Exactly How Much Competition Is There?
Determining the exact number of competing websites for any given keyword is very important. It's also very easy. All you need to do is place the word or phrase in quotes and plug it into Google.
It says there are 1,910,000 results so there are almost 2 million other websites out there that are trying to compete for that keyword. Notice I said trying to compete for it. To find the number of websites that are actually in the running for this phrase, you need to go all the way to the end of the search results.
If you read this very carefully, you will see that Google has omitted all but 438 websites. This is because out of the almost 2 million websites out there that would like to rank for this word, only 438 are actually doing it in Google's eyes.
This is the number you will want to focus on. This is Google's way of telling us marketers what we're up against.
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morlandroger
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Great tips there Ty. Yet more for me to think about when I get time to write more
jatdebeaune
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Good one Ty. Found it interesting that you will look for under 100 competition sometimes, because you know you're guaranteed to land on the first page. For articles, I've been looking for 350 or under, and monthly searches of at least 500, usually much more. If I like the sound of the keyword phrase, I'll go for it. With LSI, you have some keywords you never planned. I like that you write for the reader.
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Ty Johnson
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well i don't specifically look for KWs with less than 100, I just use them when i find them, even if the monthly searchers are really low,
I want people to understand that guidelines for KW research is just that, guide lines, don't be afraid to fight for KWs with higher competition, if it's getting 10k or more monthly searches.
At he same time don't be scared to use a low competition KW, that gets very little traffic, not every KW you use has to be with in a specified range.
I want people to understand that guidelines for KW research is just that, guide lines, don't be afraid to fight for KWs with higher competition, if it's getting 10k or more monthly searches.
At he same time don't be scared to use a low competition KW, that gets very little traffic, not every KW you use has to be with in a specified range.
Ty Johnson
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Put your KW into Google with quotes around it, then you have to go to the last page of results on Google, in the example in page 3 of this training, that is page 44, that may vary depending upon the keyword you are looking for, it says there are 438 websites that are good enough for Google to bother showing you.
If you look at the photo at the bottom of page 3 of this training, "Exactly How Much Competition Is There?" you will see what I mean, if you read what it says closely it will says
"In order to show you the most relevant results, we have omitted some entries very similar to the 438 already displayed.
If you like, you can repeat the search with the omitted results included."
The reason they omit those results is because basically the rest of the websites competing for that KW are junk.
So 438 is the number of competition you are dealing with.
I hope that made sense, but if you are still confused let me know, I will keep explaining it till it does make sense =)
If you look at the photo at the bottom of page 3 of this training, "Exactly How Much Competition Is There?" you will see what I mean, if you read what it says closely it will says
"In order to show you the most relevant results, we have omitted some entries very similar to the 438 already displayed.
If you like, you can repeat the search with the omitted results included."
The reason they omit those results is because basically the rest of the websites competing for that KW are junk.
So 438 is the number of competition you are dealing with.
I hope that made sense, but if you are still confused let me know, I will keep explaining it till it does make sense =)
Ty Johnson
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