competition question

[thecleaner]

Why are the competition considered to be the ones in " ( "widget keyword" ) when most of these sites dont even make it to the top 10 in the first place.

Once you search without the " " , you see totally different sites in the top ten.

[thecleaner]

I ask because it just doesn't make since that I try and get in the top ten asked on sites that aren't even there themselves. Can anyone answer?

thanks again

[thecleaner]

can someone please answer this question?

[ptolemy]

If I understand what you are asking, the use of "" in a search bar generates different results when used and then removed.

If I type in "internet marketing", I will get one set of results.

But if I type in internet marketing, I will get a different set of results.

The "internet marketing" is a SQL query for exact match (i.e anything that contains the phrase - internet marketing.

The other, will just return results that have eithor internet or marketing or both.

[cabowabo]

Exactly, that is all you are doing anyway is "constraining" the search to an exact match .... stating that those set of words must be together.

A better way to find the true competition is the allinanchor:

allinanchor:keyword phrase

That will tell you the top sites that use that phrase as incoming link text. That is good info.