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Whats the best way to analyze competition for a certain keyword?

by Madshark
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The title says it all. I've never really learned the proper, thorough way of doing this and I think It is about time.

Thanks in advance
#analyze #competition #keyword
  • Profile picture of the author Graham Maddison
    download a free copy of market samurai and go through their tutorials.
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  • Profile picture of the author veekay31
    You can analyze competition even with a free firefox plugin like SEO quake. You just need to check the first 5-10 sites listed on google for your keyword with SEO quake. There are many free youtube videos that explain usage of SEO quake.
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  • Profile picture of the author jwmann2
    A poor man's way to do it would be to just type in that keyword and see how many hits come up. The lower the amount of hits (say around 22K), the easier it would be to rank for that keyword. It's much easier to rank for long tailed keyword like "Restaurants near Billings Montana" as opposed to short term keywords like "Lebron James" or "Seatbelts".
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  • Profile picture of the author Trieu
    I don't know why but for some reason the competition results is not showing up for me
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  • Profile picture of the author cyqnusnite
    I recommend Adwords Keyword tool, gives you the monthly searches chart to give you an idea of how much people are looking for your keyword, and look for high ranked pages when you search your keyword. If none of the URL's are closely related to the keyword then there are probably not many sites in competition.
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    • Profile picture of the author Ricardo Furtado
      Originally Posted by cyqnusnite View Post

      I recommend Adwords Keyword tool, gives you the monthly searches chart to give you an idea of how much people are looking for your keyword, and look for high ranked pages when you search your keyword. If none of the URL's are closely related to the keyword then there are probably not many sites in competition.
      Adwords Keyword tool? I thought they shut that down???
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  • Profile picture of the author timpears
    Install SEOQuake in your browser (Chrome or Firefox) and use that to view the PR and links to the page. this will give you a lot of help in evaluating the prospects. The lower the PR and links to the pages listed on the first page of Google will tell you a lot.

    Deciding if you want to go after that keyword is a personal thing and everyone will tell you something different. So I won't bother. Just remember, lower is better. You will want to find PR n/a or PR 0 sites on the first page as those will be easiest to dislodge. But I think it is links that are the biggest factor, so look for 0 to 100 or so links. That will show you that you will not have to work that hard to dislodge them.
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  • Profile picture of the author Trieu
    are there any good tutorials on using the keyword planner?
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  • Profile picture of the author johnben1444
    Download Traffic Travis and SEOSpyGlass.

    Run your keywords on Traffic Travis competition and you will be able to see the competition of your keywords and sites usually from the PR, Age, On Site SEO, Number of backlinks e.t.c and then running the top sites on SpyGlass to know the true weight of your competitors backlinks.

    However, i don't usually bother with digging beyond the top 6 sites on page one because that's where my REAL competitors.

    I simply Google my keywords and see the sites on the first page of Google and begin my research and backlink analysis.
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    • Profile picture of the author peterperseo
      I always use Market Samurai, pretty good for check competition.

      The only limit (for me) is that I can analize the competition (first 10 results on google for that KW) only with one single keyword, later try with another one, etc.

      Is there any Keyword tool where I can analize the competition for multiple Keywords all together? Maybe LTP? (I still didn't try it)
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  • Profile picture of the author StillSEO
    +1 for Market Samurai.. & there are other tools like Traffic Travis, Long Tail Pro & so on..
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    • Profile picture of the author ericnyc
      I have paid version of Market Samurai. Is there any reason for me to use Traffic Travis, SEO spyglass any others???
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  • Profile picture of the author SEO Genius
    I highly recommend hxxp://serpiq.com
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    • Profile picture of the author TanM
      I use Google Keywords & Market Samurai & recommend them for sure.

      Cheers.
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  • Profile picture of the author Royalking
    If you want to use software to do it then go for Traffic Travis (free version and also paid version are available). It is so easy to use.

    If you want to do it manually then, here is brief walkthrough..

    1. See whether the keyword is in title, description, domain name or url. Check this for all the top 10 results for the keyword. This will give an idea how good the ON page Seo is for that keyword.

    2. Analyze the backlinks of each results and also see whether they are using the keyword as anchor text. The more the number of keyword optimized backlinks, then it is a bit tougher to crack through to page one.

    Here the quality of links also come into picture.
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    • Profile picture of the author ericnyc
      I guess my question is if i am already using market samurai is there any point to use any other software or websites for keyword and competition analysis?
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      • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
        Originally Posted by Graham Maddison View Post

        download a free copy of market samurai and go through their tutorials.
        Horrible idea. They give awful advice for analyzing competition.

        Originally Posted by ericnyc View Post

        I guess my question is if i am already using market samurai is there any point to use any other software or websites for keyword and competition analysis?
        Yes. Market Samurai sucks. Complete POS for analyzing anything.

        What you really want is something that does a good job of analyzing the backlinks of a site. The top 3 are your real competitors. Those are the ones you want to analyze. You also need to be able to look at the site yourself and understand site structure, internal linking, coding issues, etc.
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  • Profile picture of the author Ben West
    I use a combination of SpyFu, SEMRush, MajesticSEO and Ahrefs for my competitor research.
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  • Profile picture of the author Eric Wilson
    Market Samurai is the best tool for keyword analization, its paid but you can use trial
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    • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
      Originally Posted by Eric Wilson View Post

      Market Samurai is the best tool for keyword analization, its paid but you can use trial

      Yep. Because that's right where Market Samurai screws you...
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      • Profile picture of the author Mike Anthony
        Originally Posted by MikeFriedman View Post

        Yep. Because that's right where Market Samurai screws you...
        ROFL....That spelling was like a gift eh mike
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        • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
          Originally Posted by Mike Anthony View Post

          ROFL....That spelling was like a gift eh mike
          I just couldn't let it go...
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