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What PR's can be beat w/ EMD?

by Campbell24
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I'm doing a lot of keyword research right now and have been using the method of using the AdWords Keyword Tool, Namecheap to search for EMDs, and Google Search w/ SEOQuake to view PRs of competing pages. In a scenario where the top 10 pages are a mix of 2-6 PRs, is it feasible to beat them with an EMD? These sites do not have an EMD and only a few are targeting the keyword specifically.
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  • Profile picture of the author Ian Varnava
    Originally Posted by bathunter View Post

    I'm doing a lot of keyword research right now and have been using the method of using the AdWords Keyword Tool, Namecheap to search for EMDs, and Google Search w/ SEOQuake to view PRs of competing pages. In a scenario where the top 10 pages are a mix of 2-6 PRs, is it feasible to beat them with an EMD? These sites do not have an EMD and only a few are targeting the keyword specifically.
    A lot more information than what you're providing here would be needed for anyone to give you any sort of educated guess... but in the end it would still be just a "guess".

    PR is not the only factor which matters when researching competition. In fact, to me, it doesn't even really matter anymore. It's just an 'indication' that I may have to work a bit harder, and that it may take a little bit longer to rank in the top 3 if the results are full of high PR pages (and even that's not always true).

    If I have an EMD (pure EMD, no hyphens or stop words etc), then I consider that to be an advantage and I don't care who's on top. I just go for it. If you do your on-page and off-page SEO right, there's no reason you can't rank for the keyword(s) you're looking to rank for, especially with an EMD. It's just a matter of time.
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  • Profile picture of the author sonicadam123
    This might get a better response in the SEO section of the forum.

    But .. it's pretty difficult to give an answer since there's so many factors at work here. It would just be a guess at the very best.

    Especially since PR isn't updated frequently a page in reality may not be near the PR that it's displaying.

    Also PR only accounts for a small percentage of the overall ranking factors.

    And I can well see in the future that EMD's won't be as much of an effective ranking factor as they are right now. (based on statements from Matt Cutts etc).
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  • Profile picture of the author Campbell24
    Well maybe I'm still retarded about this but I've been learning as much as I can. What are the main factors that determine the competition's ranking strength besides PR? # and quality of backlinks, age, content relevancy? Which would you say are likely the strongest ranking factors?
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    • Profile picture of the author John Romaine
      Originally Posted by bathunter View Post

      Well maybe I'm still retarded about this but I've been learning as much as I can. What are the main factors that determine the competition's ranking strength besides PR? # and quality of backlinks, age, content relevancy? Which would you say are likely the strongest ranking factors?

      Backlinks to page. Forget about PR.
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