Identify Easy Keywords Without Metrics?

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spectrejoe

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Okay, so I'm trying to develop my own tool to bulk-check keywords for their difficulty. However, I can't check metrics as it'll be expensive to bulk-check hundreds of thousands. Instead, I need to focus on the most basic stuff.

Currently what It's taking into consideration:
- Relative keyword in title (70% match of the exact keyword)
- Relative keyword in description (70% match of the exact keyword)
- Article length (if under 600 words, that's great, if under 1000 that's good, if more than 1000 I consider it "ok", more than 1.5K and I consider it not good)
- Check for Forum/Reddit/Quora in link


Surely there are other things we can look at to deduce if a keyword is easy or not aside from checking metrics like DA/DR/RD etc.... I just can't seem to recall any others worth looking into.
 
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Checking the keyword difficulty is expensive and every tool doesn't provide this metric.
 
what is "relative keyword"??

Also, while not wanting to put you down, I still think that attempting to assess a keyword's difficulty by leaving out the really important metrics (RDs/DA/DR) is recipe for disaster because keyword competitiveness is usually linked to those metrics. Sad but true...

This being said, on the on-page part of things I think the 4 criteria you've mentioned are pretty good (although I still don't know what relative keywords are), although I would probably add niche and intent into the algorithm as I know from experience that some niches (banking, SEO, health / medical, education, web hosting, anything business-related, anything investing-related, anything insurance-related, luxury cars / yachts / resorts, real estate, etc) will really increase the difficulty of ANY keywords that you wish to rank in these niches

As for intent, keywords with commercial intent should also probably get a boost in their difficulty score assessment, as keywords like these are always hard to rank for without great topical authority and strong backlinks:

best [whatever]
top [whatever]
[whatever] vs. [whatever]
[whatever] review
[whatever] coupon
[whatever] discount
[whatever] voucher
[whatever] vs [whatever] comparison
buy [whatever]
purchase [whatever]
[whatever] buying guide

(and their related questions: where to buy [whatever]... where to get [whatever]... )

In my opinion the niche and intent are 2 important metrics that should be included in the calculation of any keyword difficulty algorithm
 
tazarbm said:
what is "relative keyword"??

Also, while not wanting to put you down, I still think that attempting to assess a keyword's difficulty by leaving out the really important metrics (RDs/DA/DR) is recipe for disaster because keyword competitiveness is usually linked to those metrics. Sad but true...

This being said, on the on-page part of things I think the 4 criteria you've mentioned are pretty good (although I still don't know what relative keywords are), although I would probably add niche and intent into the algorithm as I know from experience that some niches (banking, SEO, health / medical, education, web hosting, anything business-related, anything investing-related, anything insurance-related, luxury cars / yachts / resorts, real estate, etc) will really increase the difficulty of ANY keywords that you wish to rank in these niches

As for intent, keywords with commercial intent should also probably get a boost in their difficulty score assessment, as keywords like these are always hard to rank for without great topical authority and strong backlinks:

best [whatever]
top [whatever]
[whatever] vs. [whatever]
[whatever] review
[whatever] coupon
[whatever] discount
[whatever] voucher
[whatever] vs [whatever] comparison
buy [whatever]
purchase [whatever]
[whatever] buying guide

(and their related questions: where to buy [whatever]... where to get [whatever]... )

In my opinion the niche and intent are 2 important metrics that should be included in the calculation of any keyword difficulty algorithm
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Monsterer said:
I have the same question What is a relative keyword in your mind?

How can you sort them out?
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What I mean by Relative keyword is that I'm using AI to breakdown the titles & meta descriptions and comparing them to the exact keyword, the "relative" part is if the AI finds a keyword with 70% relevancy to the exact keyword without actually being the exact keyword it will count as a relative keyword (maybe they're targeting my exact keyword using a synonym or in a relatively similar way but without using that exact keyword. The intent is the same so as long as it is 70% similar it will count as people targeting that keyword for me)

Also regarding the "best/top/buying guide/review" keywords, I don't necessarily agree that it means high competition. I've found a bunch of keywords (which surprisingly are actually some of the higher traffic keywords I'm ranking for) which had literally 0 competition. They just like any other keyword only difference being that they're more likely to be competitive, although that's not always the case and it depends on the niche too ofc like you said.
 
Kw chef actually has a built in UGC filter
It will cost some word credits but it's worth it
 
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