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**Advertiser Competition (AC) - this shows the number of Google Adwords advertisers bidding on
that particular keyword. This only indicates the competition for advertisers, and is not a reflection
of the competition for the actual keyword, and therefore is not of that much help to us.
*** Local Search Volume (LSV) - this shows an approximation of how many times that term was
searched for in your country, in your language, in the most recent month that Google has stats for.
This can be used to determine how popular a search term is in your country.
**** Global Monthly Search Volume (GMSV) - this shows an approximate worldwide monthly average
for each search term, based on the past year. This can used to determine how popular a search
term is worldwide.
While you want a search keyword that gets a decent amount of monthly searches, the more searches
it gets the harder it will be to rank highly for the term. In general, try to find keywords that get
between 1,000 and 5,000 local monthly searches to start with. You will be able to rank them highly
in a much shorter time than high competition keywords so you can start getting traffic in the near
future. As time goes on, you can begin to work on higher competition keywords.
Step 6: Checking the competition: find a keyword you are interested in, and click on it, this will
bring up a Google search results page for that keyword. Click on the first results and copy the
website's URL. Head over to Yahoo, and paste that URL in the search field, then add “link:” before
it (no quotes, and no space between that and the url) then click the search button. This will bring
up a page like this:
