Keyword Filter Overview & Search Operators

The keyword filter is an extremely powerful part of doing keyword research. For a while now we’ve had some extra features within the keyword filter that were never officially documented. We also realized that we never did a full overview of the keyword filter. Well, here it is! The official documentation. This article will give…

What Our SEO Competition Levels Mean

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…

Black Hat Link Building

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

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…

Link Building Overview

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…

Keyword Research

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…

On-page SEO – Content

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…

What The Search Engines Want

As complicated as the search engine algorithms are, there is a basic idea behind all of them. They want the highest quality pages to show up for the keyword searched. What this means are pages that answer the user’s query most accurately. They don’t want pages to rank highly for keywords just because they are overly…