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How to target and rank high for low competion keywords Don’t try to optimize your website with keywords that have too much competition. As an example. If you did a google search for the keyword “SEO” it returns a result of 716,000,000 pages! You don’t need be a marketing genius to realize that there is a lot of competition for this keyword and that it is going to be extremely hard to rank for this term. So instead concentrate your efforts on keywords that are much more attainable and easier to rank for.