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Using a variety of different factors, the tool will tell you the overall difficulty of ranking
for that keyword. The difficult it stats is how hoard Traffic Travis thinks it will be to get
on Page 1 for that keyword. Now, look at the different pages that already show up for
the keyword to see what you’ll need to do to reach Page 1:
• Website Age
• Page Rank
• Backlinks to Page
• Backlinks to Website
• Links from .edu and .gov
• DMOZ and Yahoo! Directory Listings
• Title Tag and Header Keyword Placement
In short, the tool will analyze the pages for all the things that are generally
recognized as important to Google. The green checkmarks will tell you how much of
the different SEO tasks needed to rank have been completed by the site. The fewer
green checks you see, the easier it will be to push your way into those rankings. The
difficulty rating may not be accurate 100% of the time, but it is often very accurate
and will give you a good idea of what terms to optimize for. Since a good website
should only optimize for a collection of phrases, you can then choose which ones to
