At how many competing pages I should not start a niche?

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Michel Z.

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I am setting up several niche sites right now & wondering at how many competing pages (Google's count) I can still set up a niche for certain target phrase and when to stay away from it because there is too much competition?
Thanks a lot! :)
 


Are you talking about organic search results?

It isn't really so much about how many results there are as it is about how hard it will be to beat out the top spots.

When you are researching a keyphrase, look at the top 10-20 websites, see check their pagerank, how many links they have, who their links are from, how their pages are optimized, etc. Then you can make a decision on whether or not you can compete.
 
Thanks Beaucreative,

Yes, organic search.
Definetely you are right regarding other things I should look at as well, but on the other hand it also matters if key phrase has only 300.000, 5.000.000 or maybe 20.000.000 search results regarding my opinion! :)
 
MichelZ - I am stuborn and go after niches no matter what! I started a gadget site in Jan. gadgets like laptops cellphones etc. are huge comp. but I get good traffic to them. I don't think comp matters, build a good site and you will be ok! start the site out with pages that hit the long tail and get back links@
 
chrislingle said:
MichelZ - I am stuborn and go after niches no matter what! I started a gadget site in Jan. gadgets like laptops cellphones etc. are huge comp. but I get good traffic to them. I don't think comp matters, build a good site and you will be ok! start the site out with pages that hit the long tail and get back links@
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Thanks Chrislingle!
Yeah, looking into long tail phrases is a good idea... I hear more people saying that that works well! :)

Elixer7,

Thanks for providing us this cool tool!
 
I use the SEOmoz keyword difficulty tool for this. It should give you a pretty good idea of how difficult it will be to rank for a certain keyword or keyword phrase. The reports do take a while to run (30-60 minutes), but the information is worth the wait.
 
cziffra said:
I use the SEOmoz keyword difficulty tool for this. It should give you a pretty good idea of how difficult it will be to rank for a certain keyword or keyword phrase. The reports do take a while to run (30-60 minutes), but the information is worth the wait.
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Looks like a great tool to use! Thanks. :)

PS -

Anyone knows of a tool whereby you can enter several search terms (keywords) at the same time & getting back as a result, search results (Google, Yahoo, etc.) for all entered search terms?

This way you don't have to type each individual search term in Google and wait for number of search results for that particular keyword entered!
 
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