Working on a New SEO Software

Good idea, haven't thought about that one yet.

Based on your "bacon health" keyword I think you still have quite a bit of tuning to do, not sure what you mean with "= ads" though.

Do you see this result at #9 same like me? (though I'm from Thai IP now):

hxxp://www.baconismagic.ca/guest-posts/bacon-is-healthy

It's a PA27 page, boxing with all the PA50+ results, you should ask yourself why that is.

Sometimes it also helps by looking at what ranks at page two, sure we don't care about ranking there but it gives you a much better idea of how the competition is overall in let's say the top 30. Turns out "bacon health" is really not that competitive as you think, those PA50+ pages mostly rank cause there is a lack of relevant results to show. Most seem to miss that part and stare their selves to blind at metrics only. Hence my earlier comment about exception rules.

Moz gives it a keyword difficulty of 54 percent, which is a complete joke.

If it was that competitive then #11 #12 and #13 wouldn't be in the range of PA22-26.

So what I conclude from this is:

- you probably give too much weight to PA / DA
- you give too little weight to relevancy

As for what people might like to see these days are social metrics as well, not that it has any influence on rankings but opinions are divided, personally I give it zero weight in the pre-settings, but the tool will allow people to give it a certain weight if they wish to do so.

Glad to see I'm not the only one.

The synonyms idea is a great one! and the "-" symbol is also a good one which I'm going to add too!

I'm going after a much simpler approach, kind of a add on to other keyword tools. The goal of my software is to crawl and find new keywords and do a simple calculation to see how competitive it is. Once you have a list of words you would go through another keyword tool to make sure its worth pursuing.

I would be very interested in your keyword tool.

Other affiliate sites in the top 10 mean very little these days, most serious affiliate marketers use PBN's to rank their sites and block crawlers, making them look pretty weak to beat but that will disappoint you big time in most cases.

More and more people are also into ranking parasites so to say, as it takes longer to rank new domains, some time ago I even saw someone ranking for SEO service in the top 3 with a thread on this forum, he pointed 1000's of paid links at it.

Funny multiple people keep mentioning it as a weak signal though but wake up it's 2014, not 2008 when those guides were written.

When I launch mine it comes with a free trial for 7 days.

That's one of the reasons why I decided to develop one of my own, I think I can do it a thousand times better then all existing ones, even Moz (a multi million dollar company) can't come up with anything reliable, partly cause it's purely based on their own (far from complete) database of links and for the other part their heavily over weighting of domain authority. Yes I do believe that Amazon and other DA90+ sites have "some" advantage, but it's nowhere near some claim it to be.

They just show up cause there's nothing better to serve, and if Google has to chose from the most irrelevant ones, heck why not chose the ones with the highest authority. Sure Google could fill the page with more relevant results but it also has to keep quality in mind, eg not showing sites from the year 1998 or some crappy shit.

I have a pretty clear idea of how to determine competition but I also have certain ways of building sites.

For example, despite the relative low competiton of "bacon health" you ain't gonna rank for it with a single page website or a single page on a website that covers tons of topics, you do have to have a site dedicated to that topic or at least dedicated to bacon, to compete on the first page.

So for me the keyword competition could be as low as 20 percent, while for others it might be as high as 54 percent like Moz outlines as the competition relates very much to the type of site you plan to build.

That PA27 or something page that showed up, shows up there cause it's a 1000+ site about bacon. A crappy EMD PA27 page most likely wouldn't rank there.

So yeah the final competiton number / percentage relates very much to what you have to offer so maybe the software should have an option to select how many time / how much content you plan to spend on optimizing for the selected keyphrase.

Most use the competition percentage to see how much link juice is needed to rank for such phrase, at least I'm often guilty of that while we all (should) know that it's more then just about links.

Heck Ive had tons of clients that didn't rank anywhere and once they adjusted the site according to my recommendations they popped all of a sudden up in the top 3 out of literally nowhere.

Maybe I should launch it with a disclaimer / site requirements.