Keyword Difficulty 0 doesn't mean you can rank. Here's the check that does.

My domain is 19 days old, DR 0. I needed to pick which niche pages to build.

Bing gave me the hint. Over two days, "thumbnail maker" got 73 impressions at

position 7.4 and a 2.74% CTR. "brotato thumbnail generator" got 2 impressions

at position 3 and a click. The head term brought 36x the impressions and half

the click rate.

So, niche pages. But which niches?

Not the ones with low Keyword Difficulty. KD measures backlinks to the pages

that currently rank — it says nothing about who those pages belong to. A

keyword can sit at KD 0 and be served entirely by domains you can't touch for

two years.

The check that works is one filter in Ahrefs Keywords Explorer: Lowest DR, up

to 20, in top 10. It keeps only the keywords where a site as small as yours is

already on page one.

Six niches, same settings:

Minecraft 13 keywords 12,000 searches/mo

stream 2 420

reaction 1 80

podcast 1 60

faceless 0 0

Fortnite 25 keywords 16,000/mo — 0 survive the filter

Fortnite has the most volume of anything I tested, every term at KD 0, and not

one keyword where a small site ranks. I already had a Fortnite page built. It

is aimed at a market I can't win this year.

Fifteen minutes of filtering. Five pages I didn't write.

Two weeks from now I'll know whether the Minecraft page moves. If it doesn't,

the hypothesis was wrong and I lost a day instead of six.