keyword research - top 10 analysis, struggling to pin down the best
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Thanks for looking. My keyword research is quite good, but in need of refinement. Let me just describe my process and then explain the problem. Also, I'd really appreciate any tips on my keyword research approach.
Enter main term in GKT, then search all the terms that the main term produces. Then put this big list in the free version of Market Samurai and rather than set a maximum competition level, I prefer to filter by competition, as some higher competition terms are worth going for because of a great comp/search volume ratio. Then I filter the list by exact match search volume of minimum 1000, add all-in-title results, and note down the best keywords based on competition and-all-in-title results.
Then I take these terms which have low to lowish competition and all-in-title figures and put them in Traffic Travis' SEO search, and add the PR, age, and links to page numbers for the top 3 sites to a text file. I also indicate if they include title, description, and H1 optimization for that keyword. I'm aiming to rank 1st, as a lot of my keywords only get 1-2k exact match search volume.
Now I know this is pretty good method, but from my noted down keywords list of around 5-15, it's often hard to pinpoint the 5-7 keywords to optimize for. My problem is this, I need to get some really reliable information on the relative importances of the factors, competition, all-in-title, all the information about the top 10 that can be gathered. Can someone please direct me to a trustworthy source?
The vast majority of these ranking sites don't have on-page optimization for these terms, and I want a better sense of how difficult it is to compete against sites that are completely ignoring the keyword, I.E, how much on-page counts vs. off-page. I heard it's about a 30/70 on-page/off-page split. Anyone got any ideas about this? Also, how could I improve on my research method?
Thanks then!
Enter main term in GKT, then search all the terms that the main term produces. Then put this big list in the free version of Market Samurai and rather than set a maximum competition level, I prefer to filter by competition, as some higher competition terms are worth going for because of a great comp/search volume ratio. Then I filter the list by exact match search volume of minimum 1000, add all-in-title results, and note down the best keywords based on competition and-all-in-title results.
Then I take these terms which have low to lowish competition and all-in-title figures and put them in Traffic Travis' SEO search, and add the PR, age, and links to page numbers for the top 3 sites to a text file. I also indicate if they include title, description, and H1 optimization for that keyword. I'm aiming to rank 1st, as a lot of my keywords only get 1-2k exact match search volume.
Now I know this is pretty good method, but from my noted down keywords list of around 5-15, it's often hard to pinpoint the 5-7 keywords to optimize for. My problem is this, I need to get some really reliable information on the relative importances of the factors, competition, all-in-title, all the information about the top 10 that can be gathered. Can someone please direct me to a trustworthy source?
The vast majority of these ranking sites don't have on-page optimization for these terms, and I want a better sense of how difficult it is to compete against sites that are completely ignoring the keyword, I.E, how much on-page counts vs. off-page. I heard it's about a 30/70 on-page/off-page split. Anyone got any ideas about this? Also, how could I improve on my research method?
Thanks then!
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