Using Keyword Difficulty in SEO
Overview
Yes, keywords are very important when you have a website that you are trying to promote or if you are working on being included among the top ranking websites in major search engines. And it is helpful that you know how difficult it would be for you to do this if you use a certain keyword. SEOmoz’s Keyword Difficulty will help you do this. It is a tool that analyzes the competitive landscape of a particular search term or phrase.
Useful Features
Keyword Difficulty gives the percentage of how competitive a search term is, including an explanation for this. There is also an explanation for every range of percentages, no matter where your search term falls among these ranges. The report also shows the factors why it got such score. It includes last month’s number of searches, number of result for Google search, the average page strength of the top ten results at Google and Yahoo. What’s more? It gives you the top ten ranking sites in Google and Yahoo for your search term with respective thorough analysis on each. With this, you know who to beat! And probably you could think of strategies on how to do it. This tool is also for free and it is so easy to sign up. Moreover, your previous queries are automatically saved in your account. So each time you sign up, you may also see the previous reports.
Negative Features
This may not be really negative for Keyword Difficulty considering the amount of information it gives in its report. The tool is quite slow contrary to what I expected.
In Conclusion
I find Keyword Difficulty very useful to webmasters and website owners. If you really wanted to be sure that you have keywords that would help you climb to the top ranks, it is now time to use Keyword Difficulty.
