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how to check keyword competition?

by myweddingcaketoppers
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how to check keyword competition?
#check #competition #keyword
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    • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
      Originally Posted by BodoKachari87 View Post

      You can check how many pages compete for a particular keyword if you go to Google and enter this word there.
      That tells you nothing.

      Purple giraffes with yellow elephant balls shows 30 million results. Do you really think that 30 million pages are competing for that keyword?

      Originally Posted by BodoKachari87 View Post

      Also, there are lots of seo tools that lets you not only check competition for a particular keyword, but also run more detailed analysis of its ranking potential.

      For example, you can use google keyword planner: https://adwords.google.com/ko/KeywordPlanner/Home
      The Keyword Planner tells you NOTHING about the SEO competition. It only gives you an estimate of the competition among AdWords advertisers. Nothing else.


      Every single keyword has the same number of competitors. Three. That's it. The top 3 sites are your competition.
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    • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
      Originally Posted by Roy Jones View Post

      Google adwords can help you to check the keyword competition
      No it cannot. It only provides the competition for AdWords advertisers. It tells you nothing about the level of competition for trying to rank a keyword.
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      • Profile picture of the author Ilias
        By analysing the top 10 google results of this keyword and you can use moz.com for that
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      • Profile picture of the author Ilias
        Originally Posted by MikeFriedman View Post

        No it cannot. It only provides the competition for AdWords advertisers. It tells you nothing about the level of competition for trying to rank a keyword.
        Exactly, google adwords allows you to check only the advertisers competition
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  • Profile picture of the author dinkO14
    Google keyoword planner can be used for keyword research, but not for checking competition. You can check keyword competition taking a look at first page at google - it's the best way.
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  • Profile picture of the author mbah owl
    You can use this tools:
    Serpattack.com or ahrefs.com
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  • Profile picture of the author linkassistant
    Originally Posted by myweddingcaketoppers View Post

    how to check keyword competition?
    No software will really do that for you, SEO software can only provide data which you can then use for analysis.

    As Ilias said, you need to look into the top 10 (or maybe a few more) competitors.

    Analyze their websites (site structure, page titles, headings, page content), take a look at their backlinks, etc. Basically, you need to figure out what makes them rank in the top 10.

    The sheer number of pages returned for a query won't tell you anything.
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  • Profile picture of the author koubain
    I use ahrefs.com and market samurai
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  • Profile picture of the author stodog77
    Check out: www.serpiq.com

    Analyzes the top ten, gives CI score (competition index), with a all kinds of other goodies. Def one of my favorites.
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  • Profile picture of the author Myheavens
    I always Check Competition with this Search Query in Google : allintitle:keyword here.

    It will tell you how many pages have been around for that keyword. Lesser the Good.
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  • Profile picture of the author JJPerkins
    Yes, it depends on whether you are talking organic competition or PPC?
    Googles Keyword Planner competition only refers to the number of people bidding for that keyword in adwords.

    For testing organic competion on a keyword the main tool is your brain.
    Google the keyword, check the top ten sites, their PR, DA & PA, age, number of backlinks, anchor text of their top backlinks, amount & quality of the content on the page, is it an inner page or home domain, authority site or little blog, how many YouTube videos are in the results, etc, etc.

    Of course there are plenty of good keyword tools that can give you a rough idea of competitiveness, but nothing beats using your eyes and what's between your ears for figuring out if you can rank or not.
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  • Profile picture of the author a2hosting
    WordTracker actually offers a score for how competitive a keyword is. I would certainly recommend checking that tool out.
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