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Turn every filter combination into its own URL

Each combination of filters your product already supports is a real query somebody types. Publish them as crawlable addresses with generated titles and headings, then find which filter dimension actually earns the traffic and build your title pattern around that one. Expect the long-tail children rather than the hub to carry most of the visits.

The method

1. 01

   Expose every filter combination in your database as its own crawlable URL, complete with generated title and heading tags.

2. 02

   Find which filter dimension produces the most traffic and build your titles and headings around that pattern rather than treating all filters equally.

3. 03

   A page built by combining two filters can take the top result for a real query and then rank for a hundred more variations of it, so one generated page is worth far more than its target term.

4. 04

   The mechanism is simply bundling existing useful content under new addresses, which yields more indexed pages, more tail terms, and more organic traffic in sequence.

5. 05

   On a content site, do the same thing with tags: make each category filter a standalone page as well as a view of the homepage.

What it returned

• 1,200

  The page combining a low-racism filter with the United States filter ranks first for a term drawing 1,200 monthly searches, and also ranks for well over a hundred adjacent phrases.

• Nomad List's homepage filters - air quality, cost of living and hundreds more - each resolve to an autogenerated page.

• The regional filter accounts for the bulk of the site's organic search traffic, with titles and h1s targeting the best-places-to-live phrasing per region.

• Marketing Examples publishes its own filters as addressable pages, one per topic.

Sources

• How step by step keyword research led to an SEO goldmineHarry Dry · Marketing Examples · Does it work? · undated
• How Nomad List dominates longer tail keywordsHarry Dry · Marketing Examples · How Nomad List dominates longer tail keywords · undated