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    • PTMPercy
      PTMPercy last edited by

      I'm familiar with ranking factors and can get a pretty good idea of whether going for a keyword is realistic by looking at the seomoz keyword difficulty tool. As well as the % score it has a lot of useful information. There was an seomoz article a while ago that detailed how 100 or so experts determine a keyword's competitiveness. Does anybody have the link? Or just as good, any useful guides to interpreting the data to gauge how possible it is to compete? Thanks

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      • paulbaguley
        paulbaguley last edited by

        Hello

        This is a method that John Doherty uses who works for distilled

        http://www.johnfdoherty.com/minimum-viable-keyword-research/

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