MOZ keyword difficulty pure joke.

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Noticed this nonsense while doing keyword research , apparently Moz doesn't include "allintitle" amount in its difficulty ranker . For 70k keyword , MOZ showed Keyword difficulty -1(super easy) and Ahrefs showed 56 (HARD) . Allintitle results is over 150k
Does that mean that Ahrefs takes this value into account and that is why it called "competition" and Moz difficulty is just analysis of top 10 serps ?
 
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Like DA/PA it is shit, stop relying on metrics and do your own research... There is no bot that can do it for you, not really it can give you a rough estimate but you need to research it further, people really think that you can find easy to rank and big money making keywords with the push of a button, and they wonder why they don't get nowhere in IM/SEO
 
I've been using SEMRush for several years both as an employee and as a 'shop owner'. A client granted me access to their MOZ account a couple of weeks ago so that I could see what it was that he was talking about and I have to tell you -- their tool does only a little bit more than my ScreamingFrog crawler does (and that might even be a little better). Some would say that SEMRush isnt cheap, which it really isnt but it's well worth every cent I've spent on it.
 
Holzr said:
I use Ahrefs (although I use a lot of other tools as well).

I wrote a guide which you should find useful on analyzing SERP and keyword difficulty (without relying on scores).

https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/ultimate-guide-how-to-analyse-serp-and-keyword-competition.1118710/
Click to expand...

That's a pretty sweet guide you get there, mate! Bookmarked to read later.
 
Basically top 10 result will give accuracy. If the top 10 are weaker than why you need to worry about other results such as allintitle.
 
You can't trust any difficulty metric. They completely suck. You can be facing a super high-DA result from a generalistic site, but if you result is super specific about a topic, you may outrank them.
They hardly ever take into account the content relevance. For example by using TF*IDF algorithm, they could make an extra rough estimate of the variations (if there isn't a big correlation between the top 10, then the overall difficulty should decrease significantly while, if there is a very strong correlation, the difficulty should increase).

So many factors to take in place that this tools may only help you discard good keywords randomly.
 
Moz keyword difficulty is better than most of the tools I think, All of them require you to look at the top 10 yourself though to really know if they are tough/easy
 
I don't like to use moz for keywords research. I always love to use long tail pro for keyword difficulty. I also suggest you to go with most popular tools where you will get lot's of benefits.
 
I did a comparison between Moz PRO vs kwfinder you may found a usefull infos from quality people there, as i did
https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/moz-pro-vs-kwfinder.1160565/
 
they are not google you must to know that....so just reference it
 
All of the tools have examples of the keyword difficulty being way off. That being said I feel like Moz Pro is better than Ahrefs if you are only looking out how well it rates based on the difficulty.

Ahrefs would still be my prefered tool If I could afford it though.
 
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