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How would you read these results?

by laurenceh
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One bit of research via google told me one long tail had 26000 sites when searched in qoutes and only 3660 in url so fairly good keyword to chase.

However another one had 1.7 million other sites in quotes but only 1900 in url!!!

I checked this 3 times. Is this worth looking at?

Another similar search gave me a longtail with 534k other sites but only 3000 odd in url so are these kind of results showing me a good keyword to chase or should i read the in quotes searches without url as a warning of too much competetion?
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  • Profile picture of the author Fernando Veloso
    Lauren,

    You need to re-check the first 10 results in G.com.

    Analise them. Links, PR, domain age, etc etc.

    Don't forget you're competing with pages - not websites. IF those pages are really strong... you know, better look another keyword.

    I'll try to find a great post a fellow Warrior made yesterday about this.

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  • Profile picture of the author dburk
    Originally Posted by laurenceh View Post

    One bit of research via google told me one long tail had 26000 sites when searched in qoutes and only 3660 in url so fairly good keyword to chase.

    However another one had 1.7 million other sites in quotes but only 1900 in url!!!

    I checked this 3 times. Is this worth looking at?

    Another similar search gave me a longtail with 534k other sites but only 3000 odd in url so are these kind of results showing me a good keyword to chase or should i read the in quotes searches without url as a warning of too much competetion?
    Hi laurenceh,

    Let clear up a few things for you.

    Google doesn't report the number of "sites" for a keyword, they report the number of pages. Half of those pages might come from a single "site". The number of sites are likely to be a tiny fraction of the number of pages.

    The number of pages that Google reports is a guess based on a relatively small sampling, and in most cases is significantly higher than the actual number. That's why Google uses the word "about" in that sentence.

    The keyword in the URL is a strong indicator that the page in question may be optimized for that keyword, however, you should also check for the keyword in the page title (allintitle: ) and anchor text (inanchor: ) to get an indication of how strong the competition is for your keyword. It doesn't mater if there are 20 or 20 million pages if the relative competitive strength is poor on all but a few.
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