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I recently updated my homepage, and have changed my targetted keyword, whilst researching the competition i wrote down some of my results.

Google Results 1 - 10 of about 19,100,000 4 Blue Widget
site 1) PR6 - 312 BL - Keyword in title - Dmoz listings (2) - keyword in url
site 2) PR5 - 21 BL - Keyword not in title - Dmoz listings (3) - keyword in url
site 3) PR5 - 40 BL - Keyword in title - Dmoz listings (0) - keyword in url
site 4) PR6 - 113 BL - Keyword in title - Dmoz listings (1) - keyword not in url
site 5) PR6 - 284 BL - Keyword not in title - Dmoz listings (2) - keyword not in url

so you can see the top 5 results, so i further searched the number 1 spot, and out of the 312 backlinks it has over 70% of them are from the dmoz clones and also a few of them are from .org websites.

now,
mysite) PR4 - 242 BL - Keyword In Title - Dmoz Listings (0) - Keyword not in url

"blue widget" is search for 1,242.3/day on (US) overture and 549.0/day on wordtracker.

Would you say that "blue widget" is a competitive term?
How much would it take to rank for this site?
Any other opinions?

cheers

 

No and probably not very much.

 

cool i would be happy with just a top 10 listing

im trying to target and establish some non-competitive keywords before walking the plank and targetting the competitive ones.

 

just to update i am now at 11th place on yahoo for "blue widget" only thing ive changed is on-page SEO, and about 5 - 10 links with "blue widget" as anchor text so yahoo is definatly paying attension to on-page stuff more than inbound links.

 

Can you tell us, are the 5 - 10 links inbound, or outbounds on the optimized page?

/*tom*/

 

every link from internal pages that points to the page has "blue widget" as anchor (minus a few i have yet to change, they still contain red widget as anchor), plus about 5 inbound links with "blue widget", also i had a tonne of links (inbound) that use a similar keyword for e.g. blue widget = google adsense and red widget = google search would red widget help the blue widget at all?

 

He could have 10,000 backlinks you don't know about

 

of course that is true but so could i.

 

How do you find out how many bl's you have from dmoz?

 

check your bl links like normall and the dmoz clones are easy to spot for e.g. you would have a load of links from pages that have this kinda ending /opd.php?kid_and_teens/teen_life/ or similar.