What is keyword difficulty?

Discussion in 'Keywords' started by seotips2011, Apr 27, 2011.

  1. #1
    Hello Friends,

    I think that "keyword difficulty recognizes how complex it would have been to get better rankings for a specific keyword. The value is greater for the for the more well known words since it would have been quite difficult to have a competition with thousands of other websites for a well known keyword instead of tens of others for the ones that are less popular."

    can plz tell me proper information about keyword difficulty and whats the purpose of keyword difficulty..
     
    seotips2011, Apr 27, 2011 IP
  2. Jagbanidotcom

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    i haven't heard this term keyword difficulty yet in Seo world ... i think all issue that we cant solve with keyword are keyword difficulties ..
     
    Jagbanidotcom, Apr 28, 2011 IP
  3. cr0n1cal

    cr0n1cal Active Member

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    How difficult will be for you to rank in SERPs
     
    cr0n1cal, Apr 28, 2011 IP
  4. bob25

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    When deciding whether or not to target a keyword for the SERPs you should analyze it determine if you have a reasonable chance of getting ranked. The most common searchengine to check the SERPs is Google. A lot off people will use competing websites numbers to determine the keyword difficulty. But a better way is to analyze the number of backlinks and what kind (high PR, edu, goc, etc., age and PR, Yahoo or DMOZ listed, keyword in url, etc., on the first page of the SERPs (traffic drops significantly for the subsequent pages) MarketSamurai or TrafficTravis (free version) does this.
     
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  5. Alvasin

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    Testing keyword difficulty has never been a straight forward task, what do you test with? Links in? Links to domain? Search Volume? Awords Competition? The truth is that all of them contribute toward the ‘keyword difficulty’ factor.
    A tool that was announced this week was the new keyword difficulty tool, it breaks down all the metrics for you, so if your an SEO professional there is no better visualization tool for client proposals, in my opinion.
    In some cases just putting the keywords on a page and building a few links is all you need to hit the top 10. More cases than not – the keywords that will bring the most traffic are MUCH harder to rank for – hence the concept of Keyword Difficulty.
     
    Alvasin, Apr 29, 2011 IP
  6. Lincherry

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    I want to know about keyword density and difficulty on my site. Give me some advice, how to implement it.
     
    Lincherry, May 3, 2011 IP
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    it is just a tradeoff between what kind of traffic and competition you want
     
    nirajkum, May 5, 2011 IP
  8. Manmohan Mehta

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    I dnt know about much keyword difficulty so can't say about this .....
     
    Manmohan Mehta, May 5, 2011 IP
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    Keyword Search Volume x Google competing pages
     
    news876, May 7, 2011 IP
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    Some webmasters think no of listed pages is competition. Competition is how difficult to get the ranking for the keywords. If other websites fight for the keywords, its difficult to get top ranking. So word competition should replace from the word keyword difficulty.
     
    LinkGenie, May 8, 2011 IP
  11. Lincherry

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    This is real name of the tool?
     
    Lincherry, May 8, 2011 IP
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    Thanks for all post above.!
     
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    #13
    I think the wise choice of the right keywords you will optimize for is the first and crucial step to a successful SEO campaign. If you fail on this very first step, the road ahead is very bumpy and most likely you will only waste your (or your client's) money and time. There are many ways to determine which keywords to optimize for and usually the final list of them is made after a careful analysis of what the online population is searching for, which keywords have your competitors chosen and above all - which are the keywords that you feel describe your site best


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    I never heard about keyword difficulty,but i know about keyword density.I think problems related to optimize a keyword are called as keyword difficulty.
     
    kamaljit1987, May 19, 2011 IP
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    keyword difficulty in my opinion means how hard it is to rank for a particular keyword. Most of the time you will see that your True competition is the first 10-20 results.
     
    wicho696, May 23, 2011 IP
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    bob25 listed all of the factors that go into determining keyword difficulty. Some people use shortcuts like number of competing pages or average Page Rank of the first 10 SERPS to determine difficulty and this works fairly well. It's better to use a better tool that analyzes all of the factors to be more accurate. Micro Niche Finder is an excellent paid program and Traffic Travis is a good free program.
     
    Redrabbitt67, Jun 2, 2011 IP
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    it is difficult to optimize keywords on search engine. there are many aspects you have to consider if you want to optimize the keywords well.
     
    hardyjames, Jun 2, 2011 IP
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    It is a check tool that allow you to see how difficult it might be to rank for specific keywords and keyword phrases.it is first and crucial step to a successful SEO campaign. If you fail on this very first step, you will only waste your and your client's money and time.
     
    antechindia, Jun 3, 2011 IP