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How easy/difficult to outrank this niche keyword?

by ipadhiniu
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keyword: where to buy coconut oil
local searches：2900

Position 1: PR3, 11K backlinks

position 2: PR1, 85 backlinks

position 3: PR1, 72 backlinks

position 4: PR1, 7 backlinks

position 5: PR2, 18 backlinks

position 6: PR0, 5 backlinks

position 7: PR5, 159 backlinks

position 8: PR3, 1 backlinks

position 9: PR2, 481 backlinks

position 10: PR0, 760 backlinks

Is it easy to beat?

Thx.
#backlinks #easy or difficult #keyword #niche #outrank
  • Profile picture of the author supereek
    pr doesn't matter that much in ranking. my pr3 outranks a pr6 website for its keyword.
    about the backlinks, run a tool or a website to check the backlinks and see where they point at and what their anchor text is. if the anchor text isn't the keyword, then yes you can compete for this keyword. if he has 11k backlinks all anchored with the keyword or specific variations of the keyword, then you can sure get to position #2, but you will hardly beat him.

    i hope this helps
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  • Profile picture of the author challanger
    Go for it, Do a smart work on your On-Page SEO.. later build solid, high quality backlinks... you will be on first page soon...
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  • Profile picture of the author RedShifted
    I wouldn't aim for position 1. Chances are you can grab the #2 spot fairly easily. If you get google authorship or an appealing description, you can steal lots of their traffic.

    What I can say, that first site appears to be dominating the crap out of all the other sites. Keyword = "appears". But to give you a bit of motivation, in 1 of my other niches, the #1 competitor had 4k backlinks, and we grabbed the #1 spot with less than 300 backlinks. I'm still not sure how I did it because it was a mix of SEO I did, and a company we hired, but the #1 competitor is now in #2, and thats all I care about.
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  • Profile picture of the author ipadhiniu
    Thank you everyone
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    • Profile picture of the author mdoolan
      The rules have changed quite a bit. PR doesn't mean that much anymoe and the quantity of backinks is pretty meaningless. Someone can easily create 100k backlinks with spam tools (forum profiles, social bookmarks, spun articles, blg comments...) - all those links are pretty useless and often do more harm than good.

      what's important is to get some quality contextual links from authority sites, to create a natural looking backlink pattern and to build out some "social signals"
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  • Profile picture of the author InitialEffort
    Nothing is impossible. An individual page doesn't necessarily need to have a high PR and thousands of backlinks in order to rank first place in the SERPs. What’s most important is the quality, not the quantity. You need to work on increasing your site’s traffic by adding more quality content to your site (update regularly), optimize your keyword but never overoptimize, and build inbound links from different authority sites including press release, blog posts, homepage backlinking, contextual links from wiki, web 2.0s and article directory (mix of do-follow and no-follow), etc.
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  • Profile picture of the author ipadhiniu
    thanks a lot
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