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More than (key)Words: Audience research for brilliant business-building content

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  • 33 Lessons

Master advanced keyword research for digital audience development. Build your knowledge graph to reach audiences actively searching for your content.

Establish brand authority in the AI era

Learn human-centered audience research, and transform your content goes

Content performance not hitting the mark? Algorithms giving you anxiety? Stressed about recent Google updates? Your toolbox and methodology are likely out of date.

Forget what you've learned about content SEO. Reframe your understanding of "the algorithm." Master audience and keyword research, and make the web a better place.

  • $499

More than (key)Words: Audience research for brilliant business-building content

  • Course
  • 33 Lessons

Master advanced keyword research for digital audience development. Build your knowledge graph to reach audiences actively searching for your content.

Contents

Unit 1: An introduction to keyword research

Let's set the stage for keyword research by understanding a little bit about how the history and function of keywords has changed over time.

More than (key)Words: An introduction
1.2 Tools you'll need for this course
1.3 A brief history of keywords
Exercise 1: Creating a list of seed keywords:
More_than_key_Words_exercise.docx

Unit 2: Getting started with keyword research

In this module, we'll get a deeper understanding of the Why behind keyword research. We'll also start mining for keyword data in our research tool.

2.1 Why keyword research?: Some examples and real-life experiences
2.3 Mining non-brand keyword data
2.2 Exercise 2: Understanding how keywords affect search results
More_than_key_Words_exercise_2.docx

Unit 3: Gathering and understanding your owned keyword data

In this lesson, we use Google Search Console to understand areas where our existing website already has authority.

3.1: What is Google Search Console?
3.2 Understanding the Google Search Console performance section
3.3 Brand vs. nonbrand search
3.4 Exercise 3: Importing our GSC data into Mangools

Unit 4: Organizing our keyword dataset

In this unit, we'll organize our dataset so that we can use it to inform our content strategy. We'll cover TF-IDF, data cleaning, and using AI to organize our keyword research.

4.1: Augmenting our keyword set with additional research
4.2 Exercise 4: Making notes on your keyword dataset
More_than_key_Words_exercise_4.docx
4.3: Understanding tf-idf analysis
4.4 Cleaning our dataset
more_than_keywords_cleaned_data.csv
4.5 The goal of categorization
4.6 Optional: Using AI to help with categorization
4.7 Finalizing our categorization
4.8 Preparing our keyword research knowledge graph pivot table
more_than_keywords_categorized_dataset.xlsx

Unit 5: Analyzing our data and developing realistic outcomes

In the final unit of the course, we'll discuss how we use our keyword research data along with additional audience research to create a content plan.

5.1 What we have now: Analyzing our keyword research project
5.2 What the numbers mean in keyword research
fully_categorized_keyword_research.xlsx
5.3: Outcome one: Building a knowledge graph
5.4 Outcome 2: Using keyword research for additional audience intelligence
5.5 Outcome 3: Developing paid & organic crossover
5.6 What you shouldn't do with keyword research
5.7 Our natural language processing future
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  • $499

More than (key)Words: Audience research for brilliant business-building content

  • Course
  • 33 Lessons

Master advanced keyword research for digital audience development. Build your knowledge graph to reach audiences actively searching for your content.