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Should I Be Intimidated By Overall Results if "Results" Are Low?

by Neodism
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If I am looking into a niche to try to shoot for, should I be intimidated if I search Google and it shows one million vajillion results, but if the search in quotations only shows a couple tens of thousands?

I really need someone to confirm if I am right here or not:

Searching your keywords on Google in quotation sizes up your real competition.

Is this true? I believe it to be because it shows all the sites with your full keywords in them, and just by common sense a site can not be optimizing for your keyword sequence without having it in their page, correct?
#intimidated #low #results
  • Profile picture of the author Josip Barbaric
    The only competition you have are those 10 pages on the first page of Google. The number of results, as shown by Google, both in quotes and without, is very deceptive and really shouldn't be your major determining factor.

    What matters is the strength of those top 10 pages.

    All the best,

    Josip
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  • Profile picture of the author InternetMarketingIQ
    If you can not get into the top 3 spots for a specific page it really doesn't matter. Even the first page means little. You have to rank for a specific phrase in the 3!

    Would you rather have 10% of a million or 100% of a 1,000?

    If you are only looking at raw numbers you are not seeing the "Whole Picture".
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    • Profile picture of the author Neodism
      Originally Posted by InternetMarketingIQ View Post

      If you can not get into the top 3 spots for a specific page it really doesn't matter. Even the first page means little. You have to rank for a specific phrase in the 3!

      Would you rather have 10% of a million or 100% of a 1,000?

      If you are only looking at raw numbers you are not seeing the "Whole Picture".
      Could you please further explain what you mean in your first paragraph? I don't quite understand.

      And I don't know what the correct answer is, but I think 10% of 1,000,000 (which is 100,000) sounds a lot better than 100% of 1,000! Lol.
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