What if top 10 competitors are all authority sites?

run 11 years ago

Originally Posted by yukon

If your not doing any actual research on the ranked pages, not much point in looking for new keywords.

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So, I still could use the keywords if I dig into each actual page of those sites?
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- SEMaster 11 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by run
  
  Thanks,
  
  So, I still could use the keywords if I dig into each actual page of those sites?
  
  To be honest i don't think it'd be easy to take over the authority sites as compare to general sites.
  
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Yesceeohhh

11 years ago

Guess you have taken online shopping, stores as your niche and want to rank high for the targeted keywords. It is highly competitive and it rather you can refine your keyword strategy a bit and try targeting long tailed keywords.

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run

11 years ago

I've funnel my long tail keywords to 5+ words and have very low search qualities, but the results were very disappoint me with those sites.

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StoneWilson

11 years ago

Not suggested. According to personal experience, they may are incredibly competitive. However, you need to test by yourself.

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trade4861

11 years ago

Originally Posted by run

Hello,

After doing some sub keywords research of one of my blogs, It shows that all of my top 10 competitors are all authority sites such as Amazon, Online Stores, About, News Sites, Ebay, and etc.

Do I need to throw the keywords away if my competitors are all like above sites?

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Funny, I was just thinking of the same scenario. My answer would be to build an authority site.

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Sclark

11 years ago

Yes, the niche you have chosen is highly competitive, however, the solution may be to refine keywords as thoroughly as possible. Just try to take advantage of your location (localize your keywords), come up with particular keywords your competitors haven’t used yet, go for long-tail keywords - I mean there are big players in almost every niche, but smaller sites may eventually improve their rankings and increase SERPs visibility if the proper keywords with the highest efficiency index are discovered.

I would also suggest finding some business aspects, differences, whatever that you may have and your competitors don’t and using them for company positioning and advertising. Also, competitor’ backlinks can be revealed with some backlink checker, and then you may pick up the most valuable backlink sources to create your own backlink profile.

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kingsweb

11 years ago

Build more quality backlinks from different domains. Don't let it down. You can win with any keyword if you are doing right SEO.

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UMS

11 years ago

Just because there are authority sites in the top places doesn't necessarily mean you can't break into the top 10 rankings.

As Yukon mentioned, you need to look at how optimized the actual page that is ranked.

In general terms, it's not so difficult to outrank a product specific page on Amazon or similar sites.

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nik0

Banned 11 years ago

Just don't try to compete for main product categories, like:

- car seats
- solar power plant
- kitchen appliances

Or anything broad like that as you're most probably gonna fail big time.

The things that you can target is the above in combination with the "brand" name or product types like Samsung LCX359 whatever.

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WEBGEEK

11 years ago

you should focus on Long tail and local keywords to get better results rather than fighting with bigger sites.

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Matt Broody

11 years ago

Please send me your site/target keywords

I will review

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DABK 11 years ago

Google needs to show some results for any query. In the absence of pages that want to rank for a particular keyword, it will show other pages.

In other words, just because they're authority site pages doesn't mean they 'want' to be there. If that's the case, you can take them. Many have done it before.
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kaytav

11 years ago

If top 10 sites are authority sites, then I guess your keyword is really competitive. Try to get links from some authority sites. It is possible and might at least help you outrank some of the authority sites.

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