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How difficult it will be to outrank these competitors?

by xhawkx
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Hi,

I'm not a pro in SEO and am looking to target a specific keyword - aiming to at least gain a position on first page of Google if not the first/second rank of first page.

These are the results I got (attached), they are all from first page for my keyword. I'm not sure whether it will be easy or moderately difficult to achieve a position on first page. My software says it will be very difficult. I need some expert opinion on this and few tips to achieve the goal will also be more than welcome.
#competitors #difficult #outrank
  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    Hard to say without seeing the actual keyword, every backlink in that screenshot could be junk or could be PR5+ links.
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  • Profile picture of the author JamesGw
    Presumably not very hard. Should be doable within the span of 2-3 months if you do proper SEO. That said, Yukon is right about not knowing what types of links they are. That said, judging from the PR of the pages ranking, I doubt the links are very strong.
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  • Profile picture of the author xhawkx
    Thanks for the replies. I did some more research on backlinks of the no.3 site. Here are the results.

    That guy has used some blackhat / auto-commenting tool to get that much backlinks and majority of them are from blog comments. Many of them from spam-filled comment areas..

    70% of backlinks are from PR 0 sites. Most high PR is 5 and only about 10 backlinks from there..

    Few questions:

    * Should I used the same backlinks that this guy used to promote my site?

    * If I get less backlinks than him but majority of them are of high quality, will I be able to outrank him?

    * Can this be done in one month?

    Awaiting more replies..
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