Keyword Explorer search tips&tricks e.g. A&B , A&B Not C, AorB

[ElmarW]

I'm new to MOZ and I like the Keyword Explorer a lot. I'm curious if there is any additional helpful information that I can look up in order to optimized SEO? What if I want to search for a keyword combination?

Apple and Oranges but not Kiwi

Thanks in advance,

Elmar

[tawnycase]

Hey there! Tawny from Moz's Help Team here!

Unfortunately, there's no way to use modifiers in your searches in Keyword Explorer to see results for, for example, "Apple and Oranges" but not "Kiwi." The tool is looking for exact matches for the keywords you enter, and it doesn't have any sense of modifiers to exclude or include different terms.

The best thing to do would be to search for your keywords and then simply group keyword suggestions by high lexical similarity to the terms you've entered, or exclude your search terms for broader results.

Sorry we don't have more sophisticated filters in Keyword Explorer just yet! If you have any more questions or there's anything else we can help with, feel free to give us a shout over at help@moz.com and we'll do what we can to get things sorted out.