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Interesting SEO Results Markets Opening up

by smith33122
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So 3 months ago I did some fairly intensive keyword search activites using Alex Safies keyword digger and used his keyword analyser to look at some niches - they were far to competative for me to bother with.

Over the last week I ran them through the analyser again - guess what they are wide open with even the toughest keywords only getting a medium score.

I think some Google update has devalued some links by a considerable margin.

Any ideas or alternative thoughts
#interesting #markets #opening #results #seo
  • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
    Could also just be a case of this keyword tool being worthless.
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    • Profile picture of the author smith33122
      Originally Posted by MikeFriedman View Post

      Could also just be a case of this keyword tool being worthless.
      Never let me down yet but that would not explain the change in results
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      • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
        When it comes to analyzing competition, that tool is a flaming piece of crap. It is using stuff like number of pages in the index when you search in quotes, average PR of the top 10 pages, number of AdWords ads...

        All just worthless for analyzing competition.

        You could get different results day to day when you are looking at data like that. Advertisers may have found that ads don't convert on the weekends and drop ads then.

        You could have a SERP where every ranked page in the first 10 is less than a PR 2, except #10 which is a PR 6. That site gets bumped to #11 and replaced by a PR 0 page. That is going to greatly screw up the average.

        There is so much wrong with how this software analyzes competition, I wouldn't worry about the results it is giving you.
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        • Profile picture of the author smith33122
          Originally Posted by MikeFriedman View Post

          When it comes to analyzing competition, that tool is a flaming piece of crap. It is using stuff like number of pages in the index when you search in quotes, average PR of the top 10 pages, number of AdWords ads...

          All just worthless for analyzing competition.

          You could get different results day to day when you are looking at data like that. Advertisers may have found that ads don't convert on the weekends and drop ads then.

          You could have a SERP where every ranked page in the first 10 is less than a PR 2, except #10 which is a PR 6. That site gets bumped to #11 and replaced by a PR 0 page. That is going to greatly screw up the average.

          There is so much wrong with how this software analyzes competition, I wouldn't worry about the results it is giving you.
          What would you suggest as a replacement? thanks
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          • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
            Originally Posted by smith33122 View Post

            What would you suggest as a replacement? thanks

            Really none of the tools tell you a thing about site structure, internal linking, backlink quality, etc.

            So really, I think they are all worthless. Closest thing is Moz's keyword tool only because they at least have a backlink database, so they are taking some of their backlink metrics into consideration at least.

            You just need to analyze the top 3 sites really. If you can beat them, #4 through 500,000 do not matter.
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