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Food content and, particularly, recipes tend to get huge page hits during the summer months –– actually, these stories do great all year round, from Christmas ham recipes to Thanksgiving turkey recipe to Easter egg instructions.
Using the Google Keyword Research Tool, here are some recipe and food phrases that are seeing high search volume and low competition. In other words, many people are not using proper keywords and proper keyword strategy, so even though there are plenty of searches for their content, their articles are not showing up in the Google results.
Using the right keywords in your headline, sub hed, teaser and in the story itself is imperative if you want to ensure the most hits possible.
Here are some good keywords to use in your next food story. The numbers represent the monthly searches.
Recipes 101,000,000
Meatloaf recipe 450,000
Chicken recipes 6,120,000
Lasagna recipe 550,000
Quick recipes 673,000
Rice recipes 1,220,000
Crock pot recipes 1,000,000
Stir fry recipes 201,000
Vegetable recipes 1,000,000
Chinese food recipes 40,500
Potato recipes 1,500,000
Beef recipes 1,830,000
Soups recipes 1,500,000
Cheesecake recipe 823,000
Tiramisu recipe 135,000
Sandwich recipes 368,000
Asparagus recipes 165,000
Diabetic recipes 165,000
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