Competative Keywords

What do you consider in terms of numbers?

[duhboy]

Hello everyone

I was wondering what exactly folks here consider a "competative" keyword or phrase to be.
When I do a search for our most prominant kw,I get some of the following results:
Google 51,900 SERps
Yahoo 36,400
Altavista 15,445

Is this how you go about finding this information?
Can anyone suggest alternative method?

Thanks as always,Duhboy.

[heini]

sheer number of results says next to nothing.
A start would be to check for highest bids at PPC engines.
But really you'd have to analyse the top ranking sites for any given term: Are they done by professionals, are top rankings owned by some huge players, is money to be made etc.

[DaveN]

Hi duhboy,

One of my keyword sets.

google

2050,000 key1 ___ _____ ppc £2.85 
 415,000 key1 key2 ____ ppc £3.88 
 146,000 key3 key1 key2 ppc £4.15 

The three keyword phrase gets the quality traffic with high yield sales.

The single keyword is really a catch all with a low sales return

DaveN