In Google if I do a search with phrase match, I get 1,550,000 search results. Broad match has 1,720,000. With quality content, and link building how hard do you think it would be rank in the top 10 on google?This is my first site I'm trying to SEO, I know the niche is profitable since I'm running this on PPC and I built the site around the converting keywords. Just not sure if I should go through with this investment. The only way I see I could end up losing would be if I couldn't get into the top 10.
how many search results is considered non-competitive?
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It depends how good you are, and how much time/money you want to spend in your efforts.
For some people 1.7 mill is a breeze. For some, it's borderline impossible.
Well this is my first attempt at SEO but, I was promoting this offer on PPC and am doing pretty well and from the keyword conversion data I created this blog targetting this niche. I started a blog/website type thing back in October and since I'm new to SEO thought that a months worth of content and a 1000 backlink package would be enough to rank. I'm ranking for some long tail phrases, had the blog indexed and ranking for keywords within a week. 5 months later I'm seeing that I'm not ranking for the phrase that I wanted which is what's bringing in my PPC conversions. So, I'm wondering if I should continue the project, it's going to cost me to continue this and am trying to figure out if I can rank for the search term I'm wanting. I just don't want to put in all this money and not be able to rank. I've only had 3 comments on this blog but, they have all been positive, people want "me" to return and write more content. I've had 1700 uniques since October and I've only made $40. Where as on PPC I've made about $20K since last June.
How can I find out how many backlinks the site has, just type the url in yahoo? or use link: url? do I type http://www. or do I just type the domain name.comthanks
HahaHa This is quite funny. It really does not matter if the niche is profitable. It is if your results in the niche will be profitable.
Toyota thinks the car industry is profitable. GM hates it currently....
PPC is good for tough industries with decent CPC. SEO is about low hanging fruit.
Find something easier. See if you can get results in that. If you can try something harder. You need at least 2 not so common words in your phrase, maybe 3.
If I type link:http://domain for the top site at #1 in yahoo it opens up yahoo explorer and I get Inlinks (1,970) Pages (4,838)
It really depends.
Analyzing the first 10 results is a good idea.
There was some article (blog post/ forum post... I don't remember) that said something along the lines of
"If the first results are wikipedia antries and private homepages, go for it, as obviously, stuff a few nerds write down in a wiki is considered good enough."
If you find the first 10 are HUUUGE sites driven by world class SEO efforts... ya might want to rethink your strategy.
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Analyzing the first 10 results is a good idea.
There was some article (blog post/ forum post... I don't remember) that said something along the lines of
"If the first results are wikipedia antries and private homepages, go for it, as obviously, stuff a few nerds write down in a wiki is considered good enough."
If you find the first 10 are HUUUGE sites driven by world class SEO efforts... ya might want to rethink your strategy.
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You could do a Intitle:"your keywords" Google search to see how many results come up.
Your competition, real competition will most likely optimize their page titles with the keywords you're aiming for.
So even though you say the results in "" is 1,550,000, it doesn't mean that is the amount of pages you're competing with.
Doing a Intitle:"your keywords" Google search gives you a better idea how many pages are competing against you.
Then you can do a Inanchor:"your keywords" Google search to see how many times these keywords are used in a anchor backlink, where the keywords are the link to a page and take that in comparison with the amount of the Intitle searches.
If the amount of Inanchor results are far less then the Intitle results, then for me personally it's a sign...depending on the number of results on both type of searches (Intitle & Inanchor) it's not so competitive.
But this is something you need to determine on your own, for some people creating a X amount of backlinks with anchor text of choice isn't a problem, perhaps for you it is.
So you have to weigh that into your decision if it's going to be to competitive for you.
Your competition, real competition will most likely optimize their page titles with the keywords you're aiming for.
So even though you say the results in "" is 1,550,000, it doesn't mean that is the amount of pages you're competing with.
Doing a Intitle:"your keywords" Google search gives you a better idea how many pages are competing against you.
Then you can do a Inanchor:"your keywords" Google search to see how many times these keywords are used in a anchor backlink, where the keywords are the link to a page and take that in comparison with the amount of the Intitle searches.
If the amount of Inanchor results are far less then the Intitle results, then for me personally it's a sign...depending on the number of results on both type of searches (Intitle & Inanchor) it's not so competitive.
But this is something you need to determine on your own, for some people creating a X amount of backlinks with anchor text of choice isn't a problem, perhaps for you it is.
So you have to weigh that into your decision if it's going to be to competitive for you.
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