wtox started this topic @ 04:17 on 05/03/2010
It's a fact and one of my top 10 SEO tips, that search engines analyze incoming links to your website as part of their ranking criteria. Knowing how many incoming links your competitors have will give you a fantastic edge. Of course, you still have to discover your competitors before you can analyze them.
My tool of choice is SEO Elite, which digs through the major search engines by keyword to not only tell you who your competitors are, but also provides you with an in-depth analysis of each competitor. The analysis includes these extremely important linking criteria (super SEO tips), such as:
* Competitor rank in the Search Engines
* Number of incoming links
* What keywords are in the title of linking page
* % of links containing keywords in the link text
* The PageRank of linking pages
* The Alexa traffic ranking information
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RE: Another SEO Tip : Discover Your Competitors
wikicfo | 05/03/2010 09:32 PM
Awsome post!
Does SEO Elite cost money? I feel like I'd be more willing to drudge through the extra pages than have one simple, yet paid, method of research.
Any other ideas are welcomed! I'm actually doing a lot of competitive analysis now so keep the good thoughts flowing!
Also: I'd love to hear what other seo tools you like!
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RE: Another SEO Tip : Discover Your Competitors
mandy12 | 10/03/2010 06:13 AM
Possibly try the searchstatus ad on for firefox. great little tool.
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RE: Another SEO Tip : Discover Your Competitors
amelia20 | 15/03/2010 06:51 AM
Fantastic! SEO Elite seems quite useful. For doing proper SEO you need to know about your competitors ranking, the keywords they're using, number of incoming links of their sites etc.
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RE: Another SEO Tip : Discover Your Competitors
ParisT | 16/03/2010 05:14 PM
This is some of the best advice! Too many of us have had problems when it comes to trying to choose the right type with little competition. I wasted so much time in that.
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RE: Another SEO Tip : Discover Your Competitors
wikicfo | 25/03/2010 06:13 PM
You guys are full of great tips! Thanks!
I recently came across a firefox plugin called "SEO Quake". It sounds pretty great. Better than the one I am currently using on google chrome.
It gives you competitive analysis site rankings, keyword use on the given site, pr, etc. This combined with some of the books I have make work pretty simple. Now, if we could convince the directories to be free like all of these tools
I'd still like to know if SEO Elite costs anything... a lot of this stuff you can do for free with a couple extra clicks.
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RE: RE: Another SEO Tip : Discover Your Competitors
amboy | 15/04/2010 01:14 AM
Switching from FF to Chrome (FF kept on crashing on me!) This was the first add-on that I sorely missed! If you guys know of a Chrome version, please tell me!
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RE: RE: Another SEO Tip : Discover Your Competitors
MessHall | 15/04/2010 11:42 PM
hi Amboy, you actually have two options. You can upgrade to the latest version of FF available now, or your can waith for the extension on Google. I think I came across an article somewhere that are coming out with an app for google. Cannot be sure though 
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RE: Another SEO Tip : Discover Your Competitors
wikicfo | 14/04/2010 08:57 PM
Ew... that's nasty!
Thanks for the clean-up Ian!
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RE: Another SEO Tip : Discover Your Competitors
cdrx | 04/05/2010 10:30 PM
Excellent advice. I do keep a close watch on my closest competitors to see how their serp and backlinks are going. It's kind of a fun competition.
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RE: Another SEO Tip : Discover Your Competitors
Kendustin | 07/05/2010 10:33 AM
I am using SEO Elite for my site and would love to say that this is a great SEO analyzer and a strong tool that helps you to make your site more powered in all aspects and link building works great with this tool.
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