#i scroll reddit threads until my eyes start hurting in the evenings

[casual-eumetazoa]

Current summary of the job search - things I've applied to and/or considered:

ESL teaching - applied to a bunch of places in my city, have not heard anything back; ESL teaching by non-natives online is apparently very hard to do these days and pays like, 5$ an hour, so I won't even try with the websites

tutoring - oversaturated both online and in my city, plus it turns out I've forgotten a great deal of basic biology and would need several weeks if not months to get back into it; probably will not bother with it

data analysis - requires math degrees and/or SQL experience; I'm considering getting into SQL but it would take me A While to get good at it

AI training - so far have only found one website open to EU residents and I've applied to it; seems like the pay per hour is ok compared to my local minimum wage but the amount of work is probably very inconsistent, so I don't expect this to be enough even if I get accepted

writing - I'm still looking into technical/medical writing because it seems like something I could do, but the vast majority of jobs I've seen require experience; I don't really know copywriting/content writing and what is there is mostly freelance which is inconsistent as hell; I'm also still thinking/looking into ghostwriting but I don't know if I want to do creative writing as my day job (because I don't think I would have the energy left to work on my own novels after that)

translation - mostly dead because of AI; what is left is mostly audio translation, which is not an option for me because of auditory processing problems

other online gigs, like mechanical turk tasks, upwork, data entry, transcription, virtual assistant, etc - either doesn't pay enough or oversaturated or both; I've signed up for one website with surveys, so far have not gotten any messages from it

I'm still considering applying to the assistant editor position at the academic journals publisher but I doubt I would survive more than a month in a full-time job with an hour of daily commute. I'm now considering various minimum wage customer service offers because I'm running out of options but I don't think I would get hired for customer service either tbh (I am not good at passing as neurotypical, especially now after burnout).

Every day this just saps more and more of my energy and will to live. Why is it so hard to find anything after seven years in higher education...

[dvp95]

meet me in the afterglow

pairing: dan howell/phil lester rating: explicit tags: getting back together, smut, hurt/comfort, light angst, happy ending, introspection word count: 1.5k summary: It had been Phil's decision, after all. Okay, technically, it had been a mutual decision, but it had been Phil who actually said the words. They're supposed to be past it by now.

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They're sitting on opposite ends of the couch, idly scrolling on their own devices while Buffy acts as a comforting third party on the TV. Ever since he'd first gotten Dan to watch the show, Phil tends to just keep restarting it every time they hit Chosen again. Nothing else is quite as effective in breaking the quiet that could easily get into awkward territory as the familiar snappy dialogue and fight scenes.

Phil hasn't been paying enough attention to the episode they're on. He glances up and sees Tara in the doorway, hears her say, "Things fall apart. They fall apart so hard."

He stands up and mumbles something about going to the bathroom. Dan barely looks away from his laptop, but he asks if Phil wants him to pause the show. Even though they've both seen it so many times, Dan always offers. He's considerate that way.

"No, don't bother," says Phil. "I know how it ends."

Tara is asking if they can skip the hard part of making up and just be kissing again when Phil leaves the lounge. He wonders if Dan is invested enough in the plot to hear the speech, cognizant enough to make the connection to Phil abruptly leaving, or if he's too focused on whatever Reddit thread he's come across to give Tara and Willow any spare thought. Maybe the scene doesn't hit as close to home for Dan as it does for Phil.

It had been Phil's decision, after all. Okay, technically, it had been a mutual decision, but it had been Phil who actually said the words.

They're supposed to be past it by now.

Maybe things would have been easier if they weren't still best friends. They hadn't wanted to get their own places, didn't want to make a bigger deal of the breakup than absolutely necessary. That was a few years ago now - Phil acts like he can't remember the exact date, but he thinks Dan can probably see past his fake cheerfulness every time the anniversary passes - but sometimes it still hits Phil like a fresh wave of bitterness and remorse.

It's not like he's had a lot of experience with this sort of thing. He hadn't had anything that looked like a relationship before Dan tumbled into his life, and there were a lot of things that he thinks he could do better now, if he was given the chance.

They're different people now. Phil has a better handle on his anxiety and a better perspective on what he can do to keep his private life private; Dan has settled confidently into his own skin and gotten through so much of his baggage with his therapist that he's tried to use some of the techniques on Phil whenever he won't talk about his feelings.

"If I wanted to be in therapy," Phil had recently snapped, strung taut by plans of a second world tour coming together to create a terrifying, overambitious picture, "then I'd be in therapy, Dan."

Dan had only shrugged. He rarely seemed to feel any guilt for attempting 'healthy communication', as he always called it. "Just trying to help."

Sometimes Phil hates him for that, but it never lasts. Phil might be able to hold a grudge with the best of them, but that had never applied to Dan. They're too entwined in each other at this point, too purposefully connected in every facet of their lives, for Phil to allow the irritation to make any sort of home in his chest. It's always been easier to let the arguments happen and then let them go.

Phil waits until he can hear Dawn Summers shrieking with happiness over the witches getting back together before he goes back to the lounge. He wonders if anyone would be that happy if he and Dan were to - but that way lies madness. He can't think about that. It's too easy to cling to faint hope that never really went away.

--

Phil can't be sure if it was Buffy that did it or not, but he's inclined to believe that it is. It's too much of a coincidence that Dan would knock lightly on his bedroom door a couple days later and give him a tired sort of grin.

"Hey," he says, and Phil wonders if he forgot to unload the dishwasher last night or something.

"Hi," says Phil. He slides his finger between the pages of his book and closes the cover gently, keeping his place while he gives Dan his attention. "Everything okay?"

Dan shrugs, hands shoved deep in his sweatpant pockets. He looks like he's been awake for too long, like he forgot to sleep again, and Phil's surge of protectiveness feels instinctual. He hates when Dan doesn't sleep, whether it's on purpose or not. It feels like he should be up with him, at least, keeping him company while thoughts ricochet around Dan's brain like a pinball machine.

"Things are," Dan hesitates for a fraction of a second, "fine."

It's pretty obvious to Phil that things aren't fine. He puts the receipt he's been using as a bookmark into his book and sets it aside. "C'mere."

Dan's whole body seems to slump forward in relief, and Phil feels like he's made the right decision. He sits up against his headboard properly and fluffs up the pillow he never uses. It’s the only thing on the side of the bed where a lanky boy took up too much space for so many years. Dan fills it again, sitting next to Phil and curling in on himself a bit. He leans into Phil, his curly head finding somewhere comfortable to rest on Phil's shoulder.

Wrapping his arm around Dan would jostle him, so Phil settles for putting his hand on Dan's knee and squeezing. He doesn't know if this is just one of Dan's hard days, which seem to be getting more and more frequent as the tour looms, or if it's something else entirely.

The room is quiet for a little while. It doesn't get anywhere near the realm of awkward, even with the cuddling. Phil's hope - dormant, insistent - flares again.

"I've been thinking," says Dan.

"Dangerous activity," Phil can't help himself from joking. He wonders if Dan is rolling his eyes or smiling. Or both, he supposes. A lot of the time, it's both. "What have you been thinking about?"

"I've been thinking that I don't want to do this without you," Dan says, a bit rushed. Phil is opening his mouth to ask for clarification when Dan's patented rambling barrels through. "The tour, yeah, but also the - the telling my family about me, which I want to do, but I don't want to do it alone. I don't want to do any of this alone."

Phil risks the grumbling to wrap both arms around Dan, pulling Dan against his chest in a proper cuddle. "You aren't alone. I'm not going anywhere."

"I know," Dan says. He looks up at Phil, brown eyes wide and full of meaning and close, and Phil momentarily forgets how to breathe. "I know you're gonna be there for whatever I need you to be there for. I just. I want to do it with you, not just... beside you."

There's a chance, however small, that Phil is misreading the situation. He thinks about that and about the choices he'd made that led to this and about Tara's speech, and he decides that he can't keep pushing his hope down like it's an excitable puppy. He lets it consume him, instead, lets the warmth spread through his whole body before he rests his forehead against Dan's in supplication.

Dan doesn't seem to be asking for penance. Dan is asking for something much simpler.

--

There are a lot of things that Phil loves in this world. Pancakes, Buffy, the way a dog's tail wags when he says hello to them, so many things he could list for days and not even be close to hitting the end. Even so, there's nothing quite like the needy noises that echo around the room when Phil takes Dan's cock deep into his throat, twists his fingers inside Dan, keeps eye contact with Dan to watch the way he falls apart. He watches Dan arch up, sweat beading on his forehead, and feels Dan's hand pushing and pulling in his hair. Dan falling apart - that's what Phil loves most in this world. He can't believe he went so long without it, no matter what his reasons were at the time.

--

"Like riding a bike," Dan laughs and collapses against Phil's chest. His mouth follows a path from Phil's collarbones to his jaw, ending at his well-abused lips.

Phil grins into the kiss. He wants Dan closer, impossibly. He's got his arms around Dan, Dan's legs bracketing his hips, he's still inside of Dan, but it doesn't feel like enough. They trade lazy, sweaty kisses until Dan eventually starts complaining about needing a shower.

He isn't ready to let go of Dan again, even for a handful of minutes, but that's not a problem - although it hasn't been taken advantage of yet, the shower in this flat is definitely big enough for the two of them.

[milesheizclub]

Ramshackle Head - Chapter One

Before The Mystery Enda

Summary: On a person's 18th birthday, their soulmark changes to the color of what kind of life their soul mate will bring them. What do you do when all you prepare for turns out to be everything you didn't expect?

- or -

Alex is resigned to a life of being mateless, and things have to change.

Un-beta'd, as usual. Oh, and I take requests now!

Word count: 2271

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Another wind-knocking blow to the gut – another sign that maybe it should’ve ended for him last year, and that he shouldn’t have even been around anymore. There was nothing to look forward to, nothing waiting for him. At least that’s what the events of the early morning seemed to mean for him.

Alex walked into school by second period that day, a little more distraught by the earlier discovery than he thought he’d be. He took his usual seat beside Zach’s chair with a tired huff as he plopped down after a half-hearted scolding directed at him once he entered the room and a mumbled apology.

Zach’s obnoxious grin came into his line of vision after a couple of minutes, the boy expecting Alex to humor him and spill. “Happy birthday,” he whispered through his teeth, doing that annoying Z-Man elbow nudge with only the teasing, slinky lilt of his voice. Alex raised his eyebrows in thanks, the straight line of his mouth still firmly intact, and Zach scrunched his face, accepting the challenge.

He dragged his chair right up next to Alex, the feet screeching loudly across the classroom floor, earning more disapproval from Mr. Orman, and Zach explained it off as ‘needing to help Alex.’

“Happy eighteenth birthday…” Zach said, letting the silence do the nudging for him. Alex rolled his eyes in return, less in annoyance than in frustration and absolute hurt. He looked over at Zach’s smiling, expectant face, and he brought his hand to his right jacket sleeve, lifting it up to reveal the very-much-skin-toned design on his wrist. Zach’s eyes grew as he stared at it, and Alex quickly shoved his sleeve back down.

“I don’t wanna talk about it,” Alex said, heat climbing up his neck to his cheeks, and he started fiddling the edge of his table. The shame had almost consumed him right at that moment, but he’d only let it show through the flush that spread across the skin on his face and the betrayal in his eyes. Zach didn’t dare move or talk, staying only to monitor. It was only when Mr. Orman gave another pointed clearing of his throat that Zach conceded and scooted his chair back to its regular place, but never once breaking from observing his best friend.

Alex didn’t quite understand. He’d heard that it might happen, but everyone had always said that it was so rare – practically unheard of - that he’d never had any reason to second-guess it. The only question anyone ever considered was what color their marks would be once they turned eighteen.

Through the first half of the period, all Alex could do was to ruefully stare at his mark, lightly tracing his finger over the raised skin again and again. If he squinted, he could see the embossed skin twirling around his wrist and creeping up the back of his hand and up his palm like a glove of vines and small, lush leaves. Over the years, he’d imagined it in all different colors, and the kind of lives they would bring with them – the dark purple of wealth and nobility, or the blood red of fire, passion, courage, or the balance and, finally, peace of a hue of green or blue that could finally ease the constant anxiety that had found a home in Alex’ chest. He couldn’t help it.

It was actually never something that he looked forward to until recently. It had never been something he even particularly wanted. He almost loathed it – the idea of being predestined, of belonging to someone or someone belonging to him, no choice, rhyme, or reason. But after everything that happened within the past couple of years, after almost not being here for this day, it’d been something to hold on to, maybe even look forward to.

Alas, no dice.

Alex hadn’t noticed at first when his hands started to tense, but his fingernails began to dig harder into his mark, and he’d shaken himself out of his trance long enough to stop before breaking skin. He stared at the portions of his wrist where flat met raised and the dashes of dipped skin that were made from his insistent nails which caused violent itches and made Alex want to reach and scratch. The tenseness transferred to tight, tight grips on the sides of his table, knuckles turning a dangerous pale, beads of steaming sweat trekking from his scalp down to his temples, red hot cheeks, grinding gritted teeth, blown out beady pupils and eyes getting drier by the second but he couldn’t seem to blink them shut. He whipped his head with raised eyebrows to Zach, whose attention was caught immediately by the sudden movement, and Zach, momentarily paralyzed by the look of complete terror on his friend’s face, shot his hand straight into the air and shouted at their teacher.

“Mr. Orman,” he rushed, “Alex is a fucking tomato, and I’m taking him to the nurse’s office.” Tears begun to spring in Alex’ eyes as Zach moved swiftly, commoting and practically knocking his chair over getting both his and Alex’ bags and dragging his friend off of his chair. “Alex you need to come with me, okay?” he said, and Alex could only nod in return, his jaw wired tight, and they made their way through the worried faces of their classmates and out of the room.

-

The two, of course, did not go to the nurse’s office and instead ran to Zach’s car, They both understood by now that whenever Alex got worked up just like this, he needed someone to be right there for him, but at the same time he needed to be left alone. It hadn’t happened in a while, but their procedure was complete muscle memory at that point – Alex in the passenger’s seat and the speakers playing Alex’ current flavor of the month, Zach simply keeping his cool in the driver’s seat while waiting for the attack to subside and for Alex to calm down.

Alex reached to turn the music off a few minutes later, feeling too low and proceeding to recline his seat, his head suddenly feather light and his body fighting the urge to take a quick nap.

“To be honest,” Zach said, reclining his chair along with him, “I didn’t think you’d be so affected by something like this.��

“I didn’t think I would be either,” Alex replied. He sighed and gave the car door beside him a weak punch and started thumping out a soft rhythm against the leather padding.

“But I guess I’m more shocked that this even happened,” Zack continued, “like… what the fuck is that about? Like what does it even mean?”

“It means they’re probably dead already. Or they aren’t even born yet. But most likely dead.” Alex flashed back to earlier that day, to his parents with him at the dining table in the dark of the morning, readied with an ice pack and a stress ball, the excitement and anticipation in their faces slowly turning to confusion and disbelief when the burning sensation his mom always warned him about never came and the wait for his mark to reveal its color turned fruitless. They’d been optimistic – convincing themselves that the time on Alex’ birth certificate had been off, and that maybe they were off for as much as half an hour.

No one knew quite what to do other than wait, and Alex finally decided to call it a night and left for bed with a broken voice, the most dejected his parents had seen him in almost two years. And as much as he tried, Alex had not gone to sleep, the dark feeling in the pit of his chest pushing him down a Reddit thread spiral of memoirs, personal accounts, and support groups by people whose marks had never turned and whose soul mates they’d never met. The more he scrolled through the stories, the sweatier his fingertips while swiping at his phone screen which grew increasingly hot with relentless use, the colder his blood turned.

“Fuck, I have no idea what to say,” Zach said with a sigh and a slide of his fingers through his hair. “It can’t be some kind of fluke, right? Like maybe all this time we got your birthday wrong and it’s actually next year? Or maybe this really is the color of your mark! Has it ever just been bone white before? I mean it could happen, right? Or what if it’s some kind of weird Mayan thing like how they got 2012 wrong or whatev-“

“Stop, please,” Alex said, defeated. Zach huffed and brought his seat back up, wanting to say more, but ultimately giving Alex his time. “You know those points in your life when you tell yourself, ‘well this might as well happen?’” His lips curled up with a menace. It was an expression Zach had been all too familiar with, and it never failed to scare him, knowing what Alex was capable of doing, to others, sure, but mostly to himself. “I’m just trying to keep myself the fuck together and make my peace with this.”

Zach looked on at him in pity, Alex’ eyes still fixated on the black leather lining of the car’s ceiling, so pristine he could almost make out his reflection on it – that of sad, tired eyes and resignation. But he decided it was better that he couldn’t, tired of looking at himself and determining what else could be different, what about himself should and shouldn’t change.

Alex felt his eyes start to drift closed but he was jolted awake by the sound of a starting car and the gravity beneath him suddenly shifting. He pulled the lever from off to the side and his seat immediately shot up to the sight of Zach driving out of the Liberty High parking lot, and quickly gaining speed.

“Um, what the hell are you doing?” Alex asked, pulling his seatbelt across himself.

“Well, it’s still your eighteenth birthday, Standall, and I sure as hell am not gonna let you drown in all this bullshit that’s happening to you because you’re better than some fucking mark on your wrist and some piece of shit dead person who’s missing out on a great guy. So I’m treating you to the best goddamn burger you’ve ever had in your fucking life, and we’re gonna make today a fucking fantastic day for you, okay?” By the way he impassioned his speech with the steely focus in his eyes, Alex would have thought he was driving 80 miles per hour. But it brought a smile to his face, however small it may have been. “Text Tyler and Charlie, too, tell them to meet us.”

“We can’t just skip class, Zach,” Alex said, grabbing his phone anyway and quickly texting the two.

“We’ll be back by the time lunch ends, I’m not dumb.”

“You’re kind of dumb, let’s be real,” Alex said, chuckling. Zach seemed pleased with this development and eased his pressure on the gas pedal.

He got a reply from Charlie almost instantly with a series of emojis that vaguely resembled affirmation and what Alex presumed to be a joke about Tyler being dragged along on a leash. It sent calm so quickly through Alex’ chest that he could feel his eyelids swiftly start to betray him. Looking forward to it, he finally settled on replying, his lazy fingers having to retype more than once.

“I think soul mates are overrated anyway,” Zach said. “They could’ve just been a waste of time for you, don’t worry Lex.”

I didn’t deserve one anyway, Alex thought. He looked over to where Zach’s hands gripped on the steering wheel and admired the design on Zach’s right wrist, a simple red bracelet of thick, dashed lines. He thought about the amazing person who’d eventually get to share his soul and who that might be. He recalled the one point in his life when he could’ve sworn he knew exactly who it was, and decided he was much too tired at that moment to fight the urge to just admit that –

“You know, for a second there I thought it might be you.”

Zach didn’t respond at first, and Alex leaned back, lowering his backrest once again.

He kept his eyes closed, feeling the slight nausea coming back, not used to being in this position with the motion of the car and the lack of music. He kept his silence again, taking the opportunity to berate himself, not for confessing, but for burdening Zach with the responsibility of having to tread lightly and say the right thing in fear of anything happening. “It’s okay, you don’t have to say anything,” Alex said. “Please don’t think about it anymore. I’m sorry.”

“Nothing to apologize for,” Zach said without missing a beat.

If Alex had been honest with himself, he’d known all along that it could’ve never been Zach who was meant for him. Zach was much too loyal of a friend, and Alex had only been too lonely. Again, he repeated to himself, he was a burden, a responsibility. And Alex’ truth was that Zach was much too full of life for the decaying shell that Alex had become.

What kind of soul mate was Alex expecting then? Was it someone who would bring him back up from six feet under, someone he’d never accept, for their sake? Or was it someone who was as much of a disaster as him, someone to share the casket? Maybe that’s what the world thought he deserved in this life.

[lifemuchgreener]

Brothers Trust - Chapter 9

STORY SUMMARY: You enter the Brothers Trust contest on a whim, not expecting to win. But what happens when you do?

CHAPTER SUMMARY: Your plans for the summer change suddenly when you don’t get a good grade in one of your classes and have to retake it as a summer class. Everything is going okay until an exposé is published about your relationship with Tom just days before the premiere of Spider-Man: Far From Home.

WARNINGS: Swearing and ANGST.

WORD COUNT: 1744

AUTHOR’S NOTE: 👀👀👀 also: Y/C/N refers to the name of the college or university you go to for the sake of this story. 

Prologue: here

Chapter/Day One: here

Chapter/Day Two: here

Chapter/Day Three: here

Chapter/Day Four: here

Chapter Five: here

Chapter Six: here

Chapter Seven: here

Chapter Eight: here

Your second semester of school flies by even faster than the first semester did. Maintaining a long distance relationship with one of the world’s current most popular actors, keeping up with all of your classes, and finding time for anything else is not an easy feat but you manage. At least you think you do.

“Yes!” your roommate exclaims loudly which startles you from packing up things on your desk. “Grades were just uploaded.”

She’s been refreshing her laptop browser for the last hour and a half, eagerly waiting to see what her final grades are. You’re not too worried so you’ve decided to get some packing done but you figure a five minute break to check your grades won’t hurt.

You open up your laptop, log into your student account, and click the link that will take you to your grades.

“Holy fuck,” you say, staring at the one unimpressive letter in front of your eyes.

“What’s wrong?” your roommate asks.

“I, uh.” You swallow hard, your throat suddenly feeling dry. “I got a D.”

She’s silent for a moment. “Ah, well...at least that’s a passing grade?”

You shake your head. “It’s a class for my major -- it doesn’t count. I don’t get credit. Fuck.”

She instantly tries to do some damage control. “What’s the course number? I’ll see if they’re offering it over the summer.”

You tell her the number and close your eyes as she does a search. This can’t be happening.

“They’re offering it over the summer,” she says. “It’s going to be okay. You can just take it again without disrupting your four-year plan.”

“Summer classes are so expensive. And it costs a lot of money to stay on campus during the summer, too -- I can’t afford that.”

“Move in with Andrew and me,” she says. “We’ve already signed the lease for an apartment nearby. He’s taking a couple of summer classes to get ahead and I’m staying in the area for my internship with the local newspaper. We were going to look for a third person to split the apartment with anyway.”

“Who’s Andrew?”

“That guy that tried to ask you out last semester,” she says. “We, uh, took a class together this semester and we’ve been dating for a few months. I didn’t tell you because I didn’t want it to be weird.”

You haven’t really talked to Andrew since that party in November. That’s why you don’t remember his name -- who needs Andrew when your boyfriend is Tom Holland?

“Could I? Is that okay?” you ask.

She smiles at you. “I wouldn’t have asked if it wasn’t okay.”

So you move from your dorm room into a cute little apartment down the street with your roommate and your roommate’s boyfriend, who just so happens to be the same guy who asked you out on a date during your first semester. The first month together goes smoothly despite this: you enjoy meals together at the tiny kitchen table, you have movie marathons, you binge-watch Netflix.

It’s the end of June when shit hits the fan.

You wake up to the consistent buzzing of your phone which is extremely annoying; it’s a Friday and you’d like to sleep in because your class only meets on Wednesdays and Thursdays.

Normally when you post a selfie or something you’ll wake up with a few hundred notifications -- some of Tom’s fans still like and comment on every new picture you post despite the contest being nearly ten months ago. But you haven’t posted a picture recently which is what confuses you.

You unlock your phone and check Instagram to see what all the fuss is about since that’s where the majority of the notifications are coming from. Tom Holland fan accounts are tagging you in photos, which isn’t anything new, but it’s the actual photos that they’re tagging you in that make your heart skip a beat. They’re photos that nobody would have access to except for you and Tom.

Tom kissing your cheek. You kissing his. Your fingers intertwined. A selfie you took with Tom and Tessa. All photos you had taken together when you visited for New Years and had printed out on special paper in the school library so you could put them on your wall next to your signed picture with him.

Your first thought is that someone hacked into the school’s printing system somehow and released the photos on Tumblr or maybe one of the Reddit threads that has to do with Marvel. But then you notice that all the comments on the pictures are talking about some sort of article. You figure that doing some investigating will be easier to do on a bigger screen so you grab your laptop and do a search in Google for ‘tom holland girlfriend 2019.’

The first result is for some magazine that you have never heard of. The article in particular, titled “Tom Holland Has A Secret Girlfriend...OMG!” was evidently posted three hours ago. You click on the link and immediately begin to read.

Move over Zendaya...Tom Holland’s got a new girl! But is she really that new?

Her name is Y/F/N Y/L/N and she’s a student at Y/C/N. You may recognize her from this picture--

There’s a break in the paragraph to show the picture of you and Tom that Nikki had taken on the day you visited the Far From Home set.

--because she was the winner from a contest put on by an organization created by the Holland family back in the summer of 2018. Holland and Y/L/N started a long distance relationship in the fall and she spent a portion of her winter vacation at his place in London.

There’s another picture. This time it’s you and Tom laying in his bed post-sex. Both of you are topless and while the sheets are covering your chest, it’s pretty obvious that you two had just been at it: your hair is disheveled and your lips are more colored than normal from kissing. Beads of sweat glisten on Tom’s hairline and there’s a lovely flush across his cheeks as he presses a kiss to your bare shoulder.

You’re instantly infuriated. How fucking dare someone post such an intimate picture of you two without your permission? You scroll back up to the top of the page instead of continuing to read and your eyes widen with surprise when you find the byline.

You push yourself off of your bed and throw open the door of your tiny bedroom. Your heart is beating fast as you check the small living room and kitchen. The bathroom door is open and nobody is in the shower. Without a second thought you throw open their bedroom door, not caring what you’ll find on the other side.

But that’s empty too. There’s no sign of her or him.

“Fuck!” you swear loudly, tears starting to spill from your eyes. You fist your hands into your hair and let out an angry scream. “How fucking could she?”

You double over onto the floor like you’ve been punched in the stomach. You’re pretty sure a punch would hurt less than this betrayal of trust from a person you thought was your friend. You continue to cry and scream, pounding your fists against the carpeted floor. You’re grateful that nobody lives below you.

You stop crying when you hear the sound of your phone ringing in your bedroom. You pick yourself up off of the floor and sulk to your room, a whole new wave of tears coming over you when you see that it’s Tom who’s calling.

“I’m so sorry,” you sob into the phone, trying to control your voice the best you can. “Tommy, I’m so sorry.”

“Shh,” he says and even though you feel like the world is falling apart, his voice still manages to comfort you.

“I didn’t know she would,” you take a deep shaky breath. “I don’t know why…”

“That doesn’t matter right now,” he says. “It happened and now we have to do some damage control. I wanted to make sure you’re okay.”

“Well, I’m not okay.”

He sighs. “I mean, like, I wanted to make sure she didn’t have a knife to you or something.”

“She doesn’t. I can’t even find her. She’s not in the apartment.”

“You need to get out of there,” he advises. “I don’t want there to be a confrontation between you two. Go to a coffee shop or a park or something. Just get out of the apartment before she gets back.”

You put Tom on speakerphone as you get ready to leave.

“How do we do damage control?” you ask.

“I’ll take care of it,” he says. “I’m going to talk to everyone I know and see what they think I should do because babe, I know it might sound like I know what I’m doing, but I totally don’t. I’ve never had to deal with anything like this before and I want to get advice on what to do.”

“So what do I do?”

“I need you to wait,” he says. “Don’t reply to anything yet. I’ll text you as soon as I figure out what to do.”

“Fuck, Tom, I’m so sorry.”

“It’s not your fault so stop apologizing. Lay low for a little bit. I’ll send you a message as soon as I come up with a plan.”

“Okay,” you say. “I can do that.”

“Good.” You can hear him smile through the phone despite the stressful situation. “I’ll talk to you later.”

You hang up the phone and dry your eyes off with the sleeves on your shirt. You grab your phone charger, apartment keys, and bag before heading out the door. Your feet lead you to a little coffee place not too far away and you sit at a table in the back, attempting to distract yourself with games on your phone as you impatiently wait for Tom’s message.

What do you think about joining me for the movie premiere on Monday?

Your fingers dance across your phone screen as you write back your reply of: That’s the plan you’ve come up with?

Will you or won’t you? Harrison’s already arranged for an Uber to pick you up and drive you to the airport and if we don’t cancel it within the next minute they’ll still charge him.

Yes, you type back. Yes. I’ll go with you.

Good. See you tonight, love.

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[freelancerace]

Hello guys I’m Ace. Today you’re going to learn exactly how to find the best keywords for your business.

When I first got started with SEO. My approach to keyword research was A total mess back then. I’d fire up the latest and greatest keyword, research tool and start typing in a bunch of random keywords.

So, what’s wrong with this approach?

My competitors were doing the exact same thing! No wonder most of the keywords I found were insanely competitive. Now, over the years, I developed a keyword research blueprint that works. Well, specifically, this blueprint for beginners will help you uncover keywords. That your competition doesn’t know about.

So let’s dive right in with step number one of this process. Which is to identify your customer persona. This is a step that most people skip and it hurts them.

What is identifying your customer persona actually mean?

Let me explain with an example: what if my site sells SEO training products. To small and medium-sized businesses. Most people in my position would open up a keyword research tool. And type in things like SEO, training and SEO courses into the tool.

What’s the problem with this approach?

First off, like I mentioned before. Your competition is doing the exact same thing. Which means you’re going to run into the exact same set of keywords as your competitors. But more important than that. This approach ignores a very important fact about your customer. The fact of the matter is, your customer spends 99.9 percent of their time online, not searching for what you sell.

In other words, if you only target your customer when they search for the exact thing you sell. You’re missing out on hundreds of other opportunities to get in front of them.

For example, in my case. I noticed that most of my customers were SEO agencies. So I went to forums and online communities where SEO agency owners tended to hang out that way.

I could see what my target cost would search for when he wasn’t searching for SEO training. I discovered that there are dozens of keywords that my target customer typed into Google. That were related to my products, but had nothing to do with SEO training. Keywords like, On-Page SEO, list building, how to get more traffic and SEO tools.

If I target these keywords. I could get my business in front of thousands of my target customers every single day. When my target customer is ready to buy, I’m the first person that comes to mind. That’s the power of doing keyword research. Based on your customer persona.

All you need to do for this step. Is say my customer is X.

For example. If you want an online flower shop. You might say my customer is a bride, getting ready for her upcoming wedding. How it was easy right now that you’ve identified your customer persona. It’s time to find topics that your customer is interested in.

Which leads us to step two in my keyword, research blueprint. Which is to find topics that your customers care about.

So how do you find these topics? Go to where your target customer hangs out online. Then look for serious topics that they tend to discuss.

That’s it!

For example, in my case. My customers tend to hang out at marketing focused communities like inbound dot org. In your case, your target customer may hang out in places like. Pinterest, Reddit, YouTube, industry, blogs and niche forums. Once you’ve identified where your target customer hangs out. It’s time to keep an eye out for topics that are important to them.

For example, in my case. I notice that link building. Was one of the most popular topics in the online communities, that my audience spent time on. So I wrote down link building as a topic. I then kept digging until I found at least five topics. That our customers talked about in online communities. Now that you have at least five topics. It’s time to drill down into finding keywords.

My four favorite tactics are finding untapped keywords. That your competition doesn’t know about.

First, we have Google Suggest to use this strategy. Head over to Google and type your topic into the search field, but don’t press Enter. Instead, take a look at the queue words that google suggest for you. These are usually awesome. Longtail keywords that you can go after.

Pro Tip: try putting a few spaces before your keyword. This will show you a completely different set of keyword, ideas.

Next up we have Quora dot com. Quora is a massive community of people that ask and answer questions on every topic under the sun. All you need to do is search for your topic in Cora and see which keywords tend to show up.

The next tactic for finding keywords is to use Reddit. Like Quora, Reddit is a massive community of people that discuss every topics. From pets to politics. You can use Reddit for keyword research as well. Head over to Reddit and search for your topic. When you find a thread on your topic. Keep an eye out for words and phrases that tend to come up again and again. These make awesome keyword, ideas.

Next up, we have Google’s Search. To use this feature, simply type your topic into Google Search. Then scroll to the bottom of the results. Google then shows you other searches that are related to the keyword you just put in. These are usually excellent, longtail keywords that you can target with your content.

Finally, we have Wikipedia. What other site has in-depth articles for topics like. Dog walking, the lingerie football league and yes. The five-second rule to use Wikipedia for keywords research. Head over to Wikipedia and type in your topic. Then take a look at the other entries that that article links to.

These are usually closely related topics and even potential keywords themselves. Also make sure to check out the table of contents for that entry. Again, these are usually keywords that are closely tied to your topic. Now, do you have a list of potential keywords? It’s time to choose the best from your list.

How?

By analyzing each keywords commercial intent. One of the first websites I ever built. Shot to the top of google for my target keyword. And because that keyword, got a ton ff search volume. That single ranking helped that site generate over 10,000 unique visitors per month. All good right? Wrong! Even though that keyword got to ton of searches. The people that search for that keyword were flat broke. Which made monetizing that traffic impossible. Sorry dude I’m broke! That’s why today I pay very close attention to a keyword’s commercial intent.

Commercial intent means – how likely someone searching for a given keyword is to buy from you.

Here’s how to find out if your keyword has a high commercial intent or not.

First, head over to the Google Keyword planner. Type in one of your potential keywords. Then take a look at the suggested bid column. This shows you how much advertisers are spending in Adwords for a single click from this keyword. Obviously, the higher the suggested bid. The more valuable that keyword is another simple way to size.

A commercial intent is to see how many AdWords ads appear. When you search for your keyword in Google. If you search for your keyword and see lots of AdWords ads. It means that people are chomping at the bit to bring those searchers to their site.

Ok now it’s time for our last step, which is to look at each keyword’s search volume.

Back in the day, Google would show you exact search volume numbers in the Google Keyword planner. Unfortunately, that ship has sailed today unless you’re running active, AdWords campaigns. They show you an extremely unhelpful search volume range. So how can you see how many people search for your keywords? There are two freemium tools that get the job done.

The first is SEMrush. To find a keyword’s search volume. Type the keyword in to SEMrush. They’ll show you how many searches that keyword gets every month. You can also use kW finder dot com. Just pop your keyword into the tool and you’ll see the exact amount of searches that it gets every month.

Now before we decide on a keyword. I recommend one last bonus step. Now this step is completely optional. But in my experience it helps you find the absolute best keywords for your business. That step is, to look at your keyword’s growth in Google Trends.

For example. Let’s say that you found two keywords. That have similar search volume and commercial intent. You don’t know which one to pick. But when you look at Google Trends. You notice that one keyword is growing in popularity and the other is dropping like a stone. Obviously, you’d want to go with the keyword that’s growing a couple of years ago.

This step saved my butt. I was debating whether to target one of two keywords. Google Keyword tool or Google Keyword Planner. You see, Google had renamed the Google Keyword tool. To the Google Keyword planner. But the keyword, Google Keyword tool. Still got 20 times more searches than Google Keyword planner. So I almost pulled the trigger on Google Keyword tool.

That is until I looked at Google Trends. That’s when I noticed that searches for the Google Keyword planner were skyrocketing. While searches for the Google Keyword tool were steadily dropping. I decided to go with the Google Keyword planner and it was a good move. I now rank in the top five for that keyword and it’s a keyword. That’s growing in popularity every day.

Ok, so that’s it!

There is to my steps to the keyword research blueprint for beginners. If you follow the blueprint. You should have a handful of excellent keywords that you can use. Once you have those. It’s a matter of creating landing pages and content optimize around those terms.

If you liked this article make sure to subscribe to my blog. Also, if you want exclusive SEO techniques that I only share with subscribers. Sign up for the newsletter it’s free. Now, I want to turn it over to you which steps from this article was new to you, or maybe you try them all already? If so, you probably have a favorite technique that works well for you either way. Let me know by leaving a quick comment.

Hello guys I'm Ace. Today you're going to learn exactly how to find the best keywords for your business.

[missingverse]

Missing Chapter Nine

The people you found in true crime communities could almost all be neatly sorted into three categories. It was usually clear within the first few forum posts, first created thread or podcast comment, so that Arnold found himself filing them away as 'ignore' or 'engage' just by looking at their usernames.

The most pleasant to deal with were the ones that had a scholarly interest in true crime. They were clever, thorough, usually respectful. A lot of stay-at-home mothers or particularly bright college students, the occasional retired detective. Arnold suspected Officer Plaskett was going by the username OldDogNewTricks on three of the forums he was a member of.

The ghouls were mostly easy to spot, they typically weren't too bright. Lots of edgy teenagers that hero-worshiped serial killers and mass shooters, emotional vampires feeding off of grief, deranged romantics that blamed the deceased for having the audacity to die at the hands of the poor, misunderstood murderer. Some of them were very good at faking sincerity until their probing for messy details gave them away.

The last category was the one Arnold had put himself in after much deliberation. The people the deceased had left behind, family, friends, loved ones, former teachers and co-workers, people who saw that person all the time until one day they were gone. Full of bewildered hurt, good-natured, sometimes angry, mostly just incredibly sad. There was a sense that the postings they made online were an effort to preserve their loved one in people's memories, in that immortal way of the Black Dahlia or Jonbenet Ramsey or Amber Hagerman.

Arnold's first step into the community came with a thinkpiece. He'd been mindlessly surfing the internet, finished with household chores but too mentally drained to start his seventh grade assignments, and it was well past midnight so nobody was awake.

SLIPPING THROUGH THE CRACKS: Does America's school system need to take more responsibility?

The picture at the head of the article was one that would become famous; the one with Helga and Phoebe building a snow fortress, Helga sporting the black eye that would set curious fingers typing all over the internet. The article itself was a mess, barely-there sources, typos and the author went off on an odd tangent about some teacher that had been mean to her back in grade school. But it brought Arnold to the comment section.

The school is definitely to blame, but let's not let CPS off the hook here. They had buckets of evidence even without the school reporting, but they left her there anyway.

Kids get bumps and bruises all the time, how is an underpaid, overworked public servant supposed to tell the difference? Where was this kid's doctor?

Ugh, just looking at that picture of Papa Pataki gives me chills.

He found himself scouring Reddit threads, which lead to blogs, which lead to podcasts and back again, in a circle. He was exhausted, but he kept going until the sun started creeping up the sky. He feigned illness to stay in bed, scrolling through post after post on his phone.

A lot of people had opinions on Helga's disappearance. Reading through them was compelling, they filled the vacuum she left behind her at least a little. And for Arnold, whose life was held taut between the boarding house and his schoolwork, it was something other than the everyday drudge to focus on.

…..

Arnold was buzzing with excitement (could it be called excitement? it was something, anyway) as they left the forest. He escorted Phoebe home, and left her with a promise that he would tell her what was on the memory stick once he saw it.

Only after, cycling back to the boarding house with her in the basket, did he realize that Helga had been oddly subdued. She'd been quiet in the woods, and hadn't entered her old hideout with them, and as they approached home she started rubbing her head, just under the wound.

“You okay?” he asked. Had something in the woods triggered something for her...?

“Yeah, I'm just really tired,” she mumbled back. “My head hurts.”

He had shown her the memory stick, but she hadn't shown any recognition or interest in it.

“Maybe we took you out too far today,” he mused. “I don't know, maybe the further you are from the house, the weaker you get, or something?”

“Maybe,” she agreed with a worn-out sigh.

He helped her out of the basket and brought her upstairs, and she was asleep before her head touched the pillow. He tucked her in and left her there to rest before joining his grandparents and the boarders for dinner. The chili was watery and the rice gritty (Gertie's cooking was going downhill rapidly, but no-one could convince her not to let someone else take over) but he swallowed it down fast.

The police never found the stick. She was going to give it to Officer Plaskett. It's evidence, important evidence. Crucial.

A tremor passed over Arnold as he slid the USB stick into the port, and his initial excitement paled in the face of dread. If it was evidence, it couldn't be pleasant. He glanced over at Helga, sleeping peacefully under the blankets. He was glad she was asleep.

The drive appeared on the screen, containing a folder. No name, just a sequence of random-looking letters and numbers. He opened the folder. It was full of pictures, thumbnails. He scrolled through them, leaning close to the computer screen, squinting. Was he missing something?

The first few images were of an empty room. Taken from some high-up corner. The room was mostly bare, just a single bed and a small rug and a few furnishings. Then he spotted the ragdoll, half-hiding under the bed. Helga's room. Without Helga in it.

And then, twenty or so images in, Helga appeared. It was unmistakably her, as this was unmistakably her room. But she was wrapped in a towel, another one wound around her head, as the series of images documented second by second. A sickness started to burn in Arnold's stomach, as the much-younger Helga on the screen took the towel down from her head and rubbed her hair dry. When she stood up and undid the towel wrapped around her body, Arnold hit the keyboard hard, flinching away.

That was an even bigger mistake. If the first pictures could be explained away as someone's paranoid surveillance, the set he accidentally scrolled down to couldn't be anything but what they appeared to be. He looked at them through his fingers, too sickened to look on them fully but too desperate to find something, anything, to explain away what he was seeing.

It was a mercy that Helga was asleep in these pictures. It was an unnatural sleep, clearly drug-induced, because nobody could have been propped up (displayed) the way she was without waking up. It was still her room, her pillow that her head was lolling against, her ragdoll that was lying beside her as a tawny male hand moved her bare limbs around. One hand fisted a handful of blonde hair, holding her up in a way that should have woken even the deepest sleeper, while the other presumably held the camera under her face.

There was her blackened eye. There were bruises in the shape of fingerprints on her legs, her torso, her barely-there chest.

Arnold managed to close the folder and yank the USB from the drive before he ran to the bathroom to be violently sick.

…..

MarkFisaTwat says:

What did you think of her dad? You get any creepy vibes from him?

TweenageDirtbag:

Not really...he was an asshole to her, but he was kind of an asshole in general. She definitely got the worst of it though.

MrsKirbyEdmonton:

I always thought he was more of an underprotective father than an overprotective one. Those don't really fit the profile for killers of that type. I'm still thinking suicide.

MarkFisaTwat says:

That's kind of blunt.

MrsKirbyEdmonton:

So, what, you think it's not a possibility?

MarkFisaTwat says:

Well, Dirtbag would know best....what do you think @TweenageDirtbag

TweenageDirtbag:

Honestly? I don't think she was the type. I mean, I know all kinds of people kill themselves but I can't see her taking that way out. I'd believe she would commit homicide before suicide, iykwim.

MrsKirbyEdmonton:

You never know, though, do you? Nobody really knows what went on in that house, except the people that lived there. There are things that make even the strongest of us want to die.

…..

Arnold shivered in the bathroom for over an hour before he could go back to his room. The images were burned into his brain.

She said she had stomach pains.

She was really tired in the mornings.

Stomach pain was a common side effect of certain sedatives, he knew that from managing his grandparents' meds.

She didn't want to go home.

Probably because when she slept in her own home she woke up with mysterious bruises and and stomach pains.

His phone chimed as he shakily slumped across his bed. He ignored it, and concentrated on the sound of Helga's breathing from across the room. It chimed again.

She found the pictures. She found them and was going to bring them to Officer Plaskett.

Back then, on that crime forum, he thought there was no way she could have killed herself and said so. Now, he wasn't so sure. If Arnold had found pictures like that of himself, he could say with certainty that he would want to die. Just seeing them made him desperate to find some way, any way, to block it out.

His phone chimed. Again.

And again.

He picked it up. Phoebe.

Did you look at the USB stick yet?

Officer Plaskett called my house while we were gone. We can see him at 2pm tomorrow.

Arnold? Hello?

You said you'd message me. I'm waiting.

If you make me wait til tomorrow about this I'll skin you alive.

He almost raised a smile. Phoebe had a fire under her again. Which just made it harder to tell her.

I looked inside it.

….and?

Phoebe, it's really bad. I can't talk about it right now.

How bad? She had it when she was alive...

I'm serious. I can't tell you. Not while she's here. I can't let her see this.

I'm coming over.

What?

No, don't, it's getting late.

I don't care. I want to see.

No, you don't. Trust me on this.

Fuck you, Arnold. This is solid evidence and you're not telling me what it is? Who the fuck do you think you are?

Phoebe, please. I wish I hadn't seen it. I'm giving it to Plaskett tomorrow. Let him tell you about it.

He stared at his phone, willing Phoebe to respond. If he had to open that folder again....

Fine. But if Plaskett won't tell me anything, you have to.

I will.

Helga made a soft noise in her sleep, turned a little under her blankets. Arnold glanced over at her. She looked peaceful.

Maybe this was why her ghost had no memory. Even after death, she had forcefully blocked it from her mind.

[efosa123]

Advanced Keyword Research Tutorial (5-Step Blueprint) in this video I'm going to show you my proven five-step keyword research blueprint this is the same blueprint I've used to help grow my site to over a hundred and fifty thousand unique visitors per month i'm brian dean the founder of backlinko the place where marketers turn for high rankings and more traffic and today you're going to learn exactly how to find the best keywords for your business keep watching when i first got started with SEO my approach the keyword research was a total mess back then I'd fire up the latest and greatest keyword research tool and start typing in a bunch of random keywords so what's wrong with this approach my competitors were doing the exact same thing no wonder most of the keywords I found were insanely competitive now over the years I developed a keyword research blueprint that works really well specifically this blueprint will help you uncover keywords that your competition doesn't know about so let's dive right in with step number one of this process which is to identify your customer persona this is a step that most people skip and it hurts them Wow what was that so what is identifying your customer persona actually mean let me explain with an example my site sells SEO training products to small and medium-sized businesses most people in my position would open up a keyword research tool and type in things like SEO training and SEO courses into the tool what's the problem with this approach first off like I mentioned before your competition is doing the exact same thing which means you're going to run into the exact same set of keywords as your competitors but more important than that this approach ignores a very important fact about your customer is that fact is this your customer spends 99.9 percent of their time online not searching for what you sell in other words if you only target your customer when they search for the exact thing you sell you're missing out on hundreds of other opportunities to get in front of them for example in my case I noticed that most of my customers were SEO agencies so I went to forums and online communities where SEO agency owners tended to hang out that way I could see what my target cost I search for when he wasn't searching for SEO training and I discovered that there are dozens of keywords that my target customer typed into Google that were related to my products but had nothing to do with SEO training keywords like on-page SEO list building how to get more traffic and SEO tools and because I target these keywords I get my business in front of thousands of my target customers every single day and when my target customer is ready to buy I'm the first person that comes to mind that's the power of doing keyword research based on your customer persona and all you need to do for this step is say my customer is X for example if you want an online flower shop you might say my customer is a bride getting ready for her upcoming wedding how it was easy right now that you've identified your customer persona it's time to find topics that your customer is interested in which leads us to the next step in my keyword research blueprint which is to find topics that your customers care about so how do you find these topics it's simple go to where your target customer hangs out online then look for topics that they tend to discuss seriously that's it for example in my case my customers tend to hang out at marketing focused communities like inbound org in growth hackers calm in your case your target customer may hang out in places like Pinterest Reddit YouTube industry blogs and niche forums once you've identified where your target customer hangs out it's time to keep an eye out for topics that are important to them for example in my case I notice that link building was one of the most popular topics in the online communities that my audience spent time on so I wrote down link building as a topic and it kept digging until I found at least five topics that might our customers talked about in online communities now that you have at least five topics it's time to drill down into finding keywords here my four favorite tactics are finding untapped keywords that your competition doesn't know about first we have Google Suggest to use this strategy just head over to google and type your topic into the search field but don't press Enter instead take a look at the queue words that google suggest for you these are usually awesome longtail keywords that you can go after as a quick pro tip try putting a few spaces before your keyword this will show you a completely different set of keyword ideas next up we have Quora com Korra is a massive community of people that ask and answer questions on every topic Under the Sun all you need to do is search for your topic in Cora and see which keywords tend to show up or next tactic for finding keywords is to use reddit let Cora reddit is a massive community of people that discuss every topic Under the Sun from pets to politics to use writer for keyword research simply head over to Reddit in search for your topic when you find a thread on your topic keep an eye out for words and phrases that tend to come up again and again these make awesome keyword ideas next up we have Google's searches related to feature to use this feature simply type your topic into Google then scroll to the bottom of the results Google then show you other searches that are related to the keyword you just put in these are usually excellent longtail keywords that you can target with your content finally we have Wikipedia what other site has in-depth articles for topics like mall walking the lingerie football league and yes the five-second rule to use Wikipedia for keyword research just head over to Wikipedia and type in your topic then take a look at the other entries that that article links to these are usually closely related topics and even potential keywords themselves also make sure to check out the table of contents for that entry again these are usually keywords that are closely tied to your topic now do you have a list of potential keywords it's time to choose the best from your list how by analyzing each keywords commercial intent one of the first websites I ever built shot to the top of google for my target keyword and because that keyword good a ton of search volume that single ranking helped that site generate over 60,000 unique visitors per month all good right wrong even though that key we're going to ton of searches the people that search for that keyword were flat broke which made monetizing that traffic impossible sorry dude I'm broke that's why today I pay very close attention to a keywords commercial intent commercial intent simply means how likely someone searching for a given keyword is to buy from you here's how to find out if your keyword has a high commercial intent or not first head over to the Google Keyword planner and type in one of your potential keywords then take a look at the suggested bid column this shows you how much advertisers are spending in Adwords for a single click from this keyword obviously the higher the suggested bid the more valuable that keyword is another simple way to size a commercial intent is to see how many AdWords ads appear when you search for your keyword in Google if you search for your keyword and see lots of AdWords ads it means that people are chomping at the bit to bring those searchers to their site ok now it's time for our last step which is to look at each keywords search volume back in the day Google would show you exact search volume numbers in the Google Keyword planner unfortunately that ship has sailed today unless you're running active AdWords campaigns they show you an extremely unhelpful search volume range so how can you see how many people search for your keywords there are two freemium tools that get the job done the first is SEM rush calm to find a keyword search volume simply type the keyword in to SEM rush and they'll show you how many searches that keyword gets every month simple you can also use kW finder calm again just pop your keyword into the tool and you'll see the exact amount of searches that it gets every month now before we decide on a keyword I recommend one last bonus step now this step is completely optional but in my experience it helps you find the absolute best keywords for your business and that step is to look at your keywords growth in Google Trends for example let's say that you found two keywords that have similar search volume and commercial intent and you don't know which one to pick but when you look at Google Trends you notice that one keyword is growing in popularity and the other is dropping like a stone obviously you'd want to go with the keyword that's growing a couple of years ago this step saved my butt I was debating whether to target one of two keywords Google Keyword tool or Google Keyword planner you see Google had recently renamed the Google Keyword tool the Google Keyword planner but the keyword Google Keyword tool still got 20 times more searches than Google Keyword planner so I almost pulled the trigger on Google Keyword tool that is until I looked at Google Trends that's when I noticed that searches for the Google Keyword planner were skyrocketing while searches for the Google Keyword tool were steadily dropping so I decided to go with the Google Keyword planner and it was a good move I now rank in the top five for that keyword and it's a keyword that's growing in popularity every day ok so that's all there is to my five-step keyword research blueprint if you follow the blueprint you should have a handful of excellent keywords that you can use and once you have those it's a matter of creating landing pages and content optimize around those terms if you liked this video make sure to subscribe to my youtube channel right now it's easy just click on the subscribe button right here also if you want exclusive SEO techniques that I only share with subscribers head over to backlinko comm and sign up for the newsletter it's free now I want to turn it over to you which steps from this video was new to you or maybe you try them all already if so you probably have a favorite technique that works well for you either way let me know by leaving a quick comment right now okay let's do it I should just need to do that if oh man I can't this is a tough one good I gonna move around more in-depth ok dunsky 12 more words

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This is a step that most people skip and it hurts them. (zapp) Aww. What was that? So what is identifying your customer persona actually mean? Let me explain with an example. My site sells SEO Training products to small and medium size businesses. Most people in my position would open up a keyword research tool and type in things like; SEO training and SEO courses into the tool. What’s the problem with this approach? First off like I mentioned before your competition is doing the exact same thing. Which means you’re gonna run into the exact same set of keywords as your competitors. But more important than that this approach ignores a very important fact about your customer and that fact is this: your customer spends percent of their time online not searching for what you sell.

In other words, if you only target your customer when they search for the exact thing you sell you’re missing out on hundreds of other opportunities to get in front of them. For example in my case I noticed that most of my customers were SEO agencies. So I went to forums and online communities where SEO agency owners tended to hang out. That way I could see what my target customer search for when he wasn’t searching for SEO training. And I discovered that there are dozens of keywords that my target customer typed into Google that were related to my products but had nothing to do with SEO training. Keywords like on-page SEO list building how to get more traffic and SEO tools.

And because I target these keywords I get my business in front of thousands of my target customers every single day. And when my target customers ready to buy I’m the first person that comes to mind. That’s the power of doing keyword research based on your customer persona. And all you need to do for this step is say my customer is X. For example, if you run an online flower shop you might say; my customer is a bride getting ready for her upcoming wedding. That was easy, right? Now that you’ve identified your customer persona it’s time to find topics that your customer is interested in. Which leads us to the next step in my keyword research blueprint which is to find topics that your customers care about. So how do you find these topics? Its simple. Go to where your target customer hangs out online. Then look for topics that they tend to discuss. Seriously, that’s it.

For example in my case, my customers tend to hang out at marketing-focused communities like inbound.org and growthhackers.com In your case your target customer may hang out in places like Pinterest, Reddit, YouTube, industry blogs and niche forums. Once you’ve identified where your target customer hangs out it’s time to keep an eye out for topics that are important to them. For example in my case, I noticed that link building was one of the most popular topics in the online communities that my audience spent time on. So I wrote down link building as a topic. And I kept digging until I found at least five topics that my target customers talked about in online communities. Now that you have at least five topics it’s time to drill down into finding keywords. Here, my four favorite tactics for finding on-tap keywords that your competition doesn’t know about.

Keyword Research Tools

First we have Google Suggest. To use this strategy, just head over to Google and type your topic into the search field. But don’t press Enter. Instead, take a look at the keywords that Google suggests for you. These are usually awesome, long tail keywords that you can go after. As a quick pro tip, try putting a few spaces before your keyword. This will show you a completely different set of keyword ideas. Next up, we have quora.com. Quora is a massive community of people that ask and answer questions on every topic under the sun. All you need to do is search for your topic in Quora and see which keywords tend to show up. Our next tactic for finding keywords is to use Reddit. Like Quora, Reddit is a massive community of people that discuss every topic under the sun from pets to politics. To use Reddit for keyword research simply head over to Reddit and search for your topic. When you find a thread on your topic keep an eye out for words and phrases that tend to come up again and again.

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These make awesome keyword ideas. Next up we have Google’s Searches Related To feature. To use this feature, simply type your topic into Google. Then scroll to the bottom of the results. Google then show you other searches that are related to the keyword you just put in. These are usually excellent long tail keywords that you can target with your content. Finally we have Wikipedia. What other site had in-depth articles for topics like mall walking The Lingerie Football League henlias, the five-second rule. To use Wikipedia for keyword research just head over to Wikipedia and type in your topic. Then take a look at the other entries that that article links to. These are usually closely-related topics and even potential keywords themselves. Also, make sure to check out the table of contents for the entry. Again, these are usually keywords that are closely tied to your topic. Now that you have a list of potential keywords it’s time to choose the best from your list. How? By analyzing each keyword’s commercial intent.

One of the first websites I ever built shot to the top of Google for my target keyword. And because that keyword got a ton of search volume that single ranking helped that site generate over 60,000 unique visitors per month. All good right? Wrong. Even thought that keyword got a ton of searches the people that searched for that keyword were flat broke. Which made monetizing that traffic impossible. Sorry dude, I’m broke. That’s why today I pay very close attention to a keyword’s commercial intent. Commercial intent simply means how likely someone searching for a given keyword is to buy from you. Here’s how to find out if your keyword has a high commercial intent or not. First, head over to the Google Keyword Planner and type in one of your potential keywords. Then take a look at the Suggested bid column. This shows you how much advertisers are spending in AdWords for a single click from this keyword. Obviously, the higher the suggested bid the more valuable that keyword is.

Another simple way to size up commercial intent is to see how many AdWords ads appear when you search for your keyword in Google. If you search for your keyword and see lots of AdWords ads it means that people are chobbing at the bit to bring those searchers to their site. Okay, now it’s time for our last step which is to look at each keywords search volume. Back in the day, Google would show you exact search volume numbers in the Google Keyword Planner. Unfortunately, that ship has sailed. Today, unless you’re running active AdWords campaigns they show you an extremely unhelpful search volume range. So how can you see how many people searched for your keyword? There are two freemium tools that get the job done. The first is semrush.com. To find a keyword search volume simply type the keyword into SEMrush and they’ll show you how many searches that keyword gets every month.

Simple. You can also use kwfinder.com. Again, just pop your keyword into the tool and you’ll see the exact amount of searches that it gets every month. Now before you decide in a keyword I recommend one last bonus step. Now this step is completely optional. But in my experience it helps you find the absolute best keywords for your business. And that step is to look at your keyword’s growth in Google Trends. For example, let’s say that you found two keywords that have similar search volume and commercial intent and you don’t know which one to pick.

But when you look at Google Trends you notice that one keyword is growing in popularity and the other is dropping like a stone. Obviously you’d wanna go with the keyword that’s growing. A couple of years ago, this step saved my butt. I was debating whether to target one of two keywords. Google Keyword Tool or Google Keyword Planner? You see, Google has recently renamed the Google Keyword Tool the Google Keyword Planner. But the keyword Google Keyword Tool still got 20 times more searches than Google Keyword Planner. So I almost pulled the trigger on Google Keyword Tool. That is until I looked at Google Trends.

That’s when I noticed that searches for the Google Keyword Planner were skyrocketing while searched for the Google Keyword Tool were steadily dropping. So I decided to go with the Google Keyword Planner and it was a good move. I now rank in the top five for that keyword and it’s a keyword that’s growing in popularity everyday. Okay, so that’s all there is to my five step keyword research blueprint. If you follow the blueprint you should have a handful of excellent keywords that you can use. And once you have those it’s a matter of creating landing pages and content optimized around those terms.

Also, if you want exclusive SEO techniques that I only share with subscribers head over to backlinko.com and sign up for the newsletter. It’s free. Now I want to turn it over to you. Which step from this video was new to you? Or maybe you tried them all already. If so, you probably have a favorite technique that works well for you. Either way, let me know by leaving a quick comment right now.

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Keyword Research Blueprint

I’m gonna show you my proven five step keyword research blueprint. This is the same blueprint I’ve used to help grow my site to over a hundred fifty thousand unique visitors per mont. Today you’re gonna learn exactly how to find the best keywords for your business. Keep watching. When I first got started with SEO my approach to keyword research was a total mess. Back then, I’ll fire up the latest and greatest keyword research tool and start typing in a bunch of random keywords. So, what’s wrong with this approach? My competitors were doing the exact same thing. No wonder most of the keywords I found were insanely competitive. Now over the years I developed a keyword research blueprint that works really well. Specifically, this blueprint will help you uncover keywords that your competition doesn’t know about. So let’s dive right in with step number one of this process which is to identify your customer persona.

This is a step that most people skip and it hurts them. (zapp) Aww. What was that? So what is identifying your customer persona actually mean? Let me explain with an example. My site sells SEO Training products to small and medium size businesses. Most people in my position would open up a keyword research tool and type in things like; SEO training and SEO courses into the tool. What’s the problem with this approach? First off like I mentioned before your competition is doing the exact same thing. Which means you’re gonna run into the exact same set of keywords as your competitors. But more important than that this approach ignores a very important fact about your customer and that fact is this: your customer spends percent of their time online not searching for what you sell.

In other words, if you only target your customer when they search for the exact thing you sell you’re missing out on hundreds of other opportunities to get in front of them. For example in my case I noticed that most of my customers were SEO agencies. So I went to forums and online communities where SEO agency owners tended to hang out. That way I could see what my target customer search for when he wasn’t searching for SEO training. And I discovered that there are dozens of keywords that my target customer typed into Google that were related to my products but had nothing to do with SEO training. Keywords like on-page SEO list building how to get more traffic and SEO tools.

And because I target these keywords I get my business in front of thousands of my target customers every single day. And when my target customers ready to buy I’m the first person that comes to mind. That’s the power of doing keyword research based on your customer persona. And all you need to do for this step is say my customer is X. For example, if you run an online flower shop you might say; my customer is a bride getting ready for her upcoming wedding. That was easy, right? Now that you’ve identified your customer persona it’s time to find topics that your customer is interested in. Which leads us to the next step in my keyword research blueprint which is to find topics that your customers care about. So how do you find these topics? Its simple. Go to where your target customer hangs out online. Then look for topics that they tend to discuss. Seriously, that’s it.

For example in my case, my customers tend to hang out at marketing-focused communities like inbound.org and growthhackers.com In your case your target customer may hang out in places like Pinterest, Reddit, YouTube, industry blogs and niche forums. Once you’ve identified where your target customer hangs out it’s time to keep an eye out for topics that are important to them. For example in my case, I noticed that link building was one of the most popular topics in the online communities that my audience spent time on. So I wrote down link building as a topic. And I kept digging until I found at least five topics that my target customers talked about in online communities. Now that you have at least five topics it’s time to drill down into finding keywords. Here, my four favorite tactics for finding on-tap keywords that your competition doesn’t know about.

Keyword Research Tools

First we have Google Suggest. To use this strategy, just head over to Google and type your topic into the search field. But don’t press Enter. Instead, take a look at the keywords that Google suggests for you. These are usually awesome, long tail keywords that you can go after. As a quick pro tip, try putting a few spaces before your keyword. This will show you a completely different set of keyword ideas. Next up, we have quora.com. Quora is a massive community of people that ask and answer questions on every topic under the sun. All you need to do is search for your topic in Quora and see which keywords tend to show up. Our next tactic for finding keywords is to use Reddit. Like Quora, Reddit is a massive community of people that discuss every topic under the sun from pets to politics. To use Reddit for keyword research simply head over to Reddit and search for your topic. When you find a thread on your topic keep an eye out for words and phrases that tend to come up again and again.

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These make awesome keyword ideas. Next up we have Google’s Searches Related To feature. To use this feature, simply type your topic into Google. Then scroll to the bottom of the results. Google then show you other searches that are related to the keyword you just put in. These are usually excellent long tail keywords that you can target with your content. Finally we have Wikipedia. What other site had in-depth articles for topics like mall walking The Lingerie Football League henlias, the five-second rule. To use Wikipedia for keyword research just head over to Wikipedia and type in your topic. Then take a look at the other entries that that article links to. These are usually closely-related topics and even potential keywords themselves. Also, make sure to check out the table of contents for the entry. Again, these are usually keywords that are closely tied to your topic. Now that you have a list of potential keywords it’s time to choose the best from your list. How? By analyzing each keyword’s commercial intent.

One of the first websites I ever built shot to the top of Google for my target keyword. And because that keyword got a ton of search volume that single ranking helped that site generate over 60,000 unique visitors per month. All good right? Wrong. Even thought that keyword got a ton of searches the people that searched for that keyword were flat broke. Which made monetizing that traffic impossible. Sorry dude, I’m broke. That’s why today I pay very close attention to a keyword’s commercial intent. Commercial intent simply means how likely someone searching for a given keyword is to buy from you. Here’s how to find out if your keyword has a high commercial intent or not. First, head over to the Google Keyword Planner and type in one of your potential keywords. Then take a look at the Suggested bid column. This shows you how much advertisers are spending in AdWords for a single click from this keyword. Obviously, the higher the suggested bid the more valuable that keyword is.

Another simple way to size up commercial intent is to see how many AdWords ads appear when you search for your keyword in Google. If you search for your keyword and see lots of AdWords ads it means that people are chobbing at the bit to bring those searchers to their site. Okay, now it’s time for our last step which is to look at each keywords search volume. Back in the day, Google would show you exact search volume numbers in the Google Keyword Planner. Unfortunately, that ship has sailed. Today, unless you’re running active AdWords campaigns they show you an extremely unhelpful search volume range. So how can you see how many people searched for your keyword? There are two freemium tools that get the job done. The first is semrush.com. To find a keyword search volume simply type the keyword into SEMrush and they’ll show you how many searches that keyword gets every month.

Simple. You can also use kwfinder.com. Again, just pop your keyword into the tool and you’ll see the exact amount of searches that it gets every month. Now before you decide in a keyword I recommend one last bonus step. Now this step is completely optional. But in my experience it helps you find the absolute best keywords for your business. And that step is to look at your keyword’s growth in Google Trends. For example, let’s say that you found two keywords that have similar search volume and commercial intent and you don’t know which one to pick.

But when you look at Google Trends you notice that one keyword is growing in popularity and the other is dropping like a stone. Obviously you’d wanna go with the keyword that’s growing. A couple of years ago, this step saved my butt. I was debating whether to target one of two keywords. Google Keyword Tool or Google Keyword Planner? You see, Google has recently renamed the Google Keyword Tool the Google Keyword Planner. But the keyword Google Keyword Tool still got 20 times more searches than Google Keyword Planner. So I almost pulled the trigger on Google Keyword Tool. That is until I looked at Google Trends.

That’s when I noticed that searches for the Google Keyword Planner were skyrocketing while searched for the Google Keyword Tool were steadily dropping. So I decided to go with the Google Keyword Planner and it was a good move. I now rank in the top five for that keyword and it’s a keyword that’s growing in popularity everyday. Okay, so that’s all there is to my five step keyword research blueprint. If you follow the blueprint you should have a handful of excellent keywords that you can use. And once you have those it’s a matter of creating landing pages and content optimized around those terms.

Also, if you want exclusive SEO techniques that I only share with subscribers head over to backlinko.com and sign up for the newsletter. It’s free. Now I want to turn it over to you. Which step from this video was new to you? Or maybe you tried them all already. If so, you probably have a favorite technique that works well for you. Either way, let me know by leaving a quick comment right now.

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Hello guys I'm Ace. Today you're going to learn exactly how to find the best keywords for your business. When I first got started with SEO. My approach to keyword research was A total mess back then. I'd fire up the latest and greatest keyword, research tool and start typing in a bunch of random keywords. So, what's wrong with this approach? My competitors were doing the exact same thing! No wonder most of the keywords I found were insanely competitive. Now, over the years, I developed a keyword research blueprint that works. Well, specifically, this blueprint for beginners will help you uncover keywords. That your competition doesn't know about. So let's dive right in with step number one of this process. Which is to identify your customer persona. This is a step that most people skip and it hurts them. What is identifying your customer persona actually mean? Let me explain with an example: what if my site sells SEO training products. To small and medium-sized businesses. Most people in my position would open up a keyword research tool. And type in things like SEO, training and SEO courses into the tool. What's the problem with this approach? First off, like I mentioned before. Your competition is doing the exact same thing. Which means you're going to run into the exact same set of keywords as your competitors. But more important than that. This approach ignores a very important fact about your customer. The fact of the matter is, your customer spends 99.9 percent of their time online, not searching for what you sell. In other words, if you only target your customer when they search for the exact thing you sell. You're missing out on hundreds of other opportunities to get in front of them. For example, in my case. I noticed that most of my customers were SEO agencies. So I went to forums and online communities where SEO agency owners tended to hang out that way. I could see what my target cost would search for when he wasn't searching for SEO training. I discovered that there are dozens of keywords that my target customer typed into Google. That were related to my products, but had nothing to do with SEO training. Keywords like, On-Page SEO, list building, how to get more traffic and SEO tools. If I target these keywords. I could get my business in front of thousands of my target customers every single day. When my target customer is ready to buy, I'm the first person that comes to mind. That's the power of doing keyword research. Based on your customer persona. All you need to do for this step. Is say my customer is X. For example. If you want an online flower shop. You might say my customer is a bride, getting ready for her upcoming wedding. How it was easy right now that you've identified your customer persona. It's time to find topics that your customer is interested in. Which leads us to step two in my keyword, research blueprint. Which is to find topics that your customers care about. So how do you find these topics? Go to where your target customer hangs out online. Then look for serious topics that they tend to discuss. That's it! For example, in my case. My customers tend to hang out at marketing focused communities like inbound dot org. In your case, your target customer may hang out in places like. Pinterest, Reddit, YouTube, industry, blogs and niche forums. Once you've identified where your target customer hangs out. It's time to keep an eye out for topics that are important to them. For example, in my case. I notice that link building. Was one of the most popular topics in the online communities, that my audience spent time on. So I wrote down link building as a topic. I then kept digging until I found at least five topics. That our customers talked about in online communities. Now that you have at least five topics. It's time to drill down into finding keywords. My four favorite tactics are finding untapped keywords. That your competition doesn't know about. First, we have Google Suggest to use this strategy. Head over to Google and type your topic into the search field, but don't press Enter. Instead, take a look at the queue words that google suggest for you. These are usually awesome. Longtail keywords that you can go after. Pro Tip: try putting a few spaces before your keyword. This will show you a completely different set of keyword, ideas. Next up we have Quora dot com. Quora is a massive community of people that ask and answer questions on every topic under the sun. All you need to do is search for your topic in Cora and see which keywords tend to show up. The next tactic for finding keywords is to use Reddit. Like Quora, Reddit is a massive community of people that discuss every topics. From pets to politics. You can use Reddit for keyword research as well. Head over to Reddit and search for your topic. When you find a thread on your topic. Keep an eye out for words and phrases that tend to come up again and again. These make awesome keyword, ideas. Next up, we have Google's Search. To use this feature, simply type your topic into Google Search. Then scroll to the bottom of the results. Google then shows you other searches that are related to the keyword you just put in. These are usually excellent, longtail keywords that you can target with your content. Finally, we have Wikipedia. What other site has in-depth articles for topics like. Dog walking, the lingerie football league and yes. The five-second rule to use Wikipedia for keywords research. Head over to Wikipedia and type in your topic. Then take a look at the other entries that that article links to. These are usually closely related topics and even potential keywords themselves. Also make sure to check out the table of contents for that entry. Again, these are usually keywords that are closely tied to your topic. Now, do you have a list of potential keywords? It's time to choose the best from your list. How? By analyzing each keywords commercial intent. One of the first websites I ever built. Shot to the top of google for my target keyword. And because that keyword, got a ton ff search volume. That single ranking helped that site generate over 10,000 unique visitors per month. All good right? Wrong! Even though that keyword got to ton of searches. The people that search for that keyword were flat broke. Which made monetizing that traffic impossible. Sorry dude I'm broke! That's why today I pay very close attention to a keyword's commercial intent. Commercial intent means - how likely someone searching for a given keyword is to buy from you. Here's how to find out if your keyword has a high commercial intent or not. First, head over to the Google Keyword planner. Type in one of your potential keywords. Then take a look at the suggested bid column. This shows you how much advertisers are spending in Adwords for a single click from this keyword. Obviously, the higher the suggested bid. The more valuable that keyword is another simple way to size. A commercial intent is to see how many AdWords ads appear. When you search for your keyword in Google. If you search for your keyword and see lots of AdWords ads. It means that people are chomping at the bit to bring those searchers to their site. Ok now it's time for our last step, which is to look at each keyword's search volume. Back in the day, Google would show you exact search volume numbers in the Google Keyword planner. Unfortunately, that ship has sailed today unless you're running active, AdWords campaigns. They show you an extremely unhelpful search volume range. So how can you see how many people search for your keywords? There are two freemium tools that get the job done. The first is SEMrush. To find a keyword's search volume. Type the keyword in to SEMrush. They'll show you how many searches that keyword gets every month. You can also use kW finder dot com. Just pop your keyword into the tool and you'll see the exact amount of searches that it gets every month. Now before we decide on a keyword. I recommend one last bonus step. Now this step is completely optional. But in my experience it helps you find the absolute best keywords for your business. That step is, to look at your keyword's growth in Google Trends. For example. Let's say that you found two keywords. That have similar search volume and commercial intent. You don't know which one to pick. But when you look at Google Trends. You notice that one keyword is growing in popularity and the other is dropping like a stone. Obviously, you'd want to go with the keyword that's growing a couple of years ago. This step saved my butt. I was debating whether to target one of two keywords. Google Keyword tool or Google Keyword Planner. You see, Google had renamed the Google Keyword tool. To the Google Keyword planner. But the keyword, Google Keyword tool. Still got 20 times more searches than Google Keyword planner. So I almost pulled the trigger on Google Keyword tool. That is until I looked at Google Trends. That's when I noticed that searches for the Google Keyword planner were skyrocketing. While searches for the Google Keyword tool were steadily dropping. I decided to go with the Google Keyword planner and it was a good move. I now rank in the top five for that keyword and it's a keyword. That's growing in popularity every day. Ok, so that's it! There is to my steps to the keyword research blueprint for beginners. If you follow the blueprint. You should have a handful of excellent keywords that you can use. Once you have those. It's a matter of creating landing pages and content optimize around those terms. If you liked this article make sure to subscribe to my blog. Also, if you want exclusive SEO techniques that I only share with subscribers. Sign up for the newsletter it's free. Now, I want to turn it over to you which steps from this article was new to you, or maybe you try them all already? If so, you probably have a favorite technique that works well for you either way. Let me know by leaving a quick comment.