This metric is a percentage (1–100%). The higher it is, the harder it is to outrank your competitors in organic search results.
Keyword Difficulty will assess how difficult it is to organically outrank your competitors for a given keyword. You’ll find a column with this metric in almost every Semrush keyword report, labeled KD%.
To analyze keyword difficulty in bulk, you can enter greek telegram up to 100 keywords at a time into the Keyword Overview report .
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In addition to difficulty, this report shows a keyword's monthly volume, number of URLs in organic results, and SERP features. You can also see a snapshot of a keyword's SERP and popularity trend over the past 12 months.
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With this information, you can identify the best low-competition keywords that you can realistically target in organic search and those that you shouldn’t waste your SEO resources on, but try to target with PPC.
Finding low-competition keywords takes patience, but it pays off because you won’t waste time and energy trying to achieve unrealistic ranking goals.
Competitive keyword research is another approach; this method uses websites already present in the SERP as a starting point.
Instead of seed keywords, collect seed websites to start your research.
The steps to follow:
Discover your organic competitors
Identify your rivals in paid search
Compare Keyword Portfolios
Organic Research: Discover Your Organic Competitors
With Organic Research, you can find your competitors in organic search, see the keywords they rank for, and examine the recent ups and downs of their pages in search results.
To get started, go to Organic Research, enter your domain in the search bar, select the Competitor tab , and scroll down to the table:
