If you sell a $60,000 platform, a keyword with 40 monthly searches and genuine purchase intent is worth more than one with 40,000 searches and none. Ten visitors, one demo, a 30 percent close rate. That single keyword is worth $18,000 a year and it will never look impressive in a pitch deck.
This is why so many B2B SEO engagements drift toward broad top-of-funnel content. It is the only way to make the graph go up quickly. It is also why so many of them get cancelled at month nine.
We build the boring, small, valuable keyword sets first, and we tell you the traffic number will look unimpressive for a while.