What is Google Keyword Planner? 

Google Keyword Planner is a free keyword research tool. It helps you to research keywords for your Search Campaign. You can use it to discover new keywords, learn the cost of the keyword and see their estimated search volumes and forecast.

Why Do We Need to Use Google Keyword Planner?

How To Access to Google Keyword Planner?

Register a Google Ad Account: 

  1. You first need a Google Ads account to access Google Keyword Planner
  2. Go to https://ads.google.com/home/
  3. Click “Start Now” and sign in with your Google account 
  4. Click on the blue link that says “Switch to Expert Mode.” This way, you can create an account without creating an ad campaign.
  5. On the next screen, click the small “Create an account without a campaign” link.
  6. Then, select your billing country, time zone, and currency. And click “Submit.”
  7. Once you reach the confirmation page, click “Explore your account.”
  8. Your Google Ads account setup is now complete.

If you already have Google Ad Account: 

  1. On the top menu bar, click on “Tools and Settings”, under Planning column, select Keyword Planner
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How to Use Google Keyword Planner

There are 2 options available: 

  1. Discover New Keywords: To find keywords ideas
  2. Get Search Volume and Forecasts: To see search volume and metrics

Option 1: Discover New Keywords

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You will see 2 tabs: Start with keywords or start with a website

  1. Start with keywords: Enter 10 keywords that are related to your business

Use this method if you have some keywords in mind and you need more.

Say you want to search “digital marketing”, click Get Results. 

Tip: You can enter your website url to help Google to remove products and services that you don’t offer.

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The results show 663 keyword ideas related to “digital marketing”. Information such as average monthly search, competition and bidding price are shown as well.

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2. Start with a website: Enter a website url and see keywords suggestions based on that page

You can discover keyword suggestions by inputting the URL of a website or a specific page. Google will then search for keywords associated with the content of that specific page or the entire site.

Option 2: Get Search Volume and Forecasts

google keyword planner get search volume and forecast

If you already have a list of keyword of your business, use this option. It allows you to check how often people search for specific keywords each month on average and provides other metrics for several keywords all at once.

  1. Enter the keyword in the empty field, one keyword per line or add them separated by commas
  2. Click “Get Started”
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3. You will then see the same keywords results page as you did when you used “Discover new keywords.” Except you’ll only get information about the keywords you entered. No related ideas.

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4. At the left menu bar, click forecast, you’ll see Google’s prediction of the clicks, conversions, and impressions you’ll get from the keywords, budgets, bid strategy you entered.

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This is a useful report if you’re running ads. 

Keyword Planner will forecast each keyword’s clicks, impressions, cost, click-through rate, and average cost per click (CPC) and get you new keyword ideas.

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IMPORTANT: Starting July 1, 2023, standard Universal Analytics properties stopped processing data. You'll be able to see your Universal Analytics reports for a period of time after July 1, 2023. However, new data will only flow into Google Analytics 4 properties. Please connect your website to your GA4 immediately if you have yet to do it. 

What Is Google Analytics 4?

Google Analytics 4 is the newest version of Google Analytics. This advanced version empowers marketers to efficiently examine vital metrics related to customer usage, going beyond mere traffic monitoring.

It possesses cross-platform capabilities, enabling the measurement of user engagement across both your website and app—marking a notable first for Google Analytics. 

New Changes

The customer usage metrics allow you to track the user journey through GA4’s Funnel Exploration feature which shows you the exact steps users take before completing a conversion.

This feature allows you to track how effectively the funnel is followed which gives you a better understanding of the conversion process. 

GA4 is also focused on customer privacy. This comes in the face of some of the latest privacy laws, such as GDPR and CCPA. GA4 uses data anonymization by default, meaning it no longer stores the IP addresses of site visitors (unlike Universal Analytics). 

Leveraging privacy-first tracking, cross-channel data measurement, and AI-driven predictive analytics, GA4 stands out as an advanced tool that delivers unparalleled insights.

How to Set Up Google Analytics 4

Alongside an Existing Property

If you currently have a Universal Analytics property for your website, then set up of a Google Analytics 4 property can be completed with the GA4 Setup Assistant.

  1. In Google Analytics, click “Admin” on the lower left of the screen.
  2. In the Account column, select the desired account
  3. In the Property column, select the Universal Analytics property that currently collects data for your website
  4. In the Property column, select GA4 Setup Assistant
  5. Click “Get started” under “I want to create a new Google Analytics 4 property:”
  6. If your site uses the gtag.js tag, you can select “Enable data collection using your existing tags.”
  7. Click “Create Property.”

Reporting and Analysis in GA4

The dashboard on Google Analytics 4 is completely different from that of Universal Analytics. Welcome GA4's event-based setup. This transition is widely acknowledged as one of the key advantages of GA4, as numerous commonly tracked events are inherently integrated. These encompass scroll tracking, outbound clicks, site searches, video engagement, and file downloads.

GA4 places a strong emphasis on artificial intelligence and machine learning, aiming to assist users in recognizing present trends and predicting future ones. It can be accessed from Home > Insights. 

When you open Insights, you will see any of the trends Google has suggested for you. You can also create custom insights from this section, just click Create from the Insights section.

Dashboard

“Users” - is the number of people who engaged with your site or app in the specified date range

“Event Count”—A real-time report of how many events have been completed over the last 7 days. As we’ll explore later, “Events” count as several things — it does not simply refer to purchase conversions. A user playing a video on your site can count as an event, as can a site visitor signing up for your mailing list.

“Conversions“—This refers to any event that has been completed that is of high value to your website. For example, if a site visitor buys one of your products or subscribes to your service or newsletter.

and “Sessions“—This metric reflects how many times a user has landed on your domain, regardless of whether they completed an event or not.

As default, these metrics will be set to show the last 7 days, but you can change the data period at the bottom left-hand side of the graph. 

At the left menu, you can see Reports. Click on this, and you’ll be presented with your “Reports snapshot”

If you click on “Realtime Reports” on the left-hand menu, you’ll get more insightful data. You can review what device your users are visiting from, whether it be their phone, tablet, or desktop 

If you scroll down the page, you’ll gain an overview of:

The "Users by First User Source" feature shows you where users were before they came to your website. Visitors might have reached your site by typing the URL directly, through search engine results (SERPs), or by clicking a link from another website. This helps you figure out which source is currently giving you the most traffic

"Users by Audience" allows you to examine how your users belong to various categories. In GA4, you can create custom audiences, which enables you to break down and analyze your data in a more detailed manner.

"Views by Page Title and Screen Name" is straightforward—it shows you the web pages that your current and recent site visitors are looking at. This feature helps you identify which of your web pages are generating the most interest.

Under Lifecycle, you can see 4 main headings: Acquisition, Engagement, Monetization and Retention

Acquisition looks at where new and existing customers come from (either organic search, direct, referral, organic social, or organic video)

Engagement

This section focuses on the actions users take once they are on your site. Engagement reports cover conversions, events, pages and screens, and landing pages.

All of this provides a quick overview of how users engage with your site. Importantly, you can utilize this section to analyze which landing pages your site visitors are accessing most frequently. 

Additionally, you can examine the pages that attract the highest number of users, along with the average time users spend on each landing page

Monetization

In this section, you will discover reports that illustrate how user engagement converts into monetization. Beyond just e-commerce purchases, you can explore the entire user purchase journey and understand how publisher ads and promotions played a role in securing conversions.

Under Audiences, you will be able to know where your audiences come from, by city, interest, age, language and gender. You can also create custom audiences according to your business needs. 

Go to Admin > Audiences > “New audience”. And you’ll see suggested audiences listed under the “Use a reference” section. Click new audience and you can create the audience you want and start tracking.

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