How to check the competition for a keyword?

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moneff

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Hello,

So.. Previously when I was choosing keywords for my websites from (google adwords tool) I was looking at the "competition" bar.. But Now, I have noticed that this "bar" is only for the Bid campaign for advertising..

So.. How can I see the competition for a keyword? Is there some kind of a tool? or something ?

I want to choose let's say 10 keywords, and I want to check their competition..

Best Regards,
Simeon
 
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Traffic travis, market samurai and SEoQuake (browser) are popular for checking the competition of a keyword. There is some positive correlation between adwords competition and rank difficulty because those niches tend to be profitable and people spend more time optimising those keywords. On the plus side, high competition means higher cpc.
 
1.Market Samurai
2.Traffic Travis
 
Analyze the Top 10 ranking websites and see if you can beat them.

Factors to look at:

Off page SEO. (80%)
- Backlinks Count
- Backlinks Type/Quality
- PR
- Domain Age

On page SEO optimization. (20%)
- Keywords in Title
- Keywords in URL
- Keywords in Description
- Keywords in H1 tag on front page
 
Those tools are great for analyzing large volumes of keywords at once, but you should learn how to manually analyze competition before targeting a keyword. Some things to consider:

the page rank of the 1st page listings
the onsite optimization for the keyword (is it in the title?)
the amount and quality of competition's backlinks
 
Figuring out competition can be tough, but I have recently tried market samurai which seems like the best tool for determining the competition of a keyword. It?s not just about the quality of links pointing to a url, it can often be the authority of the domain passing to the url which is why Wikipedia ranks so well in Google.
 
Use traffic travis free edition to make an idea about it.
 
acotut said:
Use traffic travis free edition to make an idea about it.
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Is there something like tutorials..?
I cannot manage to handle this program..
 
Market Samurai is pretty good tool to check competition.
 
I would search a keyword that's relevant to the niche you are researching then check the meta keywords of the top 5 ranked sites. Make a list of them and look at which ones are getting the search volumes then start competing against them. Obviously your going to want to check the competitors backlinks etc..
 
Check on semrush, with 10 requests you can use the free version)
 
analyzing top 10 results you can get the idea about competition. You can use market samurai or traffictravic to analyze it easily,
 
Golden Grasp said:
I would search a keyword that's relevant to the niche you are researching then check the meta keywords of the top 5 ranked sites. Make a list of them and look at which ones are getting the search volumes then start competing against them. Obviously your going to want to check the competitors backlinks etc..
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How do you get a competitor's meta keywords???
 
ThopHayt said:
Edit, I looked up some info about the meta keywords tag and found that not only does not everybody use it anymore, but it seems to be somewhat irrelevant in today's google.

http://www.highrankings.com/metakeyword
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It's just an indicator that the webmaster actually do any on-page SEO, if s/he does it means, s/he will also be doing off-page SEO, linkbuilding etc.
 
I use this as well as Market Samurai. Works well as you might want to know how much people will be bidding on the keyword.
 
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