Q: Keyword difficulty
Hey Greg,
Could you explain how to read kw difficulty score?
For example "Overall Difficulty Compared to all Keywords:
KD Hard Score: 11.78 | Estimated Ranking After On-Page Pg 2
-58.07%. Very Easy""
What does "Estimated Ranking After On-Page Pg 2
-58.07%. Very Easy"" mean?
For example the whole SERP is DR (Ahrefs) 70 on average, my site is DR 50.
As per your tool it says I can rank spot 2 on the first page? Or on the 2nd page?
Also the DR discrepancy is big, I know from my experience that very rarely you can outrank sites with DR higher than 10, so DR 60 sites I can't outrank with my website, let alone DR 70.
Just trying to understand if your tool could help add value to my processes.
I find helpful traffic value, trend value and keyword ROI bc I understand calculations behind those and they seem to be helpful.
Greg_KeywordSpy
Oct 15, 2024A: It's exactly what it says, you can rank on page 2 or better, if you use our on-page article builder and keyword spy tool, and that the keyword is Very easy compared to the rest of the keywords in our database. DR is very low ranking signal if at all. Great to hear about the traffic, trend value and keyword ROI, they are very helpful indeed. But the keyword difficulty is our secret sauce, it's very accurate. Please try to build a page with keyword spy and article builder, publish on your site and let us know your results.