{"id":170009,"date":"2019-02-08T10:21:48","date_gmt":"2019-02-08T15:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/?p=170009"},"modified":"2024-10-19T06:19:32","modified_gmt":"2024-10-19T10:19:32","slug":"seo-free-keyword-research-in-3-steps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/seo-free-keyword-research-in-3-steps","title":{"rendered":"SEO: Free Keyword Research in 3 Steps"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are many expensive tools that claim to simplify and speed up the keyword research process. If you don\u2019t have thousands of dollars in your budget, however, there\u2019s always the old-school, free method.<\/p>\n

Keyword research is the foundation of search engine optimization. It provides a window into searchers’ desires and needs. It\u2019s a free form of user data that\u2019s available to anyone with a little patience.<\/p>\n

Start by assembling a two-column spreadsheet. Column A lists keywords and phrases for the items your business sells. Column B lists the number of monthly searches for those words and phrases \u2014 the market demand, essentially. What you can do with the data is extraordinary. It can inform content strategies<\/a> and even uncover the gaps in your natural search performance.<\/p>\n

\"Keyword<\/a>

Keyword research in its simplest form starts with a two-column spreadsheet. Column A lists keywords and phrases for the items your business sells. Column B lists the number of monthly searches.<\/p><\/div>\n

Keyword Seeds<\/h3>\n

Seeds are the single-word stems of keywords. For ecommerce sites, seeds typically represent the products you sell and their attributes.<\/p>\n

For instance, if you sell wall art, keywords could be major categories such as “metal wall art” and “canvas wall art.” Seeds could include the genre (abstract, botanical, landscape), color (blue, red, green), and other attributes.<\/p>\n

Be careful to consider seeds that are synonyms of your categories and attributes. For example, some consumers may refer to canvas wall art as a painting.<\/p>\n

Seeds can be mixed in different ways \u2014 \u201cgreen abstract metal wall art,\u201d \u201cbotanical painting,\u201d or \u201clandscape canvas wall art.\u201d Use Mergewords<\/a> or a similar tool to stitch your seeds into phrases that searchers may use.<\/p>\n

This process can generate many thousands of potential keyword phrases. Depending on your resources, you may need to limit the number of phrases to those that are most likely to produce results. For instance, price and shipping-speed attributes rarely produce strong keyword demand.<\/p>\n

However, limiting keywords introduces your own biases because you decide which data to collect from the tool in the next step of inputting into Google Keyword Planner. Instead, merge all high-value keywords and input all of them for the strongest results.<\/p>\n

For more on keyword seeds, read \u201cSEO 101, Part 4: Keyword Research Tool Tips<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Google Keyword Planner<\/h3>\n

I use Google Keyword Planner to extract free keyword data. Here\u2019s why: The core value of keyword research is the keyword paired with a number \u2014 this keyword theme, that many searches.<\/p>\n

Yes, the numbers in Keyword Planner are rounded. Some SEOs don\u2019t trust Google to provide reliable data. And yes, the keywords are clumped into contextual themes instead of being listed individually. And at the end of the day, Google Keyword Planner is the only free<\/em> tool that provides numerical<\/em> data per keyword in bulk.<\/em> It’s straight from the source of 90 percent<\/em> of natural search traffic and revenue.<\/p>\n

If you have access to your company\u2019s Google Ads account (formerly AdWords), you have access to search volume paired with the keywords. If not, the tool is still free, you\u2019ll just receive ranges for the volume instead of individual numbers.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>

The top screenshot from Google Keyword Planner is without active AdWords campaigns. The lower screenshot shows results with active campaigns. Click image to enlarge.<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

To use Google Keyword Planner, click \u201cFind new keywords\u201d and enter up to 10 keyword phrases at a time. You can also enter a URL, which is a good way to collect keyword data from competitors\u2019 sites. Click \u201cGet Started,\u201d and you\u2019ll receive keyword data.<\/p>\n

On the data results page, click on the filter in blue that says \u201cShow broadly related ideas\u201d and change it to \u201cclosely related.\u201d Broad is very broad \u2014 for our example of wall art, you\u2019ll see results such as wallpaper and paint. Choosing “closely related” should filter those less-relevant keywords out of your data set.<\/p>\n

Now click on \u201cDownload Keyword Ideas\u201d in blue, next to the date range, to receive a CSV file of all of the data for those first 10 keyword phrases.<\/p>\n

Continue pushing phrases through the tool until you\u2019ve exhausted your merged seed list. It will take time, probably a lot of time. But it’s worth it for data to base your SEO and content strategy on.<\/p>\n

Cleaning Keyword Data<\/h3>\n

Now you have many CSV files with keywords. You could copy and paste them together, but that would take almost as long as collecting the data. Instead, merge your files using the PC CMD prompt, or the Mac terminal prompt.<\/p>\n

There will be many duplicate keywords among the CSV files. Even though you selected the “closely related” option, some of the data won\u2019t be relevant to your business.<\/p>\n

Next, import the combined CSV file into an Excel spreadsheet. Use Excel\u2019s \u201cRemove Duplicates\u201d function to make sure that there\u2019s only one instance of each keyword phrase in your spreadsheet.<\/p>\n

Sort your keywords by the \u201cAvg. monthly searches\u201d column, largest to smallest. There will likely be high-volume keywords at the top of your list that aren\u2019t relevant. It\u2019s important to remove those big phrases because they can wildly skew your analysis. Scan down the list to a reasonable point \u2014 maybe the top 1,000 keywords, or keywords that drive more than 1,000 visits each. It goes faster than you\u2019d think.<\/p>\n

When you find an irrelevant word, filter the entire list by that word \u2014 maybe it\u2019s \u201cwallpaper\u201d \u2014 so that you can delete all at once other phrases containing it.<\/p>\n

Next, sort your keywords alphabetically. This groups similar keywords and makes it easy to remove clumps of irrelevant ones. Scan quickly at this point. Your previous sort by keyword volume should have uncovered many of the most irrelevant phrases. Sorting alphabetically is more of a safety check.<\/p>\n

Now you have clean keyword data. Don\u2019t lock it away in a drawer. Use it daily as a quick reference for various decisions.<\/p>\n

Share your keyword research with your team, especially those that love data or need content ideas. In my experience, most of your team will value your final analysis and suggestions, as opposed to handing them a mass of data.
\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There are many expensive tools that claim to simplify and speed up the keyword research process. If you don\u2019t have thousands of dollars in your budget, however, there\u2019s always the old-school, free method.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":117,"featured_media":170025,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[58322],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-keyword-research",""],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nSEO: Free Keyword Research in 3 Steps - Practical Ecommerce<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"There are many expensive tools that claim to simplify and speed up the keyword research process. If you don\u2019t have thousands of dollars in your budget, however, there\u2019s always the old-school, free method.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/seo-free-keyword-research-in-3-steps\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"SEO: Free Keyword Research in 3 Steps\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"There are many expensive tools that claim to simplify and speed up the keyword research process. If you don\u2019t have thousands of dollars in your budget, however, there\u2019s always the old-school, free method.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/seo-free-keyword-research-in-3-steps\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Practical Ecommerce\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/practicalecommerce\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-02-08T15:21:48+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-10-19T10:19:32+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/SEO-Free-Keyword-Research-in-3-Steps.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"359\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"240\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Jill Kocher Brown\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@jillkocher\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@practicalecomm\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Jill Kocher Brown\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"5 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"NewsArticle\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/seo-free-keyword-research-in-3-steps#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/seo-free-keyword-research-in-3-steps\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Jill Kocher Brown\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/#\/schema\/person\/ea1d35f668dbf2e8f9c151f624537434\"},\"headline\":\"SEO: Free Keyword Research in 3 Steps\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-02-08T15:21:48+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-10-19T10:19:32+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/seo-free-keyword-research-in-3-steps\"},\"wordCount\":1043,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/seo-free-keyword-research-in-3-steps#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/SEO-Free-Keyword-Research-in-3-Steps.png\",\"articleSection\":[\"Keyword Research\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/seo-free-keyword-research-in-3-steps#respond\"]}],\"copyrightYear\":\"2019\",\"copyrightHolder\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/#organization\"}},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/seo-free-keyword-research-in-3-steps\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/seo-free-keyword-research-in-3-steps\",\"name\":\"SEO: Free Keyword Research in 3 Steps - Practical Ecommerce\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/seo-free-keyword-research-in-3-steps#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/seo-free-keyword-research-in-3-steps#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/SEO-Free-Keyword-Research-in-3-Steps.png\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-02-08T15:21:48+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-10-19T10:19:32+00:00\",\"description\":\"There are many expensive tools that claim to simplify and speed up the keyword research process. If you don\u2019t have thousands of dollars in your budget, however, there\u2019s always the old-school, free method.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/seo-free-keyword-research-in-3-steps#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/seo-free-keyword-research-in-3-steps\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/seo-free-keyword-research-in-3-steps#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/SEO-Free-Keyword-Research-in-3-Steps.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/SEO-Free-Keyword-Research-in-3-Steps.png\",\"width\":359,\"height\":240,\"caption\":\"SEO Free Keyword Research in 3 Steps\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/seo-free-keyword-research-in-3-steps#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"SEO: Free Keyword Research in 3 Steps\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/\",\"name\":\"Practical Ecommerce\",\"description\":\"Independent analysis and strategy for online merchants\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Practical Ecommerce\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/practical-ecommerce-stacked-hires.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/practical-ecommerce-stacked-hires.jpg\",\"width\":250,\"height\":100,\"caption\":\"Practical Ecommerce\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/practicalecommerce\",\"https:\/\/x.com\/practicalecomm\",\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/practical-ecommerce\/\",\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/ecommerce-conversations\/id874457373\",\"https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/practical-ecommerce\",\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/practicalecommerce.com\"],\"description\":\"Practical Ecommerce is an independent digital publication founded in 2005 that helps online merchants improve their businesses through expert articles, guides, webcasts, and podcasts. The site has published over 7,000 articles and serves millions of readers worldwide.\",\"foundingDate\":\"2005-07-01\",\"duns\":\"09-076-7155\",\"numberOfEmployees\":{\"@type\":\"QuantitativeValue\",\"minValue\":\"1\",\"maxValue\":\"10\"},\"publishingPrinciples\":\"https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/editorial-policy\",\"ownershipFundingInfo\":\"https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/about-us\",\"actionableFeedbackPolicy\":\"https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/contact\",\"ethicsPolicy\":\"https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/editorial-policy\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/#\/schema\/person\/ea1d35f668dbf2e8f9c151f624537434\",\"name\":\"Jill Kocher Brown\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/a130870ccaa6bb8f250dcbec777ed7df?s=96&d=identicon&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/a130870ccaa6bb8f250dcbec777ed7df?s=96&d=identicon&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Jill Kocher Brown\"},\"description\":\"Jill Kocher Brown is a writer and search engine optimization expert in Chicago. She has been living and breathing search engine optimization since 2005, and has been in digital marketing since 1996. Jill cut her digital teeth at Intel, managing the home page and corporate sections of Intel.com. After that, Jill managed and developed ecommerce SEO consulting practices at Netconcepts and Covario, served as Groupon\u2019s first in-house SEO director, and pioneered IBM's SEO consulting practice. She now heads up the SEO practice at JumpFly, a marketing agency. Jill holds a B.A. in Communications and American Studies from Stanford University. Email JIll.\",\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.jumpfly.com\/\",\"https:\/\/x.com\/jillkocher\"],\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/author\/jill-kocher\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"SEO: Free Keyword Research in 3 Steps - Practical Ecommerce","description":"There are many expensive tools that claim to simplify and speed up the keyword research process. If you don\u2019t have thousands of dollars in your budget, however, there\u2019s always the old-school, free method.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/seo-free-keyword-research-in-3-steps","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"SEO: Free Keyword Research in 3 Steps","og_description":"There are many expensive tools that claim to simplify and speed up the keyword research process. If you don\u2019t have thousands of dollars in your budget, however, there\u2019s always the old-school, free method.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/seo-free-keyword-research-in-3-steps","og_site_name":"Practical Ecommerce","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/practicalecommerce","article_published_time":"2019-02-08T15:21:48+00:00","article_modified_time":"2024-10-19T10:19:32+00:00","og_image":[{"width":359,"height":240,"url":"https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/SEO-Free-Keyword-Research-in-3-Steps.png","type":"image\/png"}],"author":"Jill Kocher Brown","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@jillkocher","twitter_site":"@practicalecomm","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Jill Kocher Brown","Est. reading time":"5 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/seo-free-keyword-research-in-3-steps#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/seo-free-keyword-research-in-3-steps"},"author":{"name":"Jill Kocher Brown","@id":"https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/#\/schema\/person\/ea1d35f668dbf2e8f9c151f624537434"},"headline":"SEO: Free Keyword Research in 3 Steps","datePublished":"2019-02-08T15:21:48+00:00","dateModified":"2024-10-19T10:19:32+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/seo-free-keyword-research-in-3-steps"},"wordCount":1043,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/seo-free-keyword-research-in-3-steps#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/SEO-Free-Keyword-Research-in-3-Steps.png","articleSection":["Keyword Research"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/seo-free-keyword-research-in-3-steps#respond"]}],"copyrightYear":"2019","copyrightHolder":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/#organization"}},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/seo-free-keyword-research-in-3-steps","url":"https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/seo-free-keyword-research-in-3-steps","name":"SEO: Free Keyword Research in 3 Steps - Practical Ecommerce","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/seo-free-keyword-research-in-3-steps#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/seo-free-keyword-research-in-3-steps#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/SEO-Free-Keyword-Research-in-3-Steps.png","datePublished":"2019-02-08T15:21:48+00:00","dateModified":"2024-10-19T10:19:32+00:00","description":"There are many expensive tools that claim to simplify and speed up the keyword research process. If you don\u2019t have thousands of dollars in your budget, however, there\u2019s always the old-school, free method.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/seo-free-keyword-research-in-3-steps#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/seo-free-keyword-research-in-3-steps"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/seo-free-keyword-research-in-3-steps#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/SEO-Free-Keyword-Research-in-3-Steps.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/SEO-Free-Keyword-Research-in-3-Steps.png","width":359,"height":240,"caption":"SEO Free Keyword Research in 3 Steps"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/seo-free-keyword-research-in-3-steps#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"SEO: Free Keyword Research in 3 Steps"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/","name":"Practical Ecommerce","description":"Independent analysis and strategy for online merchants","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/#organization","name":"Practical Ecommerce","url":"https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/practical-ecommerce-stacked-hires.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/practical-ecommerce-stacked-hires.jpg","width":250,"height":100,"caption":"Practical Ecommerce"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/practicalecommerce","https:\/\/x.com\/practicalecomm","https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/practical-ecommerce\/","https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/ecommerce-conversations\/id874457373","https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/practical-ecommerce","https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/practicalecommerce.com"],"description":"Practical Ecommerce is an independent digital publication founded in 2005 that helps online merchants improve their businesses through expert articles, guides, webcasts, and podcasts. The site has published over 7,000 articles and serves millions of readers worldwide.","foundingDate":"2005-07-01","duns":"09-076-7155","numberOfEmployees":{"@type":"QuantitativeValue","minValue":"1","maxValue":"10"},"publishingPrinciples":"https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/editorial-policy","ownershipFundingInfo":"https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/about-us","actionableFeedbackPolicy":"https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/contact","ethicsPolicy":"https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/editorial-policy"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/#\/schema\/person\/ea1d35f668dbf2e8f9c151f624537434","name":"Jill Kocher Brown","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/a130870ccaa6bb8f250dcbec777ed7df?s=96&d=identicon&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/a130870ccaa6bb8f250dcbec777ed7df?s=96&d=identicon&r=g","caption":"Jill Kocher Brown"},"description":"Jill Kocher Brown is a writer and search engine optimization expert in Chicago. She has been living and breathing search engine optimization since 2005, and has been in digital marketing since 1996. Jill cut her digital teeth at Intel, managing the home page and corporate sections of Intel.com. After that, Jill managed and developed ecommerce SEO consulting practices at Netconcepts and Covario, served as Groupon\u2019s first in-house SEO director, and pioneered IBM's SEO consulting practice. She now heads up the SEO practice at JumpFly, a marketing agency. Jill holds a B.A. in Communications and American Studies from Stanford University. Email JIll.","sameAs":["https:\/\/www.jumpfly.com\/","https:\/\/x.com\/jillkocher"],"url":"https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/author\/jill-kocher"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/117"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170009"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1543903,"href":"https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170009\/revisions\/1543903"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}