"Check out your keyword competition" are important to get easily rank on google. Our goal is on top three of first page on google.com. So, make your focus just to defeated top 3 on the first page. For example I choose keyword "Music on Kindle Fire" So, we checked it on google.com You can see just top 3 site and page that we looked. And for example, we want to check the first link: http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=1000825251 Go To MajesticSeo.com and Check Backlink Now, we can see how much backlink. And then we should check that backlink are strong or no. You can using SEOquake toolbar to check Backlink Pagerank. So, you can depend to beat it or no. Hope this share useful. Thanks...
There are few ways to check the competition. Free Methods 1. Allintitle: Keywords. This will give you the number of pages that have this keyword in their title. Any search less than 10 000 pages will be a keyword to target for. 2. Google Keywordtool This will allow you to know the number of search each month. Do use the EXACT search. This will give much accuracy on the search result. Paid Method 1. Market Samurai This is the best software for keyword research. The software will not only identify the keyword competition, it will also do a comprehensive analysis on the website ranking high on the search engines. With that, you can strategy your SEO campaign for the keywords. Beside this, Market Samurai will also suggest longtail keywords for you to work on. I hope that these imformation help. Cheers.