How many results in google for your keywds do you consider too much competition?

When you search with the overture keyword tool for potential keywords you can use, how much results in google for these keywords do you consider too much competition?

 

Personally I believe actual number of results plays a very small part is trying to figure out the actual competitiveness of a word. There are something like 10-15 factors that determine it.

Randfish has a great tool which can assess this

Read here for Dazzlin Donna comprehensive explanation:
http://www.seo-scoop.com/direct_link.cfm?thepost=205

 

That depends on so many factors. I normally use Keyword Difficulty Tool at http://www.seomoz.org/tools/keyword-difficulty-tool.php

I'd suggest you take a look at this handy tool.

 

Great too,

Do you use it yourself?

Greetz

Smetten

 

Yep. http://www.seo-scoop.com/direct_link.cfm?thepost=205 That is a rather old post by DD. This tool has been re-developed by Matt with a whole new interface, extra analysis of search data etc. It is worth trying...

 

Is it normal that it takes a while before I get the results?
Whats the average time you have to wait for the results of this 'on first sight' great tool?

 

I used this tool for a VERY competitive keyword and it took 06 minutes, 46 seconds. It is worth it in my opinion.

 

It takes like already half an hour, guess I did something wrong then...
Wanna try again but the tool says i have a report still running, so it´s impossible to run another one.

Greetz

 

Sorry about that, gang. It should be fixed and ready to run now - we've been regularly running 200+ per day with 90-95% working flawlessly. However, today, Alexa's API interface has been going wacko, so that could be a problem. Hopefully they'll have it fixed soon.

 

I really don't think that there should be a limit to which terms you are going for. You can set your goals as high as you want. While you are reaching for it, you are most likely going to start ranking for many targeted smaller terms. I think that it's a good idea to focus long term and just go for it.
Set a goal and start building. If you do things right and keep at it, you may be surprised one day over what you actually are able to rank for.

 

IMHO start by a longer keyword with less competition. And after gaining much needed experience and ranking, you can try those more competitive ones.

That is what I am doing now