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The answer to this question is yes, no, and maybe. If you so some keyword research, you may be able to find a really popular search which doesn't have too much competition, and if you really know SEO, you may be able to compete for that search.

It is not easy to go head to head with SEO experts, and if you are picking a subject to write about, or build a site about that has a lot of competition from people with a lot of money, then you may be wasting your time.

Google favors local searches, and if you are on the other side of the world from America, where most of the big SEO experts come from, then you may be able to compete for some searches that involve very popular keywords, so long as you are fairly specific in the title of the page.

For example, if you were writing an article about an iPad, you would not get very far unless your title was extremely specific, like: What are the best free apps on the iPad?

Generally, if a keyword makes people a lot of money, such as the affiliate sale of a product, or a search with extremely high volumes of people searching it, you will need the aid of an SEO company, to build thousands of quality backlinks to your site, as well as get the keyword on the page exactly right, in order to compete.

You will in fact probably need a domain name with the exact keywords of that popular search in it, and it requires a lot of time, money and effort to get to the top of the Google searches that have thousands of people searching them every day.

However, if you pick a more specific title, related to the topic, a really unique, different version of what is out there, you can get to the top of the first page of a Google search quite easily.

You can Compete for a More Specific Search

For the average writer, or website builder, it is better to do a little research, and find a niche that is not being filled anywhere on the net. Learn how to make the right title, the right amount of keywords in the text, subtitles, photos, videos, and hundreds of backlinks, and you should be able to compete for lots of fairly popular searches, if not the most popular.

Remember that some people spend thousands of dollars or even hundreds of thousands to dominate the most popular searches online, so if you don't have that kind of time and money to spend, then you are much better off to compete for searches with a medium level search volume.

I have had a lot of luck getting my articles here at Factoidz on the first page of a Google search, I suggest you join, and try it out. So can you compete for a popular Google search, or can you fool Google into thinking that your site is bigger than the rest? Well, maybe.