Here's the trick to impress your friends. Choose a keyphrase that has less than 1,000 or so results in the SERPs when enclosed with quotes. Less than 500 is twice as good and less than 100 is awesome! The reasoning for the quotes is that the quoted search will tell you how many pages are *actually* targetting that exact phrase. In the case of 'mac leopard forums', it first appears to have 2 to 3 million results, medium competiveness and would be a good achievement. However, those SERPs are inflated because many, (a few million), people mention 'mac', 'leopard', and 'forums' on their page, yet only about ten pages in Yahoo's database mention 'mac leopard forums' together as an exact phrase. (only 90 on Google). Anyone can prove what I'm saying by just getting a few links to a page SEO'd for a somewhat unique keyphrase. Be sure to check the phrase's uniqueness by putting it in double quotes for the search. sorry Mrfinch. btw, I checked 'mac leopard forums' with the Overture suggestion tool and it returned zero searches were done last month and zero suggestions. If the keyphrase was getting traffic it would have been a fantasic niche-find. Bompa
search volume for those keywords are nearly zero on yahoo or google. #1 position won't bring traffic at all. what is the point to rank #1 for those words?
I think the search term "mac leopard news" good, however "mac leopard forum" most likely generate very little traffic. I doubt many people will type in that search term.
Good to know! So i guess it is the same as we type in allinanchor and allintitle to find out how many sites are competing for the exact term, right?
So the advice I got was keywords, description and backlinks. Wow! What a sage. I thought it was orbital gravity and string theory. Am I the only one who got nothing from this thread? I challenge MrFINCHY to give us something useful. Well MrFinchy?