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    • russellbrown
      russellbrown last edited by

      Hi Moz,

      I am using the keywords difficulty tool from your site and find it is quite useful 🙂 I research the community and find the data should be interpreted in the following way. But when I did a quick research for one keyword. The tool bar gives me a data of 22% showing in Yellow and says the keyword is competitive when I hover my mouse. Should this be **Blue **and easy to rank keyword based on the score? Which one should I believe?

      • Sub 30 - (Blue) Low hanging fruit you can take advantage of.
      • 30 - 35 (Green) Fairly easy with good on page and some quality anchored links.
      • 35 - 40 - (Yellow) Will take a bit more work but still in reach may require, good on-site SEO and a solid link profile.
      • 40 - 50 (Orange) Domain authority plays a much more pivotal role so it may take longer to rank for.
      • 50+ (Red) All about resources. Onsite SEO needs to be totally nailed, including internal linking/ topic modelling etc. a strong & diverse link profile with good social signals and ... time.

      Thanks in advance.

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        russellbrown @JordanRailsback last edited by

        Thanks Jordan. I will send the email.

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        • JordanRailsback
          JordanRailsback last edited by

          Hmm that definitely looks peculiar, and I can't say for certain which of those would be more correct.

          Would you be able to send examples of those keywords over to help@moz.com so we can do a bit more investigation on this, and potentially loop in the engineers if necessary? Thanks!

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