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Glossary / K

Keyword Difficulty

In one line

An estimate of how hard it is to rank for a keyword.

SEO tools score difficulty, often 0 to 100, based mainly on the strength of the pages already ranking. Newer sites should target lower-difficulty, long-tail terms first.

Also called
KD

Ritesh kumar
Founder of the2m2g, writing about SEO in plain English.