SERPs vs competition stats

Irprofanic

Irprofanic

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So I'm getting started I made my first page and after a day or two realized how many things I'd screwed up. But I learned my lesson and I'm doing more research at this point. I've read a lot of advice and anything on this has eluded me thus far. I've found a micro niche that with high cpc and low competition on google under 100 BLD and BLP in 6 results top 2 are all green except for domain age at 15 and 16 (kinda scares me but gonna overlook that). But when i search the term on google there's 128 million pages. As easy as it looks like it would be to surpass the front page competition. I'm kind of weary of the amount of pages in the serps. Anybody got an opinion on this?
 


"But when i search the term on google there's 128 million pages"
dont worry about that. with a right seo and right website, u can pass that.
"I've found a micro niche"
Why dont u make your site a bigger site for that niche? an authority one, not a micro niche one? that way it would be easier to cross things.
 
Considering it's a micro niche in the health field, I don't really want to go any higher than this longtail. Granted I am doing research on other keywords in the niche but a lot of them seem to be dominated by .gov sites with pr 7/6 and things of that nature. I am looking into making an authority site just trying to get a grasp of the basics firsthand. It does get a decent amount of hits though and the CPC isn't bad.
 
Irprofanic said:
Considering it's a micro niche in the health field, I don't really want to go any higher than this longtail. Granted I am doing research on other keywords in the niche but a lot of them seem to be dominated by .gov sites with pr 7/6 and things of that nature. I am looking into making an authority site just trying to get a grasp of the basics firsthand. It does get a decent amount of hits though and the CPC isn't bad.
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It's okay to go after longtail. But you want the Main first.

Let's say a Main gets you 100 visits a month, but 100 other long tails get you 1 each. This is extremely valuable. Why?

It's much easier for general traffic from your main to rank your page, while the long tails are probably more conversions, all things being equal (because they are very targeted traffic).

In other words, having a Main and some Longtails exponentially increases the visibility of your page.

If you REALLY want to focus your longtail, just subdomain it.
 
I hadn't even thought of that. Just looking at 15k searches per month for general traffic would be pretty hard. There's really no clear niche above it I can see it fitting into but I'll brainstorm on it gotta be something out there. Thanks emp and c4

On another note I'm using market samurai and this shit takes years to analyze competition or keywords. Any recommended keyword tools. (I've looked through most of the stickies and couldn't find a link that wasn't outdated or dead)
 
c4yrslf12 said:
It's okay to go after longtail. But you want the Main first.

Let's say a Main gets you 100 visits a month, but 100 other long tails get you 1 each. This is extremely valuable. Why?

It's much easier for general traffic from your main to rank your page, while the long tails are probably more conversions, all things being equal (because they are very targeted traffic).

In other words, having a Main and some Longtails exponentially increases the visibility of your page.

If you REALLY want to focus your longtail, just subdomain it.
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On the other hand if you lose your rankings for that one short tail, you lose pretty much all your traffic. You are unlikely to lose rankings for all your long tails (unless you have been slapped/ algo-fucked).

Safer to rank for 10 longtails with 300 traffic than 1 short with 3000. Also IMO much easier. Short tail will build in time.
 
So far most of the short tails i've researched have some high PR .gov sites ranking along with a bunch of the long tails too. I'm gonna follow CCarters brand site guide on the safest short tail I can find and sub domain the long tail. I'm starting on no capital though so outsourcing to fiverr is out of the question.
 
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