The last year and a half has been a fun ride for us. Our user base continues to grow at a great pace, this has enabled us to start thinking bigger with the features we can add and the data we can provide. As we continue to increase our capacities and add a lot of…
Within Keysearch you may have noticed that we not only provide a keyword competition score but we also have different color levels corresponding with keyword difficulty. A question we get asked fairly often is “What exactly do the competition levels mean?”. It’s very easy to look at the keyword competition score, or take a quick…
You’ve made it! The final chapter of our SEO Crash Course. Hopefully, you’ve learned a few things along the way and feel confident moving forward with your SEO campaigns. In this final part of the course I really just want to give some final thoughts and a few helpful tips and tricks. SEO: Ever-Changing and…
In order to make an SEO tutorial that encompasses all aspects of SEO, I can’t ignore black hat link building. This is because, despite its dark and ominous-sounding name, it is still prevalent in the SEO world. Maybe not as much as it once was, but it is still alive and well. Some SEO purists…
White hat link building is the preferred type of link building for most webmasters. White hat basically means you are doing your best to follow Google’s guidelines. When you stick to white hat SEO methods you are giving your site the best chance to stay in good graces with Google and not risk any penalties…
In the previous tutorials, I’ve discussed just how important backlinks are. If you haven’t fully understood yet then I’ll say it one more time. Backlinks are THE most important aspect of achieving high rankings in Google. All the other aspects we’ve discussed and will discuss are important but nothing is as important as backlinks. Backlinks…
Knowing the basics of keyword research is just as important as any of the other major aspects of SEO (site optimization, backlinks, content, etc..). When you get down to it, all search engines really do is return what their algorithm thought was the best results for a searched keyword or topic. This means it’s very…
As I’ve talked about in the previous parts of this course the popular saying is “Content is King”. The content on your site is the entire purpose anybody would want to visit your website. If you have nothing good to offer, then there is really no reason for anyone to visit your site. This is…
Driving more traffic to our website is the ultimate goal. We can play around with all of the SEO tools we want and do all of the content marketing possible but in the end, we need to be targeting the right keywords. This is why having the ability to identify your competitor’s keywords can be…
One relatively unknown feature of Keysearch is the ability to use an underscore as a wildcard for Google Suggest searches. What this means is wherever you place an underscore, Google Suggest will automatically fill in the underscore with relevant keyword phrases that you would most likely not have found otherwise. I personally love this technique…
