Confused with SEO, keyword analysis, and Google Keyword Planner?

[Maple Leaf]

No Black hat SEO please.

I am trying to find an answer to what happens if all keywords in the world were to run out and there is nothing but competition left. Is it even possible for all niches to be high in competition at once? In other words, in the future, wouldn't there be nothing but competition because all the keywords are taken up? Would everyone stop marketing then? Hmmmm... how does this all work?

I am also still trying to figure out exactly what I am supposed to be looking for when searching for keywords.

I used the Google Keyword Planner to generate related keyword ideas about the topic of "weight loss"

They have the "competition" and "avg monthly searches", and "suggested bid". "Ad impr. share" - I haven't seen anything with that, it stays at 0 all the time.

Then I type most keywords in Google and get results in the millions. Does that mean that those keywords are not worth it? I tried using "allintitle:" and the quotes around many of the keywords, but most of them still had a high number of results.

I bought Market Samarai a few days ago, and I am using both Google Keyword Planner and Market Samarai for keyword research. One of my books suggested using the SEOTC and SEOT as a valid indicator of a good keyword. I also installed SEO for Chrome and SEO for Firefox today to find out the PageRank for the top links. One of my books told me to automate Y! Links, PR, and Alexa Rankings - but there was no Y! Links with SEO Firefox. There was only PR and Alexa, and a bunch of others.

I'm reading Mike Omar's book "How to Make Money Online -learn how to make money from home with my step-by-step plan to build a $5000 per month passive income website portfolio (of 10... each)". He says that a PageRank of higher than 4 is not worth competing for. Looking at the search results, I see that the websites with the page ranks are not in order. Like the 1st result in Google has a PR of 4 and the 2nd link has a PR of 5. Shouldn't they all be in order?

I'm confused....

[Scott]

If you are starting from scratch and trying to gain rankings for "weight loss" related terms, unless you have a HUGE marketing budget and well known product - good luck.

Weight Loss is one of the most competitive areas for SEO with an extremely high failure rate, even when you do everything perfectly.

In the weight loss arena, I doubt there are any targets that are low competition that would still yield decent enough traffic to make a full time living off of.

Google PR (Tool bar PR) is USELESS and means nothing. It is updated about once a year if that, and will probably disappear entirely. Actual PR (what the Google Algorithm is based on) is still a big part of things, but you will have no ways to view this. PR is also not how sites are sorted. That score of X / 10, plays a role and is the result of inbound links and off site factors, but not a sole means of ranking sites.

I suggest finding an SEO that specializes in this field or in super-competitive fields, but note that it will be very expensive and risky.

I have been doing SEO professionally for 11 years, and my firm does not touch sites in this niche as it is just too likely to fail.

[Adley]

Hi Maple Leaf,

After reading your question, I realized that you are new in SEO field or don't have so much experience about the current SEO techniques. Right now market is changing and growing day by day and it is tough to analyzing the keywords and planning for your business. So you should hire or take advice from the expert on your website.

Google SERPs result is defendant on around 200 factors and understanding the entire SEO process, you have to learn more and take time to you and help from reading the below sources which can help you to improve your knowledge. Visit this link https://static.googleusercontent.com/ext...-guide.pdf

Thanks
Adley

[Jane]

There will always be niches with less competition. The business world is dynamic so new opportunities arise and old ones get too competitive.

The "weight loss" market is highly saturated and ultra competitive. Businesses that have competed here and continue to do so include big pharma, online pharma, 1000s of diets, traditional medicine, 10000s of products from automatic ones to fitness machines, articles and studies and so on.

It is too broad a topic to start with. You could trim it down somewhat with e.g. "yoga exercises for weight loss" for me that brings results down from 443 million to 22 million (still very high) which shows how competitive this search market is. You are right, its very competitive. The keyword planner tool is a useful guideline but not the end all for all keyword research.

Tools are good but understanding the concepts is even better. Then you know which tool to use when and how much to rely on a particular tool like the PR, Alexa etc.

Search engines use a ton of variables to rank a website in their algorithms and PR is but one of those so it will not be in order.

If you find a niche which has few good results and enter this with quality stuff on your website, the chances of you getting good results here is high.

So, don't focus literally on the keywords. Try to understand context, intent, etc. Find popularity of what they represent. Jaguar the car is more popular in some regions than Jaguar the animal. Then search and study the results in Google, maybe there are 5 million results but the top 10 sites are not so strong, then you have a chance.

[Samuel]

Hi there

I think that you are a new person to SEO, you have read more books so you have got confused for yourself. You should read some of the few blogs related to SEO There are teaching you about current SEO . It will make you as good SEO.

Keywords planner tool is very nice one, you can choose good quality keywords to your websites.you have already know that Every Business has some competition so if your keywords have it, don’t worry about that. Google only wants that how many back links for that keywords,is is related and valuable links ?,what type of links.
First you need to improve your SEO knowledge then you go to keeping SEO work with your target keywords. You can reach to your places on Google when you’re doing everything as Well.

Thanks