After reading the first page of the Bum Marketing Method from Travis. I do not understand or have been doing this wrong. In the first rule on keywords. Travis has a example on "Dog Training" The exact term with quotes "Dog Training" has 8M or so results in competing pages. The modified term with quotes "how to train your dog to stop barking" that only has 600 or so competing pages. The problem I have with understanding this is: He never states that the term "how to train your dog to stop barking" has to be actually being searched. Dog training is easy. I know without looking some is searching for that term. All it shows is the changes from the first term compared to the second term and the difference in competing pages. Shouldn't the second term "how to train your dog to stop barking" have someone searching for this exact term? He makes it out like it has no relevance. As long as you use the Dog Training in the phrase. If anyone can help me understand I would sure appreciate it... Thanks
Yes, of course, someone has to be searching for it, so type "dog training" into a keyword tool such as Google Keyword tool, or perhaps word tracker: https://adwords.google.co.uk/select/KeywordToolExternal http://freekeywords.wordtracker.com/ and look down the list and check the competitiveness of some of the longer tail keywords - find one that gets searched for enough, and is uncompetitive..
Thanks for the help. I thought I was doing this wrong all this time. Have you read this report? Can you tell the full meaning of uncompetitive in your terms. Everyone has a different view. I know the better your blog is ranked the more you can compete with. Lets say competitive for a new blog in your terms.
I dont think there is really a magic number, it just varies so much - my magic number would be different to yours in terms of the "competition level magic number" you seek. Just get started, experiment, and actually see how things get ranked for yourself, but starting a new WP blog or any new website you won't really rank for a month, and probably not very well for 2-3, but again all depends on the competitiveness and how much work you put in
I guess putting two questions in one was a bad thing. Lets say I'm not worried about the rank. I just thought the competitiveness was determined by the amount of pages returned? So if I choose a keyword phrase that is searched 500 times a month and it only has 1000 pages competitors would it be ok to run with? That is the numbers I'm looking at. The marketing method states: not to go over 5000 but needs to be over 1000 competitors. Is that a good range to run with?
Keyword in quotes? Thats not the right way to do keyword research..you need to check the stats on sites ranking on first page, checkout their PR, kind of content ,backlinks they have...download a free tool called traffic travis.
Thanks, As lost as I am, after everyone and their brother telling me to check my comp by using quotes. I'm now on the verge of choking myself. Which may be the best way out. But not until I blow some of this equipment up, into pieces. Thanks for your help. I must now leave for ever on this one.