TOTAL competeting pages/sites is irrelevent...

by thetruth23

Posted: 14 years ago 6 replies

...'good' competeting pages/sites should take higher consideration.

Is that fair comment?

#competeting #irrelevent #pages or sites #total

bay37 14 years ago

Originally Posted by thetruth23

...'good' competeting pages/sites should take higher consideration.

Is that fair comment?

The quality of the top 10 sites is all that matters.
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- deloriagod 14 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by bay37
  
  The quality of the top 10 sites is all that matters.
  
  Agreed. If the top 10 all look too difficult to beat, I'd say that's a big no-go.
  
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thetruth23

14 years ago

Cool...that was my point.

So when people start talking about ranking well against 'millions of competeting pages' in a low traffic niche, all I should really be hearing is 'blah blah blah'.

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Steven Carl Kelly

14 years ago

Originally Posted by thetruth23

So when people start talking about ranking well against 'millions of competeting pages' in a low traffic niche, all I should really be hearing is 'blah blah blah'.

I've stated this for years. Not only that, but Google only returns 1,000 results for any normal search, so if your site shows up in the Google results at all, at the most you're competing with 999 other pages.

Quality, not quantity, of competition is the key.

BTW, I've been able to out-rank "tough" sites like Amazon and About.com and the like. So don't just look at page one and read the domains listed under each result and go "aw, that's impossible". Explore each of the pages that come up in the top 10, one by one, and try to determine WHY they're ranked as high as they are for the keywords... then proceed accordingly.

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bay37

14 years ago

Originally Posted by thetruth23

So when people start talking about ranking well against 'millions of competeting pages' in a low traffic niche, all I should really be hearing is 'blah blah blah'.

Yup. It's just a marketing "trick", nothing more.

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- searchnology 14 years ago
  
  Another way to think about this is to realize that if the top 10 results are heavy hitters(high pagerank, huge number of backinks) then those on the second page of SERPs are not far behind. There usually isn't a severe drop-off regarding strength of SEO. Therefore the first 10 give you an indication of the strength of the sites thereafter as well.
  
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