Ultimate guide to Keyword Golden Ratio (KGR)

Keyword Golden Ratio abbreviated as KGR is keyword research method developed by Doug Cunnington. He's established Internet marketer with years of experience and numerous sites ranked. The main purpose of this method is finding untapped low competition keywords that many missed out. KGR represents the right balance between search volume and SERP competition. Doug explained it very well in the next video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HC0woVw-Sek The best thing with KGR keywords is that you can rank for them in a very short time period. You don't even need to build links to get on the #1 page of Google. You probably wondering how it's possible, the explanation is very simple. Since Allintitle result "the number of pages that ranking for a specific keyword" is usually low with the KGR keywords it gives you a lot of room for your website.

How to find KGR Keywords?

Once you select a niche you need to find potential keywords you want to rank for in that specific niche. The best way to do this would be getting a bulk of thousands of keywords using tools like Google Keyword Planner, KeywordTool.io, etc. All you need is to enter one broad term related to your niche and those tools will suggest hundreds of keywords. Simply export those keywords so you can use it later for KGR analysis. Now when you have a list of potential keywords it's time to calculate KGR and mark off golden keywords.

How to calculate KGR - Keyword golden ratio calculator

As Doug explained in the video above to calculate KGR you will need allintitle number and search volume. To get it simply perform the next query on Google: allintitle:yourkeyword this way you will get a number of results. If you don't understand please check the video in this section, to get search volume use Google Keyword Planner. To calculate it you simply need to divide allintitle with search volume where search volume is less than 250. Note: in such case, we are looking for KGR lower than 0.25. On example, if the keyword has 20 allintitle results and search volume of 90 we would have: 20 / 90 = 0.222 KGR You can see that we got 0.222 the KGR is lower than 0.25. This is pretty much good indicator that we have a golden keyword for which we can rank in a very short time. If the situation was opposite and we got allintitle = 90 and search volume = 20 we would get  90 / 20 = 4.5 KGR it is greater than 0.25 and outside of KGR boundaries, this indicates that keyword is too competitive.

The easiest way to calculate KGR for thousands of keywords in one click

Searching for allintitle and calculating KGR for a large number of keywords can take you days of work even months. Plus Google blocks you after every few allintitle queries and you need to solve a captcha. Just by thinking about solving them gives me a headache. To save you from headaches and waste of your time we created this tool. It gets allintitle numbers and calculates KGR in bulk. Simply sign up on the top of this page and you will get 10 tokens for free (1 token = 1 keyword). All you need is to paste a list of keywords and you will get allintitle + KGR ratio calculated in a bulk. Isn't that amazing? Testing is totally free! If you need more than 10 keywords you can simply buy more tokens, we charge only $0.02 per keyword/token.

You can apply the KGR method for keywords with 250+ search volume

If you follow common sense you will be able to apply it for keywords that have higher search volume than 250. Let's say that you found a keyword with a search volume of 3600 and there are only 56 sites with that keyword in their title. If you use common sense you can assume that the keyword is worth your effort and easy to rank for since there are only 56 sites with the keyword in their title. It does not matter that search volume is greater than 250! Just use common sense.

Always manually check your competition

It's very important that you don't follow through blindly. Even if the keyword term meets KGR requirements it does not mean that you will rank high just like that. We recommend checking SERP competition manually for every keyword you planning to rank for, We facilitate this for you. In our tool, you will see on the right side of every imported keyword blue button called SERP. If you click the SERP button it will open the top 10 results from Google for that specific keyword. If you don't have an account navigate to the top of this page and sign up it's totally free! Using SERP button you will be able to see Domain Authority, Page Authority, Citation Flow, Trust Flow, Number of external backlinks, social signals... for every site that ranks in top 10 google results for the specific keyword. It will also give you an answer to a few questions like "Does keyword exists in the title?", "Does keyword exists in the meta description?", "Does keyword exists in the URL?". Keep in mind those are just basic factors you may want to check the backlink profile for every website and some other metrics. For deeper research, we recommend using external tools like Ahrefs.

You don't have a clue about competitive analysis?

No worries. There are many cases where people didn't even know some basics yet they ranked simply following KGR method. If someone just starting with SEO the KGR method is ideal, very easy to follow and don't requires a lot of knowledge. If you want to check such case studies feel free to check Doug Cunnington Youtube channel you will find plenty of them. There is an old good known quote: "Throw it against the wall and see what sticks." It's true. You can literally apply it with KGR. Just add a bunch of quality posts, following the rule of quantity something will stick for sure. Even if you are a total newbie the organic traffic will start rolling out.

Can I rank KGR keywords without link building?

Definitely, you can! Since you have long tail keywords with a very few sites competing for, you can easily rank without links. Now imagine if you decide to invest in the link building you will definitely rock it out.