Hello, digital point users. This thing is driving me crazy! I do a search on google on keywordphrase1 and get 167.000 results! there are 3 domains containing only the keywordphrase like this keyword-phrase.com keywordphrasex.com keywordphrase.net along with 1 ezine articles. on first and 2nd position there are 2 content sites (over 400 articles, 2-3 years old, good backlinks, pr 2-3). now when i search for the keywordphrase in quotes... things start to become funny! 745.000 results for the keyword phrase in QUOTES! :| WHYYY?? good, now i try with the intitle intitle:"keywordphrase" = 17.100 results On page 13 the sites with "keywordphrase" in title stop... and i see Results 121 - 129 of 129 I don't believe there are 17.000 titles for that keywordphrase in quotes on 13 pages of google. So what to think of this? inurl:""keywordphrase" shows only 11 pages. I just don't understand the process, apparently! Can somebody clear this up for me, please? Thanks a bunch!
That's really weird. I don't know why there'd be more results in quotes than without. I can't help you on that one. As far as 17,000 titles with your keyword phrase, but only 13 pages on Google - Big G doesn't always show every single result in it's SERPs. That's probably because anything after whatever number G decides just isn't going to be relevant, and there's no reason to display it. By the way, sometime Google results change in about 24 hours or so. I've done keyword research where one day a search returned 8,000 results, and the next day, the exact same keyword phrase returned about 17,000 results, so check it again and see if it's changed.
I've come across this several times myself and noticed that in all of my cases it was toward the end of the month. In any case, I use Google's keyword tool and Search results as a rough guide only. Their results have never really been all that consistent. When I do the intitle search, I evaluate the first 20 sites and look for a weakness. Sometimes I've been lucky and sometimes not.)
Yeah, it can be a game of chance sometimes. Keep in mind that some of that search volume is also people like us, marketers and webmasters checking the Google search results for a keyword
I saw 750.000 in quotes 3 weeks, ago, same 3 days ago, same yesterday, same today! i wrote an on-site seo optimized article on articlesbase.com... linked a hubpages with hubscore above 75 (to stay dofollow) and did some social bookmarkings.. and stood on 1st page on google for 3 days... and now that article lurks on position 2-3 on page 2... so pfft, in theory should be easy to rank for... hopefully! wanna buy a domain around that keyword and pfft.. if i get keyword research wrong from the first day... all the work will be for nothing. anyway, if i rank for keywordphrase + word1, keywordphrase + word2, keywordphrase + word3 etc... it will be easier after a while (a few weeks) to rank for keywordphrase, too. ex: how to get rid of love handles fast, how to lose love handles fast, how to remove love handles fast... and in the end ranking for remove love handles... or something! by the way, a good competition research shiz? i used seo quake for a while... yahoo site explorer doesn't show much and market samurai is too expensive for my taste! keyword research and competition research shouldn't take long in my opinion... I want to rank on google for 30-40 keywords.. and that will take lots of time... but i can't find if those keywords are easy to rank for if the basics don't work properly. :|
A good alternative to Google is Wordze. They don't use Google and the results are always consistent. I like them because you can purchase a monthly membership. So I will do a ton of research a month, then quit while I do the research, build sites etc. When I am serious about more research, I sign up for another month. Feel free to use my affiliate link here. Or, of course you can just go their direct Oh, and you cannot sign up for their affiliate program and click on your own link. They will terminate your membership if you do.) Either way, I think you will like their tools and it will help you!!