Tip: Get more traffic by using forums to find easy keywords

Looking for a way to find easy keywords that you know people are talking about? Find a forum in your niche and write articles about their top keywords.

Steve Toth of SEO Notebook has been using forums to find great keywords for nearly a decade and he says it's a helpful tactic in just about every niche. Here's what you do: Find a popular forum in your niche. Head to a tool like Ahrefs or SEMrush, enter the forum URL, and go to the organic keyword view. Filter for SERP positions up to #10 and set a rule that the keywords must start with who, what, where, when, why, or how. Now you've got question-based keywords that the forum ranks for, and since forum content isn't usually optimized for SEO, it's a safe bet that you can rank for it too. Check the keyword difficulty just to be safe, make sure there's enough volume, and then write your article.