Thread: Market Samurai Help

When checking SEO Competition for a keyword, what should be the main things to look at to determine whether or not I can get on the first page or possibly the #1 spot on Google?

Should I be looking at how many Page Backlinks they have?

I would look at how many authority sites there are, their pagerank, backlinks, how old the domains are, if there are any young domains, keyword in title/url/header/description, if they have .edu or .gov backlinks, if there are any youtube/ezine sites.....

pretty much everything that is listed in MS

In which case, look at how much green there is... the more green, the better

Go look at the MS tutorials. They have put a lot of work into teaching users how to do stuff like this already...
http://www.noblesamurai.com/dojo/marketsamurai/7573-golden-rule-3-how-to-assess-market-competition