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SEO is confusing. It can take hours of hard work and seem like you’re getting no-where, until google final indexes your website. And even then, you may have to wait patiently for your site to slowly creep up the rankings to a decent position. On the flip side of that, you could create a website and be in the top spot almost instantly!

One of the things to bear in mind when researching keywords or checking positions on google or whatever is that it isn’t just the number of results you should consider, but also the number of results that have the specific keywords in the title. For example, I currently have a website that ranks at the number 1 spot for a specific keyphrase, out of a possible 49,000,000 results. The website is pretty new and only has a couple of backlinks. One of the reasons it’s at number one is because there are few results (only 233 out of the 49,000,000) with the keyphrase in the title, but my site was one of them. Granted, it doesn’t get that many searches but it illustrates a point.

Obviously, this alone isn’t what decides your rank and you need to consider links, page rank etc but it can be a pretty useful indication. The way to check on google for results with the keywords in the title is allintitle: keyword(s).