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Small or newer sites often miss by targeting broad keywords dominated by major brands instead of more specific terms they can realistically rank for.
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Small or newer sites often miss by targeting broad keywords dominated by major brands instead of more specific terms they can realistically rank for.
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Small or newer sites often miss by targeting broad keywords dominated by major brands instead of more specific terms they can realistically rank for.
Most of you are targeting keywords that your website has absolutely no chance of ranking for. I've audited hundreds of websites and I see this all the time. I sell candles, so I wanna rank for candles. You are not gonna rank for candles. It's dominated by massive brands, way too competitive. And this is the case with most broad keywords like this...
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If your website SEO strategy has you trying to rank for keywords like this, you're doing it...
Most of you are targeting keywords that your website has absolutely no chance of ranking for. I've audited hundreds of websites and I see this all the time. I sell candles, so I wanna rank for candles. You are not gonna rank for candles. It's dominated by massive brands, way too competitive. And this is the case with most broad keywords like this...
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Most of you are targeting keywords that your website has absolutely no chance of ranking for. I've audited hundreds of websites and I see this all the time.
I sell candles, so I wanna rank for candles. You are not gonna rank for candles.
It's dominated by massive brands, way too competitive. And this is the case with most broad keywords like this.
You can get everything else right with your website SEO, but you're still not gonna rank. This is exactly what keyword research is for.
I go into the full method in the SEO Clinic. But in a nutshell, keyword research helps you find keywords your website can realistically rank for, because you probably need to get way more specific with what you're targeting.
So instead of candles, you're looking at things like soy candles, aromatherapy candles, scented candles. Then you check out the competition.
There are keyword research tools that will show you this in way more detail, but you can just search it on Google. If the results are things like John Lewis, Amazon Darnell, you're not competing there...