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Keywords are the foundation for boosting your website’s Google ranking but ranking on popular keywords can be challenging. This is where keyword modifiers come into play. With keyword modifiers, you can significantly enhance your chances of securing the top spot on Google.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Small additions to your primary keywords can help you target your audience more specifically and compete on less competitive keywords, giving you an edge over your competitors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Understanding Keyword Modifiers and how to use them in your content would enhance your digital marketing<\/a> efforts. This article will help you discover what keyword modifiers are, how to find them, how to use them, and much more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What are Keyword Modifiers?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Keyword Modifiers are extra words that you add to the primary keyword to make it more specific. It helps you refine the keywords and make you reach a specific audience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When adding keyword modifiers to your primary keywords, you usually add them in front or end of the keyword. It would look something like this-<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Keyword Modifiers | Primary Keyword | Keyword Modifiers<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For example- if your Primary keyword is \u201cFrench classes\u201d then the keyword modifiers would be \u201cBest French Classes in Delhi\u201d wherein \u201cBest\u201d and \u201cin Delhi\u201d are keyword modifiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can imagine these keyword modifiers as something that narrows down your keywords helping you in reaching the right people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An added advantage of using keyword modifiers is the reduced competition on those keywords. You\u2019re no longer competing with everyone offering the same thing as you do but competing in the niche market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why Use Keyword Modifiers?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

To answer this question, you have to understand how Google ranks a website. Google uses multiple ranking factors to evaluate a website and based on that evaluation rank the website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the problem is that every SEO follows these ranking factors first thing when they start the SEO process<\/a>. So, the entire game becomes who does it better which if you ask me is not the right place to be especially if you have limited resources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is where keyword modifiers come into play, as these modifiers can alter certain aspects of the keyword while maintaining its meaning, helping you achieve more precise results with reduced competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let\u2019s take an example of \u201cSEO Company\u201d as our primary keyword. If you look at the SEMRush tool to find keywords. You have a keyword difficult score which determines which are the keyword difficult to rank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When we type in only our primary keyword the tool shows a keyword difficulty of 70%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"SEO<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

But look what happens when we enter the keyword along with the modifiers- \u201cSEO Company in Delhi\u201d. The keyword difficulty score for “SEO Company in Delhi<\/a>” keyword shows a difficulty score of 42%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"SEO<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Now for the primary keyword of \u201cDog Food\u201d the keyword difficulty is 37%.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Dog<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

When we add modifiers- \u201ccheap dog food 20kg\u201d the keyword difficulty is 20%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Cheap<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Keyword Modifiers can also be used to better target your audience by providing what they want which increases the chances of conversion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are various types of keyword modifiers that you can use to get a keyword variation. The next section talks about in detail\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Types of Keyword Modifiers<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

There are various types of keyword modifiers that you can use, which are as follows-<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Question keyword modifiers<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

According to Backlinko, 14.1% of Google searches are question keywords which makes it a very important keyword modifier to add. The question keyword modifiers that you can add to primary keywords is-<\/p>\n\n\n\n