This is too easy. I must be missing something.

15 years ago

If you are analyzing everything correctly, then it looks like you found some good easy to rank for keywords. I have noticed in a lot of cases that the competition isn't quite as steep as some may think. A lot of people only look at the search numbers and the number of competitors ranking for that term, and this only gives you part of the picture. Even if you have a ton of competition for a certain search term, if they are not properly optimized and promoted then you should be able to beat them pretty easily. I have built sites for clients in fairly competitive niches, and they blew most of their competition away with very little work just because we built the site with wordpress.

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deloriagod

15 years ago

It sounds to me like you might have just found some easy keywords to rank. I don't personally worry much about a websites PR when I look at my competition unless there's a chance it could be an authority site (which would be more of a challenge to beat). Check out your competitions' domain ages as well. Older domains generally get a little boost for age.

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tdj 15 years ago

I would check the title, description, and h1 tag for the keyword when analyzing competition. You may want to check the number of backlinks and also if it is a TLD you are competing against.

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awtprod

15 years ago

Thanks everyone for the responses!

Originally Posted by deloriagod

It sounds to me like you might have just found some easy keywords to rank. I don't personally worry much about a websites PR when I look at my competition unless there's a chance it could be an authority site (which would be more of a challenge to beat). Check out your competitions' domain ages as well. Older domains generally get a little boost for age.

Some of them are quite old but the domain that I am using has been around for a couple of years. Also, I don't think any of them are authority sites for the keywords.

Originally Posted by tdj

I would check the title, description, and h1 tag for the keyword when analyzing competition. You may want to check the number of backlinks and also if it is a TLD you are competing against.

Todd

I'm using market samurai to do that? Should actually go to the sites and check that?

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redbearing

15 years ago

Congrats, it looks like you've found an easy & good topic to rank for. Go for it!

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Xmas

15 years ago

Gosh, if only he had mentioned the keywords...

Well, I will continue my search.

I have not been paying attention to a couple of the points you made. I thank you for those. I found an awesome keyword with huge traffic and low comp pages 500k range.

I bet if I analyze all the page one sites I can rank easily on page one.

Thanks for the information.

Now I have some work to do.

I recently ranked on the first page of Google for my name. Usually that is not too difficult I have been told. But my name brings up 58 million pages.

I was pretty happy with that. Been there a couple weeks now. I have done nothing. Nothing to it. Yet anyway.

If nothing else it is fun top get on the first page of Google. Probably why I like Internet Marketing.

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Steven Carl Kelly

15 years ago

18,000 or 18,000,000, it doesn't really matter -- your "competition" is for spots 1-10. Besides, if you show up in the search results at all, the MOST number of pages you're ever competing against is 999.

Judge your competition on quality, not quantity. And if you've found competition you can beat for the top 10 and the keywords are buying keywords, then you've found yourself something worth going after.

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FrankBowman

15 years ago

Originally Posted by Steven Carl Kelly

18,000 or 18,000,000, it doesn't really matter -- your "competition" is for spots 1-10. Besides, if you show up in the search results at all, the MOST number of pages you're ever competing against is 999.

Judge your competition on quality, not quantity. And if you've found competition you can beat for the top 10 and the keywords are buying keywords, then you've found yourself something worth going after.

The most concise and on the money post I've read in a long time. Its all about the 10 spots on the first page. If you feel you can seo your site better than they have, then screw the competition numbers and go for it.