Hello! What does KD% Mean in Semrush?

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AutomationIsKey

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On Semrush I see this option "Keyword Difficulty", and I have a hard time understanding what it means truly, can anyone please break it down this image?

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For the top option here with a 22 KD%, when hovering it gives this statement.
Easy - You will need quality content focused on the keyword’s intent.

I feel like this is pretty loaded, and rather objective because there's not much explaination as to what "Easy" is first and foremost, and secondly, what is defined as "Quality Content" in this case? The keyword has this intention "Intent - Informational" on the semrush. If someone could please properly explain what this means? And how difficult it really is to rank for something like a 22 KD?
 
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Semrush kd has lost its value you can rely on them solely you need to check what's ranking on the serp 1st page.
The only meaningful is very difficult or impossible whatever they are calling it. The red one. Yes, those are very very difficult to rank.
 
It's an estimate of how hard it is to rank #1 for that kw

A 100% KD means it's on par with semrush's estimate of the highest value kw available

An easy KD means what it says in green : u probably just need good content to rank
 
bartosimpsonio said:
It's an estimate of how hard it is to rank #1 for that kw A 100% KD means it's on par with semrush's estimate of the highest value kw available an easy KD means what it says in green : u probably just need good content to rank
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Does good content mean "Long Content?" For example, let's imagine this keyword I am referencing is "How To Make Apple Sauce", this content wouldn't really need 1,000+ words written about it, and in fact I'd argue that you could probably fit the entirety of the resolution into an AI Overview response. So what defines "Good Content" generally?

When we look at the top websites for How To Make Apple Sauce you can see immediately there's an incredible amount of fluff on the articles. How is "Fluff" considered good content, and not just bloat? This is something that is genuinely confusing me, as a user if I have to read through a whole bunch of stuff to find the general basis of an answer to my search paramater, I almost default leave the page, but it seems almost expected to bloat the content.

It seems that a majority of websites for most keywords I look up just Chat GPT their entire article, and some how it ranks.
IM Dude said:
Semrush kd has lost its value you can rely on them solely you need to check what's ranking on the serp 1st page.
The only meaningful is very difficult or impossible whatever they are calling it. The red one. Yes, those are very very difficult to rank.
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Good to know that it only has some value, and I will try to follow the rule of thumb to prioritize the green bubbles. But this still leaves the question in the air of "What is good content?" by the general understanding, they don't make it very clear the answer to this question.

A 250 word article that covers all of the subject matter, I feel like will never out rank a 1000+ word article with bloat. (Likely because the bloat helps target long-tails?) just theorizing.
 
AutomationIsKey said:
Does good content mean "Long Content?" For example, let's imagine this keyword I am referencing is "How To Make Apple Sauce", this content wouldn't really need 1,000+ words written about it, and in fact I'd argue that you could probably fit the entirety of the resolution into an AI Overview response. So what defines "Good Content" generally?

When we look at the top websites for How To Make Apple Sauce you can see immediately there's an incredible amount of fluff on the articles. How is "Fluff" considered good content, and not just bloat? This is something that is genuinely confusing me, as a user if I have to read through a whole bunch of stuff to find the general basis of an answer to my search paramater, I almost default leave the page, but it seems almost expected to bloat the content.

It seems that a majority of websites for most keywords I look up just Chat GPT their entire article, and some how it ranks.

Good to know that it only has some value, and I will try to follow the rule of thumb to prioritize the green bubbles. But this still leaves the question in the air of "What is good content?" by the general understanding, they don't make it very clear the answer to this question.

A 250 word article that covers all of the subject matter, I feel like will never out rank a 1000+ word article with bloat. (Likely because the bloat helps target long-tails?) just theorizing.
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Good content is the content that rank. Like I said you wanna check serp results to see what's ranking. You will see a pattern perhaps a gap that you can fulfill and rank.
 
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