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SEM Rush Demo for Niche Site & Authority Site Keyword Research - works for any Affiliate Marketing

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Channel: Doug Cunnington · 2017 · Education

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SEMrush is a great tool that’s able to do lots of useful digital marketing analysis, but arguably the strongest aspect of the tool is Keyword Research. 
 
You can use it to see what keywords your own site ranks for, which is useful. But perhaps, more importantly, you can use it to see what keywords your competitors rank for. 
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This is great as you can then find competition with a similar amount of authority as yourself and plug them into the software. It will then bring up keywords that the site ranks for and ones that you could target yourself. 
 
When you’re looking at a competitor's domain, it will bring up information such as the organic data, paid data, and the amount of backlinks the site has. 
 
*Although the backlink checker is known to be inferior compared to other sites such as Majestic and Ahrefs. 
 
I recommend those tools if you’re looking to check out your competition's link building efforts.
 
If you navigate down to the “top organic keyword” section, it sorts the data via the keywords that bring in the highest % of traffic. This is a nice approach because the highest searched terms is not always the phrase that brings in the most traffic. 
 
If you find a keyword you like the look of you can then plug the URL, it’s ranking on into SEMrush.
 
In the example above, we’re taking a look at the Wirecutters standing desk article to see what else it ranks for. Interestingly this particular article ranks for over 2146 terms in the top 100 and 46 of those terms are ranking in the top 10. 
 
By looking at the keywords that the article is already ranking for it can give you ideas or some subheadings for your own article if you’re looking to make it longer.
 
For example, if this article is also ranking for “How To Adjust Standing Desk” - you could add that as a section to your article and build it out even more.
 
You can also use the tool SEO quake to do a full on page audit as see how many words are on that page. 
 
An SEO audit will tell you things like whether or not your competition has used Alt-text for their images. If they’ve missed it off this is where you can get a leg up on your rivals!
 
If you haven't seen SEO quake check out the video below. 
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWdLAR_gz1k
 
Using these tools, you can analyse the competition and see exactly what’s required of you to get to the number one spot yourself.
 
You could find a 7 day or 30-day FREE version of SEMrush and then cancel it. The amount of keywords you could get here is more than you would ever need. 
 
Once you have your keywords, you can start building out a team to write, edit, and publish the content.
 
This is when we start putting systems in place to build out your site quickly and efficiently. 
 
Before you know it, you could have a huge site within your niche that runs almost entirely on “auto pilot.”

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