I have been working on a website for the last 6 months and got nowhere with it because it was a lot more competitive than I thought it was. So now I want to go back to doing low comp keywords and getting them ranked quickly to get my confidence up. I'm not fussed right now on how much traffic they bring in I just want to see something I did on the first page of google. The last website I did before the one I just give up on had incredibly low competition and all my pages ranked on the first page of google in a couple of weeks without any back links The trouble with that one was it was just an informative site. There where no buying ads no incentive to click etc so it was also very low paying. With my last website I therefore wanted something higher paying so did it around a product which turned out to be very competitive. Anyway so now I am going to try and get the balance right by finding low comp keywords in a high paying area it will be technology/computing since I am doing a degree in the subject. I plan to record all my data in excel and look at it after and hopefully some useful information will emerge that will help in identifying low comp keywords for certain. I will be building a blog in blogspot to see how this goes and may experiment with different niches. I will pick keywords that have low intitle:"" and low inanchor:"" searches and record other things such as search results, competition etc. I will not be doing a big back linking process because the point of these low keywords is to rank as easily and quickly possible takes too much time and can easily go wrong. I will only do a couple of rewrites of an article for backlinks at ezine hub pages etc. I will also ping the article when it is done and social post it. I started the website this week and have 5 keywords/articles done. They aren't ranking yet but my blog is in google when you type the address in
Just an update I have got ten keywords/ articles done and social bookmarked them to a few sites. Still nothing in the search results because this is still only the first week. I will write another ten articles/keywords because 20 pages is the max on blogger. After that will do more bookmarking and start rewriting the articles for back links to each page.
Hi, Could please show your website on this post, i think you need to make some changes in your website page and meta tags as well. As you saying you working on some keywords, is they present in your page content or meta tags, because if you do not have proper keywords density and useful content. it will always very difficult to work on them. Good luck and let me know if you need any help.
yes I have decided not to share my website at this stage because of competition issues. I know how to optimize a web page. I think the most important thing is to pick the correct keywords which is what my experiment is aimed to help me improve because I have wasted so much time recently targeting short tail keywords that turned out to be very competitive which can mean never ranking for the keyword in the first place, giving up because it takes so much time, an intense big back linking process which I personally hate on top of this they are high risk why risk so much time and effort into few keywords that may not even pay out as much as you think or even get to the top of google. When I first started doing IM I was able to rank for low competitive keywords with few problems however my problem then was they weren't getting enough searches because I wasn't using exact search so now I want to get the perfect balance between the two. Update. I have got about 14 articles/keywords done. None of them are in google yet besides the home page when you type the address in. It has only been ten days and no back links yet so I will give it another week until I start building links to my pages hopefully then I will start to see some results in google.
Update: Hello again I have decided to do another update. It has been about two weeks since I created my testing blog. Since then I have created 18 articles/keywords which have basic on page optimisation. I have pinged each article and submitted it to a few social bookmark sites. My home page appears in google index but only when you type the full address in. I was hoping to have had a few organic visits but nothing so far but its still early days. None of my pages can be found in google for their keywords yet. So now I am moving on to my back linking phase. The point of picking low comp keywords is to rank quickly and highly; spending a lot of time on this will be defeating the purpose so I will only do a handful of articles linking to each page on my site, I will also social post and ping each article and if I come across any forum or blogs where I could post links I will. Each of my articles will be unique and relevant to the content that I am linking to; they will also be targeting ultra low comp low search (or high if possible) keywords for extra traffic.
Some data: Ok Im still in the process of creating back links to all my articles/keywords so in the mean time I thought I would look over keywords from other websites I done and post some data. A single keyword I done ages ago- it is a product gets 480 exact searches a month(low I know but at the time I wasn't using Exact search) I have ranked number two for that keyword for ages and haven't touched it in years. I did a total of 16 article back links I think it was, as well as yahoo and some commenting and there are 10 pages on the site. There are only 60k pages in results making me think it would have been easy to rank for. It took longer than I thought to rank high and I think I know why. It took about 6 months to get where it is now. it has 1750 intitle results and 50k in anchor results together with intitle and inanchor there are 6300 results so there are actually a fair amount of websites trying to optimize here for this keyword. As far as big players go there aren't really any. The main product website is number one there is a yahoo answers page and a few shops on the first page. So although it has low results there are a lot of pages doing at least a little seo. On the other hand the majority of the keywords I am testing now are the opposite with high search results but much lower competing pages i.e. low in anchor and in title results. However there are some authority sites ranking so it will be interesting to see what kind of work will be required to get these keywords high up in google. Another note - keywords that I had ranked first page almost instantly on another site with no back links had 100k search results had single figures for intitle and in anchor results but the only main competition was wikipedia, wiki articles and yahoo answers.
what I think would be best here is if we had more information to work with for example if anyone has ranked any keywords recently and wants to share information on it I am mainly looking at number of results in google with no quotes for the keyword, any major players on the first page or what type of websites are on the first page, how many results are returned when the keyword is typed with inanchor and intitle together, how many articles/backlinks you have done i.e ezine articles hub pages, any other form of back linking you have done. if we had a small spreadsheet put together we could probably identify key features for low competition keywords quicker. If you want to participate just post that information for your keyword but don't post the actual keyword! I will then put the info in my spreadsheet and we could get this done much quicker.
Keywords having low competition tend to come up faster in search engines if optimized in a proper way.
Think I have came to a Solution and a formula perhaps? The goal of this was to really find out what actually matters when picking low keywords, what factors count towards a keyword being easy to rank for. I created a couple of pages on keywords and have looked over blogs I have done ages ago. I couldn't understand why some where ranking so quickly and easier than others and how I could be so far wrong with assigning a keyword competition. I lost hours and months chasing keywords in the past that I thought were easy which turned out to be rather difficult hopefully now I have put an end to this and here are my findings. Its easy to say pick a keyword with low comp and low results but in the real world those keywords are hard to come by. Medical keywords . This site ranked all of its keywords first page with no back links what so ever within a few weeks, stayed there and I was shocked. 100k results, inanchor and intitle results i.e. optomized pages less than ten. First page competition wikipedia rest where 0 pg rank. I think the key things here to note are intitle and in anchor results being less than ten and competition on first page i.e. practically all pg rank 0 accessory review . This site ranked first page with no back links either probably took a month to get there and haven't touched it in a couple years and is still there 5.5 million results few pages with PG rank 1 - 2. Again less than 10 for inanchor and intitle results. So again I think key point here is lowish pg rank on first page and low inanchor intitle results Tech website. This was interesting and my newest blog I picked keywords I thought where low comp with low intitle inanchor results however none ranked anywhere. And I think this was down to sheer number of high Page rank sites virtually every page was at least pgrank 2 and that went on for at least the first 2 pages in google. Even though there are single figure results for intitle inanchor I think the sheer number of pgrank sites have overpowered it. Fragrance medical product sports sites These blogs are slightly similar. they have way less searches than the accessory review keyword both have low first page competition with a lot of 0 pg rank pages. However these keywords didn't rank high straight away the reason being they had high intitle inanchor results. The fragrance one hasn't made it out of the top 100 and there are 30k+ intitle in anchor searches for it. So here the number of competing pages is huge and a serious amount of back linking would have to be put in place. Anyway the deal here is I think you have to factor in a bit of everything. I find search results slightly irrelevant but keep in mind there is a greater chance that there are more competing pages with higher search results. It may also take longer for search engines to rank you. The main things to look out for here are the competition of the first pages i.e page rank and the intitle inanchor results. If there are a lot of pages with page ranks of 2+ then you will have to do a lot of link building to get anywhere in a sense they get priority. However if there are low page ranks on the first pages and tonnes of intitle: inanchor results then it will be a mass back linking competition unless I am assuming you have a good page rank. Ideally you want all page rank 0 on first page with low results for speed and single figure intitle inanchor results to guarantee straight away high rankings. But this is very rare or often not profitable. So if half the pages on the first page have pg rank 0 and you have less than 100 intitle:inanchor results then you have a reasonably low competition keyword. I will do a couple of keywords like this and post the results hopefully this will be a good guideline.
It really depends what your budget is. If you're just starting out, you have a tight budget or don't want to throw a lot of money at SEO, go for low competition keywords. Low competition keywords are easy to beat because usually the search results are a bunch of random no-name domains you've never heard of with little to no PR or backlinks. High competition keywords usually have high PR websites in the top ranks, Wiki pages, YouTube videos, Ehow pages, etc. High competition keywords require serious authority pages with a lot of high authority targeted relevant backlinks.