Hi,
I have a question about the Google competition finder.
What does the result number actually mean?
I believe it's not the number of searches....does it really give any idea of the competitiveness or is it better to run the keywords through e.g. longtail pro or something like that?
Thanks!
Its the number of results found in google for that keyword. So if you go search google for the word
car
You will see it says X millions or billions of results found for the word car. That number is the number in the google competition finder. The idea is, if you have a keyword/niche and it only has a few results its going to be easier then if you have 10 million results because then you have 10 million urls to compete with vs 25 or whatever.
I can't really answer your question about whether its better to use another tool, because
1.) I haven't used that tool, so I don't know how it works.
2.) Your question is generic and doesn't specify what your trying to achieve. So without that detail its sort of like saying, is it better to buy oranges or apples? Well no one can answer that question because you left out important details like - Do you like one better then the other? Are you allergic to one or the other?
What are you doing with them? If your cleaning with them, the acid in an orange is better, if your trying to feed the juice to a 9 month old you need apples because infants under 1 year can't have citrus (I have an 11month old and details are key).
Maybe your making a cobbler, well orange cobbler would be terrible, but apple cobbler would be great, but if your tying to make a screwdriver, I can only imagine vodka would not taste very good with apple juice.
Point being, what is your specific goal that you want to achieve with the data you get from either scrapebox or another tool? Perhaps you want to analyze 10 keywords and find which one has the most results so you can go fishing for emails in the biggest market. OR perhaps you want to rank a url so you want to know which of your 10 terms has the least results. See what I mean? Same data, different goals, so you might want to use different tools.
So when asking questions, you would help yourself a great deal by learning to ask your question and give specific information about your goals so you can get accurate information. Because if I just come along and say, oh go use tool X, it works great for me, you have no idea if I am using the tool to do the opposite of what your doing.
MORE IMPORTANTLY - It sounds like you have no clear goal, without a goal your asking the question so someone can direct you, but if you aim at nothing you will hit it every time. Zig Ziglar said "how can you hit a goal you don't have?" So you will likely find something very interesting happening. If you CLEARLY define your goal, then you will firstly ask how the scrapebox comeptition finder works, or research it, because I already explain it in videos on Youtube and you research how the other tools work and you will be able to see your goals and see how the tools work and you will be able to answer your own question and charge forward confidently AND be more productive at the same time.
At that point you will have never asked the question and you will be more productive all at the same time.
Im reading the compounding effect right now - Excellent Book BTW - and in it the author had an employee that came to him and said they needed a raise. They clearly laid out their income - $40K a year - and expenses and quoted the fact that the author had been saying they need to save money to better their future and they can't do it because they don't make enough.
The author said, "Ill do something better, Ill teach you how to be wealthy". Within a couple years the person was earning over $100K and left the company, started their own company and earns over a quarter of a million dollars a year.
So Ill do something better for you mate, I won't answer which tools is better, but if you go read some good books like the compounding effect, and go listen to Zig Ziglars motivational series including goal setting and you clearly define your goals, you will not only be able to answer your own question, but you will be a TON more productive because you know where your headed. You will make more money and have more free or clearly directed time as well.
Thats my free philosophical input for the day.
As to your question, explain your goals and perhaps we can help you more in the short term. Do you know what you are trying to accomplish and how you will use the resulting data?