Why It's Important
Allows us to drive customer campaigns with a data-driven approach.
Identify what keywords your audience is actually using to find your products
Find keywords where performance just needs a little push
Ensures we are selecting the best work possible for our clients.
It helps us find competitive keyword opportunities to try to rank.
It drives our reporting - Makes ROI Conversations easier
Having a well-maintained keyword list ensures what we track and ultimately report on aligns with what is on the site and therefore, our performance metrics get a boost.
It helps organize your campaign plan into a clear path forward
Makes client transition less painful - Everyone should have a clear idea of what has been worked on and what’s next.
Impact
Selecting work takes less time and the work will be more impactful to the campaign.
Reporting will have fewer steps, freeing up Juniper to work on other tasks, which helps ensure we meet reporting deadlines
Reduces the amount of time updating campaign plans
Drives better results for our customers
Build Your Seed Lists
Based on the information you find on the website, this process will change slightly. You will primarily use the all-inventory page and the filters to determine what types of inventory each dealer offers. That will be used to build our keyword list.
** If there are common variations of terms such as: “Harley Motorcycles” and “Harley Bikes”, add as many as you can think of ***
*** Save these lists. It will serve as a mapping of all the groups and folders you will need to create in AccuRanker.
Multiply Your Keyword Lists
As you are multiplying the terms given the rules below, add your results to a spreadsheet for storage until we get into the keyword planner.
Select the appropriate vertical below.
Use Keyword Planner to Sort and Remove Keywords
You will take your initial keyword list pre-multiply and the additions from multiplication to a spreadsheet and add them to Keyword Planner to get the traffic volume and determine the correct location to target in SEO Monitor.
Navigate to the keyword planner tool.
Select an inactive account, and click “Get search volume and forecasts
Paste your keyword list
From here, you will be able to select a location to target.
SEARCH VOLUME TARGET = Minimum 1,500 Average Monthly for entire keyword list (not per keyword)
Select the most narrow target first, like the city or township where the dealer is located.
If not enough search volume exists for your seed list you will need to expand the target area to either the next closest city or even the state. If a dealer has multiple locations in a state, start with the state.
Once you have found the location Goldilocks zone for search volume you will want to do an export into Google Sheets and eliminate anything that has little to no search volume by sorting by volume and deleting the bottom of the list.
Import to AccuRanker and Start Tagging
Once you have a full list of qualified keywords from keyword planner, you will need to add those keywords to AccuRanker and start tagging them into groups.
Add Keywords
Log into Accuranker and locate the correct domain by making use of the search bar in the top-left corner of side navigation.
Once the domain specific dashboard loads, you will see an orange “+ Add keywords” button near the top left of the dashboard. Click it.
You will paste your keyword list into the keywords field on the top-left of the popup.
Ensure your Search Engine, Locale, and Location setting are all correct
For now, it should be:
US or Canada depending on location
Mobile Google as the search engine
Locations should match the target locations from the intake.
Click “Add Keywords” in the bottom right
It will reload and you’re ready to move on to grouping.
How to Group
How we group keywords relates directly back to the pages on the site. In your inventory catalog, you will have product type pages and brand pages, and then under each of those, you will have further breakdowns depending on dealer inventory. The simple rule to ensure you’re putting a keyword in the correct group is “One Group, One Page”. Having one group for each page on the site helps the Juniper and content teams to know what keywords should be included in the content or on reporting.
We will make use of Accuranker’s tagging function to replicate our grouping from SEOmonitor
Tags- One each for all brands and product types. It allows you to see stats for the whole brand or the whole product type in a roll-up report.
Tagging Guide
Navigate to the correct domain
Click the “Keywords” tab in the main navigation
You can now use the filter search bar at the top of the page to search for keywords
After searching for the keywords you want to group, you can select the keywords you want to add tags to by clicking the checkbox for each keyword row in the site
Once you have selected keyword you want to tag, you will see new options above the table. Click the one that says “✏️ Edit” and then select “Add tags” from the drop-down.
Type the name of the tag and click “Add tags”. Name should be the same as folder names used to be.
Grouping Examples
You will create tags for the following: