SEO market analysis · August 2026
Keyword research — Demo Corporate Video Co
Market: Australia (au). Every volume and difficulty figure below is measured in that market and is meaningless without it.
Pulled: 2026-08-25, from the Ahrefs MCP endpoint — keywords-explorer-overview, keywords-explorer-matching-terms (terms and questions modes). 72 terms returned, 21 kept.
What is data and what is not. The volume, difficulty (KD), traffic potential (TP) and parent topic columns are Ahrefs responses. The clustering, the priority order, and every "winnable" call are my judgement and are labelled where they appear. Ahrefs models search volume — it is not a measurement from Google.
No first-party data. Pickle has no Google Search Console access, so there are no actual clicks, impressions or positions here. Traffic potential is an Ahrefs estimate of what a page ranking for a term could attract. Do not present it to a client as traffic.
The four clusters
c1 — Corporate video production, Melbourne · commercial
The money term. Exact match to what the client sells, local intent, and winnable.
| Keyword | Volume | KD | TP |
|---|---|---|---|
| corporate video production melbourne (pillar) | 400 | 36 | 250 |
| corporate video production company melbourne | 150 | – | – |
| professional corporate video production | 150 | – | – |
| corporate video agency | 90 | – | – |
| corporate video producer | 80 | – | – |
| corporate video shoot | 80 | – | – |
Suggested URL: /corporate-video-production-melbourne/
c2 — Corporate video production services · commercial
Highest-volume commercial parent topic in the pull. National rather than local, so it competes on service depth rather than proximity — a harder page to win, and a bigger prize.
| Keyword | Volume | KD | TP |
|---|---|---|---|
| corporate video production services (pillar) | 900 | 35 | – |
| corporate video melbourne | 250 | 30 | 900 |
| corporate video company | 200 | 2 | – |
| corporate video services | 150 | 29 | – |
| corporate video productions | 90 | 0 | – |
Suggested URL: /corporate-video-production-services/
Note the TP on corporate video melbourne: 900 against a volume of 250. Ahrefs groups it under this parent topic, which is why it sits here rather than in c1 — but its traffic potential is the highest of anything pulled, and that is worth a decision rather than a default.
c3 — What corporate video production is, and what it costs · informational
The pillar. TP 800 against volume 500 is the signal that one strong page here can rank for a long tail around it.
| Keyword | Volume | KD | TP |
|---|---|---|---|
| corporate video production (pillar) | 500 | 28 | 800 |
| corporate video | 250 | 19 | 800 |
| how much does a corporate video cost | 80 | – | – |
| corporate brand video | 90 | – | – |
| produce a corporate video | 70 | – | – |
Suggested URL: /guides/corporate-video-production/
c4 — Adjacent services, Melbourne · commercial
The lowest difficulty of anything pulled — KD 0 and KD 3 against real volume — and all of it maps to services the client already sells.
| Keyword | Volume | KD | TP |
|---|---|---|---|
| event videographer melbourne (pillar) | 200 | 0 | 50 |
| explainer video melbourne | 150 | 3 | 40 |
| explainer video production melbourne | 100 | – | – |
| training video production | 150 | 26 | 60 |
| melbourne animated explainer video | 60 | – | – |
Suggested URL: /event-videography-melbourne/
Priority — my judgement, not Ahrefs
- c4 first. KD 0 and KD 3 are not typos. A site with no established authority can rank for
event videographer melbourne and explainer video melbourne quickly, and those rankings are what make the harder pages plausible later. Low volume, but it is volume they can actually have.
- c1 second. KD 36 at volume 400 with exact-match local intent. This is the page the business
is actually paid for.
- c3 third. The pillar. Slower to pay off, but TP 800 and KD 28 is the best ratio in the pull,
and it is the page the c1 and c4 pages link back to.
- c2 last, and only if c1 lands. KD 35 nationally against incumbents with far more authority is
a different fight from KD 36 locally.
What I would not chase
- video production melbourne — 700 volume, KD 71. The biggest local term and the one every
brief asks for. A nine-person studio with no existing rankings will not take it, and saying so is more useful than listing it.
- video production company melbourne — 450 volume, KD 59. Same problem, slightly smaller.
- Every other city. Brisbane (300), Sydney (150 + 150), Adelaide, Perth, Gold Coast and Sunshine
Coast terms all came back with real volume. The client is Melbourne-only, so they are noise.
- brand film — volume 10. The industry's own word for the product is not a word buyers search.
Worth knowing before it goes in a page title.
- corporate video cost — volume 0, despite how much does a corporate video cost returning 80.
Write the question, not the phrase.
The honest finding about questions
A dedicated questions-mode pull returned 13 terms, of which 12 have zero volume in Australia. The only question with measurable demand is how much does a corporate video cost (80).
So the usual "answer 30 questions in a pillar page" plan does not apply in this market. The pillar should be built around the cost question and the process, not around a long list of invented FAQs. That is a real constraint, not a reason to pad.