How To Get Free Search Engine Traffic Continued ….

When doing your keyword research look for a phrase with about 1,000 search results.

Below is a copy from a google search for weight loss:

You will see that the first two are authority sites – webmd.com and wikihow.com, which shows it can get to the first page, so you could aim for about spot 4  – but you could look at it another way in that the top 3 are going to get most of the traffic.

So you keep trying your keyword research until you can find a search volume of up to 1,000 which would be really good to work on and if you can find anything lower, even better.  If you can find this then you will probably not see any authority sites as they are large sites that rank again and again for lots of different search terms.

If you find a web 2.0 on the first page that is a good sign i.e. squidoo.com or weebly.com etc. As you know they can make page 1 – so you can use the same site for your article and try and beat the one already there or try a different site to see if you can get higher.

Next you need to search the sites with the exact phrase in the title or description of that page.  That will give you a rough idea of the comopetition.  I have said how important the title TAG can be in SEO, so any page you see without the exact phrase in it is probably not aiming to rank for it.

To do this, search for the phrase in speech marks i.e. “best tips to lose weight” or whatever your niche is and then that way Google will only find pages with that exact phrase in either the title or the description.

“best tips to lose weight” – Search 

Here you will see that there were 3,034 search results doing the phrase in speech marks.

Not everyone is going to search for phrases in speech marks so you may think it looks good but if the sites on the first page don’t have the phrase in the title or description, they are the pages you still have to beat.

So that figure of 3,034 will give you a good idea of your competition.  It is reckoned that anything with less than 50,000 can be beaten by Ezine Articles with a bit of work.  Below 20,000 should be even easier.  But there again you will get some keywords with only 5,000 results that you can’t seem to rank for and yet you will find others with 50,000 that you can rank for easily.  But this is just a rough guide.

So you can see there is very little competition and if you were an affiliate for something related to your keyword then it would be good to keep it.

If you find the level of the competition is around the 20,000 mark then you would need to take into account the number of backlinks the site has.

Google treats backlinks as ‘votes’ for your page and they let Google know how popular you are for any keyword phrase based on the text that is used to link to you (known as an anchor text).

So now check how many backlinks the two top sites have, which will give you an idea of how many you need to beat them.

To find out how many backlinks a site has – go to and you will be able to search any url and see how many backlinks they have.

Site Information for daily diet tips.co.uk

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Alexa Traffic Rank: 672,088 Traffic Rank in GB: 13,589

Sites Linking In: 24

As you can see this site has 24 backlinks which means that it can be easily beaten.  Now you need to go back through your list of keywords and repeat these steps for each one until you have a short list of the ones you can write articles about.

If you find this is taking up too much of your time then you could try MICRO NICHE FINDER or subscribe to WORDTRACKER.  I hope this has been of some help to you and tomorrow I will talk about the construction of your article.

To Your Success

Merle Gibbins

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