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Why Every Website Should Use a Keyword Tracking Tool to Target Keywords

March 15, 2019
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Why Every Website Should Use a Keyword Tracking Tool to Target Keywords

You've published your content. You've built your backlinks. Now what?

Staring endlessly at Google Analytics won't tell you the real story of why your traffic just tanked or spiked. To truly understand your organic search performance, you need a granular Keyword Tracking Tool.

Keyword Tacking Dashboard

Scenario 1: The Pre-Launch Baseline Check

Before you optimize a single metadata tag, you must understand your starting point. Going into an SEO campaign blind is the fastest way to waste thousands of dollars.

  • Load your entire target keyword list into the tracking tool the very second your site goes live.
  • The tracker will document your baseline zero-state.
  • Over the next four weeks, as the algorithm slowly indexes and tests your content on lower pages, the tracker maps the trajectory. If your baseline isn’t moving, you immediately know your technical SEO is flawed before you waste money on off-page campaigns.

Scenario 2: Diagnosing Sudden Traffic Drops

There is no worse feeling in SEO than logging into Analytics and seeing a sudden 40% drop in organic sessions. Panic sets in. Did you get penalized? Was it a massive algorithm update?

  • Open your Keyword Tracking Tool and sort your portfolio by "Biggest Losers - 7 Days."
  • Instantly, the noise disappears.
  • You realize that 90% of your keywords are completely stable. The massive traffic drop is purely because your #1 performing page was leapfrogged by a competitor for a specific, high-volume term.
  • With surgical precision, you can immediately rework that single page's content rather than initiating a panic-driven site overhaul.

Scenario 3: Identifying Growth Opportunities Hidden in The Middle

Most marketers focus solely on what is ranking in the Top 3 positions. The real money in SEO, however, is hidden on Page 2 (Positions 11 through 20).

  • Create a custom filter in your tracking tool targeting URLs trapped between Position 11 and 20.
  • These keywords have already proven their relevance to Google—they just need a tiny nudge.
  • Add three targeted internal links, or acquire a single powerful backlink to those specific URLs. Because you used your tracker to find them, you can push them onto Page 1 with minimal effort, driving immediate, explosive revenue growth.

Stop flying blind. Let the tracker do the heavy data-lifting so you can focus completely on execution.

KR

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