Comments on: Match Types Explained – Broad Match, Phrase Match, Exact Match http://richquickreview.com/match-types-explained-broad-match-phrase-match-exact-match/ Only source for honest online marketing reviews. Wed, 08 Sep 2010 14:17:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Shane http://richquickreview.com/match-types-explained-broad-match-phrase-match-exact-match/comment-page-1/#comment-10970 Shane Fri, 16 Jul 2010 19:01:15 +0000 http://richquickreview.com/?p=314#comment-10970 Thanks for your comment! I'm glad you found this post helpful. Thanks for your comment! I’m glad you found this post helpful.

]]> By: calfred http://richquickreview.com/match-types-explained-broad-match-phrase-match-exact-match/comment-page-1/#comment-10940 calfred Fri, 16 Jul 2010 09:45:12 +0000 http://richquickreview.com/?p=314#comment-10940 Wow... Shane. This is VERY helpful. Especially about the part on beating the page 1 competition FOR BROAD MATCH. Thank you so much for posting this. Wow… Shane.

This is VERY helpful.

Especially about the part on beating the page 1 competition FOR BROAD MATCH.

Thank you so much for posting this.

]]> By: Shane http://richquickreview.com/match-types-explained-broad-match-phrase-match-exact-match/comment-page-1/#comment-4263 Shane Sun, 28 Feb 2010 23:42:56 +0000 http://richquickreview.com/?p=314#comment-4263 Thanks, Jesse. While Market Samurai is an excellent tool, in my opinion, the 30K (or any other number) search results benchmark is meaningless. It's simple, which is why it caught on (you can find this advice in many resources), but the number of results listed has very little to do with the competitiveness of a keyword. A benchmark like that assumes that the ratio of optimized vs. un-optimized pages will always be the same, no matter what keyword you're looking at, and that's simply not the case. For example, if you look at a keyword closely related to a popular ClickBank product or just generally a popular, high-priced product with an affiliate option, you can bet that there will be many, many pages of highly optimized content. People are scrambling to get their sites to page one for hot CB products and there may be relatively few sites listed in the results that are <em>not</em> specifically optimized for that keyword. For other keywords, you sometimes have to go no further than page two to find sites that you can easily beat with some solid on-page SEO and a couple of backlinks. The number of results listed in these two scenarios may or may not be similar. Finally, the keyword you go for should be determined by the SEO strenght <em>of the pages listed in the top few results</em>. If you have enough experience, skills, tools and time to beat those sites, go for it. Example: If you know your on-page SEO and you know you can comfortably build 100 good backlinks in a reasonable amount of time, go for any keyword with non-super-optimized pages that have <100 backlinks listed on page one in the results. Hope this helps. Thanks, Jesse.
While Market Samurai is an excellent tool, in my opinion, the 30K (or any other number) search results benchmark is meaningless. It’s simple, which is why it caught on (you can find this advice in many resources), but the number of results listed has very little to do with the competitiveness of a keyword.
A benchmark like that assumes that the ratio of optimized vs. un-optimized pages will always be the same, no matter what keyword you’re looking at, and that’s simply not the case. For example, if you look at a keyword closely related to a popular ClickBank product or just generally a popular, high-priced product with an affiliate option, you can bet that there will be many, many pages of highly optimized content. People are scrambling to get their sites to page one for hot CB products and there may be relatively few sites listed in the results that are not specifically optimized for that keyword.
For other keywords, you sometimes have to go no further than page two to find sites that you can easily beat with some solid on-page SEO and a couple of backlinks. The number of results listed in these two scenarios may or may not be similar.
Finally, the keyword you go for should be determined by the SEO strenght of the pages listed in the top few results. If you have enough experience, skills, tools and time to beat those sites, go for it. Example: If you know your on-page SEO and you know you can comfortably build 100 good backlinks in a reasonable amount of time, go for any keyword with non-super-optimized pages that have <100 backlinks listed on page one in the results.
Hope this helps.

]]> By: jesse http://richquickreview.com/match-types-explained-broad-match-phrase-match-exact-match/comment-page-1/#comment-4261 jesse Sun, 28 Feb 2010 22:15:38 +0000 http://richquickreview.com/?p=314#comment-4261 Super helpful. I was looking for somethign to answer this exact question "but nobody searches with quotes!" Anyways, I am using Market Samurai for my KW research, and they can only pull and show competing pages for PHRASE match. They recommend anything under 30k competing phrase match Google page results as a good indicator of something worth the effort to optimiaze and rank for. What is your thoughts on this <30k benchmark?? Jesse Super helpful. I was looking for somethign to answer this exact question “but nobody searches with quotes!”

Anyways, I am using Market Samurai for my KW research, and they can only pull and show competing pages for PHRASE match.

They recommend anything under 30k competing phrase match Google page results as a good indicator of something worth the effort to optimiaze and rank for.

What is your thoughts on this <30k benchmark??

Jesse

]]> By: Shane http://richquickreview.com/match-types-explained-broad-match-phrase-match-exact-match/comment-page-1/#comment-2884 Shane Mon, 11 Jan 2010 07:26:05 +0000 http://richquickreview.com/?p=314#comment-2884 Thank you for the kind comment! I'm very happy that you found this article so useful. Thank you for the kind comment! I’m very happy that you found this article so useful.

]]> By: Jim Morecraft http://richquickreview.com/match-types-explained-broad-match-phrase-match-exact-match/comment-page-1/#comment-2856 Jim Morecraft Sun, 10 Jan 2010 16:20:07 +0000 http://richquickreview.com/?p=314#comment-2856 Shane, Love the article. This is one of the toughest items for me to grasp and implement into everday keyword selection for my webpages. I give websites away completely free with no attached sales proposal and make no money doing so and I deal with people that have absolutely no knowledge of the importance of keyword research or how to perform it. I do want to thank you for providing valuable information and taking time out of your schedule to assemble this info for all of us to use. I am putting this site on my website as an Rss feed because it will provide tremendous help for beginners that visit my site. Thanks again Shane. Jim Morecraft Shane,
Love the article. This is one of the toughest items for me to grasp and implement into everday keyword selection for my webpages. I give websites away completely free with no attached sales proposal and make no money doing so and I deal with people that have absolutely no knowledge of the importance of keyword research or how to perform it.
I do want to thank you for providing valuable information and taking time out of your schedule to assemble this info for all of us to use.
I am putting this site on my website as an Rss feed because it will provide tremendous help for beginners that visit my site.
Thanks again Shane.
Jim Morecraft

]]> By: Shane http://richquickreview.com/match-types-explained-broad-match-phrase-match-exact-match/comment-page-1/#comment-2601 Shane Wed, 06 Jan 2010 15:44:17 +0000 http://richquickreview.com/?p=314#comment-2601 Hi Rick, Hey, no one's an instant master at anything. The problem with this whole make-money-online thing is that you're constantly bombarded with these claims that you can make thousands of dollars in no time at all. The reality is that even the uber-gurus mostly had no success in their first few months or even years doing this. Internet marketing has a learning curve, just like everything else. And just like everything else, if you stick with it and stay focused, you'll eventually make it. Happy keyword hunting! :) Cheers, Shane Hi Rick,
Hey, no one’s an instant master at anything. The problem with this whole make-money-online thing is that you’re constantly bombarded with these claims that you can make thousands of dollars in no time at all. The reality is that even the uber-gurus mostly had no success in their first few months or even years doing this.
Internet marketing has a learning curve, just like everything else. And just like everything else, if you stick with it and stay focused, you’ll eventually make it.

Happy keyword hunting! :)

Cheers,
Shane

]]> By: Rick http://richquickreview.com/match-types-explained-broad-match-phrase-match-exact-match/comment-page-1/#comment-2600 Rick Wed, 06 Jan 2010 14:41:50 +0000 http://richquickreview.com/?p=314#comment-2600 Hi Shane, I am a beginner with keyword research and beginning to 'get it'. No instant keyword master, but from this point forward, there is no going back. I appreciate your clear teaching by example with text and video for reinforcement. Thanks for the “Ah-ha!” moment. Rick Hi Shane,
I am a beginner with keyword research and beginning to ‘get it’. No instant keyword master, but from this point forward, there is no going back. I appreciate your clear teaching by example with text and video for reinforcement.
Thanks for the “Ah-ha!” moment.
Rick

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