{"id":3411,"date":"2018-09-11T17:31:53","date_gmt":"2018-09-11T17:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.keysearch.co\/blog\/?p=3411"},"modified":"2023-01-25T19:19:14","modified_gmt":"2023-01-25T19:19:14","slug":"content-assistant-tutorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keysearch.co\/blog\/content-assistant-tutorial\/","title":{"rendered":"Content Assistant Tutorial"},"content":{"rendered":"

For all of you bloggers and article writers out there we are happy to introduce a new tool in our feature set called Content Assistant!<\/p>\n

Content Assistant is not your typical on-page SEO optimization<\/a> tool. Most of your usual tools (for example Yoast<\/a>) are there to help you with things like optimizing meta descriptions, page titles, headings, etc… Content Assistant is different. The main goal of Content Assistant is to help you maximize the ranking and traffic potential of the target topic.<\/p>\n

Rather than concentrating on the technical SEO aspects of our article, Content Assistant<\/a> helps us break down what type of content Google is looking for within the top page results and allows us to get the most out of each article we create.<\/p>\n

It is also not meant to replace the normal keyword research<\/a> functions. Content Assistant should be loaded up after you’ve already figured out which keyword and topic you’ll be writing about.<\/p>\n

Content Assistant In Action<\/h2>\n

Recently we decided to release our Brainstorm Tool for free. We created a landing page for it targeting the overall topic “niche ideas<\/a>.” We put together a landing page that we thought was competitive for a first-page result. Our page hovered around the 4th and 5th page of Google for weeks.<\/p>\n

On Sept. 4th we decided to use the page as a case study for Content Assistant. We optimized our landing page content as per the “Must Words” and “Recommended Keywords” suggested by Content Assistant. We increased the word count to be more competitive with the top page results. We also used the “Content Snippets” and “Questions” for quick research. After Google re-crawled the page our rankings immediately went up to 27th and then as of today have gone up to #14!<\/p>\n

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*Update*: This page has now ranked on the 1st page of Google for 4 years and counting.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

We hadn’t created any other backlinks (the internal link seen above was created today after the rankings update to further try and help rankings).<\/p>\n

Now we are not guaranteeing these sorts of results for everyone and there could be some other factors at play here as well. Without a doubt though Content Assistant helped. This is not the only page of ours where we’ve seen gains after using Content Assistant but for the sake of keeping things brief, we are only including this particular page as an example.<\/p>\n

Getting Started With Content Assistant<\/h2>\n

If you’d prefer you can skip down to the bottom where we created a quick video overview that explains most of what is in this tutorial.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

When you first open Content Assistant you will see the usual Keysearch search bar. Here is where you will type in your main keyword phrase or topic idea.<\/p>\n

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After you’ve clicked “search” it will go out and load all of the relevant data including the keyword difficulty score.\u00a0You’ll notice there is a text area to work on your article as well as the right-hand column that contains the following tabs:<\/p>\n