Keyword research & how it's relevant to my site.

[dcostigan]

How do I know if I can compete on a particular keyword.  Say the keyword analysis tool shows the keyword difficulty is 59%. How do I know what 59% means to my site,  other than checking domain and page authority relative to my site (i.e. if sites in the top 10 are higher or lower authority than my site).  Is there a way of showing what keyword difficulty percentage is a cut off point for my site?

Thanks,

Dan

[NakulGoyal]

I think there's no way to get a real answer. Think of this. Let's say Microsoft.com wants to rank for Debt Consolidation as a keyword which has a keyword difficulty of let's say 75. Another keyword they want to rank for is Software, which lets say is 95.

Considering their domain content niche, the nature and relevancy of the links pointing to Microsoft, which would essentially be related to Software, it would be very easy for that domain to rank for Software then Debt Consolidation even though Debt Consolidation might be a lot easier in terms of keyword difficulty.

I would read the keyword difficulty in terms of what kind of keywords you currently rank for, the keywords you want to rank for, search volume and the niche of your website to figure out which keywords you should be targeting. I hope that makes sense.