Well, I will tell you about one of my favourite tools I've found and that is this right here.
http://tools.seobook.com/general/keyword/This will give you searches and results for the big 3 laid right in front of you. Google, Yahoo, MSN.
As far as ratio's that's a bit of a tough one to answer, but I will tell you, that it's much better to optimize for lesser searched terms. You have a much better chance of getting good rankings with lesser searched terms than any of the largely popular one's. You will just want to rank for more of them.
A good rule of thumb is anything over say 1000 to 1500 searches a month may be worth going after. Of course try and find higher one's but these can still be worth going after. To get good traffic from these lesser searched terms you can optimize different pages for different terms and more of them.
When your typing in what the competition is in Google search
type the term in "parenthesis", that is your direct competition for the term. When you don't use parenthesis it brings back your overall competition for the term.
Obviously the lesser amount of competing sites for a term the better, again, a good rule of thumb, try to use terms that have less than 1 million competing sites overall, less even better!
Davin
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Not trying to sound like a whiner, I am just trying to get my focus so I can get to work. I just need clarification on they keyword search. I read the posts and I know Holly and most say to use wordtracker. I was always under the impression to pay attention to kei. I see now, I should only look at search and competition. My question is this? What is the minimum # of searches in comparison to the competition? What is a good starting or cut off point. I was already on the right track as far as non internet realted products. I just seem to have been using the wrong keyword tools thinking I had a good keyword when in fact I didnt really! Any advice help, would be great!
