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When I first started in on SEO topics for real I was listening to all kinds of SEO people saying this or that. Some of it was real good and some...well...in hindsight I think a lot of it was just somebody's opinion without any solid factual basis to it.
Nowadays I take what I read and hear with a grain of salt and try to think for myself.
A case in point is the number that shows up in Google when searching for a phrase using quotes.
I know that this is a very rough gauge of the competitiveness of a keyword phrase but it's about the best I have to work with in terms of being a quick gauge to help me go through a lot of keywords to find one's that might be good.
But...I've been thinking.
Let's say I do a search for "cowboy boots". Right now the number of sites that have this exact phrase in it show up as 2,650,000 (with number of pages to show on a SERP set to 100).
Sounds pretty competitive or potentially so right?
Thing is...if I click on the last page of results that show up which in this case is 9 I end up with a grand total of only 587 pages! Oh...the last page changes to 6 instead of 9 by the way which is rather odd. I mean that Google reports that there are 9 pages of results and then when you click on the 9th page it magically becomes just 6 pages of results (what gives with that?).
So out of a total 2,650,000 pages that have the exact phrase "cowboy boots" somewhere in the page (multiple times even) only 587 are apparently indexed sufficiently to show up on a SERP page???
What happened to the other 2,649,413 pages???
It would seem that instead of competing with almost 3 million other pages I am actually only competing against 587 other sites.
I've noticed that the numbers of total pages reported by Google seems to be near meaningless.
I just created a site a couple of weeks ago that is number 5 today for it's keyword phrase...out of almost 6,000,000 pages mentioning that phrase but the site I created is nothing. I mean nothing. It's a joke that it can rank so well against so many others. I mean that sincerely. It's an absolute joke.
Or should I say a testament to how ridiculous Google can get sometimes. My site is not really, literally a joke but it has no meta tags, no page title, no incoming links to it at all...you get the drift.
Which again leads me to believe that the whopping big numbers returned by Google might indeed be the number of pages found by them to
Nowadays I take what I read and hear with a grain of salt and try to think for myself.
A case in point is the number that shows up in Google when searching for a phrase using quotes.
I know that this is a very rough gauge of the competitiveness of a keyword phrase but it's about the best I have to work with in terms of being a quick gauge to help me go through a lot of keywords to find one's that might be good.
But...I've been thinking.
Let's say I do a search for "cowboy boots". Right now the number of sites that have this exact phrase in it show up as 2,650,000 (with number of pages to show on a SERP set to 100).
Sounds pretty competitive or potentially so right?
Thing is...if I click on the last page of results that show up which in this case is 9 I end up with a grand total of only 587 pages! Oh...the last page changes to 6 instead of 9 by the way which is rather odd. I mean that Google reports that there are 9 pages of results and then when you click on the 9th page it magically becomes just 6 pages of results (what gives with that?).
So out of a total 2,650,000 pages that have the exact phrase "cowboy boots" somewhere in the page (multiple times even) only 587 are apparently indexed sufficiently to show up on a SERP page???
What happened to the other 2,649,413 pages???
It would seem that instead of competing with almost 3 million other pages I am actually only competing against 587 other sites.
I've noticed that the numbers of total pages reported by Google seems to be near meaningless.
I just created a site a couple of weeks ago that is number 5 today for it's keyword phrase...out of almost 6,000,000 pages mentioning that phrase but the site I created is nothing. I mean nothing. It's a joke that it can rank so well against so many others. I mean that sincerely. It's an absolute joke.
Or should I say a testament to how ridiculous Google can get sometimes. My site is not really, literally a joke but it has no meta tags, no page title, no incoming links to it at all...you get the drift.
Which again leads me to believe that the whopping big numbers returned by Google might indeed be the number of pages found by them to