I have been searching keywords i am looking to use for a new website with Googles Keyword tool. The keywords have a large amount of searches, but the Advertiser Competition is very low. Does this mean that if I optimise for these keywords that there is not going to be much competition?
The competition they are referring to is the amount of PPC for that keyword. It is not talking about organic search competition.
Is their any software or tool for finding out the organic search competition of a specific keyword/phrase?
You can simply search the term in google and see what the result page. If many page content bold keywords you searched in title, then you know
Just type in a simple search term based on the keyword that you are looking for in search engine and on the top right can you see how many search results that turn out. Based on this, you will get an estimation on how competitive that keyword is.
Doing this returned a LOT of results, but, I believe that these keywords are regularly used within webpages but have never been optimized for off-page SEO, the website ranked for the top spot for one of the keywords is a subdirectory of a subdirectory for Amazon? Which when I copied and pasted the URL into Yahoo’s SiteExplorer, the results returned very little or quality backlinks, could this be a possiblility of what I said? If so, would this make optimizing for the keywords a lot simpler?
Try SEOQuake addon for Firefox. You can then make searches in google and it will show you details such as pagerank etc for each search result. From this you can work out how hard it will be to rank above each result. Hope that helps.