Using Keyword Research When Building Authority Sites

Thanks BassTrackerBoots for the awesome info. But info itself won't do much unless I take action. So I am putting this into action right away and see the results!

Mannnnnn BTB, you are an awesome individual! I constantly look at your other KW research thread and use it A LOT!! I find myself clicking "Find Threads started by..." very soon after reading another of your threads...

Loved it and thanks,

--Rich

The info was quite easy to understand.

TiCkLe MoNsTa said:

This is awesome!
Quick question, does the CPC of the other keywords matter? Or only the number of searches they get?

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Searches only... the money is not in the CPC when you but in the massive amount of KWs you are ranking.

I am 100% sure that I get a little "leeway" from Google with my sites for KWs because others are ranking.

Brings to mind to me the saying, "Nothing succeeds like success". Be successful in something and other related projects (KWs) feed of that success and follow in the wake.

thanks man
will apply your tips

Thanks buddy for this guide!

Nice guide as always. Gonna need a bit of grunt work though but it will be worth it, I'm sure.

Quick question:
Following this process, we'll sure end up with hundreds of keywords. Do you write a separate piece of content for each keyword or group, say, 3-5 similar keywords together and write a post targeting all of them? The latter makes more sense to me but would like to hear your opinion.

bk071 said:

Nice guide as always. Gonna need a bit of grunt work though but it will be worth it, I'm sure.

Quick question:
Following this process, we'll sure end up with hundreds of keywords. Do you write a separate piece of content for each keyword or group, say, 3-5 similar keywords together and write a post targeting all of them? The latter makes more sense to me but would like to hear your opinion.

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It sure is grunt work, my friend from PAKISTAN (not Bangladesh), but I write a separate page on my site targeting each KW but I do mix in a few other KWs if it makes sense so it looks natural but the focus is on one only.

Also, you end up with thousands of KWs generally so if you do follow my process you better plan on packing a big lunch.

I am relatively new to the IM game, and thanks to high quality posts like yours and some others, I have created several profitable web properties. The appropriate mindset, a lot of reading, and trial and error are necessary factors. Keyword research is one of the more important variables that I consider, and I can appreciate your slant on topical keywords. Great work BTB.

thanks a lot. Important lessons to learn for anyone building site

BassTrackerBoats said:

It sure is grunt work, my friend from PAKISTAN (not Bangladesh), but I write a separate page on my site targeting each KW but I do mix in a few other KWs if it makes sense so it looks natural but the focus is on one only.

Also, you end up with thousands of KWs generally so if you do follow my process you better plan on packing a big lunch.

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Haha thanks

I have more questions, kind sir.
How often do you publish new content to such sites? And is that content strictly focused on the keywords you came up with prior to site launch? Do your sites include 'news' kind of articles that are not really keyword focused from my understand but they help get some traffic if you have strong social media presence.

No obligation to answer these Qs... I'm just trying to compare how you do things vs how I had planned to do something similar.

My approach is to publish as often as possible... daily if you have the available content but do it consistently in a random chaotic manner. I would publish today at 09:00 and tomorrow at 16:24 and the next day at 03:12... daily content at various times with various size articles if you have the content available.

The KWs are not always KWs that I want to or expect to rank... many are just what I would consider conversational KWs and are there as part of a well balanced site and if they rank that is cool, if not that is cool as well.

Funny you bring up "news content" as I have just started doing that with a site of mine that is business opportunity related and I am getting some interesting traffic and ranking for some KWs that I would never have thought to try... KWs that are big industry related names... Fortune 100 companies.

That is pretty recent though... last 3 - 4 months so I do not have any real data to stand on. It is pretty light data and does not have enough meat on the bones to consider it reliable but I like the direction it is heading.

bk071 said:

Haha thanks

I have more questions, kind sir.
How often do you publish new content to such sites? And is that content strictly focused on the keywords you came up with prior to site launch? Do your sites include 'news' kind of articles that are not really keyword focused from my understand but they help get some traffic if you have strong social media presence.

No obligation to answer these Qs... I'm just trying to compare how you do things vs how I had planned to do something similar.

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hello,

Thanks for sharing this with us.
I have 3questions:

1. How to get the long tail kw based on the already searched list you got?
2. Can we feed the site with content from the like of article builder or we absolutely need original content. I guess we need original content but just asking as you are more experienced.
3. Any preference on the engine. whether the site should be "html" or wordpress based?

Thank u

Awesome stuff. Your system, although it appears time consuming as you have alluded to, should pay off ten-fold. Thanks for sharing.

Nice guide, and quite different from how I've been doing my keyword research lately, but got lots of ideas from it nonetheless.

Quick question. How do you deal with keyword cannibalization when you have so many pages set up for so many keywords?

For example, if you have keywords: big yellow widget, large yellow widget, yellow widget that is big, etc. Do you consolidate it all into 1 post or set up a separate post for each one?

Lately, I notice google has been favoring topic pages, and I have some pages that rank for hundreds of variations of a single root keyword. However, when I have separate posts targeting different variations like mentioned above, google tends to keep all of them from ranking well. The moment I 301 redirect all the variations to a single main article, that article begins to rank for all the variations.

How do you deal with this issue? I haven't been able to create sites with hundreds of posts since the last few panda updates. Everytime I make big sites targeting lots of similar keywords, the site tanks and the only way I can fix it is to consolidate all the content into topics - 1 article for each topic as opposed to a separate post for each keyword.

Right now my highest traffic sites are ones with only about 80-100 articles with no overlapping topics. I can't really find a way to add much more pages than that without keyword cannibalization occurring.

TwistedSEO said:

Quick question. How do you deal with keyword cannibalization when you have so many pages set up for so many keywords?

For example, if you have keywords: big yellow widget, large yellow widget, yellow widget that is big, etc. Do you consolidate it all into 1 post or set up a separate post for each one?

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Good point and one that I should have addressed a little better... when I have KWs that are so very close like that I do slide them into one larger article as opposed to one page for each KW.

I do that for a couple of reasons... first and foremost, that is a natural look and feel for a site. The more I work in this industry the more I see natural as an important factor in long term SEO.

Secondly, it is a bit of a pain to write content that is valuable and unique when it comes to KWs that are just about twins. I've been doing almost all my writing these days and it is pretty hard to write something decent that is unique and interesting when the KWs are kissing cousins.

Awesome thread!

Quick question: Lets say you have 100+ pages... What is the backlinking strategy? Do you only focus on on page SEO for each page or is there an off site strategy for each page?

I was looking for this and got more info about keyword research to built authority sites....Thanks DUd !!!

elocin said:

Awesome thread!

Quick question: Lets say you have 100+ pages... What is the backlinking strategy? Do you only focus on on page SEO for each page or is there an off site strategy for each page?

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For off site I like to only link to inner pages (root page minimally) and use a huge variety of KWs to each page. I'm not of the school that you want to use the KWs for the page only when backlinking so I mix in many of the KWs for the whole site when I send links to any of the pages.

Op posted quite some interesting insights. Thank you!