Can Someone Tell Me How Hard It Is To Rank For These Keywords?

It will cost you a head and feet

The competition will be insane, please don't bother and waste your time and money on this it's not worth it.

Joel

To aim for keywords that get over 100K searches a month is very ambitious. Particularly if you don't have the experience and/or resources to compete with your competition.

You really should consider going after lower volume (and in most cases, lower competition) keywords.

There's no magic number to aim for, but when starting out targeting keywords with at least 1000 monthly searches is common.

If you were ranked at #1 for each of the keywords (with a combined monthly search volume of 500K), then you could expect around 175K visitors per month or about 5800 visitors per day.

For most people, they wouldn't get a fraction of that sort of traffic.

When you say that you are looking at your competition, how are you determining their keywords have low search volume?

A combined monthly search volume of 10K is more realistic, but would most likely take a lot of effort in your niche.

In regards, to "low competition", that's probably the 2nd biggest keyword research mistake that beginners make. It refers to the Adwords competition and not how difficult it is to rank for that keyword.

Have a read of my article on keyword research mistakes that hopefully will make things a bit clearer.

Have you even checked The Google keyword tool?

here's a suggestion: if you are just using a keyword generation tool, you want to turn those keywords into phrases. "Military" is about as vague a keyword as "dog." Something like "special military ops tactics" - or whatever - is what you need to think about. Niche it down, babe! Niche it down!!!

Check out spyfu to research keywords. It's a great free resource.

The easiest way to check how much competition you'll be up against for a particular keyword phrase is to just search for it on Google.

Overall, what you're looking for a phrase with high search volume (lots of people searching) and low competition (not many search results in Google). That part will get your traffic.

Random example: 12,100 searches per month but only 2,000,000 search results. That would be good.

But there's another, vital, part to this - and that's the money you'll make from AdSense, if that's how you'll monetize the site.

Take a look at the Google search results page for your keyword phrase. Are there lots of AdSense ads? Yes. Good! No? Try thinking of a different phrase. If advertisers aren't bidding on a keyword, you won't get targeted ads on your own site.

People often don't consider that it's the combination of both these factors - being able to rank and the level of advertising - that determines if a keyword target is profitable. Looking at one without the other is a mistake.

Use traffic travis. This is free and you can find the difficulty of your keywords.

Also, anyone care to comment on the "don't try to rank for more than 5 keywords" rule that I was told. Is that a correct strategy? because many of my competitors rank for dozens of keywords, although I am not sure that means they are trying or not.