What Is A Competitive SERP?
Great piece of SEO advice from Aaron:
“Don’t measure competition in the number of competing pages, see how many of the top 10 results look like legitimate resources. If you see lots of .gov and .edu sites or other legitimate sites at the top the query is competitive. If you see your-topic-spam.info ranking it should be a joke to compete”. Â
Blonde Jon
I never thought of it that way before. That’s totally true!
Irka
Nice way of looking competition on SERPS Peter!
Basically, I estimate competition regarding the number of results for the current keyword, number of backlinks for each sites in the TOP 20 and now the TLDs & domain names also ;D
ToddW
Technicaly speaking if you rank #1 no matter who else is there you are ranking “good”. But I agree with your method for measuring the competition
hehe
-Todd
TSK
Good point.
You guys must have tuffer competition. Well, you also got a lot more market
Here in Denmark, 95% of the search market is very easy to compete in. Let’s see in about 2-3 years…
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[...] Approximate traffic and competition levels can be found using keyword research software. I like Wordtracker, which is a paid service. Free tools include the Overture keyword tool, and Google’s keyword tool. Aaron provides an excellent overview of a variety of keyword research tools. This is a good article for those new to keyword selection. In short, you’re trying to determine if there are existing traffic streams for a given topic, how big those traffic streams are, and how competitive a topic might be. [...]