How hard would it be to rank for this keyword...

How hard would it be to rank for this keyword: "cat foods" without quotes.

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THANKS a MILLION!

Add: keywords are in the domain.

 

It all depends on the site - the actual name, the age, PR (quality of backlinks). Although "cat foods" isn't real competitive, "cat food" is (and with stemming in google) - it's going to be difficult to not possible (for a new site). When you say "rank" I am assuming you are talking about the top ten, because anything lower isn't going to bring much traffic. You're competing against PR5 - PR7 sites - authority sites like Purina.

 

Yeah I know cat food is going to be out of the picture (for right now) but "cat foods" seems like it can be done and still gets some traffic.

 

very competitive keyword

 

Just to make it clear... I am talking about: "cat foods" and not "cat food"

 

"cat foods" would be easy to rank for. "cat food" is a different story.

 

But google uses stemming, which means it is going to return sites that target "cat food" when you search for "cat foods".

 

Then why are the search results totally different?

 

They don't appear "totally different" on my search, although you can variances in positioning and results. The first 6 search results for both keyword include:

purina.com
consumersearch.com
about.com

Take a look at the top ten search results for whatever keyword you want to target, that is your competition. This is going to be a difficult keyword to rank in the top ten for unless you have an established site with a lot of authority links. No one can give you an exact answer on how much time is going to be involved - most of the success is going to be based on your ability to get authority links - not some link exchanges or submitting to free directories. If you own "catfoods.xxx" it will certainly make it easier.

Domain name
Age of Domain
Quality of Backlinks

 

I own catfoodsreviews.com

I want to focus on three keywords:

cat food review
cat food reviews
cat foods

Thanks for the info.

 

Competition around 4730- Easy (4/10) where 8.5 is "SEO"

Check here http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&...hor:"cat+foods"&btnG=Search&cts=1238730845412

 

Thanks.... I also noticed when you take the "s" out it jumps up to 154,000 which makes sense.

 

According to Google, in the USA the monthly searches are:

cat food 550,000 montlhy searches
cat foods 49,500
dry cat food 33,100
canned cat food 27,100
cat food natural 22,200
diet cat food 22,200

https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal

I guess you should go for CAT FOOD

Irs hard, but no THAT much.
In my experience, usually keywords are harder depending on the number of montlhy searches. 550,00 is a nice number, but not THAT biger as many others.

 

If you take monthly searches as the criterion then "cat food" is much tougher than it looks, much much tougher.

 

I think you should go for a long tail keyword than cat food because this keyword takes alot of effort so try to get the traffic from similar long tail keywords...

 

"In my experience"

In your "experience", just how many of your sites ranks in the top ten for a keyword with 550,000 searches? I'll bet the number is just short of zero.

 

You are right. But I feel he made a typo or is too novice. He once said that the search count was 550,000 and at the bottom he said 550,00. Must be typo I feel.

 

I think "cat food" is too abroad. At least 3 words to make it awesome.

 

Im not making a debate on this, just want to help.
But according to Google info, on March this was the searches:

cat food 673,000
cats food 74,000
dry cat food 49,500 ...
cat foods 12,100

 

I changed cat food for another keyword (sportsbetting in another language) and my website is listed 5th with 2,280 results. Does that mean anything at all?