After that, look at the keyword difficulty score (a number from 0 to 100 on how difficult it will be to rank for the keyword). If your keywords have difficulty scores of 0.8 or higher, the competition may be too fierce for you to make an impact. Shoot for target keywords with over 5,000 monthly searches and under a 0.4 difficulty score so that you can potentially get more traffic with less competition.

Another way to view competition is to use an SEO tool like Ahrefs to see search engine results page (SERP) data. Specifically, look for the Domain Authority (DA) of the first page results and the SERP position history.