Most Competitive Single Keyword on Google

Most Competitive Single Keyword

[john_last]

Just out of interest can somebody tell me what the single most competitive keyword is on Google?

[vitaplease]

[javelina.cet.middlebury.edu...]

the
at
of
and
a
in
to
it
is
was
etc

although Google does not agree.

and most competitive nouns [esl.about.com]

[chamade]

look up 'www' and look at the category on top!

Forget the category, look at the listings.

ROTFL. Surely says something about their algo if Yahoo and Adobe can beat them at their own game :)

[incywincy]

welcome is interesting , the white house has the second warmest welcome in the world.

[HocusPocus]

Would "Click Here" be the most popular phrase with 7.6 million?

[LukeC]

"Methinks it's sex.
Porn is the single biggest money making biz on the net."

sex might be the most competitive word - but I was under the impression more money was made through online casinos and betting - surely the competitiveness of a word is not just the number of sites pitching for position but also the amount of revenue that can be generated from it?

[USMerch]

ROTFL. Surely says something about their algo if Yahoo and Adobe can beat them at their own game :)

Probably says, "FAIR" considering that Yahoo! actually has the keyword on the page in question, and google doesn't.

[Shak]

"Methinks it's sex.
Porn is the single biggest money making biz on the net."

Not True.

Shak

[USMerch]

"Methinks it's sex.
Porn is the single biggest money making biz on the net."

If I am not mistaken, and it does occur on occasion, the top money maker on the net is autions, and the top earner is not eBay, it is GE.

[creative craig]

Webmaster = 41,500,000

webreference
cio
sitepoint
webmaster
webmastertoolscentral
webmasterworld

Thats what I would call competitve, also considering the competition!

Craig

[incywincy]

i tnink that . (period, or dot) is the least competitive.

google returns nothing, not even an error or response, really weird! at least * returns 'no pages were found.

[EBear]

For commercial keywords, the amount bid on Adwords is probably the most accurate measure of competition.

See [webmasterworld.com...] to estimate this.

There's also Googlefight.com, which was discussed here last summer, but I can't find it in a search. (Does the Site Search search Foo?)

[jezzer72]

With the update taking so long, I would have expected the keyword "googleguy" to be pretty popular too ;-)

Only 2480 results though ...

[Dynamoo]

1 has 1.23 billion
2 has 801 million
3 has 741 million
4 has 618 million
5 has 567 million
6 has 455 million
7 has 404 million
8 has 329 million
9 has 349 million
10 has 524 million
11 has 380 million
12 has 402 million
13 has 271 million
14 has 274 million
15 has 309 million
16 has 243 million
17 has 193 million
18 has 250 million
19 has 221 million
20 has 310 million

So, the top 20 in order of popularity are 1,2,3,4,5,10,6,7,12,11,9,8,20,15,14,13,18,16,19,17.

It looks like prime numbers are less popular than non-primes.

Oh yes, 404 has 6.4 million matches.

(Pleeeease update the index Google, we're going stir crazy in here!)

[pixel_juice]

Dynamoo:

[webmasterworld.com...]

[DotBum]

I know it's not the best indicator but would the backward links for positions 1 & 10 of a given keyword be a better measure of competitiveness?

I'll start the ball rolling with news:
#1: 92500
#10: only 500 - surprising

I'm waiting for a lecture about pr not being the be all and end all... ; )

[DotBum]

Ok - killed that coversation pretty fast..

[Dynamoo]

erm - 765,000
ahem - 350,000
doh - 869,000
uh-huh - 376,000
uh-oh - 398,000
aargh - 40,600
eek - 637,000
pfft - 43,500
urgh - 44,800

[Dynamoo]

Or how about "link:www.yahoo.com" - it has no spaces, so is that a keyword? 223 matches. Not very competitive I know,

I think I'll go back to sleep now ;)

[renee]

here's my contribution to this insanity:

home - 439,000,000
about - 349,000,000
free - 317,000,000

[pixel_juice]

me - 198,000,000
you - 625,000,000

Curses!

[edit_g]

Us - 368,000,000
Them - 138,000,000

Nah, we're ok...

[novice]

com - 1,220,000,000
de - 1,130,000,000
net - 257,000,000
org - 195,000,000
jp - 112,000,000
co uk - 6,510,000

[creative craig]

Chicken = 6,970,000

Egg = 4,940,000

That settles that :)

[Dynamoo]

accommodation - 10,900,000
accomodation - 1,410,000
accomadation - 97,000
acommodation - 39,400
acomodation - 28,700
accommadation - 8,370
acommadation - 809

typosquatter - 445

[Slud]

Doesn't it make a lot more sense to use top actual (not max) Overture bid to figure out what word/phrase is most valuable.

Otherwise, why not "the" (in quotes)? 3,450,000,000 is a lot of hits.

[Dynamoo]

good - 117,000,000
evil - 11,200,000

but

heaven - 10,300,000
hell - 11,000,000

[Dynamoo]

satan - 2,350,000
saddam - 2,390,000

Saddam wins that one.

[Alternative Future]

War = 53,600,000
peace = 17,300,000

[added]Ok so we have already discussed war & peace :( half dead and asleep here[/added]

thick = 7,500,000
dim = 2,830,000
dence = 2,050,000
dunce = 63,000

Perhaps i should stick to what i do best ;-)

-gs

PS - let the dance begin!

[edited by: Alternative_Future at 2:02 pm (utc) on April 9, 2003]

[Gibble]

Work 115,000,000
Play 38,900,000

There has to be some mistake...

[renee]

love - 75,400,000
hate - 8,340,000

there's hope yet for this world!

let this thread keep going till the update so my valium will last!