Start by picking up your keywords by dragging the “keyword” field into the “Rows” box. As you add values, the table on the left begins to form. The PivotTable Field List uses drag and drop functionality to enable you to populate those little white squares with values. We’re going to look at which items of data should be placed where and you’ll see very quickly how a pivot table works. If you’re new to Pivot Charts, you’re about to experience a bit of a penny drop moment. Add axis fields, values, column labels and filters When you click “OK”, you’ll be presented with a blank Pivot Table “field list” and a Pivot Chart “filter pane” on the right of your screen and a very blank looking space on the left called “PivotTable1”. Head to Insert > Pivot Table and add to a new sheet, just like this: We’re going to add a pivot table to a new sheet. Now we have all of our data nicely arranged in one place, let’s get to the fun part. Name the table something memorable, like “rankings”. Once you’ve got your data, make a Table by selecting the whole dataset (CTRL+SHIFT+DOWN then RIGHT), then CTRL+L creates the table: Amongst other reasons, tables seem to be highly performant, less work for you in this particular use case and they can be fun to name. You don’t have to use tables, but I really like to. Using SEO Tools for Excel to export data via the SEMrush API.
Follow the links provided and as soon as you have a full data set, return to this post. Should you need to use a separate source of ranking data, then you might need to use VLOOKUP to consolidate your dataset into a single Table. We’re going to grab data via the SEMrush API (using a methodology very similar to this one) which comes ready with rankings and search volume data all in one. At the time, it was my favourite type of SEO chart as it was particularly useful for the keyword research presentations of the day.īack then, we used Google Keyword Tool data and rankings gathered from AWR reports. The chart above shows search volume and ranking position in Google on the secondary axis. The outcome, this type of a rankings distribution chart:
This tutorial teaches you how to make a pivot table in Excel and how to create a pivot chart with the data. That’s except for the version of Excel we’re using and the data sources we’re analysing. It seems that despite the long period of time between 2008 (when this article was originally penned) and today, not a great deal of Excel stuff has changed. For those of you that have been following my work for the past decade (or more), you’ll know that much of my early work was teaching SEO’s how to use Excel.