#1: Keyword Research ToolsAre Much Less
Competitive Than Links & Rankings
A very large percentage of SEOs use
AdWords as their only keyword
research data source.
Free Tools Like UberSuggest & KeywordTool.io
Do Some Expansion
But these tools don’t have the features or
functionality to be a real solution; they just bolster
AdWords for the SEOs who use them
Paid Tools like SEMRush and Wordtracker
closely mirrorAdWords’data
None of these tools are designed to help with
the process of actually building and vetting a
keyword list.
Brainstorm KW
Ideas
Research &
Expand List
Refine & Filter
List
Match List to
Existing Pages
Determine What Needs Building vs.
Old Pages to Optimize
#2: Keyword Research is the
Most-Performed Task in the
SEO World
While keyword demand isn’t a
perfect proxy, there’s likely more
people regularly doing keyword
research than any other single
SEO task.
FYI:
#3: Moz may be able to access/combine unique
data that others cannot/will not
Rankings Data Mozscape Data Search Suggest Data
AdWords Data Anchor Text Data SERP Features Data
100 Million
Keywords
Crawled from
AdWords Retrieve Search
Suggest Data for
Each
Retrieve Related
Searches Data for
Each
Base Corpus of 2B+
Keywords
We can build a large, useful database of
keywords and keyword mappings
Initial
Search
Term
Suggestions from Corpus
For each on-demand query, we can add more
value by collecting additional data
Extracted KWs from Pages
Ranking in the SERPs
Anchor Text Phrases those
Terms Appear In
KW Diff Score
Opportunity Score
KW Volume
Bucket Estimate
List of KWs with:
Mentions via FWE
Initial
Search
Term
We can store and save lists of exportable
keywords for customers
List of Chosen KWs w/
accompanying metrics
Saved Lists of
KWs for Export
Or CSV
Importable into
Moz Analytics
In the future, we may have new data sources for
keyword suggestions and opportunity
consideration:
KWs from anonymized
clickstream data
List of Keywords Your
Competition Ranks For
Keywords extracted from topic
modeling analyses
Percent of traffic sent by given
ranking position