Welcome to the blog millionaire, where we break down the essential strategies of today's most successful bloggers

to take your blog to the next level with top-notch content, monumental traffic growth, and multiple revenue streams to go beyond your wildest goals.

So get ready to blog like a pro and make your traffic explode with your host, whose blog gets more than one million visitors every single month, Brandon Galey.

My name is Brandon Galey and welcome to episode 127 of the blog Millionaire.

The three most important things that lead to a blog having

hockey stick traffic growth are, in order, number one, conducting deep keyword research,

number two, creating engaging content, and number three, obtaining high domain authority backlings.

I've spent years building and fine-tuning my own proprietary keyword research process.

This process is what has helped me grow multiple blogs across different niches,

which receive beyond five million monthly

visitors. The following three episodes will give you some broad strokes of my keyword research

process. I can only break down so much in an audio-only podcast. There are lots of details that

require screenshots and walkthroughs to teach every

step. That is why a big portion of my course is dedicated to my unique keyword research process.

In this episode, I will be covering brainstorming. The first step in my keyword research process for a new blog or a new category is always going

to be the brainstorm session.

I start by opening a new Google sheet.

Then I begin writing down every word I can think of related to the niche or the category.

I am specifically trying to identify phrases that have one or two words in them.

The reason why it is only one or two words is because I want to get as close to the root

word as possible.

This will allow me to cover more ground when it is time to input these words into

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