Basis of Semrush Tutorial

Semrush is considered one of the best keyword research tool for everyone. We know many other keyword research tool which are free like Google keyword planner, but Semrush still is the first choice for many blogger and affiliate marketers.

Semrush gives a lot of information about any domain or keyword which plays an important role in driving traffic. Yes, even you can get information about backlinks here to know the referring domain to that particular website.

Coming to keywords you can easily filter you keywords and find your required keyword using a feature called keyword Magic tool in Semrush. I have a blog post on Keyword magic tool, do check it out to know more.

Let us check out the details we get for a particular domain in Semrush even if you are using a free Semrush account. This will clearly show that how much important tool Semrush is for bloggers and affiliate marketers.

Domain review |Semrush Tutorial

Let us say we are going to check the www.youtube.com domain in Semrush for the domain review. Youtube is a very popular website for watching videos but does any knows the amount of traffic is gets from different countries or Worldwide. Nobody has this information. But Semrush will give all this information in one click (see the below image).

As you can see we have check the details of youtube.com in domain review. You can see Semrush has shown it’s worldwide organic traffic details, authority score, paid search traffic and the backlinks number. To get specific traffic details for specific country like US, you can click the county tab and find out.

Country specific traffic is important because many bloggers from all over the world always target the USA country because the CPC (cost per click) is very high from this country if you have google Adsense account. Hence you can earn good money if you are getting traffic from USA.

So these important data helps the bloggers to which direction we should go to get more traffic to their blog.

Organic keywords data |Semrush Tutorial

There are two ways you can get traffic to your blog. Either you can get it through easy way like paid traffic or you need to work hard and bring your keyword on first page of GOOGLE using SEO. Organic keywords are the ranked keywords from SEO which takes lot of efforts and hard work.

Also you can see the growth graph below how the youtube.com traffic has increase from Jan 2012 to today.

You can see the growth of you blog on Semrush easily. The organic keywords rank also you can check in Semrush. This way you can easily check the performance of you blog and work according to bring you blog on the first page of GOOGLE.

Rank of Keywords in GOOGLE |Semrush Tutorial

You can see the ranking of you keywords in Semrush as shown in below image. If you blog post are ranking on 1^st position of search engine like google then you do not have to do anything, but if you blog post are ranking lower, then you have to work more on those post to bring them on the first position.

There are different factors which rank a blog post in the first page of the search engine. Factors like SEO, backlinks, Meta description, image, unique content etc. helps in ranking the blog post on the first page of search engines like Google.

As you see above the top ranking keywords for www.youtube.com here you will come to know the keywords which are bringing traffic to your blog. For example, here youtube keyword is bringing most of the traffic to youtube.com, since youtube is the best site for watching videos, youtube keyword itself drives traffic to its website.

Competitors research |Semrush Tutorial

Competitors plays an important role for everyone. Without competitors you cannot grow your blog because when you compete you will start working hard more to beat your competitors.

Semrush shows the data of competitors which are having similar keywords like your blog. Below you can see the list of competitors for www.youtube.com

Now if you know your competitors you can easily steal the keywords which they are ranking and target those keywords to bring them on first page of Google on your blog. This way you can easily find the ranking keywords which can be ranked easily on first page with some smart work of SEO.

Backlinks information |Semrush Tutorial

Semrush also share lot of information about backlinks. Backlinks does not show on on-page SEO but on Off-page SEO backlinks has lot of information.

Backlinks are of two types follow and no-follow. Dofollow backlinks are very important because it helps in bringing quality traffic and increase the authority score. While nofollow backlinks are also good but they do not have any effect on authority score.

Follow backlinks from Authority websites with good content are very helpful to get more traffic and good authority score while nofollow backlinks are important if they come from good content website.

Backlinks from related websites will always help to grow you blog or website.

Conclusion| |Semrush Tutorial

Hope, now you must have come to know the importance of this keyword tool called SEmrush. This tool will help you in blogging and will guide you to gain more knowledge in digital marketing and affiliate marketing. Do no miss to use this tool in future.