals. They cannot fully describe intent, result quality, brand preference, freshness or how well your site fits the query.

Finish with page-level decisions

A useful research process ends with a decision: ignore the query, cover it inside an existing page, or create a distinct destination because the searcher wants something meaningfully different.

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