Google's competition numbers?
So I am working on a new site, and I was just curious to see how many pages I have indexed so far. I went to G and did a 'site:' query and came up with 66 pages. I didn't know I had that many pages, but if G says so. But I clicked on the last page of results, which was '5' and go down to the bottom and the number was 43.
Now we have all read posts that tell this type of story, but you would think that with a relatively new site, G could count the number fairly easily, wouldn't you? I know I would think that.
But the question arises, to me at least, if G can not figure this out, how the hell do you figure that any of the other competition numbers are any where near right? Why do we even concern ourselves with them.:p
Google is a really smart company in so many ways. But they can't tell you the competition numbers, they can't tell you how many times a keyword gets searched for on their engine, and they can't even tell you the average CPC for their keywords as their two keyword tools will give you different numbers. Do they do this on purpose to confuse us or are they just incompetent in this area?
Inquiring minds want to know.
Now we have all read posts that tell this type of story, but you would think that with a relatively new site, G could count the number fairly easily, wouldn't you? I know I would think that.
But the question arises, to me at least, if G can not figure this out, how the hell do you figure that any of the other competition numbers are any where near right? Why do we even concern ourselves with them.:p
Google is a really smart company in so many ways. But they can't tell you the competition numbers, they can't tell you how many times a keyword gets searched for on their engine, and they can't even tell you the average CPC for their keywords as their two keyword tools will give you different numbers. Do they do this on purpose to confuse us or are they just incompetent in this area?
Inquiring minds want to know.
Tim Pears