As long as i have known about SENuke, it has had a “Niche Research Module”. For the most part i found this module kinda boring, and it didn’t tell you anything you couldn’t just open the web page manually and look at. It certainly didn’t automate anything.

But one interesting point of it, was that it gave you a difficulty factor for a particular keyword. So for example if we typed in “Pyrogenic Media”, it would tell me how easy it would be to dominate that keyword on google. Its never been any secret as to how the keywords are rated. The application simply does a check for how many results there are for a google search like “Allintitle:YourKeyword”. For for those who need some visual help :

http://www.google.com/search?q=allintitle:pyrogenic+media

All this does is tell you how many pages have that  phrase in their HTML title. Although do note, while all the words have to be in the Title. They don’t have to be in any particular order. So it will show me sites that have “media hello bye mum pyrogenic”. Even with words in between it still shows. But in anycase, that’s not the point.

So we know how they gauge the difficulty, but what are the exact numbers? Recently someone came out and posted the exact numbers that SENuke uses :

Extremely easy – <200
Easy – <700
Doable – <1500
Not the easiest – <3000
Could be Tought – <5000
Difficult – <10000
Don’t Waste Your Time -  >10000

To be 100% honest. I think Areeb (SENuke creator), probably just thought up these off the top of his head. I doubt there was an extreme amount of effort into dragging up these numbers. But just at a glance, I would think they are pretty close to what you should be aiming for.

Remember though, that even if the AllInTitle count is low, you should always analyse the competition for the broad keyword aswell (Typing the keyword into google with no quotes, no extra modifiers). It doesn’t matter if the AllInTitle competition is low if the whole front page for the broad is owned by Amazon and other high authority sites.