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DAHLONEGA, GA – After going 4-1 this past week and earning Peach Belt Conference Tournament Runner-up honors, the North Georgia Saints softball team held onto the No. 11-ranking in the latest NFCA Top 25 poll.
North Georgia swept Francis Marion 4-1 and 9-4 on Thursday, before heading down to Columbus for the Peach Belt Conference Tournament.
The Saints beat Georgia College 7-6 on Saturday morning in comeback style. Tiffanie Burns hit a three-run home run to knot the game at six a piece and won on a Katherine Martin walk-off walk.
On Sunday, the Saints beat USC Aiken 9-0 to earn a place in their fith consecutive PBC Tournament Championship against Columbus State, which the Saints ultimately lost 4-1.
Valdosta State remained No. 1 receiving all 16 first-place votes, while Kutztown, Central Oklahoma, Indianapolis, and Tampa rounded out the top five.
Armstrong dropped to No. 8 after their loss to Columbus State in the PBC semifinals, while Columbus State received votes and landed just outside the top 25 this week.
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Sunday, February 13, 2011
* Homemade Lollipop Photo Valentines!
8 comments:
- Bex said...
This is too stinkin cute!
- February 13, 2011 at 12:49 PM
- Harvest Moon by Hand said...
Very clever!
- February 13, 2011 at 1:47 PM
- amomwithalessonplan.com said...
What a great idea. I bet the kids will love it! We made valentine snow globes. The idea was great, but they were way too much work for a 5 year old.
- February 13, 2011 at 4:27 PM
- Buttons in a cup mama said...
Really cute !
- February 14, 2011 at 1:09 PM
- nikki said...
love your blog :) you are such an inspiration :) I am young and dont have kids yet but I am finishing my bachelor degree in education so i found many great ideas. i love living green and reusing things so thats an extra plus :)
just want to thank you for the great ideas and for being an inspiration. i hope one day i could do such lovely projects with my kids.
hugs and kisses
- February 15, 2011 at 1:21 AM
- pink and green mama MaryLea said...
@ Nicola --
Thanks so much for your kind words! I'm sure you'll be a great mom some day, I found that teaching elementary school was the perfect background/prep for motherhood!!! : )
pink and green mama,
- February 15, 2011 at 8:05 AM
- Sassy Marmalade said...
This is super cute! I can also totally see this working as a grown-up Valentine, as well. Love it!
- February 15, 2011 at 9:41 AM
- Theophan said...
I just found this post from last year on Pinterest. I love it! I posted the picture on my little blog as a link back to yours, I hope that is okay.
Have a happy Valentine's day,
Eric Baldwin
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Notice the slam dunk contest picture "Jordan poses with (from left to right) Clyde Drexler 6'7", Orlando Woolridge 6'9", Julius Erving 6'7", Terence Stansbury 6'5" , Dominique Wilkins 6'8", Larry Nance 6'11" and Darrell Griffith 6'4". Jordan is short in that pic no way he was 6'6" as a rookie. This really caught me off guard although idolized him. Had first pair of Air Jordans for HS ball in '85 and when 19-20 yrs old worked up to easy over 42" vert for 6' white boy due to watching Jordan. Could dunk flat foot straight up one hand or drop step two hand off two feet - Thanks Mike for the inspiration but 2 knee surgeries later in life was cost.
In Focus: Michael Jordan as a rookie
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Portland's Damian Lillard is not only the front-runner for Rookie of the Year but he's also bidding to become the first rookie guard to play in the All-Star Game since Michael Jordan 28 years ago. As fans continue to vote, we look back at Jordan's rookie year of 1984-85.
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I really admire Lebron James and he is great. But Michael Jordan gave the impression he was super human. He was great on a super-natural level. That's something James doesn't have.
I remember the Saturday Night Live "Super Fans" skit where they talk about how many championships the Bulls would win and the consensus was: "not 3-peat, 4-peat, or 5-peat, but minimum 8-peat" Eight championships in a row. Everybody laughs at it like its a joke but in hindsight, it was prophetic.
If it weren't for the hiatus in Jordan's NBA career after his dad was murdered, he would have stayed in and the Bulls would have rolled over the rest of the NBA eight years in a row if not ten.
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Taking nine players from the DobberHockey Top 10 Prospects list, and tossing in goalie Simeon Varlamov...let's take a look at how camp is progressing.
1) John Tavares - New York Islanders
He has only played two pre-season games but Tavares has a long way to go. He appears lost on the ice at times and although he clearly belongs in the NHL, he is not close to his upside as a first-line center. He has scored one routine assist in two games. It's very early but it looks like it's going to take some time for him to adapt. Expect a season similar to Steve Stamkos' rookie campaign. Tavares' Calder chances will depend on how quickly he adapts to the NHL game and how often he scores once he does. Tavares is handicapped terribly with an incredible lack of offensive support. Tavares should score at least 45 points.
2) Nikita Filatov - Columbus Blue Jackets
The young Russian added 17 much needed pounds of muscle over the summer. Filatov's frail build last season was reminiscent of teammate Derick Brassard whose light frame cost him the Calder. Filatov is going to need all the help he can get with veteran-loving coach Ken Hitchcock behind Columbus' bench. Hitchcock uncharacteristically referred to the "new NHL" as a young man's league when Filatov said he would consider playing in the KHL if he was demoted. The rhetoric died down considerably after Freddie Modin went down with an injury on September 20th. With Modin out 4-6 weeks, Filatov will definitely start the season with Columbus and likely with Brassard who he has played with consistently. Filatov has three points in four games with about 16 minutes of ice time. Expect his minutes to decline once the season begins but expect 45 points anyway.
3) James van Riemsdyk - Philadelphia Flyers
van Riemsdyk has played well in the pre-season. From all accounts he worked hard during the summer and although the Flyers have considerable depth, there is a spot available on the left side, albeit not in the top six. van Riemsdyk has three goals and four points in four games averaging 15 minutes of ice-time. On almost any other team he would have a good chance to make the top-six, but this Flyer team is a Cup contender and doesn't need him at the moment. After playing only 11 AHL games last season, expect the New Jersey native to be up and down between Adirondack and Philadelphia, especially if there are any top-six injuries.
4) Simeon Varlamov - Washington Capitals
Washington's brass have taken the obvious (Jose Theodore's $5 million contact) step of anointing Theodore their No. 1 goalie. Dobber has stated publicly that this will only be a temporary situation and that Theodore will eventually give way to Varlamov. How long that takes and how many games Varlamov plays will largely determine his Calder chances. Varlamov has two wins in three games and has enjoyed a solid pre-season
5) Claude Giroux - Philadelphia Flyers
Giroux is pretty much ensconced in Philadelphia's lineup after posting 32 points in 48 games (including playoffs) last season. Only 21, Giroux still needs to gain about 20 pounds to take the constant pounding he's going to receive over a full NHL season. Aside from his frame, however, Giroux has nothing left to prove in the minors and should score at least 50 points this season. Giroux has three points in four pre-season games despite playing only 15 minutes and averaging four minutes a game killing penalties.
6) Matt Duchene - Colorado Avalanche
The Avalanche wants to know as much as possible about Duchene before they decide to keep him for his 10th NHL game or send him back to junior. Duchene has played 16 minutes per game for five games and has seen an average of three minutes on the power play. He has three points so far and has played well defensively, but the Avs don't want to rush their most prized asset. The problem is that Colorado has only Paul Stastny, Milan Hejduk, Wojtek Wolski and Marek Svatos in their top six. There will be a lot of pressure to keep Duchene in Colorado. Expect him to stick. He's looking more and more like a top Calder candidate every day. Expect 50+ points.
7) Cody Hodgson - Vancouver Canucks
The sneaky good Hodgson has averaged only 12 minutes of ice time over five pre-season games. Vancouver's depth at forward is the only thing holding Hodgson back from the Calder Trophy. For example, Hodgson is very responsible defensively and yet has seen almost no time on the penalty kill. Hodgson is more than ready for the NHL but the Canucks are going to have to find a way to keep getting him at least 12 minutes a night in order to keep his development on track. Hodgson has scored twice in the pre-season. Look for slow, steady development and about 40 points.
8) Jamie Benn - Dallas Stars
A goal-scoring power winger, the 6'2, 205-pound Benn continues to defy expectations. After scoring almost a goal per game in the WHL last season, Benn has scored four times in four pre-season games despite playing on the third line 30 percent of the time. Benn has averaged 15 minutes of ice-time per game but has received more than his fair share of power play time which bodes well for his regular season. His average of four minutes of power play ice-time is a direct result of Dallas' dearth of top-six talent. Mike Ribeiro, Brendan Morrow, Brad Richards and Loui Eriksson are the only true top-six forwards, Sergei Zubov is gone and if Morrow gets injured, Ribeiro's points will disappear. This team needs Benn as much as Colorado needs Duchene. If Morrow goes down and Benn clicks with Ribeiro, look for Benn to score 55 points and win the Calder.
9) Ville Leino - Detroit Red Wings
Talk about a sweet situation. Leino, 25, can play centre or right wing and has the talent to play in Detroit's top-six. He'll likely start the season on the second line with Valtteri Filppula and Jason Williams. He has scored three points in three games although his four minutes of power play ice-time per game bodes well for his regular season. An injury is the only thing stopping him from getting 50 points although his age and his great support will take away some Calder votes.
10) Jiri Tlusty - Toronto Maple Leafs
If anyone has been a major disappointment on this list it has been Tlusty. After a solid AHL season, it looked like Tlusty was ready to break through. Instead, the "Frat Pack" of Viktor Stalberg, Christian Hanson and Tyler Bozak has grossly overshadowed Tlusty's pre-season performance. Even 18 year old first rounder Nazem Kadri has made Tlusty look ordinary. Tlusty is destined to spend most of the season with the Marlies. He will see some time with the Leafs because the young guns are not going to be able to play a full NHL season after playing in college.
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As for the Calder race I have an article in Dobber's Fantasy Guide where I list my top 20 candidates. I am well aware that Giroux doesn't qualify and nor did I mention anything about him and the Calder in my article. Like I said, I took nine of 10 players from Dobber's Top 10 list of prospects.
I don't think Tavares is Daigle because at least Daigle could skate. I've interviewed Tavares though and he was as mature a kid as I've interviewed and I've interviewed about 100. Tavares has a tonne of mental toughness and will eventually fulfill his promise - just not this year.
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Hi, I'm a single new mom, and I got post partum depression, plus my son has colic. I'm also bipolar, I don't know if that makes the post partum any worse or not... My doctor put me on another antidepressant for the post partum, but I think I need to get the dosage adjusted when I go in for my checkup next week. I'm so depressed all the time, and crying a lot. My son's colic is driving me crazy! Even on days when he sleeps a lot, he cries whenever he's awake and I'm not handling it very well. Thankfully he is at least sleeping through the night though, so I am getting my rest at night. His colic isn't from gas or reflux, so I have no clue what's wrong and nothing I try helps. A lot of times I just have to hold him and let him cry, or put him in his swing and pray he'll cry himself to sleep.
I'm in school online for medical transcription, and had started studying again for about a week, and now for the past week I just don't want to study any more and I feel like I'm getting so behind, which just stresses me out even more. I stay stressed out and tense all the time now. I keep catching myself clenching my teeth without realizing it, I do it so much that my teeth hurt!
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My main thought after reading your post is that YOU ARE NOT ALONE. Always remember that. Being a new mom is tough, plus you're doing it without a partner. Give yourself a pat on the back for each hour you get through successfully. You are doing a great thing and I promise you that each day your baby gets older, the easier it gets and the less he will cry! (The beauty of being a human is we develop language skills to communicate what we want, thank goodness!) I noticed that slowly, he started to babble his frustrations rather than cry them to me. And your son will too.
I think you should go talk to your son's pediatrician about the colic. A good friend of mine thought her son had it (he is six months old now), but it turned out to be a terrible allergic reaction to dairy she consumed which she then passed on to him when nursing. They did all sorts of tests to determine this. She listened to him scream for the first three months of life straight, and finally they figured it out. In retrospect she wishes she'd have sought her pediatrician's help on this sooner. (My son didn't have "colic" per se, but he did have pretty bad gastric distress every night for about three hours. He screamed and writhed in pain, and nothing we did helped. Our pediatrician said we just had to get through it and he would outgrow it. He eventually did and life is SO much better now!)
The main piece of advice I can offer you that helped my post partum sadness so much is this: FIX THE ISOLATION. When your son is having a crying bout, go outside to where people are. A park. A mall (nothing soothes a crying baby like a moving stroller and some open space!). Make it your thing to leave the house at least once a day. Meet up with a friend for coffee and bring the little guy along. Join or create a local playgroup ( I did both online - so easy to organize that way). Attend a story hour at your local library, or sign up for a baby music class, a gymboree class, or even a swim class at your local Y! I have done all these things and have found them to be invaluable and giving me a reason to get up and showered, a reprieve from the confines of my house, and a nice outing for me and my son together. I call them our "adventures." They are great. Especially now that the weather is getting warmer, it's going to be even easier for you to get outdoors and explore!
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Taking advantage of the first warm Saturday of spring, I headed for the park to catch some sun. Not long after I settled in, a woman and her daughter sat at the picnic table next to mine. They systematically placed their lunch on the table and asked me if I cared to Join them. I must have had my indigent look about me.
After lunch the little girl said she was tired and wanted to take her nap. I couldn't imagine why an energetic child that age wanted to nap rather than play on a beautiful day. The mother explained her daughter had a terrible nightmare and didn't have a good night's sleep. All day long she kept asking, "Where do we go when we're sleeping?" I told the mother asking the question is normal. It's the first sign of self-realization and it's a personal subjective thought we all have to deal with in our lives. After 70 years of life, I still remember my nightmare of self-realization.
Every night before I went to sleep, my mother and I knelt beside my bed and recited the prayer: "Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep. If I shall die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take." I never knew what the prayer meant, I just recited the words to please my mother. But one night, before I went to sleep, I started to think about the meaning of the words in the prayer. I became anxious, confused and afraid.
After a while I fell asleep. Later, I woke up screaming in fear and trembling with anxiety. My body was shivering in a cold sweat. I kept asking my father, "What is a soul? Who was the lord and what does it mean to "die before I wake? Am I going to die in my sleep?" And like the little girl, I asked, "Where do I go when I'm sleeping?" I thought I would never sleep again, fearing I'd have another nightmare or die in my sleep.
Growing up during the early 1900s when child labor was allowed, my dad only had a third grade education. But he tried to explain life's mysteries in a few paragraphs.
He said, "Sleep is part of a circle of awareness. It's just another form of consciousness we don't understand or appreciate until we get tired, older and wiser. At one time or another in life most of us experience some form of fear of sleeping. But there isn't anything to fear about sleeping or dying. You only die once. If you fear death, you die every day of your life."
As far as soul, the lord and death are concerned, there are two options. You can waste your whole life in fear, searching for answers that don't exist, or you can live your life as a good, kind, loving, generous, honest and responsible person and the meaning of sleep and death will come to you.
Christian catechism teaches us to fear death at an early age. Churches were built on the foundation of fear, death, the blood sacrifice of Christ and martyrdom of saints. If you're not subservient to their superstition of God the Father your eternal punishment is sleeping in the raging fire in Hell. It's a wonder all Christians don't have nightmares of dying in their sleep.
But is their God our father? What father in his right mind would create children in his cruel image, measure their love for him in blood, threaten to throw them into the flames of Hell and punish them with eternal death if they were not subservient to him? Only the father of Christianity. If any father did that to his children in today's reality, they would arrest him for child abuse.
Thankfully, my father wasn't a god. He insulated me from the morbid ceremonies of the church. He taught me human qualities and how to live my life. He showed me how to find the place I go to every night while I'm sleeping.
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Key Points
- Keyword competition metrics are available in the Wordtracker Keywords tool.
- Wordtracker has partnered with MajesticSEO.com, who have collected SEO data on over 1 trillion unique URLs.
Keywords with a high search volume and a low level of competition can bring search marketers quick profits. Wordtracker now helps you find these moneymaking keywords quicker, easier and more effectively than ever before.
To show you how, let's take a quick example. Suppose you're a weight-loss specialist and you want to educate people about nutrition. A search with nutrition in Wordtracker's new keywords tool returns you 1,000 different searches containing the word nutrition. The screen grab below shows the first seven results:
1 - A search for nutrition reveals 1,000 different keywords containing the word nutrition.
Great! Those 1,000 keywords are from Wordtracker's sample database of ~600 million real searches for the past year. The red arrow above points to their combined search volume of over 58,000 searches.
That looks interesting enough to investigate further. So you click on "Get additional metrics" and two new columns for two exciting new metrics are revealed (see image 2 below). They are:
- In Anchor And Title (IAAT) which measures the level of serious competition for each keyword.
- KEI (Keyword Effectiveness Index) calculated with a new formula that finds the keywords most likely to give you a good return on investment. KEI considers both the number of searches (Popularity) for a keyword and the level of competition for it.
You can see some results for these new metrics in the following screen grab:
2 - Getting additional metrics shows you the level of serious competition (In Anchor And Title) for each keyword and how likely they are to give you a good return if you invest in them (KEI).
Note that in the above grab we are looking at just the first eight of 1,000 keywords. But even there, the following three keywords stand out as having a high number of searches and a low level of serious competition (In Anchor And Title): * mcdonalds nutrition facts * turkey burger nutrition * fruit nutrition fact
Finding the level of serious competition
Let's look at our measure of serious competition (In Anchor And Title - IAAT) a little closer. The number 61 next to mcdonalds nutrition facts above means that we have found 61 web pages on the internet which include this keyword within both their page title tag and the anchor text of at least one incoming link. Hence the catchy name: In Anchor And Title (IAAT).
These 61 pages are serious competition you must beat to get search engine traffic for mcdonalds nutrition acts. Let me explain why...
THIS IS IMPORTANT: An anchor text link containing a keyword is the most powerful single thing a page can have if it is to compete on search engines for that keyword. Plus, using a keyword in its page title tag is the most powerful single thing you can do on a page (an inbound link is off the page) to help it do well on search engines for that keyword.
So if a page has a keyword in both the anchor text of at least one inbound link and its page title tag, there is a good chance it is a page well optimized for search engines and hence serious competition.
Thinking of the internet as a whole, the number of times a keyword appears in the inbound links ("anchor text") and page title tags tells us how much serious competition there is for that keyword.
So going back to mcdonalds nutrition facts with its low-looking IAAT score of 61 and high search count, it's a good plan to target that keyword, perhaps by writing an article for your website around mcdonalds nutrition facts.
The number 61 next to mcdonalds nutrition facts means that we have found 61 web pages on the internet which include this keyword within both the title tag and at least one of the incoming links to each page. This is your real competition and 61 pages looks very beatable for a first page ranking.
You can read more about our metrics here: 'What do Wordtracker's Keywords tool numbers mean?'
Drill down to find more keywords
So you've honed in a potentially profitable keyword—which is great—but that's not all you can do with Wordtracker. Browse the results and you see that 'facts' is mentioned quite a lot—perhaps there's more potential there? There's a great new Wordtracker feature that can help you find out...
At position 2 in the results, you see the keyword nutrition facts and right beside it, the word 'search' in brackets. Just click on 'search' to drill down and find keywords that contain the word nutrition and facts:
3 - Drill down with a further search on any listed keyword by clicking 'search'.
A brand new Keyword Effectiveness Index (KEI) that finds your most profitable keywords
Now let's test the power of the new KEI metric on our nutrition facts search.
Click on 'KEI' in the heading bar and your results are sorted by KEI—with the big hitters at the top. These are your most promising keywords because they have a high search volume to competition ratio.
4 - Sorting by KEI to find your most promising keywords.
Above we looked at our search results to find interesting keywords, but here we see how using Wordtracker's new KEI does this search for us. KEI finds many more moneymaking keywords quicker than a manual search ever can. All of these keywords give you ideas for content. For example, you can educate people on nutritional facts about fast food, then show healthy alternatives to McDonald's and target those searching with mcdonalds nutrition facts.
You're attracting a market who is looking for nutritional information about McDonald's food, and giving them exactly what they want. You are then taking a percentage of those people who might be looking for a healthier option in a new direction—your new direction.
As the late Gary Halbert would say, you've found a starving crowd, some of whom may be questioning their fast food intake and are looking for more healthy options.
Where does all this valuable competition information come from?
Wordtracker's valuable new In Anchor And Title (IAAT) and KEI metrics come from studying inbound links and page title tags of almost one trillion URLs (web pages). Remember, these are two of the most important factors search engines use to determine which sites should come top of their results.
5 - Wordtracker now uses Majestic SEO's crawl of almost 1 trillion URLs to deliver incredibly accurate competition metrics about your possible target keywords.
Wordtracker teamed up with MajesticSEO.com to get this incredible data. Majestic have collected over 1 trillion unique URLs from over 115 billion crawled pages.
Which is a lot!
You can see in the graph below how Majestic SEO has long surpassed all the other link building databases and is nearly on a par with Google's last reported one trillion pages here:
6 - The purple line above shows Majestic SEO now indexes many more URLs than the competition. That gives you more accurate estimates of the competition for your keywords.
Source: http://www.majesticseo.com/research/competitors-analysis.php
Majestic count every keyword in 115 billion pages' title tags
MajesticSEO.com have counted the number of times a keyword appears within the title text of 115 billlion web pages like this:
7 - An example of a page title tag.
Majestic count every keyword in the anchor text of over 1 trillion URLs
And they have counted the number of times a keyword appears in the anchor text of over 1 trillion links like this:
8 - An example of some anchor text.
Majestic count the pages with a keyword in both its anchor text and its title tag
The number of pages on which a keyword is used in both inbound links ('anchor text') and its title tags ('In Anchor And Title' pages) tells us how much serious competition there is for that keyword. You can verify this information at SEOMoz.org's excellent Ranking Factors page.
And that is exactly what Majestic SEO counts for us. You can see those counts in the In Anchor And Title (IAAT) column in the screen grab below:
9 - Wordtracker's new In Anchor And Title (IAAT) metric shows you the level of serious competition for a keyword.
Why keyword effectiveness index (KEI) is now effective
You can use keyword effectiveness index (KEI) to spot niches with the most potential for investment like this:
10 - Wordtracker's updated KEI metric uses a count of the number of pages with the keyword in the anchor text of at least one inbound link (In Anchor).
KEI compares a keyword's popularity (Searches) with it's level of competition. The level of competition is determined by the number of pages with the keyword in the anchor text of at least one inbound link.
So KEI only considers real competition because (as mentioned above) an anchor text link containing a keyword is the most powerful single thing a page can have if it is to compete on search engines for that keyword. Those familiar with KEI will know this is a new, updated formula for the KEI metric: one only made possible by Wordtracker's partnership with Majestic SEO.
Let's be clear here: We've added these counts to all 200 million keywords in our database using the link and title tag data collected from nearly 1 trillion URLs on the internet.
This makes it much easier for you to use Wordtracker to locate profitable keywords with high search volume and little competition—in real time!
What happened to the number of competing web pages?
It's simple. We've done you a favor and removed it.
The number of competing web pages was the "traditional" way that SEOs measured the level of competition for a keyword. Unfortunately, this statistic is no longer helpful by itself, because we're not interested in the number of web pages that mention your keyword somewhere on the page—we're interested in the strength of the competition.
11 - The number of competing web pages for a keyword is a weak measure of the competition for that keyword.
Let's explore this idea in a bit more detail.
It doesn't follow that if there are millions of competing web pages that a keyword is hard to rank for. A keyword might have 5 million competing web pages, yet the top 10 competitors have a weak on-page/off-page optimization and so such a keyword would be easy to rank for.
But if you were only looking at the number of competing web pages, you might be put off from targeting this keyword, and that would sadly, be a mistake.
Conversely, a keyword may have just 20 competing web pages, but if the top 10 competitors have very strong on-page/off-page optimization, the keyword will be much harder to rank for.
What if you used valuable resources targeting a competitive keyword but you only had a chance of ending up on page 2 of search engine results pages?
To use an analogy a customer gave us: imagine you're in a 400 metres race and you can choose your competitors. Would you choose to run against 5,000 old ladies using walking frames, or 10 serious athletes? When we assess your potential competition to calculate KEI, we now only count the number of serious athletes and not the grannies.
So, in our updated KEI (Keyword Effectiveness Index), we've dropped the number of competing web pages and use Majestic's In Anchor count instead. This new calculation also makes it much faster for us to calculate KEI, so no more waiting around!
There's more: a second KEI metric—KEI3—only considers the most powerful competition.
We've seen how KEI uses InAnchor text links to evaluate the competition. A second KEI metric—KEI3—uses the more powerful In Anchor And Title (IAAT) to consider only the most serious of competition.
To return to the 400 metres race analogy: counting Google competition (old KEI) is like finding how many old grannies with walking frames you have to beat; new KEI counts the serious athletes; and KEI3 only considers international gold medalists.
You can trust the new Majestic keyword data
We're using Majestic SEO"s count of the web's anchor text links to estimate how much competition there is for each keyword when competing on Google and other search engines. So the more Majestic counts correlate with Google's equivalent, the better the metrics will be.
I'll go into more detail in another post, but we've run several correlation tests and Majestic data correlates very well with Google. The screenshot below shows that for the top 100 single keywords, Majestic In Anchor correlates > 0.890 with Google AllInAnchor (using the Spearman rank correlation).
NOTE: Google's AllInAnchor operator restricts results to pages containing your query terms in the anchor text on links to the page. More detail about Google AllInAnchor can be found in this Google guide.
In the screenshot below, the blue line corresponds to Majestic SEO In Anchor counts, and the red to Google AllInAnchor. You can see they follow a similar pattern:
12 - The red line shows Google anchor link counts for the top 100 keywords; and blue line shows Majestic's. We can see they correlate very well.
Wordtracker is therefore confident that Majestic keyword metrics data can be substituted for Google, which means we can return accurate results to you much faster than before!
You can do all this manually of course
Dan Thies of SEO Research Labs, a well respected Search Engine Optimization expert, was involved in the planning and design of the new Wordtracker competition metrics. In his excellent Keyword Competition Metrics blog post, he says:
"If we use Google's advanced search operators, we can actually determine how many pages have the search term in their title tag, by using a search like:
intitle:search intitle:phrase
which will tell us how many pages have both words (search and phrase) in the title.
The next thing any competent SEO practitioner will do, if they are serious about competing for a search term, is to include that term in the text of links, either on the site itself, within external (incoming) links, or both. We can see this on Google with the inanchor: search operator.
The intitle: and inanchor: searches can be combined, so that if we wanted to get a good idea of the real competition for "search phrase," we could use a search like:
intitle:search inanchor:search intitle:phrase inanchor:phrase
to measure how many pages are using the search term in both the page title, and the text of links pointing to the page."
Source: Keyword Competition Metrics by Dan Thies.
So let's fire up an Excel spreadsheet and get to work. Let's go to Google and look up competition for the first keyword, nutrition facts:
13 - A Google search using intitle: and inanchor.
Then start adding the detail to our excel spreadsheet:
14 - Using a spreadsheet to manually collect In Title And Anchor scores for 1,000 keywords takes a long time.
We can do this for the 1,000 keywords containing nutrition that a Wordtracker search gives us. But it's going to take a really, really... really long time.
Why there is a difference in the size of Majestic's and Google's link counts
There are two reasons why Majestic and Google show different numbers of links for seemingly similar searches.
The first is that the Majestic In Anchor metric shows a count of external anchor text (from other websites), whereas Google includes internal anchor text as well (from within a website).
Internal text is much easier for webmasters to control, and therefore easier to manipulate. External text is deemed more authoritative than internal text, because what others say about you is far more important (and trustworthy) than what you say about yourself. Wordtracker focuses on external anchor text.
The second reason is that Google's AllInAnchor returns broad matches by default (the words mcdonalds, nutrition, and facts in any order), whereas Wordtracker uses the In Anchor phrase match count (mcdonalds nutrition facts somewhere within the anchor text).
Rand Fishkin points out in 17 Ways Search Engines Judge the Value of a Link, that "in [his] experiments (and from lots of experience), it appears that "exact match" anchor text is more beneficial [to ranking] than simple inclusion of the target keywords in an anchor text phrase."
I hope you can see now that bigger numbers clearly do not mean better numbers, and it's important to realize that the Wordtracker In Anchor number will often be smaller than Google's AllInAnchor (or InAnchor). Since Wordtracker focuses on phrase match, external anchor text, you get a much closer, more relevant picture of the serious competition for any given keyword.
In conclusion
With Wordtracker, it now takes under 30 seconds to get the kind of competition metrics about your possible target keywords that were previously only available to Google engineers. So you can immediately save time and money by choosing the right keywords for your business.
15 - Wordtracker's new In Anchor And Title keyword competition metric.
Finding profitable keywords really did just get easier with the new Wordtracker Keywords Tool, and by clicking on the following you can try a risk free 7 day trial.
I've also created a 6 minute tutorial video which will guide you through the process.
Let me know what you think.
Here's to your success!
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About Mike Mindel
Mike Mindel is CEO and co-founder of Wordtracker.
He is also the co-founder of Webventurer.com, a lead generation and niche e-commerce company.
Mike has over 14 years technical experience, along with keen interests in marketing and film-making; co-producing the the psychological horror film Don't Let Him In in 2012.
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