Keyword clustering is a practice search engine optimization (SEO) professionals use to segment target search terms into groups (clusters) relevant to each page of the website. After keyword research, search engine professionals cluster keywords into small groups which they spread across pages of the website to achieve higher rankings in the search engine results (SERP). Keyword clustering is a fully automated process performed by keyword clustering tools.
The term and the first principles were first introduced in 2015 by the Russian search engine optimization expert Alexey Chekushin. The SERP-based keyword clustering tool Just-Magic was released in the same year in Russia.