Keyword Research Question

by penpoint

Posted: 12 years ago 19 replies

I'm checking the competition manually for keywords. When I do a search on the keyword, should I search with the keyword in quotes or without quotes?

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sureshtechendeavour 12 years ago

Try with quotes and without quotes and list out the sites coming above your site.
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- KentChow 12 years ago
  
  Searching with quote would tell you how many pages are intended to target that "keyword".. for example:
  
  > About 1,210,000 results
  
  Without quote, most of end users would search in that way. You need to check what the PRs are on the first page - top 10 search result. They are your primary competitors.
  
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- Clarkjackson 12 years ago
  
  Do it without quote for checking real competition, with quote Google shows only exact keyword phrase pages
  
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lancejeffersons 12 years ago

Without quotes then list the websites on top of your website, then research where do they get their backlinks..And then apply these tips SEO Strategies to Outrank Established Competitors | Premium SEO Solutions Blog
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- packerfan 12 years ago
  
  If you're talking about competing pages, then it doesn't matter. That has nothing to do with competition.
  
  If you're talking about evaluating the top 10 sites (or top 3) then do the search without quotes because that's how most people search.
  
  Download the free version of traffic travis and it does a good job of evaluating the top 10 results for your keyword. No charge, good tool.
  
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eaglesflamenco 12 years ago

no need to do it with quotes,for long term perspective,it doent benefit from that
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inflexi 12 years ago

You should use quotes.The quotes allow you to ascertain your competition. When you use quotes, it brings up your most prominent competition.
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- packerfan 12 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by inflexi
  
  You should use quotes.The quotes allow you to ascertain your competition. When you use quotes, it brings up your most prominent competition.
  
  No it doesn't. People don't search with quotes in general. So all the OP should care about is the top 3 sites for his keyword. Searching in quotes doesn't give him that.
  
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uumair 12 years ago

Keywords without quotes will give me rank.
I never checked with quotes
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samual james 12 years ago

search with quotes : it shows you how many sites are using exact keyword.
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- penpoint 12 years ago
  
  Thanks for the input, all. The research is for new niche sites, not an existing one. Based on what I'm hearing here searching without quotes is the best option. Thanks again.
  
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showkatahmad 12 years ago

quotes will help you finding the real situation which is you basically want
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- C Rebecca 12 years ago
  
  Keywords without quotes will give you a Broad match (includes keywords plus additional words)
  I'll prefer you go for exact match (keywords in square brackets) which will give you accurate results.
  Manual search will take an eternity. I prefer keyword country to check the competitiveness of my keywords.
  
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  lportho 12 years ago
  
  try to search with quotas Google will show real competition
  
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egrovesys 12 years ago

As i checked in G, i have found out these result.

Keyword - t shirts india

Without quote
1,310,000 results
three sponsored listings in PPC

Without quote
115,000,000 results
One sponsored lists in PPC

i think that while searching keywords we have to add quotes to get exact results.
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hamburglar 12 years ago

Originally Posted by penpoint

I'm checking the competition manually for keywords. When I do a search on the keyword, should I search with the keyword in quotes or without quotes?

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Since when has this become a measurement of the competition?

In my 5 years of learning SEO and ranking websites, this has never been a concern.

Analyize the top 10 results, more importantly top 3. If you ain't there then you ain't gettin no traffic.
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Barry Unruh 12 years ago

Originally Posted by penpoint

I'm checking the competition manually for keywords. When I do a search on the keyword, should I search with the keyword in quotes or without quotes?

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How are your readers going to search for it? Do the same...

Those are the results you have to beat if you want to get those readers to your site.
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outwest 12 years ago

searching with quotes?
outdated totally irrelevant

who searches with quotes? surfers I mean
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yukon Banned 12 years ago

Originally Posted by penpoint

I'm checking the competition manually for keywords. When I do a search on the keyword, should I search with the keyword in quotes or without quotes?

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You search without quotes only because that's the way your competitions traffic will be searching when the find his site in Google SERPs, very few people outside of IM use quotes.
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