Add option for Top 3 and / or Top 5 Keyword Difficulty score
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Rob Callaghan
While Keyword Difficulty is a handy metric to have, it only shows the ease of ranking in the Top 10.
This seems to be a hang-up of old school SEO. Surely in 2018 and beyond we want to go beyond just appearing on the first page of the SERPs?
Traffic is negligible in the lower positions, so I'd be much more interested in a Top 5 or Top 3 KD score. If the UI / UX permits, all three would be great (Top 3, 5 and 10).
Tim Soulo
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I'm afraid we don't have any good way to even remotely accurately estimate the difficulty of ranking in Top3/Top5.. once you rank in top10, a ton of other ranking factors will kick in besides just backlink factors
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F.V
I think a better view here would be:
What is the lowest KD possible to rank in the 1st SERP?
Because there are a lot of instances in hundreds of different markets in which pages rank up with really low SEO metrics, but with high relevance due to great content, search intent fit, etc.So you can end up seeing pages with a huge backlink profile that skews the results, and yet on that same SERP, you can find the low backlink ones which show that it is possible to rank in that high competitive SERP.
In that sense, we are missing a big part of the puzzle with huge backlink profiles skewing the results. We need to find the odd ones, and the minimum KD possible would allow for that.