What % is a GO when using the Keyword difficulty tool?
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Hi,
A lot of keywords I have looked into say 'moderately competitive' at around 35% - 45%.
But what else would you look at in the table to decide whether or not the keyword term is achievable and how do you decide this maybe its the root domain backlinks and maybe you would only touch it if it had less then 30.
Basically what other elements do you look at when deciding whether to pursue?
This might also include some research in Google itself (although most the data you would want is in the tool, well I think anyway!
Cheers
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You have to do your own testing / look back at your old rankings.
It took me X amount of time to achieve 35% difficulty
It took me X amount of time to achieve 45% difficulty
It took me X amount of time to achieve 55% difficulty
It took me X amount of time to achieve 65% difficulty
Above 75% difficulty you will need to be working with an aged authority domain or be a true ninja.
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I have two philosophies that are rather contrarian.....
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Instead of paying attention to the KW difficulty number, go out to the SERPs and look at the content of the top ten websites. If you can beat their content then attack with everything that you got. Great content, given a little visibility, will defeat SEO over time.
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Do not fear competition, because where there is heavy competition there also usually heavy traffic and where there is heavy traffic there is also lots of money changing hands. Attack heavy competition with high quality content that is long and engaging... and that will attract links and pull traffic on long-tail queries.
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