Please help me to understand keywords - Support

Resolved Christopher Tutton
4 years ago

Rank Math free

Good Morning,

Today I am starting the process of optimising the SEO on my website (blog.)

So far I have several pages, but no posts. I understand that when I start writing blog posts, I should search for what people are searching for, and write blog posts around these keywords.

What I am having difficulty in getting my head around though is choosing keywords for my main pages, such as my home page, about page, contact page, etc…

For example, on my homepage, I have chosen my focus keyword as “Boots N Bourbon.” This turns green, which I know is good. However, I want to chose some long tail keywords, such as “Country music blog UK” or “Boots N Bourbon blog” for example. If I try entering something like this, it turns orange, because it doesn’t appear word-for-word in my content. I do know however that by using long tail keywords, it will improve my SEO, but it turns orange and lowers my SEO score. That is why I am confused. If I were to use long tail keywords in word-for-word format in my content, the content would look silly and wouldn’t be easily readable.

So, should I just choose good keywords and ignore the orange, or what?

Kind Regards,
Chris Tutton

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Michael Davis
4 years ago

Rank Math pro

Hello Chris,

Thank you for contacting Rank Math today.

The Keywords, like you said, are meant to target the most common search words. Adding the keyword to Rank math keywords field only helps Rank math to help you optimize your page to the specified keyword(s).

The tests/checks by Rank math are just for your reference. You should only treat them like a guide and if you feel they are not applying for your page(s) you can safely ignore them. The score tells you how much your page is optimized to the specified keyword, it doesn’t determine your page ranking/indexing.

Here are a few resources I think you will find useful while devising an SEO strategy.

1. Keyword Research: https://mythemeshop.com/blog/keyword-research/
2. Identify Keyword Intent: https://www.semrush.com/blog/how-to-identify-intent-in-search/
3. Writing Awesome Content: https://neilpatel.com/blog/ingredients-of-great-content/
4. On-Page SEO: https://mythemeshop.com/blog/how-to-do-seo-optimizing-your-site-for-google/
5. Off Page SEO: https://mythemeshop.com/blog/how-to-do-seo-off-page-optimization/
6. Building Backlinks: https://www.rankxl.com/outreach-link-building/

Hope that helps and please do not hesitate to let us know if you need our assistance with anything else.

RankBot
3 years, 11 months ago

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