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Getting to Know a User’s Intent For Better SEO | Digital Marketing

Getting to know what users are searching for can help your digital marketing efforts.

By Pending ....Published 5 years ago 3 min read
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Identifying the intentions behind a user’s search intent can be incredibly difficult. Deciphering these, however, can have a huge impact on your search engine optimisation efforts and even increase the quality of your keyword research.

Nouns and Verbs… Are They Important?

Over 70 percent of search queries include nouns, and proper nouns like “New York” or “Barry” will often make up to 40 percent of this statistic. This, therefore, suggests that when formulating a query, users are searching with the intent to find a very specific answer.

This means whenever you’re creating content on your site, it’s vital to include proper nouns wherever possible in your keyword selection. Having proper nouns like “London” in your keyword selection localises the search and makes it more specific to the user. An example of this would be “Buy a Kitten in London” compared to “Buy a Kitten.” By using the proper noun of “London,” you lower the search volume and give a more relevant and localised search; helping to give users what they want, quick, easy and straightforward answers!

Again, using kittens as an example, verbs are also just as important in search queries. Searching for “kittens” will return primarily return cute pictures and videos of kittens. However, introducing the verb “buy” suggests why you want to look for kittens and helps Google to find you kittens for sale rather than just cute kitten pictures.

Verbs and nouns not only help us with localisation but can also help us to identify which intent type category users fall into.

Identifying Intent Types

As we all know, you can find pretty much anything on Google. There are endless possibilities when it comes to formulating queries. Luckily, there are a finite number of categories they could fit into, making our jobs slightly easier!

Informational Intent

It is said that more than 80 percent of searches are formed with informational intent suggesting that people have a lot of questions and are looking for answers, fast.

Keywords with informational intent can be incredibly useful to develop content around. For example; searching for “How to do a keyword research” returns results which are predominately content which answers this question. Identifying informational intent in your keywords could, therefore, help you engage with potential customers when they’re looking for the relevant information; helping to increase the chances of them looking at your content or post.

Transactional Intent

This year alone, purchases online grew by 80 percent, meaning that transactional intent within keyword researches has just become even more essential.

When searching online, users are specifying product names and including buying keywords such as “buy,” “discount” and “best price.” Identifying these in your keyword selection can be pivotal for your PPC campaigns, as Google can recognise from these keywords that your ads are with a transactional intent and therefore produce shopping ads as a result.

Navigational Intent

Navigational intent involves searching for a particular website or page. An example of this could be entering “Innovation Visual” into the search bar rather than entering the URL into the browser’s navigation bar. This query will return https://www.innovationvisual.com/ as the top result.

Using branded keywords can increase your organic SEO rankings, drive relevant traffic and increase conversions. With this in mind, it is vitally important for your brand to look the part in the search results.

Is it worth diving deeper into the structure of users search queries?

Simply, the answer is, yes. By using grammar and focused vocabulary, we are able to access the minds of users and target more specifically. Optimising your pages with the right keywords and the users intent in mind can drive relevant traffic to your site, reduce your bounce rate and increase page clicks, which of course can all lead to having a higher conversion rate.

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