How to Check Keyword Competition

Search Keyword Competition Check

You might want to know how strong is the competition for certain keyword if you want to start a blog based on that keyword. Suppose you are in plan to make a blog for Weight loss then you would like to know how strong is the competition to rank in the first page of that keyword. For this you will need to make proper analysis of the keyword. I would want to share some of my experience on how I check the keyword competition.

Performing the Check

Suppose I am about to start a blog for Nepali Mobile Applications, then First before starting it, I would make a search in Google for this.

When I searched, I found Following things;

The top ranked link is a page not main domain(Good News as this is easy to beat)
It has no Google Page Rank or Small(Google Page Rank upto 3 is easy to beat)
Page Rank of Main Domain is 2(Easy to beat)
This means that If I make some small effort, I could easily rank top in this keyword.

Checking for Competitive keyword

Now I want to check the same thing for the Keyword 'Weight Loss'

When I did this, I found that:

The Site in First Page Contained Sites With PR 6, 5 and the first one had a permalink(Difficult to defeat)

Even the last Domain in First page was pr4(So Difficult to rank top)

Making Variations on Keyword Keeping meaning similar

This means it was difficult to rank in top page with this keyword, so I would do a little change. I would change my search keyword 'Weight loss for teen'

What I found that the page in First place was not from main Domain(Advantage)

This page was just Page Rank 4(Pr 4 can be defeated with high Effort)

So after performing some search with variations, you can decide which keyword to target for your Blog or Website. Never Choose a keyword in Random without analysis.

You can even use Google Adwords tool to make an analysis on Keyword Popularity and competitions.

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