Harvest 200 long-tail terms from one head term Long-tail (specific, low-volume, multi-word queries) is where conversion hides. One seed gave us 214 viable tails with this loop. — Step 1: paste seed in…
Sanity-check a difficulty score before you trust it Difficulty score (KD, the 0-100 hardness estimate) is a model, not a fact. Across 900 terms it disagreed with manual review on 23%. Verify with this…
Tag intent for a keyword list in 4 passes Guessing intent from the keyword alone fails on roughly 1 in 5 terms. Read the SERP instead. We tagged 1,800 queries with this routine. — Pass 1: count shoppi…
Cluster 500 keywords by shared URLs, not by words String-matching groups synonyms that rank on different pages. SERP-overlap clustering is the fix. From a 500-keyword seed we built 41 clean clusters t…
Traffic potential beats raw volume on 1 in 3 keyword picks Raw search volume ignores that one page ranks for many terms. Traffic potential (estimated visits from ranking #1, summing all terms that pag…
The 3-source volume reconciliation, step by step Single-tool volume lies. Across 2,400 queries we cross-checked, one tool's number was off by more than 40% from the median on 31% of terms. Run this be…
