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Confused with SEO, keyword research, and Google Keyword Planner

by bigfoot875
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I am trying to find an answer to what happens if all keywords in the world were to run out and there is nothing but competition left. Is it even possible for all niches to be high in competition at once? In other words, in the future, wouldn't there be nothing but competition because all the keywords are taken up? Would everyone stop marketing then? Hmmmm... how does this all work?

I am also still trying to figure out exactly what I am supposed to be looking for when searching for keywords.

I used the Google Keyword Planner to generate related keyword ideas about the topic of "weight loss"

They have the "competition" and "avg monthly searches", and "suggested bid". "Ad impr. share" - I haven't seen anything with that, it stays at 0 all the time.

Then I type most keywords in Google and get results in the millions. Does that mean that those keywords are not worth it? I tried using "allintitle:" and the quotes around many of the keywords, but most of them still had a high number of results.

I bought Market Samarai a few days ago, and I am using both Google Keyword Planner and Market Samarai for keyword research. One of my books suggested using the SEOTC and SEOT as a valid indicator of a good keyword. I also installed SEO for Chrome and SEO for Firefox today to find out the PageRank for the top links. One of my books told me to automate Y! Links, PR, and Alexa Rankings - but there was no Y! Links with SEO Firefox. There was only PR and Alexa, and a bunch of others.

I'm reading Mike Omar's book "How to Make Money Online -learn how to make money from home with my step-by-step plan to build a $5000 per month passive income website portfolio (of 10... each)". He says that a PageRank of higher than 4 is not worth competing for. Looking at the search results, I see that the websites with the page ranks are not in order. Like the 1st result in Google has a PR of 4 and the 2nd link has a PR of 5. Shouldn't they all be in order?

I'm confused....
#confused #google #keyword #planner #research #seo
  • Profile picture of the author SASA Techno
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    • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
      It sounds like you are confused because you are following advice from people who have no clue what they are talking about.

      First of all, the number of results in the Google index has nothing to do with how competitive a keyword is. That is garbage advice that has been rehashed for the past 10 years or so. If anyone tells you to use that, you should stop listening to everything else they have to say. They have no idea what they are doing.

      big breasted amazonian donkeys returns over 4 million results. Do you really think there are 4 million websites competing for that keyword?

      Every single keyword has the exact same number of competitors... 3. That's it. Anywhere from 75-90% of the traffic for any given phrase goes to the top 3 websites listed in the search results. You need to determine if you can beat them or not. #4 through 4 million do not matter.

      As for you question about PageRank... PR is an indicator of the quality of incoming links to a page. It plays a role in rankings, but a fairly small one. I really would not look at PR much at all when determining the level of competition for a keyword. A webpage could have a PR 5, but have very few of its links really targeting a given keyword. Otherwise, the first 10 pages of every search would be nothing but PR 10 websites like Facebook.

      Analyze the incoming backlinks. That will give you more insight.

      And honestly, if it is not too late, I would get a refund on Market Samurai. It's just hype. Not really very useful.
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  • Profile picture of the author seekdefo
    Everytime a new product comes out there are keywords that are born and so no problem with keywords. Find some tutorials on each of those things
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  • Profile picture of the author Moneymaker2012
    Seekdefo is right, There are highly targetted keywords added when we have a new cateogry product, that's why keyword research tools are so popular and important, what ever you hesitation is, if you use a good keyword tool you will find good keywords.
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