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Weighing up competition

by Dimebag
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If the first page competitors only have the keyword in their page title tags and not in the url, does this automatically leave a large opening in getting ranked for the term? Only the first result displays the keyword in both the title tags and the URL.

Thanks in advance
#competition #weighing
  • Profile picture of the author Thumoney
    No, not neccessarely. There are other factors to check, for instance the number and quality of backlinks thoses top sites have.
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    • Profile picture of the author Dimebag
      Would I be right in thinking that back links to the actual page in question hold a lot more weight than domain backlinks, I am using market samurai and I seem to be noticing a pattern.
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  • Profile picture of the author SaSeoPete
    Hey Dimebag, yeah it's called pagerank because the big G ranks pages rather that websites. I like to use SeoQuake - extension for Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox browsers to analyise the competition for any given keyword.

    I think most importantly though, you must check out WHO is ranking for a keyword that you are trying to rank for. For example, if it is Amazon, Ebay and other big hitters you are going to have a hard time beating them. However if you see ezinearticles and squidoo lenses in the Serps, they will be much easier to outrank.

    Pete
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