Oh my god! Did you know this?!

Did you know that this number does NOT show keyword competition on Google?!

In fact it doesn't show anything AT ALL!!!

Read this and let's discuss it here!

Do you agree?

 

I don't see the issue here, nobody cares about those keywords

 

I have always thought this number stands for the number of pages Google finds RELEVANT to your search query. Correct me if I am wrong

 

Of course it shows the pages with that word on it - where on earth did you get the idea that it shows the pages that have been 'optimised' for it?
There's no 'lie' involved - you just made a mistaken assumption.

 

You are right. But this guy is talking about competition for that keyword. That is a good article out there.

 

Well I think I have commented on it in this forum before but you can always read my blog post on the subject to see my views in full.

 

It's not that shocking at all. All of the people here knows about it. That's why there are some keyword suggestion tools to provide you what's competitive keywords and how many users searching for that keyword.

 

Which Keyword You Search in Google. Search in google.com Home

 

yes they don't mean nothing at all, they are just the total estimated number of pages that has the words search in the copy, title, links, and domain. lol

 

it's not about the competitors but it basically shows the no of pages where google have found the word you typed as keyword. So they could be termed as competitor but not all of them.

 

I've always understood this figure to represent the number of pages that G. knows about that use the search query in some form - content, titles, metas etc.

For competition analysis I would usually focus upon sites and pages that are returned on page #1 and then analyse those in some detail wrt. backlinks, content, indexed pages, structure etc. etc.

 

Hey but its quite fair....I dont think so that for this you have to be shocked like this...?

 

Well in a way they are competition for whatever term you have typed in, as even if someone hasn't optimised for something they can still rank for it.

I'm getting outranked currently by a pr9 site that is a huge authority, purely because they've mentioned my search term in one of their pages. The word doesnt even really make sense where they have used it.

But it is an awful way to judge competition for seo purposes still. I have some some amateur seo's using it as a pricing guide. Really the best way to judge competition is to type your targetted term into google and look at the top 20 results, how strong they are and their backlinks. Anyone outwith the top 20 aren't your competition anyway.

 

I agree that it is just the total number of pages that Google shows in their Index that match the Key phrase that you just searched on.

 

You are absolutely correct.

 

Nothing interest since those all keywords are ignore by most search engine.
Why a SEO Expert surprise about that?

 

I m getting confused now here, Isn't that number shows the competitions for that keyword?
So if that doesn't shows the pages that been "Optimized" for, then how we find what keyword it has been optimized for with that result?

Can any1 care to explain and solve my miss-interpretation.


Thanks

 

This is a great attempt at suckering in people with no idea about SEO. The, a, an, of... these are what are called stop words. when used in a search phrase... "Top of the Hill" many search engines will throw these words out, or weigh them extremely low. Besides, WHO SEARCHES "AND"?

While it is true this number does not give an accurate description of the serious competitors for a keyword, i.e. number of page titles, they are competitors. they are infact ranking for a search phrase and are therefore competitors. It just means that a majority of them can probably be crushed just by putting your keyword in the title tag.

 

Google has no interest in showing you 'competition'. Google exists for searchers, not 'webmasters'
The results shown are the number of pages it's found with that keyword. In a sense, as others have said, they are the competion in as much as you have to beat them to be no.1.
But the vast majority of those pages are not intentionally targeting that keyword.

 

I did not know that. I thought they showed how many search queries for that keyword. Thanks for the info.