Your website traffic rankings are totally dependent on the amount of targeted traffic you can attract, or get in front of.  In the previous post, I covered a bit on the importance of keyword research for your website traffic rankings.

Now let’s pick up with analyzing your competition.  You need to know which keywords you can really dominate.  It’s not a guessing game, and a little analysis will take you a long way toward increasing online targeted traffic much faster.

The first thing to realize is that the number of competitors that show up when you do a Google search is not necessarily showing you how strong your competition is.  So yes, when you do a keyword search and the results show there are six million competitors for your keyword, but those competitors may very well be very poorly optimized competitors and you could find yourself easily jumping into the front of the line.

At the same time, you might find a keyword that shows in your Google search that it only has say 10,000 competitors for that keyword yet it may be impossible for you to become tops for that particular keyword phrase. This is because the people on the front page or so highly optimized that you will never be able to move them down from where they are.

So how do you really know who your competition is or how strong your competition is?

The answer is you really don’t.

So what are you going to do to increase your website traffic rankings if you really don’t know what the competition is?

Here are a few guidelines:

1. Look for keyword phrases that return less than 15,000 competing pages in Google.
2. Check the returns to see if there is many URLs without the keyword phrase in the URL.
3. Check to see if the pages in the returns are from authority sites. Fewer authority sites means less competition.

This type of research may take you a couple of days maybe even three days the first time you try it.  However, the bottom line is once you learn how to do this it won’t take that long to get used to looking for the right clues to know what your competition is and know that you will be able to compete easily and quickly and claim 1000 visitors are more every 30 days from the keyword you choose.  Your website traffic rankings will show the rewards.

- Wayne Sharer

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