I Wanted to Check My Competitors Keywords, Here's How I did

Checking competitors keywords looks like so difficult, right? But, actually it looks like it is unable…

That’s what I thought in the beginning of my blogging career.

But, suddenly everything changed…

When?

When I met an amazing SEO tool.

It surprised me how powerful this method is.

It can spy on my competitors website traffic, find untapped keywords that are used by other video bloggers and also do some so difficult and tedious tasks within a few minutes automatically.

The tool is…

SEMRUSH.

You might have heard about SEMrush earlier or didn't know anything about it.

Basically, SEMrush is a powerful search engine marketing tool which is created by the team who developed the SEOQuake SEO browser extension.

So here is how I checked my competitors’ keywords within a few seconds. If you were in doubt how you can find out most lucrative keywords which drive buyers to your competitors websites, so after reading this tutorial and following my SEO strategy, you never need to worry about driving quality buyers to your website.

As you already know, a proper keyword strategy can drive a lot more traffic and customers. It all depends on what keywords you are targeting. Of course, other things such as content marketing, website design, typography, colors matter. But, what actually matters in driving buyers is, the proper keyword strategy. Because keyword research is not dead!

How Do i Find out What Keywords My Competitors Are Using?

When it comes to search engine optimization, we can find that not only article websites, but also other web pages such as YouTube videos, SlideShare presentations, Q&A web pages and Forum threads also rank on SERPs (search engine result pages) for target keywords.

As the search results showing in the image above, you can find that sometimes images also rank first page of Google SERP. So it’s important to target related keywords not only in your article marketing campaigns, but also in image SEO and YouTube SEO too.

We all know one thing...

...That is if your competitor websites are receiving a lot organic traffic steadily in every single day, which means their content marketing strategies are excellent.

Think about this a moment.

If they didn't get any traffic from search engines, will their business exist? Not, anyway, right?

That shows that their organic keywords drive paying customers consistently. So how do you find what keyword your competitors are using?

Ask their permission to see their traffic analysis report?

This might not work, right?

But, the trick I am going to reveal works perfectly. That’s one of best ways to get creative and unique blog posting ideas too.

So here’s how to get competitors keywords without knowing them!…

Know Your Competitors Keywords With This Simple Process

Do you remember I mentioned an SEO tool earlier? Yes, the SEMrush tool.

To follow this step, you need to create a SEMrush account. You can open a free SEMrush Pro account for 14 days with this special link. After you created your SEMrush Pro account, follow this step by step process.

Step #1: Go to SEMrush and login to your account.

Step #2: Get your competitor’s webpage URL. For an example, I got a webpage URL by doing a search on Google.

Now paste the web page address into SEMrush search box, select the preferred search engine (default search engine is Google.com) and click on “search” button.

Step #3: Now you will see an in-depth insight about your competitor webpage such as total search traffic per day, traffic value, number of backlinks etc.

As you see, my competitor webpage receives averagely 451 unique visitors daily. That is not too bad, right?

When I search “email marketing strategy” on Google Keyword Planner, I found that averagely 1300 times this keyword phrase is typed on Google in every month,

Find “Top Organic Keywords” box and click on “Full report” link to get other search terms.

Step #4: Now you will see the top organic keywords that your competitor web page is currently ranking on targeted search engine. This article on “email marketing strategy” ranks on Google.com (US version) for 49 keywords.

You can export the table to your computer as a CSV file and make use of those keywords for your upcoming or previous content marketing campaigns.

Here’s another example.

At this time, I wanted to find keywords of a YouTube video which rank on Google search engine.

As you see, this YouTube video receives almost 1000 video visitors from Google.com alone.

Here are the top keywords of YouTube video.

This video already has got 688,382 views during first 11 months. 2086 daily views!

You can check competitor keyword rankings by repeating this process for other religions as well.

This SEO strategy helped me find what keywords currently drive traffic to my competitors and find what keywords I am missing on my content marketing campaigns (ex: blog posts, YouTube Videos, Presentations etc.).

Here are a few articles I compiled by analyzing my competitor websites' keywords and their rankings.

• 7 Best Twitter Tools to Dominate Twitter Marketing in 2015
• 10 Best Free Online Proofreading Tools to Check Grammar & Spelling Errors Fast
• Tumblr On Page SEO Strategies: The Ultimate Guide

Now you can also analysis mobile traffic of your competitor website using SEMrush tools.

This is very powerful, as mobile traffic tends to surpass desktop traffic and Google give more weight for websites which have mobile-optimized design and content.

After you have chosen keywords for your contents, you can track their positions. SEMrush has an inbuilt tool for that. It is known as position tracking.

Also with competitors discovery feature of SEMrush, you can find your top competitors.

This will help you find your competitors keywords and find the competition level for keywords.

Here are a few articles that will help you do more with keywords.

• 10 Best Keyword Research Tools Every Blogger must Know About
• How to Research Keywords using Google Keyword Planner
• How to Conduct a Competitor Keyword Research Analysis Campaign by Four ways
• How to find Long Tail Keywords in Next 5 Minutes
• 7 Must Have Best SEO Tools for Blogging in 2015 (#7 is New)

Conclusion

Search Engines have evolved so much, so we can't utilize old-school SEO techniques to increase the search engine rankings of keywords. But, with a proven and a practical keyword strategy, you can find lots of keyword ideas, even that your competitors don't know anything about.

But, if your competitors are far ahead from you and receive tons of organic traffic in every single day, which means their keyword strategy is excellent. The easiest way to drive that traffic to your website is spy on competitors keywords and use proper SEO techniques to increase the search engine rankings.

With the use of SEMrush competitors keyword research tool, you can find any webpage’s, even a YouTube video’s top most searched keywords.

If your competitors can do it, so you too can.

Use this technique one time and compile a great blog post. You will surprise how this method can skyrocket your traffic and drive lots of buyer traffic in future, not just “freebie” seekers.

So what SEO techniques do you use for finding competitors keywords?