Natural Rankings: How Easy is it?

Competing Pages is the major factor when learning about your web pages potential to rank on page one of search engines quickly or slowly (or never).

In rank of easy to difficult here are the competing page results and what this means for you…

0-10,000 competing pages – Easiest to rank for

10-50,000 competing  – Increasingly more difficult

50,000 + competing pages – Hardest to rank for

How to find out how many competing pages there are on the web for your keyword…

1. Go To Google.com

2. Type in your keyword with speech brackets (” is the google symbol for Exact Match)

Eg. “Orange County Tennis Clubs”

3. Then press Google Search

4. Look at the results in the top right hand corner of your results

1,080 is the number of competing pages for this term.

For more information about making your pages SEO friendly see my post How To Make It Easy for Search Engines To Find You

If you would us to do your SEO See Search Engine Optimisation on our Hire Us page.
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Don’t Have A Website Yet?

If you sell products – either digital products or physical ones – you can get Google to host a website for you, sort of.

Google Base is a platform that when you register a product for sale here, your product will display in google search results.

It’s basically free advertising – the only cost is your time.

When you have a product registered it will show in ‘Shopping Results for…’

It looks like this…

To get started go to Google Base or see our Starter Pack and we’ll do this (and more) for you.
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Cost Per Click…

Maybe you have used the Google Keyword Tool for research, but did you notice that you can find out Estimated Average Cost Per Click?

Here’s where it’s hiding

Now you can see the Cost Per Click column…

Visit the Google Keyword Tool by going to

https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal

Using estimated cost per click figures can help you with your budgeting and also help you avoid over paying per click.

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What Do Your Customers Care About?

The best way to find out what is going on in your market is to keep abreast of what topics and issues are being discussed right now online – both in the press and in forums.

Google Alerts is a free tool that shows you what the market cares about. You get updated by email daily, weekly or as it happens the complete list of today’s press announcements, blog and forum discussions, and more all to do with your topic of choice.

I strongly recommend you subscribe to this, or at least try it out

Go to http://www.google.com/alerts

Type in your niche topic

Enter your email address

Choose delivery time ‘Daily’, ‘Weekly’ or ‘As it Happens’

You will receive in your email the hot topics being discussed around the world in your market.

Universal Search

Alternatively, if you don’t want to get market information via email, do a Google Search and click ‘Show options’ (called ‘Universal Search’)

See all the topic choices below…

Explore into those categories for your own market, it’s a great way to get ideas for web content, sub niches and long tail keywords.

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Finding Sub-Niches

Google Suggest

You might have notices as your type in a  search term into google, google will suggest search queries.

For Example…

This is a great way for you to find sub niches and long tail keywords for your  marketing…