SEO Market Analysis

Demo Corporate Video Co

Keyword research

Prepared by Gherkin Media
25 August 2026

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.

KeywordVolumeKDTP
corporate video production melbourne (pillar)40036250
corporate video production company melbourne150––
professional corporate video production150––
corporate video agency90––
corporate video producer80––
corporate video shoot80––

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.

KeywordVolumeKDTP
corporate video production services (pillar)90035–
corporate video melbourne25030900
corporate video company2002–
corporate video services15029–
corporate video productions900–

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.

KeywordVolumeKDTP
corporate video production (pillar)50028800
corporate video25019800
how much does a corporate video cost80––
corporate brand video90––
produce a corporate video70––

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.

KeywordVolumeKDTP
event videographer melbourne (pillar)200050
explainer video melbourne150340
explainer video production melbourne100––
training video production1502660
melbourne animated explainer video60––

Suggested URL: /event-videography-melbourne/

Priority - my judgement, not Ahrefs

  1. 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.
  2. c1 second. KD 36 at volume 400 with exact-match local intent. This is the page the business is actually paid for.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.