Determining Strength of Competition?
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I've gotten pretty good at doing keyword research. I find a happy area of between 1k - 3k exact searches with no more than 8k competing websites in quotes.
A half hour to an hour of research and I'll have 3 or 4 fitting this criteria.
My problem comes with determining whether or not the competition is beatable. It would seem obvious that if they have a high page rank with a high amount of backlinks, I shouldn't go for it. But the way they rank seems to be completely random.
[using SEO quake]
Sometimes I'll see like a PR 0 with 20 YSE (Yahoo Site Explorer) backlinks beating page with PR 5 500 YSE backlinks. And the Google index always shows like 1 million backlinks so I do my best with what I see.
Even some of my own sites are beating other sites where they "shouldn't" be based strictly upon Page Rank and # of Backlinks.
What I want to know is where is the method and organization to this? I see that on-site SEO could play a huge factor but it seems so random how everything is done with page rank and BL's making almost no correlation to where its ranked in Google.
Lately I've just been going for anything that's reached my previous criteria and in a few months when things have settled and they have some weight to them I'll try to compare all the stats and see what's really playing a factor based on my experience.
But in the meantime, what's going on here? What should I be looking for in my competition?
A half hour to an hour of research and I'll have 3 or 4 fitting this criteria.
My problem comes with determining whether or not the competition is beatable. It would seem obvious that if they have a high page rank with a high amount of backlinks, I shouldn't go for it. But the way they rank seems to be completely random.
[using SEO quake]
Sometimes I'll see like a PR 0 with 20 YSE (Yahoo Site Explorer) backlinks beating page with PR 5 500 YSE backlinks. And the Google index always shows like 1 million backlinks so I do my best with what I see.
Even some of my own sites are beating other sites where they "shouldn't" be based strictly upon Page Rank and # of Backlinks.
What I want to know is where is the method and organization to this? I see that on-site SEO could play a huge factor but it seems so random how everything is done with page rank and BL's making almost no correlation to where its ranked in Google.
Lately I've just been going for anything that's reached my previous criteria and in a few months when things have settled and they have some weight to them I'll try to compare all the stats and see what's really playing a factor based on my experience.
But in the meantime, what's going on here? What should I be looking for in my competition?
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