Number of Search Results

[davewray]

For my not so targetted keyword, widgets, Google returns 8,100,000 results and for my targetted phrase, blue widgets, Google returns 1,300,000. Are these numbers considered large numbers of results that Google returns in terms of how much competition I'll have from other sites? In other words, how many search results does Google have for your MOST targetted and covetted keyword/phrase?

[creative craig]

For one site my main keyowrd is in a field of 6,300,000 and I come in at number 5. Thats the most competitive I have.

The rest are all around 3,000,000 and I rank in the top ten :)

Craig

Except that bloody baseball player is still taking the top 5 sposts for my name.. his time is up though!

[vitaplease]

Try an exact search for "blue widgets", that will show the real competitiveness. A couple of hundred thousand results on an exact search double word query will be starting to get quite competitive IMO.

Also: Search Overture bidding for another guideline of competitiveness.
Otherwise just spend 5 dollars on advertising with Google to get an idea.

[davewray]

It's weird though, my most "important" keyword phrase is four words long and it still has 1,300,000 results in Google! How can this be for such an obsure phrase? :)

[creative craig]

It must be more popular than you think :)

[davewray]

So what you're saying is that if my most important keyphrase returns over a million results I'm going to have to work my butt off to crack the top 20 in SERP to gain any meaningful traffic? I have another question...let's say your keyphrase has 1 million results returned in Google. At what position does it become worthless to even be indexed? What I mean is would I still get reasonable traffic if I was in the #30 position? (Reasonable traffic meaning a couple hundred hits a day).

[creative craig]

I wouldnt say that if its over a million it is that competitive, depends on what the competition are doing

Successful Site in 12 Months with Google Alone [webmasterworld.com]

One of the best threads on the site. This is what I have been trying to follow and it has been working for me :)

[davewray]

Thanks Craig! Actually, that is one of the very first threads I read when I found this site a couple of months ago. I even printed it off and filed it. I've been using it since I started building my site 2 months ago. The hardest part is adding content daily! But I've got almost 60 pages of 200 to 500 word content already, so I'm not doing too shabby. I've just been fresh crawled and deep crawled this month, so anxiously awaiting this update! I'm curious as to where I'll end up considering I've followed Brett's A-Z scheme as closely as possible...still working on links pointing to my site, but every single link that I have gotten to point to my site has my exact keyphrase as the anchor text :)