What is the best way to determine keyword competition?
There are many tools for doing keyword research and most will pull the competition from a basic competition search.
That would be doing the search in google with “inverted commas” (phrase match). It narrows to results down to those sites using the string of keywords in the order listed.
Now, consider that for arguments sake, Google place great emphasis on on the “Title Tags” of a webpage. Meaning it places a a high rank for a page that uses the search term in the title.
We would then be competing against the sites that include the search phrase in the title and wouldn’t it be good to know how many sites there are?
It’s called doing an “Allintitle” search as defined here…
Definition: Allintitle: finds Web pages in Google Web search that only contain all of the keywords in their title. The keyword should follow with no spaces.
Examples:
Allintitle:Google dictionaryThis finds only results with both the words “Google” and “dictionary” in the title.
So to understand this… Type in the search bar “allintitle:your keyword phrase” (without the quotes) and you will get a return on how many sites have the search term in their “Title Tag”…
That is your competition to go after…
Pick a high search term with low “allintitle” competition, add anchor text backlinks and you have a good shot at ranking for the term.
