Best tools for determining keyword ranking difficulty

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Posted: 12 years ago 25 replies

What are the best tools for this that you've personally used?

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#difficulty #keyword #ranking #tools

Daniel Wilson 12 years ago

Market Samurai and Traffic Travis
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- Instructor 12 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Daniel Wilson
  
  Market Samurai and Traffic Travis
  
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Robert X 12 years ago

Google itself. Keyword tool
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- UMS 12 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Robert X
  
  Google itself. Keyword tool
  
  Really? Want to explain your method for determining keyword ranking difficulty with GAKT?
  
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cashcentral 12 years ago

google's keyword tool is the best period.

its also free....

just make sure to put keywords in [] or "" , show only relevant topics...
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- talks 44 12 years ago
  
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  footbag_man 12 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by talks 44
  
  Any link for google keyword tool?
  
  Like I said I recommened Micro Niche Finder or even Market Samurai..
  
  But if you want to use the google to here is the link:
  
  https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal
  
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Instructor 12 years ago

Pretty sure that will not help me determine ranking difficulty in the sense that I'm asking, but thanks anyway. However I can see where you're coming from.
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footbag_man 12 years ago

The best is Micro Niche Finder NOT the google KW tool..

Micro niche finder gives you strength of competition which is vital.

If you dont want to pay for it you can just pay a guy a fiverr.com to do it for you... That's what I do.

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What are the best tools for this that you've personally used?

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Rukshan 12 years ago

I use brad callen's NF to check the competition.
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razorico 12 years ago

I look at the competition column in semrush, to analyse of it's level.
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sackboy127 12 years ago

I personally use Market Samurai.

But you can get a good general idea by looking at how many root domains are on page one (with KW in title tag), and checking the PR as well.
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MikeTheBuilder 12 years ago

I personally like semrush - It's pretty darn accurate when doing keyword research and it gives (CPC) difficulty ratings and more. It's a monthly subscription if you can afford it. You do however, get 10 free limited searches a day.
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xmlconversion 12 years ago

hey,
I think market samurai and google keywords tool are the best for determining keyword ranking difficulty.
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Juvv2096 12 years ago

micro niche finder.. i find it way better than market samurai. I have used them both and prefer MNF.
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StoneWilson 12 years ago

Traffic Travis and Google Adwords Keyword Tool. But I'm doubting their accuracy now, one of my sites now got 2 keywords ranked in top 5, both are got 2K exact searches according to Google Adwords Keyword Tool, but I only got 10 unique IPs per day. Why is that?
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mkjohn 12 years ago

According to me it is Google add-words keyword tools.
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devonm 12 years ago

Traffic Travis is what I use along with exact keyword term matching in Google Keyword tool.
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SmileKenya 12 years ago

From my little experience and research you can use several, combining them to get the best and with high cpc first use google keyword tools to get your keywords next use traffic travis to see you it is performing etc and you are still free to test it on market sumurai with this combination you cannot go wrong, best of luck buddy!
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EricBaglio 12 years ago

Market Samurai is my favorite for this. I believe SenukeX does too but I wouldn't pay that much money just for keyword competition analysis.
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UMS 12 years ago

So much useless information in this thread.

Google Adwords Keyword Tool (GAKT) does NOT tell you how difficult it is to rank for a particular keyword.

Sure, any keyword with a very large number of exact searches and high CPC, probably is hard to rank for, but you can't know for sure if you rely purely by using GAKT.

Either do a manual scan of the top 10 results, or use software like Market Samurai, Traffic Travis or Niche Finder.
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xxxJamesxxx 12 years ago

I've seen Micro Niche Finder mentioned a few times in this thread however the last time I used it (be about 8 months ago) I found it was giving really inaccurate results.

Is this still the case or have they sorted it out now?

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ralchevd 12 years ago

SEOmoz Keyword Difficulty Tool
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ex9to5guy 12 years ago

traffic travis has always been a good idea to get an estimate
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russkampmann 12 years ago

I also use Market Samurai, but others have given me different results, so who knows which is best?
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- bitriot 12 years ago
  
  Sometimes I just pick key words from google keyword tool and dump them into market samurai and that works OK.
  
  When I really mean business though, my process goes like this:
  
  1. Run Long Tail Pro to generate a large list of keywords including EMD availability, CPC and search volume.
  
  2. Dump the keyword I like with EMD available into google keyword tool and download CSV of all the resulting [exact] keywords.
  
  3. Run the CSV through Stealth Competition Analyzer to find the best related keywords (SCA shows figures like competing pages, "real" competing pages, competition strength and so on)
  
  I generally will run all keywords through Market Samurai to make sure they are rankable.
  
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