[small case study] Semrush keyword difficulty metric deserves more credit that it is given

Interesting case study. Yes, Ahrefs usually receives way more praise than Semrush. I may take a look at their services again.
 
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Waifu_tatyana said:
I have always held semrush in high regards when it comes to keyword research tools. I have this blind belief that semrush knows more about google's SERP algorithms than any other *cough* Ahrefs *cough* premium expensive tools.
The keyword difficulty metric of Semrush felt extremely deceptive at first glance. The keywords listed as "very easy" in semrush always have high competition in SERPs when you manually check them.

So decided to blindly follow SEMrush's keyword difficulty advice for a batch of keywords on my new test blog. I filtered out around 15 keywords having KD of 0/1. Although as per KD I can rank immediately even with a new site for those keywords, manually checking the SERPs showed a different scenario. I went with my little endeavour regardless and wrote separate articles dedicated to each keyword and slowly published them last week. I had no hope for ranking for any of those keywords even in the first page which was dominated by DA 30-40 sites.

Fast forward to today : Every fucking keyword in that batch I wrote an article on is ranking in top 3 or top 10. Below are some of the keyword rankings (ignore the ones with KD >1) and actually getting clicks as per GSC.
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I actually ranked my new test site for those keywords with the power of articles alone by displacing literal authority sites in the SERPs exactly as Semrush predicted.
This was a small scale case study but for me personally this just boosted my trust for Semrush KD metric. Semrush definitely knows something about keyword ranking factors on google that cannot be explained by manual analysis of SERPs. I was a big fan of checking SERPs manually to determine whether to write for a keyword or not. Not anymore. I will be blindly following Semrush KD metric.
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Hey man,

How the rankings for those KWs as of now? Really curious about this case.
 
I think it’s the intent of the keyword which should matter if it is for money-site! If a general keyword that proposes investigation ( investigative keyword) it’s best to placed on the blog associated with the money-site. The real deal is how you can rank for “transactional keywords”, and how you patch it up with “ consideration keywords”

I don’t know if you all can make sense of it, but this is the real truth behind advanced keyword research, and no keyword tool can aid in that!
 
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