How do I evaluate the strength of competition?
- SEO |
If you're not familiar with the metrics Traffic Travis uses to evaluate the strength of competition, they are the following:
* Age
* PR
* Backlinks to page
* Backlinks to whole domain
* Backlinks from .gov or .edu pages
* If domain is listed in DMOZ (I have never heard of this)
* If domain is listed in Yahoo directory
* If title of page contains the keyword
* If meta description contains the keyword
* If H1 tag on the page contains the keyword
* Number of backlinks from the country you search for (USA in my case)
Firstly, I have no idea how much weight is being given to each of these factors. Secondly, regardless of whether or not TT is weighing them properly, I don't know myself which ones are the most important. I have assumed that PR and backlinks are the most important, followed by SEO stuff like having keywords in the header/title/meta/etc.
All I want is to be able to eyeball these stats and know what kind of chance I have of bumping a particular page from the top 10. PR in particular intimidates me. Is a high PR insurmountable? Can you bump a page with high PR and backlinks if their title/header/meta/etc. are not relevant to target keywords?
Any assistance you guys could provide would be greatly appreciated. I really want to understand this better before I go buying domains and try to pick some fights.
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