It might sound odd, but keyword research is one of my favourite tasks (along with site reviews)...therefore I have printed 100 copies to make excellent SEO wallpaper for behind my computer! (...That probably sounds offensive - but shouldn't, I promise!)

Cheers Aaron and Peter...going to go through it over lunch, but so far looks like a really helpful prompt for a thorough process.

Thank you for this Aaron, it will help a lot in explaining to trainees.

Thanks Aaron and Peter, this flow chart will help my co-workers understand and standardized this process. You guys are rocking lately with great posts. Keep doing a great job. I have liked specially SEO Management posts I have seen lately.

Strange nothing in there about going over/checking your internally searched keywords?

@Aaron - Great stuff. Really well laid out. Agree with Alhan - great training tool.

You are just A-wall buddy!.....I use a similar flowchart I created....but as always Aaron, exceptional detail on this piece....I'm using it.....thanks

ravencross

Very nice flowchart, Aaron. I agree with many parts of it, and it reminds me of one I did on my site back in January of 2007, though I focused on the creation of new content through blogging software, rather than link-building. It works well both ways.

as a final note, once you build, you can also export the keyphrase list into Excel, and then use the SEOBook Rank Checker to do monthly pulls to see how you progress in the big 3. Once you have all the keywords pulled together in a single sheet, use it to map out a chunk of the reporting.
Thanks for the chart guys - look forward to stealing it!

great job mate - have it bookmarked for constant reference

Hi Aaron and Peter,

Following further thought, should consderations of semantics play a role here regarding the choice of keywords and in what context they are sat? i.e. the meaning of keywords are derived from their broader context, so maybe providing supplemental keywords to emphasise meaning for semantics sake?

Cheers,

Ben

We do mention semantically related words and keyword modifiers as a step for if a person does not think their word list is strong enough, and show related keywords as a column in the spreadsheet for mapping out keywords against URLs.

Hi Aaron, is this in the subscriber area, as I can't see it?

Thanks,

Ben

Yes it it Ben. :)

Hard to sell content if I give away everything, and I routinely give away far better content than most people sell...to some degree I am my own biggest competitor. ;)

Ha! Agreed!

This is a very useful flowchart, txs guys.

Very helpful and a great checklist to use when doing research..thank you Aaron!