During searching for suitable keywords for my new blog I found some classified as 'low competition keywords' but their results are over 500.000! For example, look at this keyword in Adwords suggestion tool: football field dimensions It is 'low competition keyword' but when I google it there are about 524.000 results! Some of these results have the exact keyword in their titles, so I think the competition must be so high, not low at all. Can anyone explain it to me? Thanks.
It depends on the page/domain authority of the sites. Maybe their links profile are weak. If its really a low competition keyword, you should be able to rank if you do a good link building campaign for your site.
I'd personally consider 524,000 as low competition. High competition keywords doesn't only have results in millions, but very strong top ranking pages too.
Yes, I see but do you think that a totally new site or blog can beat 524000 results to appear in the 1st page of Google? I will try to establish as many backlinks as I can but it needs very long duration to overcome this low competition!
500,000 results is no big deal. One of my sites was competing against 200,000,000 other sites when I first brought it up and I had a spot on page 1 pretty quick (within weeks) and sat there for some time. I got hit with a penalty for something though and a lot of sites got de-indexed (or something changed) so I'm still up against 160,000,000 results and creeping my way back to the top (on page 2 again now). I would personally consider anything under 2,000,000 results to be low competition unless the top 10 is littered with authority sites (especially .edu's).
Thank you for sharing your experience Philoon. It is really interesting and useful to me. It's better to trust Google Suggestion Tool so I'll give it a try.
I'd personally consider 524,000 as low competition. High competition keywords doesn't only have results in millions, but very strong top ranking pages too.
If you're using Google Adwords Keyword Tool then the competition it is referring to has to do with advertiser competition, not how many people organically try to rank for the keywords. It only means it is not a highly competitive word in PPC - i.e. wouldn't cost you a lot to bid on those KWs. Again, nothing to do with organic competition. -e
I've found that the total results has very little to do with the actual competition in terms of getting on page 1 . It depends on the intensity of marketing if they are .gov's, edu's , org's and rank of other pages already there. and how hard some people are working those terms. A lot of results may just mean there are a lot of people creating site with those terms in it.. but not necessarily working those terms to rank or profit
Have you used SEO plugin for firefox to see what are the PR of the sites, this can tell you if you are wasting your time.