Assistance in Google Searches in Title

[SakeSushi]

not sure if this is the correct place to post, since this is an IM question and SEO question.

If not, Mod, pls assist to move the thread to where it belongs.


I have a small questions which i face, which ponders me.

I have a keyword ABC and i use a intitle:"ABC"

And the amazing thing happens. I have 3 browsers, FireFox, Opera and Chrome.

With Chrome and Opera, it shows me results of 10k

and with Firefox, it shows me a result of 100

I know the different browsers might have connect to different google database, but, cant be such a big difference.. Am i correct?

[dburk]

Hi SakeSushi,

Assuming you are talking about the section of the page that reads like:

Results 1 - 10 of about 1,690,000 for allintitle:"ferret farming".

It's no accident that Google uses the word "about", it is just a guess based on an extrapulation from a small sample database. Being off by 10,000 or 20,000 is no big deal when your making an estimate from a database of a 100 billion pages.

Google will never list any more than 1000 pages for any given query. The about number is almost always way too high. Try adding &start=990 to the end of your queries in the address bar and you will get an exact number if it is less than 1000 pages.

Like This:

http://www.google.com/search?q=allintitle:"ferret+farming"&start=990

[SakeSushi]

thank dburk..

but that somehow screws my keyword research.

i was pretty happy when i managed to find a keyword for 5k searches with 10k pages and a intitle of 100, when it suddenly jumps to a 10k.

looks like i have to give up this keyword~

[SakeSushi]

Well, precisely that the problem when i am using the same search engine, yet i yield different results for the same keywords.

Now that a big issue when you are doing keyword research. Just when you thought you found a profitable keyword, it turns out to be not so profitable after all..

[dburk]

Hi SakeSushi,

I think you are giving way too much weight to a relatively insignificant statistic. Counting total competing pages may be useful for narrowing the focus of your research, but that number doesn't in and of itself mean that much.

Once you have chosen a keyword to focus your research on, you should turn your attention to the listings on the first page of the SERP. All you need to achieve a first page listing is to outrank the page a position #10. The number of pages returned are not important, only whether or not you can defeat the page listed at position #10 using a reasonable amount of your available resources.

[Smokey_Joe]

What does Google Adwords say re these keywords? Might be worth considering for an informed decision.

[SakeSushi]

probably as dburk say.. i should be concentrating on beating the top 10 instead of worrying how many 'worthless' competitors i have

Smokey_Joe : Ad words keywords give the same results for the browsers.

Just hope that this issues do not popup too often and hopefully backlinking will clear all the way for me to zoom into top 3