SEO - Competition And Offsite Analysis

Aug 18th, 2008 | By admin | Category: Search Engine Optimization

Analyzing the links to your competitors is not a simple matter of running a link:www.competitorsdomain.com on Google and rushing off and duplicating what you find there. First of all, Google does not display all of the links they find to a site and thus, this count will leave you with about 5 or 6 percent of the real links to your main competitors.

Yahoo! is much better at displaying all the links to a site however even this has it’s shortcomings in the analysis process. Secondly, the number of links is only a fraction of what’s important in their development.

To fully grasp how your competitors are ranking highly for your targeted phrases you will want to know a number of things about the links to their site including:

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