In lesson 1.4 of our SEO basics course, you’ll learn how to determine ranking difficulty of a keyword.
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Additional SEO Resources
[Playlist] SEO Course for Beginners (by Ahrefs) ► https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btwC4zmewss&list=PLvJ_dXFSpd2vk6rQ4Rta5MhDIRmakFbp6&index=1
How to Measure Keyword Difficulty and Rank on Google ► https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSOq3ysvBk8
Keyword Research Tutorials For SEO ► https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvJ_dXFSpd2u5JCtiYWfvnSvAkoPwg5VY
[Tool] Keywords Explorer ► https://ahrefs.com/keywords-explorer
[Tool] SERP Checker ► https://ahrefs.com/serp-checker
[Tool] Website Authority Checker ► https://ahrefs.com/website-authority-checker
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When it comes to ranking in Google, you need to understand who you’ll be up against before you target a keyword. Otherwise, you could be entering a battle you won’t be able to win.
From an SEO perspective, competitors are pages and websites that rank at the top of Google for your target keywords. So that means your competitors can be different for every single keyword you target.
So there are 3 main things you’ll want to consider before you decide to pick a fight. And those are:
► Search intent
► Metrics of the top ranking pages and websites
► Topical authority of the top ranking websites
You’ll learn about all three individual points in the video, plus we’ll create a list of self-check questions that’ll help you make informed decisions in your keyword targeting.
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Great Video Sir!
But the thing you mentioned DR of any new site (15), couldn't be digested by me 🙁 Because most of the new sites are under 10 DR!
Hey Sam, thanks so much for the content 🙂 Just a small question, would you have this content written? I'm not a good video learner 🙁 thanks!
Can you clarify this? When I check on Google analytics, my site getting 300-350 organic traffic daily. But nearly 300 from bing & Yahoo. I only get 35-50 from Google daily. Those posts are written 3 -5 years ago, but I update some post, not all. Please explain, Why is my site not getting traffic from Google?
Thanks Sam for this series of lectures ,❤️
About your example on intent from the serp for "best car seats for small cars". I think we should also look into why the more general "best car seats" are ranking. If they all include a paragraph specific to car seats for small cars, would you rather create a blog post on "best car seats for small cars" or a generic one with the specific paragraph?
This of course presuming that you match the competitors authority, links and other factors
The tools you said free are not free on your website. It is asking for subscription. Please correct this information in your video.
greatest ever and simple teaching bro – it's so simple and so deep work surface like vision, great one more time.
How would you define a "similar ballpark range" and "same range" when looking at webpages with domain ratings close to my website?
Also, what would be a range that's defined as a "few" backlinks, a healthy amount versus a lot of them and shouldn't the topical authority for "best golf grips" be golf grips instead of golf since golf grips is in the keyword like the car seats example? Or is topical authority for a keyword based on the very broad seed keywords in the niche the keyword is in?
Hi Sam, thanks for putting this course together! I'm loving the tutorials! Just had a quick question about this lecture. You didn't mention the KD score. How much do you rely on that in determining keyword difficulty?
Great value. Thanks for sharing!
use the free tool to explain the coure plz
Great content, thank u so much.
Thank you so much Sam !
Very useful course, thanks for sharing, Sam Oh.
If my website is a New website and has a DR of 10.
If my website does not have a similar DR range or higher than my top ranking competitors is it advisable to bid for the target keyword?
What’s the best practices of advise can I do?
My competitors websites has domain rating of minimum of 60 while I have a domain rating of 10?
Can I really rank for the same targeted keywords if my content is better off?
Or should I stop targeting that keyword?
What can I do in that situation?
Great content- What do you mean by if a website is equally or more topically authoritative than the top ranking website? Do you mean in terms of backlinks?
If I have a better content than my competitors but with a domain rating of 10 ? Can I outrank my competitors with a domain rating of 70-80?
What happened to the part about if there is a mix of search intent on page 1 ? Like if there’s e commerce stores, product pages and blogs
what to consider if our website is brand new having 0 DR ?
Many many thanks!
Thank you for the insight
still usefull until now. i have a question that can i use keyword "the best convertible car seats for small cars" as a long tail keyword?
yu are telling it's free, but on sgin-up it is asking premium. how it is free
Loving this keyword research series!
thanks
Hi Sam, I got a question: You said at the end with the first example that you're website is in a similar DR than the ones from the top-ranking? But in your example, your website has a DR of 15 and the others are way higher?
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ahrefs is not free it is paid for every single work on it