I have done some advanced keyword research on keyword relating to mesothelioma. As you probably know, ranking ion the first page of the SERPs for 'mesothelioma' is difficult, my research helps to rank for other related terms. My research find which related keywords have low competitors compared to the amount of searches each month meaning it's easy to rank for with maximum benefit. Read about my mesothelioma research here - Advances Keyword Research - Mesothelioma. I hope you enjoy it.
This research is mainly to help in finding uncompetitive mesothelioma related niches with easy search traffic.
what are you using to come up with a R/S of 0.01 for "mesothelioma law firms". Oh..i see "keyword-elite" and do a "in title" search. But this is not consistent with "real life" results on google Results 1 - 10 of about 1,920,000 for mesothelioma law firms. (0.06 seconds) What counts is real life search results...so what use has the result "32" which KW-elite gives us when it looks different going on google ?
Mate, if you were to do this research manually you would search Google for intitle:"mesothelioma law firms" (notice the intitle and quotations). This search gives you the direct competitors for the phrase. After doing this search I get 715 competitors, not 2 million. The only problem with KeywordElite is that it pulls the search data from Overture which can be inaccurate at times.
live-cms...maybe we have a problem here. Maybe thats where keyword-elite and similiar tools rather give us a wrong impression. Because a (potential) customer searching online does NOT use kw-elite, he will go on google and type the phrase. If 1,900,000 resuls for a particular phrase show up...this means essentially thats the real life competiton we deal with, doesn't it ? What i want to say is..the features "title" "anchor" and "text" in KW-elite or the various options are nice....but i wonder what real life value they have ? short: yes, the results are pulled from OV...so multiply them and get a guess what google has. KW_Elite showed "32" results for "mesothelioma law firms" in title....your list so far is correct, so is the R/S. But it's not all about the title. I just want to avoid that we falsely think we deal with some low-competition KWs when it's not the case. When i use KW-Elite i always use (and always double check) the real results of results shown up in google. Feel free to "prove" to me that the title-tags and anchors or text-options (speaking about kw-elite) are indicators for the number of competition - and whether its eg. really the case that i am dealing with a niche when i get 32 results for "in title" back...while on G it's 2million search results for that term.
The only competition I worry about are those with the keyword in the title (intitle:"keyword") since I can usually outrank any website that doesn't have the keyword in the title. Having the keyword in the title is very important for SEO so if they don't have it in the title but I do, I will always outrank them. So the only competitors worth worrying about are those with the keyword in the title. When doing keyword research I do not look at the websites which are slightly optimized for the term (the 2 million), I look at the websites that are well optimized for the term (the 715) since I can easily outrank the 2,000,000 but outranking the 715 will take some effort.
live, that exactly was my question and you answered it well But then i think some other people out there gave false advice to begin with, eg. for keyword-research ! I remember Brad C. in an ebook about kw-elite giving the advice how to do niche and competition research, but NOT specifically saying that we need to check for the occurence of KW in titles. He adviced niche-research without checking any of those options in KW-Elite which would therefore be wrong since using KW-Elite this way does gives us the real G resutls (inclusive the number of lesser optimized competitor's pages) and not the one we're talking about here with only title relevancy. Interesting indeed.
Using any of the setting in KeywordElite will give a reasonably estimation of the difficulty of ranking for certain keywords but I prefer to know how many DIRECT competitors I have, that's why I use the intitle: method. If you were going to write a page of content and not SEO it you would have 2,000,000 competitors but if you do SEO the page you will only have the 715 competitors. Having the keywords in the title make a huge difference in your rankings so you only really need to compete with the websites that have the keywords in their title.