alexanderover
New Member
I'm pretty new to this stuff and need some help. I've got a product that I'm developing in the Education niche, and I'm starting to build a website around it.
Rather than try to rank for popular two-word keyphrases which have aged authority sites filling the first results page, I'm trying to assess which three-word or four-word phrases I should try to rank individual pages for.
Gathering keyword phrases with a certain search volume isn't a problem. However, I need help with assessing whether I can get an article from my site to rank on first results page.
Is there a better way to do this apart from putting each phrase into google search and manually looking at the results?
If not, what metrics should I be studying:
?domain age
?number of backlinks
?PR
?whether or not the phrase in in the title, meta title and url
?whether or not the phrase is within the heading and content body
Anything else I should be looking at?
Is this assessment just gut feeling, or is their a formulaic way of doing it?
Any good tutorials?
Thanks. Hi, I use checkpagerank.net for checking PR and backlinks, I even use this as a quick way of checking my own sites stats. There may be a better site out there but this seems to be on first page of google, so there we go!
Also I do a test of the key words, by typing into google:
"Keywords" (in the quotes)
allintitle:Keywords
this way it shows how many sites have the keywords in that exact order, and how many sites have ALL the keywords in the title. Its not an exact science, but this starts to give you a good idea.
The one problem with what you suggest is that you CANT check how many back links with anchor text matching you keywords, that your competitors have. A site may have 1000 back links but only 1 backlink with the achor text as your target keyword. Then this should be easy to rank for.
But I dont think theres a way of finding this out...?? Find what your looking for at SEOBOOK.com, it may help you a lot, especially for your SERP reports. In my opinion, PR is now not important.
You must focus on the high-quality backlinks.
So, "High-quality" here means "Similar to your page", "Usefull for users"
Your site should have a clear structure for user and for bots (important), that can create more time on your site, easy to be indexed.
Make sure to not overuse keywords
Rather than try to rank for popular two-word keyphrases which have aged authority sites filling the first results page, I'm trying to assess which three-word or four-word phrases I should try to rank individual pages for.
Gathering keyword phrases with a certain search volume isn't a problem. However, I need help with assessing whether I can get an article from my site to rank on first results page.
Is there a better way to do this apart from putting each phrase into google search and manually looking at the results?
If not, what metrics should I be studying:
?domain age
?number of backlinks
?PR
?whether or not the phrase in in the title, meta title and url
?whether or not the phrase is within the heading and content body
Anything else I should be looking at?
Is this assessment just gut feeling, or is their a formulaic way of doing it?
Any good tutorials?
Thanks. Hi, I use checkpagerank.net for checking PR and backlinks, I even use this as a quick way of checking my own sites stats. There may be a better site out there but this seems to be on first page of google, so there we go!
Also I do a test of the key words, by typing into google:
"Keywords" (in the quotes)
allintitle:Keywords
this way it shows how many sites have the keywords in that exact order, and how many sites have ALL the keywords in the title. Its not an exact science, but this starts to give you a good idea.
The one problem with what you suggest is that you CANT check how many back links with anchor text matching you keywords, that your competitors have. A site may have 1000 back links but only 1 backlink with the achor text as your target keyword. Then this should be easy to rank for.
But I dont think theres a way of finding this out...?? Find what your looking for at SEOBOOK.com, it may help you a lot, especially for your SERP reports. In my opinion, PR is now not important.
You must focus on the high-quality backlinks.
So, "High-quality" here means "Similar to your page", "Usefull for users"
Your site should have a clear structure for user and for bots (important), that can create more time on your site, easy to be indexed.
Make sure to not overuse keywords