Today I decided to share with you (or remind to those who might have forget about it) a great tool that shows which questions a searcher tends to ask when using the specified phrase.
This tool is ideal for a few essential tasks you probably tackle daily or weekly:
- Get new post ideas (Sometimes you are just stuck, so use it for inspiration);
- Content optimization (especially for titles: a title that asks a question will not only generate you more search referrals but also encourage more clicks-through and comments);
- Semantic search optimization: give people what they want - give them the answer to their questions.
Wordtracker’s “Keyword Questions” tool is a great free utility to start with!
People often type questions into search engines. Now you can find these questions, answer them and get some great search traffic. You’ll be targeting long tail keywords and providing content that readers want to read and link to. Enter a single or a short keyword to find the questions people are asking in your market
How would you use this tool? Please share your thoughts!
Look What People Ask in Your Niche | Daily SEO Tip http://tinyurl.com/p8spq8
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Look What People Ask in Your Niche | Daily SEO Tip http://tinyurl.com/p8spq8
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Use wordtracker’s Keyword Questions tools for niche phrases and questions, says @seosmarty http://tinyurl.com/p8spq8
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This is a technique I’ve just come across - an ideal way of getting pages to rank for the various questions related to your niche is to create an FAQ section with answers to those questions.
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Geez! I was looking for this tool this very week! Thanks Ann! =)
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Ann;
Great tool. Thank you for this. I have been using keywords that I knew were of interest by looking at my blog stats. This opens up a whole new arena.
One thing I do to create more traffic and a higher Google rank is to write a series of articles on the same topic using introduction and summation ‘pillar’ articles with explanatory articles in between. Each of those articles titles, tags, and categories are SEO’d with the keywords, and of course the body of the articles have the appropriate phrase(s).
What really helped is that I started writing on areas of business that very few others were talking about. Often they weren’t talking about them for fear that the answer might scare people off. But, if people are looking for answers, give them to them.
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Another good tool for finding questions is digging into yahoo answers or any other ‘how to’ site
Dave
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Tom Demers Reply:
May 19th, 2009 at 3:52 pm
Yeah great point Dave. Looking at your log files and site search is another good way to get an idea of what people are searching for/which questions they’re asking.
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In fact, any keyword suggestion tool can do most of this. Lop off the general searches like “books” or “head hunters” and see what is in the long tail. Those are questions, even if they are noit worded as such.
Soooo…can we expect “What is SEO?” and “How do I become a certified SEO?” to be your next blog posts?
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Great tool, thanks for sharing. I am optimizing my search engine optimization campaign for my two blog sites and its really important for me to track the keywords.
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This one little tool pretty much started my current blog! It’s a great way to get content ideas and will give you the inspiration to go out and research your niche. If you do it right some of the phrases and questions can bring in some steady traffic and hopefully the search referred traffic will stick around and read your more tailored content…
I would recommend checking this out for anyone that is stuck with what to write about
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Thanks for sharing this tool. What a good way to find workshop/writing topics. I also like the idea of creating an FAQ section to address on some of these questions, if they relate to your site/service.
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this is a very good article and can really help getting ideas on writing articles or any subject really
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Great post. I’ve started digging into SEO lately and this will help me learn and teach others at the same time as I learn what people are search for.
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Thanks so much for the helpful tool and some great ideas on getting info for posts.
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great tool, thanks for bringing in to our attention. I will definitely take advantage of it. I used to use the regular free wordtacker tool for the same purpose, but this one is much much better
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Thanks for the reminder Ann
I’m in a very competitive business and it would be nice to know what peoplw ask.
I’ll give it a try.
Zafar
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really thanks for the advice mate
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Cheers for sharing this tip. This tool can really make quite a differene. Nice post.
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I think this will be more useful when we get a new project in any field. Also we can get some answers too form the website for those questions.
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Nice post.
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Thanks for sharing this tool …. this is good.
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Amazing tool!
This not only good to find out what people ask in your niche, but also what people ask about your company, that you can use it to post a article, for example, in your company blog/site trying to answer their questions!
Try this one!
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wow… great sharing Ann… thanks a lots
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Thank you, you answered the question I have been searching for which was whether or not to place keywords when blog commenting.
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Great tool but it doesnt work for Brazil =(
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Great tool but it doesnt work for Brazil =(
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Great tool but it doesnt work for Brazil….
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Thank you, you answered the question I have been searching for which was whether or not to place keywords when blog commenting….
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This is a really good discussion! It is interesting that it has spanned over a few years and is still relevant. Thanks for the viewpoints – Happy 2010!
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