researching competition to rank for keywords

[MentalyDisturbd]

I want to create an ebay phpbay store in a particular niche. I'm doing some keyword research and checking how many competitors for the keywords I want to rank for.

Can you check with phrase match?

The keyword tool at SEO book says this phrase gets 350 searches a day.

If I check Google with phrase match there's only 177,000 search results.

If I check Google with broad match I get 13,000,000 search results.

If I do it right would I be able to rank for that phrase with phrase match? Or would I be competing with the same people in the broad results?


Thanks

 

[multicolorguru]

Ok lets hope the fuckers let me finally post

I have no idea what SEO book is, but sounds like you checked the phrasematch for searches. Anyways, if you target the phrase match, you will rank for the phrase match (against thoose 177,000 other results with 350 searches a day) as well as for the broad match.

Keep in mind though thoose numbers are not exactly perfect to start with. getting on page 1 for 177,000 results takes some time or resources.

 

[MentalyDisturbd]

Ok lets hope the fuckers let me finally post

I have no idea what SEO book is, but sounds like you checked the phrasematch for searches. Anyways, if you target the phrase match, you will rank for the phrase match (against thoose 177,000 other results with 350 searches a day) as well as for the broad match.

Keep in mind though thoose numbers are not exactly perfect to start with. getting on page 1 for 177,000 results takes some time or resources.

Thanks, I appreciate the answer. Also, 177K results isn't much is it? I thought I've seen many people say anything less than 1 million is good, less than 500K is very good and less than 100K is excellent.

 

[jdprgm]

Hey use this tool: GTrends Tool From Wordtracker it's freaking amazing for keyword research. And 177k for a phrase match is really high. Your going to want less then 30k if you want to be able to get on the first page somewhat easily. Unless you spend some cash or a lot of time it will be pretty difficult for your phrase it sounds like. But check out that tool. Good luck!