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Old Jan 19th, 2008, 23:27
MikeHopley MikeHopley is offline
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Re: Help please! Headache.

323,000 isn't that bad. It's achievable.

Here's my rough estimation of difficulty versus number of search results. This is based on little experience, so take it with a pinch of salt:
  • 1000 results -- easy, but completely obscure
  • 10,000 results -- should be easy, but still obscure
  • 100,000 results -- you need something pretty good
  • 1000,000 results -- hard, but worth it if you can
  • 10,000,000 results -- you'd better be damn good. You stand to make good money from this
  • 100,000,000 results -- you're dreaming
  • 1,000,000,000 results -- I will bow down and worship you
Of course, the number of results is only a very crude indication of the competition for your keywords.

Bizarrely, the competition is lower for "florida villas". This is great news for you, because it suggests you have a decent chance of ranking well.

Make sure your keywords actually appear in your content. Try to provide some content that people actually want -- perhaps some free advice, or a travel guide, or whatever. You need inbound links from relevant sites.

Ultimately, it's about creating a site and promoting it, just like any other product.

Also make sure your keywords appear in important page elements such as headings (<h1>, <h2>).

Check out your competitors. What do they do well? What do they do badly? How can you do better?

Last edited by MikeHopley; Jan 19th, 2008 at 23:34.
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