{"id":19378,"date":"2021-04-15T03:54:29","date_gmt":"2021-04-15T03:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.digitalpedant.com\/?p=19378"},"modified":"2021-07-26T03:22:06","modified_gmt":"2021-07-26T03:22:06","slug":"google-search-console-regex-find-keywords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.digitalpedant.com\/google-search-console-regex-find-keywords\/","title":{"rendered":"Find Info\/Question Topics With Google Search Console RegEx"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Google Search Console Trick for Finding Info\/Question Topics using RegEx<\/h2>\n<p>Recently Google improved the Search Console and added the Regular Expression feature which provides you the flexibility to use different query combinations to find out keywords for which you are getting impressions and clicks.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-19389 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.digitalpedant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/twitter-announcement.jpg\" alt=\"Google announced on twitter launching regex\" width=\"594\" height=\"458\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.digitalpedant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/twitter-announcement.jpg 594w, https:\/\/www.digitalpedant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/twitter-announcement-300x231.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-19381 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.digitalpedant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/search-console-query.jpg\" alt=\"search console query\" width=\"1347\" height=\"637\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.digitalpedant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/search-console-query.jpg 1347w, https:\/\/www.digitalpedant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/search-console-query-300x142.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.digitalpedant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/search-console-query-1024x484.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.digitalpedant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/search-console-query-768x363.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1347px) 100vw, 1347px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So, you can use this trick to find out low competition keywords related to expressions like (who, what, where, when, why, how). The query I am going to tell you will give you every query your website had impressions for with similar operators &#8211; basically questions and topics which make great short info posts.<\/p>\n<div class=\"main-blog\">\n<div class=\"left-blog\">\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.digitalpedant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Digital-Pedant-logo-1.png\" alt=\"img\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"right-blog\">\n<h2>Editor&#8217;s note:<\/h2>\n<p>This RegEx trick will be able to find useful keywords for those sites which are already getting good traffic of at least 10k\/month. If your site is new this trick won&#8217;t be super helpful but you can save this trick to use later.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h3>Steps To Find Question Keywords With Search Console Regular Expression Query<\/h3>\n<p>1. Open Search Console, on the left-hand menu, click search results, the across the top hit the + sign<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-19382 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.digitalpedant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/regex-1.jpeg\" alt=\"click the plus sign in search console performace dashboard\" width=\"454\" height=\"129\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.digitalpedant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/regex-1.jpeg 454w, https:\/\/www.digitalpedant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/regex-1-300x85.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 454px) 100vw, 454px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>2. Then select query<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-19383 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.digitalpedant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/regex-2.jpeg\" alt=\"then select the query option\" width=\"250\" height=\"278\" \/><\/p>\n<p>3. Then click the dropdown and at the bottom, you&#8217;ll see the regex option<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-19384 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.digitalpedant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/regex-5.jpg\" alt=\"click dropdown to fins the regex option\" width=\"518\" height=\"322\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.digitalpedant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/regex-5.jpg 518w, https:\/\/www.digitalpedant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/regex-5-300x186.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 518px) 100vw, 518px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>4. Then in the &#8220;Enter regular expression (regex)&#8221; box, enter the expression and click apply<\/p>\n<p><code>^(who|what|where|when|why|how|was|did|do|is|are|aren't|won't|does|if)[\" \"]<\/code><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-19385 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.digitalpedant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/regex-6.jpg\" alt=\"enter regular expression and click apply\" width=\"556\" height=\"352\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.digitalpedant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/regex-6.jpg 556w, https:\/\/www.digitalpedant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/regex-6-300x190.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 556px) 100vw, 556px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>5. This will be the result of applying this RegEx query. The total number of clicks got decreased from 151k to 2.34k.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-19387 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.digitalpedant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/result-of-regex.jpg\" alt=\"result of regex\" width=\"1095\" height=\"531\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.digitalpedant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/result-of-regex.jpg 1095w, https:\/\/www.digitalpedant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/result-of-regex-300x145.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.digitalpedant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/result-of-regex-1024x497.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.digitalpedant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/result-of-regex-768x372.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1095px) 100vw, 1095px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>6. And here you will find question keywords and topics to use<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-19386 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.digitalpedant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/keywords-found-with-regex.jpg\" alt=\"keywords found with regex\" width=\"1077\" height=\"589\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.digitalpedant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/keywords-found-with-regex.jpg 1077w, https:\/\/www.digitalpedant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/keywords-found-with-regex-300x164.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.digitalpedant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/keywords-found-with-regex-1024x560.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.digitalpedant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/keywords-found-with-regex-768x420.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1077px) 100vw, 1077px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>From here, you can export this data to excel, order by impressions descending and either filter for 0% CTR or position over 20\/30\/40 to get a list of keywords people are searching for and you are not ranking for.<\/p>\n<p>There are many more queries you can try and another one of them can help you find keywords that are 8 or more words<\/p>\n<p><code>([^\u201d \u201c]*\\s){7,}?<\/code><\/p>\n<p>You can learn more about the <a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/webmasters\/answer\/7576553\/#regex_filter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Search Console RegEx filter<\/a> here.<\/p>\n<p>This is a great feature and I have been thinking about writing a full post about this with all the details. Let&#8217;s hope that I get time to write a complete guide and till then you can use this RegEx query and have fun with Search Console. I hope this is helpful<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19393,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>How To Use Search Console RegEx To Find Info\/Question Topics<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Learn how you can use the Regular Expression filter in Google Search Console to find info\/question topics &amp; keywords. 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