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The Keyword Profiles report tells you where people from search

arrive when they use specific keywords in search engines*.

*Including but not limited to

google, yahoo, bing, etc.

Keyword Profiles Quick Guide

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Keyword Profiles - Common Uses

• Monitor your share of specific keywords over time.

• Identify competitors for keywords important to your business.

• Optimize your paid search campaigns.

• Optimize your content marketing and SEO efforts

• Prospecting

• Hone in on sales prospects.

• Find new partners or vendors.

• Find a list of quality publishers for PR.

• Understand which social media sites rank well for these keywords.

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Broad versus Exact Match

Broad Match over 7K domains, includes results such as “running shoes, dress shoes, men’s shoes, etc.”

Exact Match returns 173 sites only includes searches for the EXACT keyword “shoes”.

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Keyword Profile for “shoes”Displays websites that receive traffic from the specified keyword “shoes” over the past 90 days.

1. The report dates are displayed above the table.

2. Filter the result of the report using the Search Insights & Manual Filters.

3. Export the results to CSV to use in Excel.

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Keyword Profile Report Column Headers

Site – represents the website that an actual user visited immediately after searching on the keyword. (ex: shoes).

Industry Category - represents the content group that the site falls into.

Volume - the share of a keyword's downstream traffic that is generated by visiting an individual site after a user does a search.

Paid Share - the breakdown of search referral share generated by paid search referrals from this particular keyword.

Natural Share - the breakdown of search referral share generated by natural click-throughs from this particular keyword.

Search Referral Share - the share of total search traffic (90 day moving average) generated to the destination website by a specific keyword.

Average Referrals - the running three month average of the total volume of search referrals that a site receives. This metric is NOT tied to the specific keyword in the Keyword Profiles Report.

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Represents the content group that the site falls into.

Use the industry category to hone in on competitors in your industry. In this example, the “shoes and accessories” category helps you hone in on online retailers competing for traffic from the example keyword “shoes”.

Keyword Profiles Report

SiteRepresents the website that an actual user visited immediately after searching on the keyword.

You may be surprised that you’re competing with not only high traffic competitors but also search engines and businesses you don’t consider direct competitors for keywords important to your bottom line. This report helps you identify competitors to monitor and research further.

Industry Category

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Keyword Profiles Report - Volume

Volume of search traffic from the exact match keyword “beads”

21.56%

12.18%

9.98%

5.32%5.26%3.13%

42.57%

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Volumekeyword to multiple websites

33%Keyword Website

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Volume helps you understand how much “share” a domain has of a specific keyword’s traffic. The pie chart on the left displays the Volume of the search term “beads” various domains receive from search engines. While the diagram on the right displays how the relationship between the keyword and the websites functions.

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Keyword Profiles Report

Paid Sharethe breakdown of search referral share generated by paid search referrals from this particular keyword.

Hone in on competitors using paid search by noting the paid search share percentage in this report. In the example right, it shows zappos.com, shoebuy.com, and shoedazzle.com

Example of Google Paid Search Ads

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Keyword Profiles Report

Natural Sharethe breakdown of search referral share generated by natural click-throughs from this particular keyword.

Hone in on competitors with strong SEO practices for important keywords.

PRO CI Tip: to check the sources of Zappos.com’s inbound links use “link:http://zappos.com” in google. This returns a list of all sites linking to this domain.

Example of Google Natural Search

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Keyword Profiles ReportWhen looking at the Keyword Profiles report the search referral share tells you how important the keyword is to the overall traffic of a domain. Referrers with >0.01% Search Referral Share may have a high volume of traffic from a keyword but the keyword isn’t important to their overall traffic.

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Search Referral Share

Keyword 1 Keyword 2 Keyword 3 Keyword 4Keyword 5 Keyword 6 Keyword 7

Search Referral SharePercentage of traffic from all keywords to a domain.

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Keyword Profiles Report

Average Search ReferralsIs the running three month average of the total volume of search referrals that a site receives. This metric is calculated from the search referral report of a domain (featured right) and is NOT tied to the specific keyword in the Keyword Profiles Report. Rather this gives you a sense of scale for the average number of total search referrals a site receives each month.

Average of the past three months of total search referrals for Zappos.com Feb, March, April = about 3 million.