What Do You Think of My SEO Plan for My 1st Blog Using the Free Version of SemRush??

The planned structure of my 1st post is this:


(Intended to be 800-1.000 words.)

“A Retrospective on the War on Terror, or How I Became a Stormhawk”

Sub Points

• The war on terror’s prehistory.
  
  
• September 11th
  
  
• The Lead-up to the Iraq Invasion
  
  
• The Iraq War Backlash
  
  
• Obama & the Arab Spring
  
  
• Syria
  
  
• How the War on Terror Changed Me
  

And, these are the Results I Got from SemRush:

1. The War on Terror
   
   
   1. Volume: 18,100 Keyword Difficulty:87
      
2. Iraq War
   
   
   1. Volume: 40,500 Keyword Difficulty: 85
      
3. Syrian Civil War
   
   
   1. Volume: 22,200 Keyword Difficulty: 68
      
4. George Bush
   
   
   1. Volume:135,000 Keyword Difficulty: 97
      
5. Warmonger
   
   
   1. Volume: 6,600 Keyword Difficulty:: 65
      
6. Vietnam War
   
   
   1. Volume:301,000 Keyword Difficulty: 100:
      
7. Appeasement
   
   
   1. Volume: 60,500 Keyword Difficulty: : 80
      
8. Appeasement Definition
   
   
   1. Volume: 8,100 Keyword Difficulty: : 43
      

So what do you think? It looks like a lot of the the keywords aren't very good for my purposes. starting out, using these two key metrics on SemRush, what do you thinkI should aim for? How many keywords per post should I aim for, too? And, should I exchange something else for "war on terror" as my main keyword?

I am listening...

 

Noitartst,

Every example you gave above should be its own topic/article. I would target less competitive long-tail keywords on a new blog. Iraq and Syria are completely different locations and unrelated to target in one article.