How to calculate Keyword Difficulty
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In which way is calculated the percentage of Keyword Difficulty?
What are the parameters you consider?
Thank you very much
Francesco
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Thank you Tommy, your answer is very detailed!
I'm really grateful. Francesco
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Thank you very much Jeffrey. If I need your help I'll contact you. Thank you again.
Francesco
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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!
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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.
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