Hi, I am new to seo and not sure how to evaluate keyword competitiveness. My website is in the gift basket niche and targets 3 word keywords on this niche, the main words are: gourmet gift baskets, chocolate gift baskets, christmas gift baskets, cheese gift baskets, wine gift baskets, graduation gift baskets, healthy gift baskets, sports gift baskets and so on. at first I expected to rank well for most of these after about 3months of link building. Now I am begining to wonder if my goal is realistic. I would appreciate the opinion of any seo experts on this. are my words too competitive? can i get decent traffic within 3 months?
your competition is: gourmet gift baskets 652,000 chocolate gift baskets 428,000 christmas gift baskets 294,000 cheese gift baskets 46,800 sports gift baskets 32,100 wine gift baskets 423,000 graduation gift baskets 11,500 healthy gift baskets 14,500 you need to have a separate page optimized for each keyphrase and you need to acquire backlinks to those pages using the targeted keyphrase as anchor text
all i can tell you, i've tried to crack the gift basket market for 2 years now, and have gotten too far. It's a very competitive industry and the top 10 players have been in it for over 10 years, some more But you can do it if you concentrate on good link building practices and broaden your time frame to more than 3 months
Realistically, the person you're hoping to convert is more likely to first go for an unqualified search; gift baskets. 15,500,000 English pages for gift baskets If you're trying to go for local, there's some hope but it's still fairly competitive. 1,280,000 English pages for gift baskets los angeles You picked a tough one to start.
well I suppose you have to choose those keywords which have a good serch volume. Because it the keyword is not search at all..what is the value of that keyword!!!!!!!!!