Competitive keyword ranking
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Hi,
I'm checking the SEOMoz keyword rankings report. I've set about 30 keywords and it's awesome to see how they rank and how many times they were clicked. However it would be interesting to see whether the keywords that I entered are competitive or not. It's not worth putting a lot of energy in making non competitive words rank higher I guess. So my question is: is it possible to see whether or not ranked keywords are competitive or not?
Thanks!
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Okay great, thank you!
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I'd use the Google Adwords Keyword tool for this. Go in there and insert a couple of your keywords, select [exact] match on the left hand side (and deselect broad match) and have a look of the numbers.
What this will do is pull up the number of people that are searching for the exact keywords you entered per month. It's based on adwords data, not organic, but the trends are definitely transferable. Not only will this tool tell you how many people are searching for the term per month (thereby giving you an idea of the competition), it will also return similar keywords to the ones you have entered, giving you keyword ideas for more competitive terms, should you need it.
A bit of advice: ignore the "competition" column, as that only applies for PPC competition. Instead, look at the global and local (meaning region you selected) number of searches per month. The higher the number, the more people are searching for it.
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