What is your minimum SEOT score required for considering keywords?

[Chris Worner]

Hey,

I am in a little conundrum at the moment, as per the title, I am curious as to what your SEOT minimum is in Market Samurai, mine personally is 30. What do you consider reasonable if you are going to target a particular keyword and write an article about?

Chris

[Steve Wells]

Originally Posted by skyfox7

Hey,

I am in a little conundrum at the moment, as per the title, I am curious as to what your SEOT minimum is in Market Samurai, mine personally is 30. What do you consider reasonable if you are going to target a particular keyword and write an article about?

Chris

Well they suggest 80, but I would be thankful with being ranked #1 and only getting 30 aday.

I think there suggestion of 80 is good, and usually go as low as 50

[tyroneshum]

True. 80 would be a good average traffic to base on as what Market Samurai's viability of niche is trying to say as well. I follow these figures first before going through another market when I plan to work on non-IM niche so that way I'll know if I can dominate easier.

[ShaneRQR]

If you're going to put any work into ranking for a keyword, then the traffic volume alone isn't enough to base a decision on. I always take into consideration the traffic volume plus the commercial intent of the keyword (is it a buying keyword or not?).

Personally, I'd rather rank for a strong buying keyword that gets 50 searches a day than for a keyword that gets 200 or more searches a day by "freebie seekers".

[SVLABS]

Originally Posted by ShaneRQR

If you're going to put any work into ranking for a keyword, then the traffic volume alone isn't enough to base a decision on. I always take into consideration the traffic volume plus the commercial intent of the keyword (is it a buying keyword or not?).

Personally, I'd rather rank for a strong buying keyword that gets 50 searches a day than for a keyword that gets 200 or more searches a day by "freebie seekers".

Even as a raving fan of Market Samurai, I have to agree with this 100%. No tool can make the adjustments and assumptions that your brain can.

Even still, if you want to use SEO competition values from MS then focus on SEOC (the very first SEO? column) before you worry about SEOT or SEOTC. Honestly who really cares about the competition value of keyword padded page titles by comparison to actual competition, as well as the competitiveness of the top 10 results which your SEO Competition module will be able to show you.

Focus on the numbers that matter or you end up chasing your own tail.

[Chris Worner]

I only ask since it can mean the difference between me only having to write 5 articles(taking into account LSI) for a content site compared to 33. As far as the competition is concerned, with some aggressive SEO, it shouldn't take very long at all for the particular niche I am planning on targeting to outrank my competitors.

Chris

[SVLABS]

Chris, I'm not sure that you need to be overly concerned about LSI. There is no evidence to suggest that it actually exists, though from Matt's recent talk about caffeine maybe the game has finally changed.

Even if LSI were real, I think that the semantic relationships created won't be that far different from what we already see with the inclusion of synonym, similes.

If your objective is to take #1 for your key phrase (and it should be) then once you establish all of your keywords, make sure you have a tab for each of them (in Market Samurai) and click the SEO Competition tab and run it for each keyword tab.

Take a look at all of the on and off page factors shown, and also MAKE CERTAIN that you do a PR and Anchor text analysis for at least the top 3 results for each keyword.

Sounds like a lot of work - in reality for a single keyword, it'll take all of about 3 minutes.