Lesson 11 of 1613 minIntermediate

Difficulty, gaps and prioritisation

Commercial value and CPC as proxies

High CPC means advertisers profit from that click, which is often a better prioritisation signal than search volume.

Why this lesson matters

This lesson belongs to Difficulty, gaps and prioritisation, the part of Keyword Research Mastery where the goal is: spend effort where you can actually win.

Read it once, then do it straight away on a real site inside RankTracker. Nothing here is theory for its own sake — every step produces something you can show a client.

Do it now

  1. 1Open RankTracker with sample data already loaded, so you are not stuck on setup.
  2. 2Track the keywords from this lesson.
  3. 3Run a gap analysis against two competitors in RankTracker and extract every position 8–20 quick win.