How to calculate Keyword Difficulty

[seomoznicchia]

In which way is calculated the percentage of Keyword Difficulty?

What are the parameters you consider?

Thank you very much

Francesco

[seomoznicchia]

Thank you Tommy, your answer is very detailed!

I'm really grateful. Francesco

[seomoznicchia]

Thank you very much Jeffrey. If I need your help I'll contact you. Thank you again.

Francesco

[Vivamedia]

As Jeffrey said, dont try to reinvent the wheel, check out the SEOmoz keyword difficulty tool.

Otherwise you can look at these parameters:

• What is the current rank of the keyword?
• Number of hits at Google?
• Competition on Adwords (https://adwords.google.com/o/Targeting/Explorer?__c=1000000000&__u=1000000000&ideaRequestType=KEYWORD_IDEAS)
• Compare the onpage with the competitors
• Compare incoming links with the competitors

Combine all of these parameters to get an idea of the difficulty.

Good luck!

[jeffreytrull1]

I don't try to reinvent the wheel but instead go with tools already out there as frequently as possible. The SEOmoz Keyword Difficulty tool is one of them if I want a simple number: http://pro.seomoz.org/tools/keyword-difficulty/

If you want to try to assess it yourself, I'd still look at things like page linking root domains, root domain linking root domains, authority, etc.