Okay…I want to start by saying that a good friend of mine currently ranks for the term SEO design service. The term was recently used in a discussion at WPW.

My problem is not with SEO’s that build and design search engine friendly web designs. My problem is in the fact that I talk to people daily that are of the belief that all they need is an SEO friendly web design and it’s not the case. I spend hours trying to explain to people that the design is only a small aspect in getting a website to rank.

I lose websites daily to people that sale jobs based on search engine friendly designs being the only thing someone needs to make money online and I turn down jobs daily that people want optimized and believe it’s all they need.

So…my problem is not with any particular web design or SEO Company but more in wanting to educate people who are looking for a web design service.

And one last thing SEO design service would not be as good of a word to rank for as SEO design services.

But neither, SEO design service or SEO design services would be a competitive keyword nor would either get you very much traffic.

When looking at keywords and trying to figure out how competitive they are it’s not about the number of sites that show up in the results. Those are nothing more than the number of people that have either gotten a link to their site with those keywords in them or have used the keywords somewhere on their site.

When trying to figure out how competitive a keyword is we have to look at the top 20 search results and see things like age of the domain name, number of backlinks for the page that ranks, number of backlinks for the site that has those pages listed and things like that to determine how hard it would be to rank for that keyword.

Of course as I said in the beginning SEO design service does not get much traffic so it wouldn’t be a good one to go after in the first place however, if I decided to go after that keyword, from the information I’ve looked at it shouldn’t be hard to rank for.