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Keyword difficulty and time to rank
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Hello,
Is there a correlation between the keyword difficult and the time it takes to rank ?
In other words let's say I try to rank for the keyword "seo" and it is going to take 2 years to rank 1 st whereas if I go for "best seo tools in 2018" and it takes just 2 weeks ?
Thank you,
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There is no any Specific but you can use my personal formula!
If Allintitle: = Less then 50 then can rank in 1 month
Allinurl: = Less then 50 then can rank in 1 month
If greater then it then you can increase days according to this!
Thanks
Regard: James John
Website: Bows Guide
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Yes, there is a direct correlation between the keyword difficulty and the time it takes to rank for it. There is also a concept/formula that can predict how difficult it would be to rank for a particular keyword. It is called Keyword Golden Ratio (KGR) and is developed by Doug Cunnington. KGR is calculated by dividing the number of allintitle Google results for a specific keyword by its search volume. If the KGR for a keyword is less than 0.25, it's a low-competitive keyword that you can rank for easily and quickly. Please note that 0.25 is just a rule of thumb and you can select any threshold you think is right for you.
There is also a nifty tool built for this, called Allintitle Bulk Search tool that calculates the KGR score for many keywords at once: https://allintitle.co
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Thank you,
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Hi there,
Sure thing - skip down to page 8 here https://email.semrush.com/acton/attachment/13557/f-0e30/1/-/-/-/-/SEMrush_Ranking_Factors_Study_2_0.pdf
thanks
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Hi Espres SEO,
Thank you for the your reply.
Can you send me a link that say that traffic is an important ranking factor, I never heard about that.
Thank you,
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Hi seoanalytics,
In that situation I would try and share the content on social media and in slack communities as much as possible to get the word out. By doing so you increase direct traffic (an important ranking factor) and increase the chances of someone linking to the content externally.
thanks
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My question:
When you have written good content and have a good internal linking structure, what else can you do to rank on high competition keywords (those that have a difficulty of around 50 for example). Just be patient and wait or is there anything else that can be done ?
Thank you,
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It means in some way that big companies with strong PA and DA have an advantage on high volume keyword ?
Length of content does it mean that you need long content to compete ? or can you compete with better content even though it isn't long ?
Thank you,
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EGOL is correct above, keep in mind there are a ton of other factors and your competition online (those ranking highly currently) are more than likely not standing still in an SEO sense (so it is a moving target usually).
The lower the competition, the "easier" and supposed "less time" it will take to rank on page 1 of Google is a good rule of thumb. It is also incredibly important to do competitive research on those in the top 3 positions on page 1 to see how long their content is, the quality of it, and the number of quality links it has pointing to it.
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Coud it be that content of the same quality takes less time to rank when there is a less competition ?
I understand about all the other variable but see that you aren't suppose to ask for links but you content is suppose to attract links it means that once you publish your content you need to wait and for some keyword you might need to wait less and for some more for your content to start being visible.
Does strength of a domain really matter because I have seen webpages with almost no PA and DA outrank page with strong PA and DA.
It is on long tail queries but still, it seems that content matter a lot those days. Link helps but only make a difference if you are trying to rank on SEO for longer queries it seems to matter less.
Thank you,
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Hi,
It all depends on competition. In order to rank competitive keywords huge effort and time required specially in case of single word keyword.
If you search 'SEO' in Google ,42,90,00,000 results showing while searching 'best seo tools in 2018', 39,70,000 results showing.You can see difference is huge that is why 'best seo tools' easy to rank and get less time and efforts.
In short competition is directly proportional to time & effort*
Thanks
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The amount of time that it takes to rank has a lot of variables... the variables that you have some control over area....
A) the quality of your content
B) the strength of your website
C) your ability to get links into the new page
The actions of your visitors are also important. They can share, they can engage, or they can do one of these or neither.
The actions of your competitors are also important. They can be working on content for similar keywords, they can be working on links to their competing page, or working on links to their entire website.
All of this is why SEOs can't guarantee rankings or "time to rank". But mainly, they don't have control over their competitors.
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