Best way to measure Stength of Competition with a Keyword and whether you should pursue it or not ??

[discrat]

I am trying to come up with a Formula when looking at the Competitiors on Google 1st page. I know a week or so there was a Thread where a fellow Member said something like he adds up all the PR of each of the 10 Sites ( Pages) on the Google first page and if is below 30 or something like that then he will pursue that certain Keyphrase.

Does anyone remember this Post ?? And is that a good measure to go by ??

How do some of you determine strength of Competition from the first 10 Sites on Google first page ?? And whether you want to pursue that Keyphrase or not ??

Thnx

[tony-raymondo]

Number of backlinks with explicit anchor text
Number of backlinks with inferred anchor text
Quality of backlinks with explicit anchor text
Quality of backlinks with inferred anchor text
Region that the keyword is typed into
PageRank of the page
General authority of the main site
exact match of keyword in title
exact match of keyword in body text
Number of available domain names for the keyword
AllInTitle scores for the keyphrase
AllInURL scores for the keyphrase
AllInAnchor scores for the keyphrase
Load times of the competiting pages
Onpage optimization of the competiting pages
I could probably think of 100 more personally if i was bored one day.
There are probably several thousand fairly significant ones.

It would be nice if one program would just give you one number and tell you the strength of competition.

Some programs get close.

But in reality, its not a realistic task

My suggestion, Choose one of the following

Market Samurai
MicroNicheFinder

and become a master at that one program.

And at a certain point you have to realize that you must only give yourself x hours for niche research, and then you MUST act and choose the best niche you have found in that x hours period.

If you don't, then you'll just be always gathering data.

[Tasso Pepi]

Originally Posted by tony-raymondo

Number of backlinks with explicit anchor text
Number of backlinks with inferred anchor text
Quality of backlinks with explicit anchor text
Quality of backlinks with inferred anchor text
Region that the keyword is typed into
PageRank of the page
General authority of the main site
exact match of keyword in title
exact match of keyword in body text
Number of available domain names for the keyword
AllInTitle scores for the keyphrase
AllInURL scores for the keyphrase
AllInAnchor scores for the keyphrase

It would be nice if one program would just give you one number and tell you the strength of competition.

Some programs get close.

But in reality, its not a realistic task

My suggestion, Choose one of the following

Market Samurai
MicroNicheFinder

and become a master at that one program.

And at a certain point you have to realize that you must only give yourself x hours for niche research, and then you MUST act and choose the best niche you have found in that x hours period.

If you don't, then you'll just be always gathering data.

Wow Thanks for the great reply Tony, that was awesome. A lot of great information...

[ARVolund]

For me the most important site for me to look at is the one at number 10. If I think I can get on the first page I go for it. If not I usually find another keyword to use.

The only time I look at the top spot is when targeting low search volume keywords because I will probably not get enough traffic unless I am in the top three.

Personally I like Market Samurai and while it is not the only tool I use it is usually the one I start with and then just double check my results elsewhere to make sure I am not missing anything.

[Page 1 SEO Services]

Probably one of the best tools available for SEO is Market Samurai.

[Paul Roekle]

To quickly analyze the top 10 results I check to see if the keyword is in the title, description, and URL. The I check the PR and domain age. Then I look at the backlinks to that particular page.

If the keyword is in the title, description, and URL and the PR is over 3 I consider that hard to beat out for micro niches. If the PR is 5 or more I consider it hard to beat. If the domain age is over 4 for all the sites I usually move on. Those are quick indicators I notice immediately and just move on down the list of keywords I have.

Using Market Samurai helps a lot, but you can do this all manually with the SEO Quake plugin for firefox or the SEO Book plugin. If you use SEO Quake don't do more than a few keywords at once or you will be temporarily ip banned from google and yahoo.

[durrenmatt]

i believe that just addig up the PR and comparing it to 30 is a bit vague, there are many factors that need to be taken into account when deciding whether to pursue a keyword or not.