Estimating competition for blogs

[bulokas]

Hello,
I've been reading about IM actively for about a few weeks now and I'm planning to get started with micro niche blogs.
I found a couple of quite good keywords ( at least in my opinion ), but even after reading tons of articles and blog posts I still cannot understand how to evaluate if I can compete SEO-wise and get to the #1 on G.

Could you give me some examples, suggestions or links to posts/articles for this topic?

Thanks in advance

 

[Joak]

Hello,
I've been reading about IM actively for about a few weeks now and I'm planning to get started with micro niche blogs.
I found a couple of quite good keywords ( at least in my opinion ), but even after reading tons of articles and blog posts I still cannot understand how to evaluate if I can compete SEO-wise and get to the #1 on G.

Could you give me some examples, suggestions or links to posts/articles for this topic?

Thanks in advance

Install SEOQuake for firefox (there are hundreds of other ways to analyze competition but that's a quick, free way). Then, simply Google your keywords while SEOQuake is activated and see the amount of inbound links for each page, age and PR. That's at least what I look at. You also want to take a look at exact match results and inanchor: results which gives a good indication as well. To do that, enter this in google:

"your keyword"

inanchor:"your keyword"

The appropriate figures to go with is a really relative thing. But as a new IMer, I'd recommend something with 5,000 exact matches and inanchors or below.