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How to know if you can rank?

by inxie
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Okay so I have a keyword:

"Enfield landscaping"
  • 390 searches a month
  • 2.5 million results (no quotes)
  • 3,500 thousand result (with quotes)

I have a brand new website that offers landscaping in Enfield (it's in the UK).
The homepage is optimized for the keywords.

Is there a way to know from that information, how hard it will be to rank #1 for that?
#google #keyword #rank
  • Profile picture of the author inxie
    Uhhh, I guess I should just try.....
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  • Profile picture of the author jovykhan
    Actually, you can rank any keyword regardless how competitive it is but that's for the time to tell when.
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  • Profile picture of the author UMS
    Originally Posted by inxie View Post

    Okay so I have a keyword:

    "Enfield landscaping"
    • 390 searches a month

    Incorrect.


    You are looking at the broad match global monthly searches (GMS). You need to be looking at the exact match local monthly searches (LMS), which in this instance is so low Google doesn't have a figure for it. The GMS is <10.



    • 2.5 million results (no quotes)
    • 3,500 thousand result (with quotes)
    Pretty much irrelevant.




    You need to look at the top 10 results (in particular the top 3).


    Looking at the first result in google.co.uk, I can see their site has a PR1 and a very minimal number of backlinks.


    I didn't check the other sites in the results, but based on the site ranked #1, it should be pretty easy to knock it off
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    • Profile picture of the author kuyajabrig
      I think its easy








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    • Profile picture of the author inxie
      Originally Posted by UMS View Post

      Incorrect.


      You are looking at the broad match global monthly searches (GMS). You need to be looking at the exact match local monthly searches (LMS), which in this instance is so low Google doesn't have a figure for it. The GMS is <10.



      Pretty much irrelevant.




      You need to look at the top 10 results (in particular the top 3).


      Looking at the first result in google.co.uk, I can see their site has a PR1 and a very minimal number of backlinks.


      I didn't check the other sites in the results, but based on the site ranked #1, it should be pretty easy to knock it off
      Wow, okay. It wouldn't be worth my time at all trying to rank less than 10 searches a month.

      Thanks for the tip about exact vs broad. I've always looked at broad.
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