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Saturday, August 27, 2005

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There's a useful tool at SearchGuild.com titled "Search Term Difficulty Checker".

Search Term Difficulty Checker is an online application that makes use of the Google API to analyze a keyword phrase search in order to dertermine the difficulty of acheiving a top 10 ranking for that phrase.

It does this by analyzing the results of the search with an algorithm that approximates the Google search algorithm.

After sifting through my email for my Google API key, which this tool requires, I tried out a couple of phrases myself and here are the results. (The higher the number, the more difficult it is to rank a phrase or keyword.)

google - PRACTICALLY IMPOSSIBLE: 5458186

web promotion - INTERMEDIATE: 62110

seo - INTERMEDIATE: 30134

search engine optimization - INTERMEDIATE: 27072

robert raught - INTERMEDIATE: 20451

flying spaghetti monster - EASY: 2796

Now if I could only find a client that wants to promote a website about flying spaghetti monsters. Hrm...

Here's a link to Search Term Difficulty Checker

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3 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

nice :)
;))

10:27:00 PM  
Blogger scatterp said...

Hi hows it calculated ?
any one with info email me please

|scatterp321 AT yahoo.co.uk|

4:15:00 AM  
Blogger scatterp said...

Hi can any one tell me how this is calculated?

4:15:00 AM  

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