Ahrefs contributor Mateusz Makosiewicz has published an article highlighting eight important types of keywords for SEO.

He says, “We’ll take a look at the types of organic keywords everyone interested in SEO should know.

1. Seed keywords 

Seed keywords are words or phrases that you can use as the starting point in a keyword research process to unlock more keywords.

If lucrative keywords are the output of keyword research, seed keywords are the input.

In this example, “shoes” is the seed keyword generating millions of keyword ideas in Ahrefs’ Keywords Explorer.

How to find

There are a lot of ways you can come up with good seed keywords:

  • Brainstorming
  • Investigating competitors’ keywords.”

8 Most Important Types of Keywords for SEO

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