Quick Keyword Difficulty Question
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Hello good people. Quick question about the Keyword Difficulty Tool (which is great by the way). I am wondering specifically about the "keyword difficulty score"
If I were to type in "blue widget," the tool returns a diffiiculty score of 51%.
"red widget" on the other had returns a score of 40%.
My question is how much more difficult is the term, "blue widget" when compared to "red widget?"
20% harder? more, less? I just don't know. I'm sure the info is somewhere on the seomoz site, but I have searched high and low and cannot find it.
Thanks a lot,
Joe
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Hi Joe, I have found that most scores for what I deem to be mildly competitive keywords seem to be around the 45% - 55% Mark, with those being strongly competitive at 60%+ and low competition at about 25%. I have never come across anything dropping below 25% or above the high 60% range so for me I use these as the limits. So to answer your question I would classify a score of 60% much more competitive than a score of 50%. Mark
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