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The fact is, I don’t trust or believe half of the SEO fluff I read online. Sometimes, I go through ridiculously absurd articles with information which is wrong. Though they might be some attempt of a link bait. The fact is it just makes them look a lot more stupid, not to mention some highly honored SEO websites who are making a lot of money on the internet. Talking about old techniques to find the keyword competition, this reminds me of the days when I was 15 years old. Please note that the technique I’ll be mentioning on this post is not an advice from a professional, neither am I guaranteeing you any results. It is just a way which proved me good results, and as you read you’ll find that it is in fact more sensible and logical than the ordinary way of doing so and will surely help you while making money with niche picking. So when you received your ‘SEO lessons’, you were told to just google the keyword and see the results google displays for it and there you have it. But as far as I believe this will not find you your actual competition. The Actual Keyword CompetitionIn most cases you can outrank 95% of the websites just by putting the keyword in your title. Reason being, those websites are mostly not even about that keyword. If your website is in google’s index and you use a word such as ‘make money on the internet’ anywhere on your page. There you have it, you’re in Google SERPs. You might be at page number 893, but still you’re in the results right? Hence, you need to be sure of your real competition. We’ll assume that make money is the keyword in this example. This isn’t going to be long, so just bear with me for a few lines:
Talking about accuracy, your actual competition will be even lower. Don’t give me that puzzled look. You might think I’ve gone too far against your present knowledge but the reason why this is exaggerated is simple. Most of the times you check competition for your keyword, the results in both would have about 40-50% common results. For example: X is a website about tennis shoes. When it is optimized for the keyword, it will have the term ‘tennis shoes’ in it’s title as well as it’s anchor texts and url. So when you do both of the searches, the same website will show up. I wouldn’t really like to get into long discussions because everyone has their own ways. In SEO, there is no such technique which is engraved on a rock. This technique of finding keyword competition is fully tested by me and it works great. Since this is my way, you’re most welcome to follow my way and I will lead you to online success and help you to make money. Related Articles:Filed Under: SEO Tips - Comments: 20 Comments to Readtop |
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Sanya said,
I think on page on page optimization is just half of the seo, more time should be spent on link building, traffic building social media marketing ect.
You are right half of the SEO stuff on the web is just rubbish, the writer either do not know the better ways or maybe do not want to share some golden tips.
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Sanya said,
Yes, I know about google bomb, it means if you have great amount of back links with a particular anchor text, your page will be ranked high even if you do not have any content about that anchor text on your page. Google some how find out a way to deal with it, but practically it still works, just be sure to gain the back link not to fast and also get few links from related websites and you still can get a decent rank for a keyword even you do not have that keyword on your page.
So far it seems vast majority of ranking is about getting back links, the one who wins is the one who knows how many links are needed, where to get and how to reach a certain rank target with minimum amount of effort/time/links.
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Mikael @ Retire Early said,
You know that you can use both inanchor and intitle within the same search right? That will show you all the sites that have both.
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Mikael @ Retire Early said,
Sure thing. Just enter this in the search box: intitle:”keyword” inanchor:”keyword”
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Teeth Whitener said,
This sounds like a good approach to checking keyword competition. I have one question, though. Could you tell us how many results constitutes a low competition keyword, a moderately competetive keyword, and a high competition keyword? Thanks.
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jason said,
Not a bad way to check keyword competition, i think this method would be very accurate, as accurate as we can imagine it to be out there. And more than 50K for highly competitve, sounds about right…. good stuff, thanks for the help.
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Horacio Norseworthy said,
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Steve M said,
Typing – intitle:”keyword” inanchor:”keyword” – into the search box seems to be an excellent way to determine competition for a particular keyword.
What if I have a list of keywords and I want to check which have the least competition? Do I have to check each keyword individually or is there a way of doing them all at once?
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gjivan said,
Whats da’ diff. between allinanchor and inanchor cz the result values differs a lot for these tool. allinanchor is also tool to know the competition of sites for particular keyword….am i clear?
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JP Dallas SEO said,
Putting the ‘all’ in front does just that – it requires google find all words in the element.
So allintitle:kw1 kw2 means google restricts results to those pages with all keywords in the title.
whereas
intitle:kw1 kw2 means google restricts results to those pages that have kw1 in the title and kw2 anywhere on the page (title, description, page text…)
So for instance
allintitle:rolex watches returns 3.1M results
intitle:rolex watches returns 5.6M results
the ‘allin’ version means all of it in the element (title in this case)
the ‘in’ version means rolex must be in the title, however watches can appear anywhere.
If doing competition checks I use allin without “” and I will start with allintitle queries until I find my client’s niche.
One last point is you can mix these for instance
intitle:”rolex watches” gold returns 73k results
This will give returns for rolex watch (or watch rolex) side-by-side together in the title and gold anywhere else in the page.
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Julie Cheung said,
Hello, thanks for this great article. I’m fairly new to the world of SEO and was looking for different ways to determine keyword competition. I reckon the allintitle: intitle: inanchor will come in really handy. However, I’m not sure what inanchor:’s function is? Does this check the keyword anchor text of the site? Thanks, Julie.
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zingo media said,
Shouldn’t it be allintitle: not just intitle:
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Paypal Downlod Manager said,
Great information! Keyword selection is the key for website success, so it is must to check keyword competition.
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