If you’ve ever done keyword research for your online business, you know it can be a bit tedious.
It’s not always easy brainstorming different phrases that your customers might use to search for your business. That said, Inc. Magazine Online recently published a great keyword selection article that drew attention to one of Google’s less talked about features – the Wonder Wheel.
The wonder wheel is a bit of a hidden gem on the results page. If you look to the navigation on the left side, click “More” and you’ll find it about halfway down.
As opposed to the typical list-style results page, the wonder wheel is a graphical representation of related search terms alongside results for the searched term.
For example, when I typed in “naturopathic clinic”, the following is what I was shown:
The initial keyword is linked to eight others, and it gives you an idea of what other terms knows your searcher is interested in – meaning you get a hint as to what search terms you may want to focus on.
When you click on any of the suggested phrases, it also keeps on linking to more suggested terms, so you can create quite a big list.
Keep in mind that you do need to pare down your list and make sure that the keywords you choose are applicable to your business.
For the complete article that inspired this post, see 5 Secrets to Selecting Highly-Effective SEO Keywords.
Do you have any “magic tricks” for choosing keywords? Share in the comments!