Residual Income Opportunity Blog

If you want to set up online success and passive income opportunities on the Internet then you’re going to need to have a solid understanding of how to go about doing keyword research in relation to the competition that is out there.

So today I wanted just to give you some quick tips on how you can go about assessing your competition for keywords that you are wanting to target and rank well for in Google or other search engines. First of all if you’re serious about making income online then make sure you are using the browser Mozilla Firefox. It has great SEO plugins that you can use to do your research.

If you have this browser set up I would download the useful plugin tool SEO Quake. This plugin will tell us some important information when looking at the top few results in Google. The results we’ll be concerned with here are the domains age and also the PR (page rank). I won’t go into how to set it up but this lovely little plug in will display all of that crucial information.

The next step is to take the keyword you are thinking about targeting and type it into good old Google. After we get our results back underneath the top domains the information we need will pop up. Below is the list of factors you should be checking for to see if your chosen keyword is heavy competition and if you have a chance of ranking and making any income with it.

• Domain age (The older the name the more authority they will have)
• Page rank (If page rank is 4 or higher it’s going to be pretty tough to beat quickly and will take more work)
• Is the keyword in the URL (If the keyword is in the url they will get more credit for that keyword too)
• Is the keyword in the website title displayed in Google (If the keyword is in the title means their title is optimized for that keyword)

Basically if a site has all of the four factors above mentioned then they will be fairly tough competition. That being said it doesn’t mean you should be giving up on the keyword that you had chosen and your online success towards making residual income. What it does mean is that you’ll have to work a bit harder. Good luck and more on SEO tips and tricks from me soon!