Figuring out the topic relevance
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Hello everyone,
How can you figure out which topics are the more relevant for a specific query ?
Thank you,
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Thank you for your detailed reply.
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Hi there,
There are many options to figure this out:
- You can use MOZ's keyword explorer
- Google Ads' keyword planner
- AnswerThePublic for a list of questions and related topics (answerthepublic.com)
- Websites like Reddit and Quora to see what are the questions being asked about a topic and which are the most popular questions around a topic
- Run a Google search for the topic and check the "People also ask" section and the "Searches related to" section - take the output from this and run them through the above websites for more insights/data
Depending on how much time you to want or can spend, there's a lot of insights that can be gained from the above.
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