What is Keyword Difficulty (KD)?

[PrimeItSolution]

What is Keyword Difficulty (KD)?

[MVMinfotech18]

Keyword difficulty (KD) - is a metric that helps you to determine your chances to rank for a certain keyword in the top of search. In other words, how hard would it be to rank for a particular keyword given the level of competition around it.

[ferriesthai]

Keyword Difficulty is also known as keyword competition. It is one of the most important metric you should consider when you are doing the keyword research. The higher keyword difficulty would mean that the particular keyword has huge amount of competition in the search engine result pages and it is difficult to get our page rank 1st due to the higher rank competition among the other website.

[neelseowork]

Keyword difficulty = keyword competition.
It is one of the most important metrics you should consider when doing keyword research for your website.
The higher is the keyword difficulty, the harder it is to rank on the 1st SERP due to high competition of the ranking websites.

[Rscomp]

It is a metric used by Ahrefs to grade how difficult a keyword would be to rank for. The higher the number the more difficult it would be.

[vijayshah1140]

It is an important metrices for SERP result. higher the difficulty of the keyword harder to rank your website for that keyword.

[RH-Calvin]

Keyword difficulty (also known as keyword competition) is one of the most important metrics you should consider when doing keyword research. The higher is the keyword difficulty, the harder it is to rank on the 1st SERP due to a high competition of the ranking websites.