Comments on: Why Is SEO Competition So important?

By: GuruBob

GuruBob — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 00:05:11 +0000

I really would be cautious if your keyword has an SEOC of 500,000. I’m not saying you can’t compete for a keyword with that level of competition but you would need a lot of high quality links to do so and it could take 6 – 12 months or more to have any hope of getting to Page 1 on Google for your target keyword. Just my opinion.

By: Greg

Greg — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 18:46:30 +0000

If you have a keyword where SEOC=500,000, but when you isolate five columns in the SEO Matrix as taught in the Challenge and you see six “green bars,” you’d jump on that keyword, right?

By: Robert

Robert — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 16:43:22 +0000

Hey Guru,
i want to ask you where i can find the Market samurai training lessons wich was on http://www.thirtydaychallenge.com/training/ ??? I just can find this interesting training lessons

By: Shawna MacFoo

Shawna MacFoo — Mon, 24 May 2010 00:34:00 +0000

This is one of the best SEO posts I’ve read in ages. We can’t all be statiticians and permutation pros. I think the only thing that saves my sanity from all the numbers is with some sites/niches – you can luck out to some degree with a great set of initial keywords and low enough competition. You can get great rankings, avoid the sandbox as you said – without having to be aggressive with link building at all. It’s a joy to see Google ‘lap up’ a site and give it love – without having to declare ‘war’ in a fight to the top!

By: Vitaly Makarkin

Vitaly Makarkin — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:48:57 +0000

Again brilliant. I’m very exciting when see a new feed in my g.reader from Robert Somerville. I remember half year ago I think it’s too easy to teaching people how to do business online. Now I understand the best way to do that, it’s teach myself before.

But I still confuse about writing articles (just because EN is my 2nd language). I try do it my self, ask my EN friends to write for me, searching persons of the relevant forums & at the end of the day I hire an outsource writer.

But I still interesting into the persons which is passionate about my topic. Do you have any recommendations? How can I or the best ways to negotiate with peoples on the forums (or may be another place).

Vitaly

By: Andre Arnett

Andre Arnett — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 11:38:06 +0000

I always learn something when I read your comments and for that I thank you. I am still trying to understand SEO and you have broken it down a lot here so I will also bookmark this post and refer to it until I get it. Thanks.

By: GuruBob

GuruBob — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 11:31:41 +0000

Mike,

Just because a keyword has 500,000 phrase match competition doesn’t mean you can’t rank for it. With enough back-links and on-page optimization you can rank for any keyword. But the probability that you will face significant quality competition for a keyword increases the more phrase match competition that exists for that keyword. The more skilled you are at identifying the quality of competition for a keyword and the better you get at acquiring authority (mainly through engineering backlinks) then the more competitive the keywords you can tackle.

In the 30DC, of course, we assume that the participant lacks any of these skills so we set low benchmarks to increase the probability they will succeed in getting their website ranked for the keyword/s they choose within 30 days.

GuruBob

By: GuruBob

GuruBob — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 11:27:15 +0000

Daniel,

Thanks for the kind feedback.

You comment is not a surprise and is the main reason why I say that the 2 most important places to have your main target keyword is in the domain name and in the title of the page you want to rank for a keyword.

By: Daniel Christian

Daniel Christian — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 07:43:50 +0000

First GuruBob, let me say that I am a big fan. And your posts are always more and more informative each time you read them.

The 30DC was what effectively launched me on my internet marketing path and I have thoroughly enjoyed what I have learned.

I have found that when I have exact name matches, (ie. I am trying to rank for “blue pens” and I own http://www.bluepens.com), I have been able to climb to page 1 of google with relative ease even with competition as high as the millions in a relatively short period of time (weeks to a month really).

Daniel

By: Jim Munro

Jim Munro — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:53:54 +0000

Nice post. I was very interested to see where you got the numbers for the 30DC.

I have seen a bunch of varying numbers on other IM websites when they do their research, some up to 150k for SEOC.

So generally the 30k number is due, in part, to the time frame of the 30DC? So that participants can actually see the results during the duration rather than waiting 3 months to get a foot in the door?

I personally picked a phrase that was outside of these bounds, based on my interest level for the topic and it did eventually happen but it took about 3 months, and Christmas helped.

I’m anxious to see your follow up articles. Thanks for the great info!