I will agree with Rand over at SEOmoz of his lightbulb idea to do some keyword research prior to writing a blog post. When I first read this article, I though wow, you mean not everyone does this? Ok I could be so entrenched in this I can’t think of any other way to write. I will admit I don’t do this 100% of the time, as there are occasionally ideas or thoughts I want to share, but

for the most part I do use Google’s keyword tool to figure out what topics have a fairly high search volume – then I write about that. Hopefully, if your an SEO you have been doing this all along since that’s how we optimize articles. If this is news,

to you, then I highly suggest you run a few keyword searches before you write your next post! Happy keyword research!