Reviewing Your Website Competitors
Let's spy on your competitors!
We'll find out who your competition is and then we'll use them to help you get just as much traffic as they do and hopefully more.
So let's get started....
Let's say you have a website about 'acne skin care'.
The first thing you want to do is go to Google and type in the search "acne skin care".
At the top of the Google page
you will see a line that says something like
this:
Results 1 - 10 of
about 822,000 for "acne skin care"
Note: these are competing pages not competing sites.
So there are a lot of pages, however don't let that discourage you. We are going to be checking those web pages and see what links are coming into them.
Here's what to do:
Looking down the page for all the sites that came up for 'acne skin care', start looking at each page and determine which pages are in direct competition with your site, then make a note of those pages.
For example, the first site I
noticed was a site called:
acneskincareproduct.org
Now go to
http://www.Yahoo.com
This is where we will check
the number of incoming links for that
site:
Type the
following into the Yahoo! search box exactly as
you see it here (without the quotes)
'links:www.acneskincareproduct.org'
At the top right hand side of
the Yahoo.com page you will see that Yahoo!
tells us how many incoming links there are for
this page. At the time of this writing I see
there are about 502 incoming links to that
site.
That is telling
me that if I follow all other good search
engine optimization for my site and find at
least 502 incoming links, I have a fair chance
of making the first or second page of Google
for my keyword phrases.
Now that may sound like a lot
of links and you may think it will take forever
to get them, but
with a few hours
of actively working on this it won't take long
at all.
Start with the sites that you see listed on Yahoo.com that we just captured. Go down the list and find the websites that have linked to this site. This will help you find the sites that are best suited to help you the most. You can simply ask these sites to link to you as well or possibly exchange links with them.
You can get a lot of good information with this type of investigation. You can find some of the best directories to submit your links to, you can also find some great ideas for article topics or category topics for your website.
Happy Spying!
Your Partner In
Success
Elizabeth
