Is keyword research essential for every article

from my little knowledge on keywords, I have read that with a blog, you should focus on few keywords around acne in order for your blog to rank high when persons search for your keyword eg how to reduce acne, would feature in every article

Do the keyword research one time and the times as you can you can use the results as many

Imo i never do keyword research. I pick a topic then write an article about it. you only need keyword research when you are trying to manipulate search engines.

Once you write your article you then need to find where you target audience is already looking. Forums ( like here in the article section), article dictionaries, and my personal favorite guest blogging.

Seek out your viewers don't ask them to find you

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I think probably most professional article marketers don't, actually.

I do a little bit of keyword research, myself, at niche-selection time, and that arms me with a list of keywords of moderate competitiveness. I then sometimes use one of those keywords in the title of my articles (and as close to the start of the title as I can), and other than that I ignore keywords completely while I'm actually writing the articles. (I use some of them anyway, of course, even without specifically planning to: you can't avoid it).

People's styles/preferences vary. I always take the view that I'm writing primarily for people, myself, not for search engines. Unless my articles get widely published, I won't attract any targeted traffic with them. (They're not going to do me much good just sitting on my own site "waiting for people to find them").

Ultimately, all keyword-optimized articles can ever bring me is search engine traffic, and that compares very unfavorably indeed with article marketing traffic, in every one of my niches, so keyword research is of pretty limited input value to me for writing, really. Consciously keyword-laden articles tend to read quite badly, and it's typically much harder to get them published where I need to get them published.

If you think about the real "authority sites" in your niche, and look around them carefully, the chances are that you'll find very few (if any) on which the articles are significantly keyword-optimized. This just isn't what determines "authority" status at all, really: that's all a function of quality and relevance.

Granted, there's a little bit of overlap, in reality, between "relevance" and "keywords", but that's something that occurs naturally rather than by specific design - and it tends to work better when it does occur naturally, too. In the long run, if you think about readers, most of the SEO considerations around articles will take care of themselves.

Usually by writing on topics that are popular in the niche you will end up using keywords in your articles but I wouldn't get fanatical about it thinking that every article has to have keyword density of X% in order to please the search engines. Try writing for your readers first and foremost and sprinkle some keywords in where possible if it sounds natural. You're not writing for Googles sake remember but for the people who visit your site and want high quality and unique information not some keyword laden article that makes no sense.

No, you don't have to - if it is a popular topic, and you know a lot about it, chances are it will naturally have some good keywords in it. If it's written for humans rather than search engines, then it is likely to be a higher quality piece.

The search engines also use algorithms to find synonyms for your keywords, so you could well rank for a keyword because it means the same as the keywords you have in your content.

It really depends on whether you're trying to get traffic from the search engines or from other places like social media, where quality content that is shared is the way to go. That incidentally will also improve your rankings, as Google uses social proof more strongly now.

I see all my keyword researched articles ranking well.
I'd rather not do it, but am afraid all that writing effort would be wasted.

Well, you're saying that you know a lot about the topic, then I don't see why you need keyword research. I use keyword research when I'm starting a blog or website on a niche that I know nothing of. In that case, I need to know what topics I need to concentrate on (to research and stuff) and keyword research becomes mandatory.

But, if I'm writing about a topic I'm well versed in, I'd probably know what's best for my readers, what kind of information they need and so on. So, if you bring keyword research and keyword density into it, wouldn't it make the articles sound a bit awkward.

I mean, you must have seen some big time bloggers' post, and you can notice that they write naturally. There is not much usage of 'keyword' in their articles and a lot of times, they're writing about a particular topic because it's what their reader(s) requested of them, and what they feel their readers need to hear about, and not because a keyword tool told them that's what they need to write about.

I guess that kind of insight comes with true experience in a niche. So, well, if you want an authority site, then I'd suggest not giving so so much importance to keyword research and keyword density. Google is not the only traffic source anyway. It's better to spread your traffic sources, and traffic sources like social media fetch you traffic because you wrote an interesting article that people want to read about and not because you wrote on a particular keyword.

I hope my ramblings made some sense. Just my 2 cents.

If you have good knowledge of the subject, it isn't necessary to do keyword research, because I'm sure with your knowledge you'll be hitting several long tail keyword phrases in your writing. So in your case I wouldn't worry about it for every article. But I do think maybe every third or fourth article you should go ahead and do a "keyword article" just to have a well-rounded scope of articles for your blog.

Im by no means an expert, but what I think you want to do is find keywords that have 1. a good amount of people searching for them, whatever that is to you, 2. not too much competition, not too little, depends on niche and 3. something with a good CPC so you know people are making money in that niche.

Now, like someone said. Just pick out a bunch of good keywords based on your stats, and then you have a bunch of blog post topics. Like someone else said you can probably bet that you'll hit keywords just from writing about something you know about, but it is good to include at least one MAIN HEADING phrase that you KNOW PEOPLE ARE SEARCHING FOR monthly....it just takes some guess work out...

Then you can talk however you want about whatever you want in the aritcle. I think the idea is to just have relevant keywords that people are actively searching for that you can provide some sort of answer for.

The way I look at it is this.....What are people dying to find on the internet?

How can I set up a website that gives them the answers they need?

How can I make some $ in the process!

Not everyone can set up a site you know! We know a lot more than we credit ourselves for!

No it is not needed.

Keywords are targeted phrases which requires to promote your product or services.

But Keywords research is one time jobs, and which should be done before to optimize your website pages. Once you have a set of targeted phrase you can start on page website optimization procedure but it is really not needed to do keywords research before to write each an every article.

I do my keyword research once. And when I do, I come up with a list of 100-150 keywords that will be important to my niche.

Then, I create all of my content specifically for my readers. I don't write to impress the search engines. Instead, I write to win and keep the attention of my readers.

Only when the article is completed and ready for prime-time, then and only then do I look at my keyword list.

Because I knew the general range of keywords that I wanted to use to promote my business, before I sat down to write, when my article is finished and ready for public-consumption, many of my target keywords would have been included in the article in a natural way.

But, to be sure, the final step in the writing process for me is to go over the article one more time to see if I can substitute any of my target keywords for the words that I used when writing my article.

Bottom line... I write for my readers first and foremost, then I do some minor substitution when the article is finished to add a few more breadcrumbs for the search engines, so long as the use of those extra breadcrumbs do not take away from the quality of the content I had produced.

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Keyword research is important primarily if you're looking to rank your site and page in the search engines.

As Alexa said, if your traffic comes via article syndication, you have no need to depend upon Google's whimsical traffic.

I haven't done any keyword research in the Acne niche but I can almost guarantee you that you will find exactly ZERO keywords that you'd be able to realistically rank for anyway. It's a really competitive niche (or so it seems from my admittedly outside perspective).

Lastly, I assume you plan to monetize with a list and affiliate offers? If that's the case, you'll definitely want to get your traffic via syndication, guest posting, etc. Whatever incidental search engine traffic you get will just be the cherry on top.

But if you're monetizing with Adsense or Amazon, doing some solid keyword research for low competition keywords and ranking them in the search engines is definitely worth the while. Of course...the keyword research should be done BEFORE any site is built...

Whether you target certain keywords in your articles or not is directly dependent on your SEO efforts. Are you currently doing or planning any SEO for your blog/site and have identified any keywords to target? If yes then you should search a few good and low competition keywords and build up a healthy amount of content around them and keep doing so for a week or two. Then find more keywords and repeat.
Searching a new keyword for every article won't make as much of a difference as posting many articles around the same keyword (good keyword) will.

If you're not planning on SEO in the near future then just focus on building up content. Look for 5 - 10 keywords with good volume and medium competition and keep building content around them for a period of time before searching new keywords.

Don't forget the importance of Social media btw.