Google Keyword Tool - Competition - How does it compare to SEOMoz Keyword Difficulty?

[webtarget]

Hi, Many times, when I look up a keyword in google using their Keyword Tool, the competition might be low or medium, but, it doesn't seem close to the keyword difficulty on SEOMoz.

For example, I looked up fantasy sports. It's low competition on Google. I thought, wow, that's amazing. How can that be when it's so popular? Huge search volume, low competition. Then, SEOMoz says 76% difficulty. It sort of shatters my enthusiasm all of a sudden. Maybe I have to change the order of how I look at it

What is the difference that's going on? What would be considered low keyword difficulty on SEOMoz? How about medium and high? I know someone might argue that for some guru, what's hard for one person isn't hard for the guru, but, for the average webmaster who does some seo, uses SEOMoz, and some other SEO tools, is there some general breakdown?

Thanks.

[webtarget]

Thanks. That explains it.

[CaseyKluver]

Hi,

The Google keyword tool was made for Adwords. The "competition" column just lets you know how many other Adwords advertisers are bidding on that keywords - which is great for PPC, and almost useless for SEO.

Stick with the moz  keyword difficulty tool for SEO.