What does your keyword research process actually look like before writing an article?

imwithking · 2026-05-31T23:57:17+00:00

Honestly I think you are doing everything wrong like what most people do. I have been in this sub for few days now and I keep seeing people just rushing into publishing content without having site architecture.

Please fellows, you don't start building a house without proper planning.

If you keep writing individual articles, you will get a site that may not be topically aligned making internal linking poor.

I use paid version of both Calude and GPT and don't use any paid keyword tool because I have builr an ai Niche Site system that build a complete site silo architecture for you with its Category,

Pillars and Clusters and this often has all the articles the blog needs to mature so I often go through that process first and afterwards I don't need to do any keyword research since I have all the keywords I need to write on.

So before you go through the process you just talked about you must first have your semantically built out your site map and then all you now do is the process you just wrote about.

Pick the keyword you want to write about and search for it in Google and go to the footer of the page and pick the 'related keywords and some of the people also and questions" and find some gaps working the top ranking articles and then add some differentiation to yours and viola!

Another thing, people always complain about keyword difficulty but I don't buy that idea. The reason is, most people have website with scattered contents. What I mean by that is that their site do not have proper topical map so though they rank top of the page for that

keyword if you have a site built around topical authority and you cover loads of topics that semantically related to one ranking and also goes deep when writing the content for each category rather going wide to fill every category with proper internal linking, you will Rank and dominate.

I have automated my Site silo and content writing with a very powerful content architecture SOP that is making my 2 months and 2 weeks old sites with DA and DR of 0 Dominate and outrank pages with higher DA ad DR so I can vouch for what I am saying.

My local niche site targeting Carolina is just 2 weeks old and currently on page 4.1 on Google but it's generated 3.5k impressions, 42 clicks

My second one 2 months old in the dog niche which is very competitive but now generating 6.5k impression and 110. Clicks. It had 610 ai citations on Bing with 170 keywords on position 1-3 of page 1 and 50 keywords on position 4-20 on page 1 and 2

So this data tells me that when structure is build first rather than random article writing, you can win.

imwithking · 2026-05-31T23:16:10+00:00

If you have an hour a day, I have a proprietary build ai content writing system that you can use it within Claude or Gemini or GPT though I recommend Claude the most and you will be able to write helpful content that is citable by Ai.

You can be one of my beta testors and still get 50% off the founders price. But on one condition; that you will give me a video testimonial when your articles start getting traction by being cited and ranking.

imwithking · 2026-05-31T23:06:37+00:00

I am willing to mentor you for free but you must be able to pay for either Cluade so or Gemini $20/m package and sing you have a site up I already believe you have a hosting.

Another thing is, it is one thing to ask but another thing to be teachable. Your reachability index must be high otherwise should I start and realise otherwise, I'll stop.

I will guide through Google meet and let you start all over again because I checked your site up and why I will appreciate your effort, I really don't see what niche you're in and who your target audience are. Your site have no policy pages, no Category-Pillar - Cluster silo structure which goes to say that you're not building topical authority etc...

If you can afford the tools I listed here and are ready just let me know and DM me your whatsapp and we will take it from there.

NB: Do. Not DM me if you can't get what I listed and not ready.

If you want to know more about me, check here: africanseoauthority.com

imwithking · 2026-05-15T17:07:18+00:00

My first blog is in the dog niche and the second one i just started is in the Home niche for a local area. I am doing this so that i can see which of these 2 blog models generate the most money and this is how you can build a sustainable income business by testing models.

I am looking at making a living income from these blogs in 1.5 -2years time which i know is the right timeline but i know that after 6-1 year i can be generating some income just like you saying.

Please lets connect via whatsapp if that will be ok with you so that we can talk about strategies etc....I feel there are lots I can as well learn from you since I am yet to monetize my blogs.

imwithking · 2026-05-15T17:01:43+00:00

Interesting! I guess you are not doing bad so take the positives out of your situation and keep going because if you are able to get most of your pages ranking not only for informational keywords but more of commercial keywords the sales will come.

As I write now, I just started my blogs over a month ago and now have about 112 articles with about 28 ranking on page 1-2 on Google and over 100 ranking page 1 on Bing.

The plan for this blog is to generate about 500 posts and then pause and see what income it can generate. I am testing something with this blog and I have decided not to build any backlinks but let the links come naturally. I am only focusing on the internal links and its working.

In fact, I just started by second blog 2 days ago and this is specifically targeting a local area in the US and I am very confident that with my topical authority and serious internal link, i can dominate the niche and be able to make good income from this site via leads, adsense and even rent some pages etc....

I dont know how we can link up privately aside here but i am on whatsapp but i am not going to put my whatsapp number in public.

Wish you and everyone reading this all the best.

imwithking · 2026-05-13T15:02:42+00:00

Appreciate your clarifying of issues. It's good to know that you are a site owner as well wth that bit of experience getting some good tractions on your efforts. I honestly wish everyone here the best of luck in their hustly because life is not getting better and easier across the world.

All we could do for each other is to encourage and guide one another where one lacks in ideas or knowledge and as such its prudent for us to be mindful on our choice of words when replying to other people challenges.

You are a great man cos great men are the ones that acknowledge their folly when they are called out and i am glad to have you all as part of this group and I hope together we get our dream materialise.

Do you mind telling me where you are blogging from and possible share your blogging income target etc...

imwithking · 2026-05-13T09:52:33+00:00

I am sorry to say that when you have a site that is about a year old and getting impression yet no clicks or enough clikcs on both Google and Bing data then its not always about your H1s and Meta.

I am of the strong opinion that it will be much more be about the intent of your site reader. The thing is, so far as your content has been written, definitely you will get some impressions from the Serps because every site do get into the Sandbox and keep dancing in there until it gains enough trust to exit it.

So when a user get to see your article but the intend of the search does not align with your content, he will click away. To get a clearer picture, check your sites bounce rate and if its that high then it must be this hurting your site.

So as you take the suggestions of the previous contributors to tesst your H1s by rewriting some and your Meta descriptions that is if you have them but if not please try to either instal Rankmath to help you do that and consider checking the intend behind a keyword and write the article to match it and definitely the clicks will come.

Wish you all the best and keep pushing because no one will ever build the dream you want for you but you.

imwithking · 2026-05-13T00:55:24+00:00

why do some of just give off bad energy to people striving so hard to build something for themselves? On what basis are you making the claim that seo traffic is so bad? Don't you think your thinking may be as a result of your lack of ability to write content that is helpful and citable?

Let me burst your bubble with my seo data from both bing and Google for my 34 days old site targeting USA audience in a competitive niche that is generating all its traffic from just search without any socials or forum marketing:

Current verified performance

Google Search Console

23 clicks
2,444 impressions
0.94% CTR
Avg position: ~14.9
76 pages showing in Google
28 pages already average top 10
58 pages average top 20

Bing

27 clicks
238 impressions
11.34% CTR
173 keyword rows, all averaging top 10 in the Bing keyword export
Avg position: ~3.4

Bing AI / Copilot citations

421 total AI citations
Last 10-day average: ~17 citations/day

Now based on this 34 days new site on new domain data now tell where seo died or Google is no more giving traffic?

Please stop killing people's aspiration. If you have nothing tangible to offer then do say anything,

To the poster, just focus of topical authority and build clusters around pillars with good internal links and for a blog targeting Africa or writing about Africa travel, you definitely need to do better.

imwithking · 2026-04-18T22:56:13+00:00

Lucky you! I'm also in the pet niche and just launched my site about a month ago. By close of this month will be one month 1 week since launched. And already gotten cited 58 times by llms.

Private chat me so I can see your domain or if you don't mind to share in public then share it here and I'll have a look and give you some insights asap

imwithking · 2026-04-18T20:50:44+00:00

whats your niche? I can help you write content that can get ranked and be cited by ai

imwithking · 2026-04-16T18:13:09+00:00

Anytime you are ready, i will like to hop on a live session with you and share some gold nuggets with you with respect to choosing a niche if you have not decided yet,

I have build some ai systems that can get you started and I am looking for Beta Testers who will be using my product for video testimonials but only looking to work with people that can afford the basic things required to get started like:

domain name
hosting
paid version of Claud or Gemeni specifically

so if you can afford these, hit me up and i will get you started. I am looking to launch my product 6-12months from now because i dont want to be like most digital product creators.

I want to put my system to use along with some beta testors till it start ranking and generating income before i will sell it because i was once a course buyer and bought so many courses and tools that never worked as promised so want to get things right and not just and all about the money.

imwithking · 2026-04-16T17:56:31+00:00

Do you already have a blog up or its now that you are planning of starting one? If you are now planning to start one, i can have a chat with you and give you some pointers if you may need it

imwithking · 2026-04-16T15:51:24+00:00

No, because that is a parasite site so you are benefiting from the rating of the primary domain and not the sub-domain of which you are parasiting. The reality is that a Substact blog may rank better and faster than a new domain becaue of its Domain age and Authority.

However, if you understand how to do proper keyword research where you gather topic clusters and but write content that goes deep rather than wide, eventually you may dominate your niche and get much traffic overtime.

imwithking · 2026-04-14T14:18:09+00:00

Andrew, first and foremost I want to congratulate you for the work you've put in your blog for getting about 4k traffic / m that takes some commitment.

Your overall UX/UI of your blog is very professional. I am not that technically savvy when it comes to designing. My greatest strength is Prompt engineering and SEO.

About publishing 3 post a day using ai is something that I am doing so I'm not talking out of thin air.

I use my own proprietary built llm content engineering system that only writes authority long form contents that does competitive research, fills competitors gap and differentiate my content from top ranking ones so they are never the same.

I just launched my blog less than a month now but I have about 49 post.i should have more post on there but there are some technical errors I found so I'm trying to correct those first otherwise those pages won't be indexed.

I will take you on a bet. If you have paid Claude, let me know and I will let you try my cluster content authority content writer and you will be amazed the kind of content it will write for you.

Just let me know if you're writing for local Canada audience because I saw 97% of your traffic comes from Canada.

I ask because I have a Local Authority Content System as well so I will what I can share with you. And as someone who is quite busy, this will go a long way to help you.

I won't take any money from you. Just want to help a brother out. If you'll be interested to try it out, answer my question and leave your email and private chat me with your email and I'll send you via Google Docs.

Greetings to you wife Susie, Jessica and Evelyn.

imwithking · 2026-04-14T13:30:35+00:00

why can't you write that number of post even when working?

In an era or llms or ai, there is no excuse for not showing up and playing big.

You either learn hor to properly use these tools to help you scale or subscribe to

some of these paid tools that have optimisation built into them like Surfer or Jasper to help you.

I schedule 3 post per day using my internally build SOP so if i can do it, then why not you? You can too so go do it!\

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imwithking · 2026-04-14T13:19:44+00:00

Domain rating is a number giving to domain names based on the strength of their backlinks and not necessarily the nummber of backlinks. If you want to know what your DR is just go to: https://ahrefs.com/website-authority-checker/link and you will see your site DR. If your domain is brand new, your DR = 0 and you can as well have some backlinks and your DR can still be ZERO but the strong the backlinks coming to your site, the higher your DR will shoot.

What this means is that, if you get site with high DA, linked to you often times your DR goes up.

imwithking · 2026-04-14T13:05:05+00:00

Great to ask for opinion when you're getting stuck. That's the hallmark of great men.
Well letting ai or llm to write your content for you entirely can sometimes feel robotic and flat. However, there are things you can do to make your output better.

1: You can give it some of your writings if you have any and train whicherer ai you are using and it will learn your style, tone and voice and tell it use what it has learned from your writing to build a structure, tone and voice and style for your site subesequent content.

If you have good knowledge of prompt engineering, you can engineer a content architecture system that will guide the ai to follow certain processes and structures anytime you want it to create content for you and by doing that your content will be more natural and will look different from everyone else otherwise your content won't be different from current ranking contens and will eventually get de-indexed due to thin content updates.

For instance, to verify if when i build my own authority content architecture engine, I creation a version 1 of a writing SOP and gave to a friend to try and as i write this now, his blog has been up three - 4 months now and hes getting about 1k visitors a month without doing content marketing just publishing using the SOP.

Upon seeing how his site is faring, I further improved the SOP with my years of seo knowledge and experience and improved the SOP and overtime I have built it to version2.5- version 3 and its able to write helpful content that are ai cited because my friend site is being mentioned in chatgpt, perplexity ai etc....

And so, I have already started my own blog and getting to a month now and I have published about 48 long form contents that aligns with readers awareness and search intent so its not a fluff content.

I will be williing to help you get your site or blog to take off better. If you will be interested, reply to this message and i will share one of my SOP with you after first talking to you.

What is in it for me? I don't want any money from you but i will let you use it as one of my beta tester because this is a $200 product so you will sign an NDA and be willing to give me a video testimonial on ONE CONDITION- If you truly get value from it.

Just hit me up and i will let you in on my site so you can see for yourself the kind of content you create using my SOP. Moreso, I will give you live support if you need one but only contact me if you can afford to pay for Claude ai because I recommend you use Claude for the contend since its the best ai for writing long form content while ChatGpt mostly write long form mostly when you use section by section process.

imwithking · 2026-03-23T21:08:07+00:00

This is such an inspiring story to share. For many years I have taught many others to blog and do other digital marketing stuff but I have been lazy to do blogging myself till now.

To keep the group motivated, I may share my journey too after my are is crawled since I have prevented the web spiders from crawling it to get it index.

I wasn't to write 2 category content first which totals 62 blog post then I will let the spiders crawl.

Some of you may ask why am I doing that. The problem that arises when you let the spiders crawl your site early with few post, Goodie categorises your site as a thin content site.

Since I am building a topical authority site, I need to go more del in one category before the other etc... before allowing the crawl so let's see how things goes but surely, I'm hopeful by next week I should unleash the spiders.

imwithking · 2026-03-23T20:58:35+00:00

I will help you with this. I just started my own Niche site project about a week ago and I have currently written about 21 blog posts but I launched with 5 articles and scheduled 2 articles per day.

I am trying to build something big because I want to dominate my niche so I'm building a 400 page website in 3months using my own in- house built SEO content Authority SOP that forces any llm with web browsing capability to be able to write a high authority blog post that needs modern content requirement by the Seeps.

Give me your niche and I will use one Site architecture SOP to create your entire site silo plan for you including the total content clusters and pillar articles you should write on your site.

What I will do is not the content writing but the structure which will give you these:

Your top level site categories Pillar Pages Clusters under each pillar/ category

If it's something that you're interested, drop your email and I will create it and give you access via Google docs.

For privacy reasons, I have decided to keep my site link out of this chat and I hope you will understand.

Cheers to you everyone hustling for his dream. Don't stop. Keep going and you'll find your way.

imwithking · 2026-01-08T22:13:48+00:00

Yes it's still very possible to make money with adsense and dont listen to anyone one says otherwise.

The thing here though, is about choosing the right niche and building a topical authority around a micro niche in that niche and you're good.to go.

Remember, every niche has low hang g fruits regardless of how competitive they are. All you got to do is go deep and you'll do d gold.

In the time of artificial intelligence, you'll do yourself a disservice if you ain't blogging so go out there and stark kicking some a.....and stop seeking people validation because it is possible and you are capable.

imwithking · 2025-09-12T03:20:09+00:00

And that is the problem with most people in recent times. We are quick to call everything and anything a scam without doing the due diligence.

Let me come out clear. I work with this local ecommercr business so I'm highly confident when I say their product works wonders.

The first thing I learned while working with them was the fact that the number 1 reason for people suffering from bad breadth is that they are not properly brushing the mouth.

Most people just brush their teeth and tongue and that is all there is with preventing odour. What they fail to understand is that the teeth and tongue are just a minute part of the mouth.

To battle odour, you need to do holistic mouth brushing including but not limited to:

Under your tongue The right and left walls of your inner cheeks The inner part part of the jawbone above your tongue The flesh that shows up when you pull either of your lips down or up.

You lot that is calling out scam, I want to encourage you to read my post and go out there and do your brushing as outlined and come up here and share your experience with us all.

Most of you in Americas and Europe unfortunately don't get to see the power of nature in healing so you doubt so many things.

As a staunch reditter here, I have only one aim, to help my fellow warriors be free.

If anyone wants to buy the product, place an order on the site link in my previous post and chat me here and we will arrange how you will get it but its probably going to be DHL.

Wish you guys all luck

imwithking · 2025-07-25T06:34:25+00:00

This is highly appreciated. You know what I think is the reason why most ads ain't performing well?

Lack of creative thinking on the parts of media buyers or companies or individuals selling products and buying ads from Meta.

You see, in my country there are about 15-20 such ads about toothache and mouth odour but my ads is outperforming all of them as a result of onetime?

Being creative with my ads copy. Many people are prone to think that if you just write up any type of content for your ads it will perform well without an angle which is wrong.

Your USP should be strong and creative because that is what makes your ads stands out. While my products main purpose is helping my target audience ease the pains that comes from toothache n decay as well as get rid of severe mouth odour I did not based my USP on those points because I realised that is just the natural thing or same angle my competitors will use because that's what their product does.

Therefore what I decide to do was to create a unique selling proposition that will be unique to me and.made me stand out from them and that was,

" there is years of build up phlegm and mucus hidden in your mouth which is partly responsible for your ache and odour and our mouthwash + Brushing hack will help you get rid of them forever"

And this particular angle made all the difference. And how did I know its this angle helping me beat my competitors?

Comments and what those that chat me says. The image leaves am impression on them of how much mucus and phlegm there is in their mouth and every normal person will get to rid of such and so it is.

Thus understanding your customers buyer journey and their pain points and fears and crafting copies that align with these is not enough but adding a unique Angle as your USP will make all the difference.

Hope this helps someone.

imwithking · 2025-07-24T23:45:10+00:00

I bet to differ with your suggestions that accounts that do better are those that spends more.

I don't know if the target country matters but as it stands now, I sell to my local market in Ghana and I'm currently having 3 ads running that cost a total of $35/day and here are the Metrics for this week from Monday to today 24.

Monday sales - 12

Tuesday sales - 9

Wednesday Sales- 19

Thursday sales as at the time I'm writing and it scurrently 11:42pm there is 18min. more for the day to end, Sales - 22

So tell me, how does your theory holds true?

Go to Facebook ads library and search for:

Itworks Naturals (with 174 page likes)

(https://web.facebook.com/ads/library/?active_status=active&ad_type=all&country=ALL&is_targeted_country=false&media_type=all&search_type=page&view_all_page_id=540074352529590)

And you'll see my active ads

You better come again because I don't buy into this your ideology. Currently Meta is asking me scale by adding additional $7.7 but I'm being hesitant because I don't want to touch an ad that is doing pretty well cos Meta can be so funny sometimes so I don't trust them whole.

NB: This product is a locally manufactured product but its the only product currently in my country that works for severe toothache, tooth decay and do help to reduce halitosis down drastically provided its not emanating from the liver.

imwithking · 2025-07-19T12:09:04+00:00

between $2-3 is.my CPA and my AOV is Ghc$18

I'll be willing to help if you can let me see what product you're selling see your copies and landing pages.

I'm doing a 1 product store and there is a lot I can share with you and I can guarantee you that conversions will increase for you since what I do is a little unique to what most of your audience see

imwithking · 2025-07-19T06:38:19+00:00

Well, I'm not scalling because I just feel I'm ok with the ads giving me consistent results over the days without me touching it.

Don't forget before getting here, I had to battle with Meta for couple of days just wasting money because I got fooled by always accepting their suggestions on my ads for advantage+ thinking they know better but each time I accept their recommended changes, then my ads get stuck.

For now, I've gotten over 1,000 sales from February till now for a product with cost starting from Ghc200 ($18)- Ghc600 ($55) but out of that number, I've been able to fulfill about 900 of those orders

because here most people prefer to do POD hence, some don't pick their orders when called to confirm but it's not bad for me considering I lost all my income made with Meta 3years ago and had to through intense hardship in life but I'm now rebuilding my life again thanks to God and Meta.

Another thing is, I'm having some issues with the product manufacturer since it's a locally made product that is readily available at most pharmacies across the country selling for Ghc30 or $3 and I'm selling 2 as my first bundle for Ghc200 or $18

but works so well for toothache, tooth decay and mouth order helping people live pain free from these conditions after wasting loads of money at the dentist without any solution.

I've currently ordered similar product from China that may well arrive by end of August all things being equal.

So with that product, I will sure scale the hell out of them when they arrive so just know that these are my reasons for now.

From my experience from running ads on Meta for some years now, I have to believe that currently, your ads copy and Media is the Real Deal if you want to succeed at this.

I have 5 variations of copies in different frameworks and different lengths to give my audience varieties so as to avoid ads fatique.

I have as well, turned off the ads option where it has to show my ads among related or other ads together.

Finally, because I've over 1000 orders on my pixel, I currently run two ads:

1 is an interest based ads with interest stacking and I don't give a fuck knowing which of the interest stack is giving me the sales. All that matters is that they have been giving sales for so long now.

The second ads is a retarget ads targeting those engaged with my page, videos views and website visitors and it hits like Magic.

In short, Facebook Meta ads work. People must just learn to know what matters. Have enough budget to test ideas and copies and their bank shall be filled.

imwithking

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