How User Intent Affects Your SEO Performance: Intent-Based Keyword Research

How User Intent Affects Your SEO Performance: Intent-Based Keyword Research

• Apr 09, 2019
• Dan Hoff
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• Search Engine Marketing, SEO, Website Conversion Strategies

by Inna Yatsyna

Early in the ‘era of search’ keyword research was quite a simple thing. All that was needed was to collect a wide range of all the words somehow connected with your content. And then, it would rank high. At the time, search engines’ algorithms were mechanical and robotic. So, looking for the pages relevant to queries, they relied on the number of similar keywords.

Times, They are a Ch, Ch, Ch, Changing . . .

Some of the newer technologies of machine learning now allow search engines to provide users with high-quality and relevant results based on their intent, not just on the words they use. That’s why building your SEO strategy around high-volume keywords doesn’t work anymore. Today there are loads of factors which matter for your website ranking and for traffic it drives. And user intent is one that matters significantly.

Well, what actually is user intent? And how can you use it? In this article, Inna Yatsyna takes a look at what user intent is, and how it should affect your keyword research. So to better understand it, and equip you to be able to develop your SEO and improve your content strategy, read the full article at Jeff Bullas’s Blog.

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