Question

If you manage to rank a keyword that is very competitive, does that make you an SEO expert? According to ahrefs the keyword difficulty is 60.  

Answer 1

Absolutely not. A real expert simply don't rank keywords. Working people rank keywords, experts just tell them what they do wrong. I'm an expert, so you have to trust me

Comments

@kingfisher13887  

Answer 2

Whatever the difficulty ahrefs is showing is totally based on the number of backlinks of top 10 results only. You MAY call seo expert if you are ranking keywords which are purely driving you good leads :) When you will, you will chase for the next big one ;) Journey continues .  

Answer 3

Just a single ? Raise the bar on the overall graph and keep it there for a while can get you some clients if you can market that. :-)

Answer 4

When you view the last 12 months of organic traffic acquisition and search visibility via GSC and you see a massive up trend, then you look over to GA and see you the same for all tracked conversions - now the person working behind that is an expert.  

Answer 5

Define "rank"

Answer 6

Does performing "a" heart surgery make you an expert surgeon?  

Comments

Uhm i would hope so.  

Answer 7

Maybe it just makes you lucky

Answer 8

If you have to ask.  

Answer 9

An expert would know that Ahrefs difficulty number is BS, so.  

Comments

@boatload . Divided opinion is allowed

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@ayurveda64150 Don't mind mike, he is the champagne socialist of this SEO group.  

Answer 10

If you have to say you are. ;p go one further than Conoor @phospholipide :)