Untapped Keywords/Traffic

Anytime you do a Google Search, Google will <bold> all the keywords on the search page that they think is highly relevant to the search phrase. The relevant keywords don't necessarily have to be synonyms, like the example keywords in OP are basically the same exact word as far as Google search is concerned;

• best camp stove
• Backpacking Stove

Obviously the words camp & backpacking are related, but Google thinks they are the exact same things.

In the OP, the large text-box on the left is the Google SERP results html for the root keyword best camp stove, the large text box on the right is the finished scraped results from any word on the SERP page that is wrapped in a <bold> tag.

I've programmed the scraper to remove [exact] duplicate spelling & the finished text box on the right is also case sensitive for each keyword it finds. So even If you see multiple instances of the same keyword in the right text box, there's at least 1 letter/case on the word that is 100% unique compared to the rest of the keywords in the finished list.

Right now all I'm concerned with is finding those new keywords that Google thinks have the exact same meaning of my keywords that I already have ranked.

I'm not just looking for random new keywords in the same niche, I'm looking for keywords that have additional traffic to increase traffic flow for what Google thinks are the same exact keywords, even though the keywords are not the exact same to a human.

To you & I those two keywords aren't the exact same, but If Google thinks both keywords are the same then a little more focused SEO on the new keyword (example: Backpacking Stove) should be easier to rank for, assuming we already rank for the root keyword (example: best camp stove) or at least have some authority built up for the root keyword.

Something else I've found while running this keyword scraper program. Google treats these words as being the exact same words:

• best
• good
• top
• great

So, If my keyword is best camp stove, I need to be building anchor-text & plain text keywords like:

• best camp stove
• good camp stove
• top camp stove
• great camp stove

Google thinks those 4 keyword phrases above are the exact same keyword phrases.

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I should also be able to use these keyword phrases & have Google think they are the same exact keywords as the root keyword (best camp stove):

• best backpacking stove
• good backpacking stove
• top backpacking stove
• great backpacking stove

The Google auto complete keywords are a whole other thing, those keywords are related keywords. I'm looking for the keywords that Google thinks are the [exact] same which there's a lot more keywords that exist in Google SERPs that aren't necessarily synonyms, still Google thinks those keywords are the [exact] same.

I'll post the scraper software (free) in OP after I tidy up the source code & add a revision #.

This software only runs on Windows & has only been tested on Win7 & WinXP.

Been doing this manually for a while. Not only do you get additional traffic but if you're trying to rank your homepage for 3-4 keyphrases that all mean the same thing in Google's eyes, the effects of links built with each keyword anchor reverberate and boost the other terms as well. So by building links for 1 phrase you are building for the other keywords to a lesser extent. It helps with anchor text diversity as well.

Nice tool Yukon!

Thank you!

So glad you're back.

1) No, right now it's only downloading the first SERP page into the left text box, then the the Scrape button is grabbing all the <b> (bold) keywords from the left text box html code.

I could dig deeper into the search pages, but then it brings up some issues like I don't want to get into working with proxies (grabbing all the SERP pages in a single search). When you do a regular Google search in your browser, Google will temporarily shut you down If you start searching too fast, that's the reason I've made this a manual search tool (to avoid the temp. SERP shutdown).

I could grab those additional SERP pages without proxies by setting a Timer in VB.net, it would be slow, on the other hand it would avoid the temp. Google SERP shutdown. We could always search the keyword in the scraper, then minimize the scraper & do other work, or whatever... I'll look into it.

2) Really this is just a tool I made for myself & thought I would share what I'm doing.

3) You bring up a good point with the tilde search, my only concern is if it skews the default search results too much. It's defiantly a good search operator to flush out synonyms. I might add that as an optional search parameter. Thanks for the idea.

the program is included with his original post... just look right under it. it's right there.

You can download it for free in OP (link at bottom of OP).