how can we do competitor analysis for a website?

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by dseosem, Apr 3, 2012.

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    Hi members

    i would like to know how can we find competitor for a website? do you have any free tools that are useful for finding competitors of a website and finding their back links. share them .how can u analyse your competitor?
     
    dseosem, Apr 3, 2012 IP
  2. ryan_uk

    ryan_uk Illustrious Member

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    Learn how to use Google. Once you start learning to use Google, you will understand how to analyse your competition. More information at: http://bit.ly/Hd9YEk
     
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  3. aloneak

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    Finding competitor? You can look for your similar site using the heywork similar site and it will show list of similar site like yours.
     
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    You can use opensiteexplorer.org to check backlinks, anchor text, social signals.
     
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    opensiteexplorer, SEO SpyGlass are good to check backlinks of my competitor.
     
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    How to find your competitor?
    You can easily find that from Google by typing your websites keyword, websites other than your's are your competitive websites.

    Free tools
    One of free tool is already mentioned above ie opensiteexplorer.org, compete, woorank are some of the best tools where you can analyse your competitor websites.

    Thanks! :)
     
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  7. msmedia

    msmedia Peon

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    If you're interested in the basic info, such as page rank, backlinks, etc., you can download SEOBook.

    It's a free plugin for FireFox, without any clunky features or spyware built in.

    I'd give you a link, but my post count is still too low. Perhaps someone else can help you, or just do a simple
    Google search.
     
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  8. webdev007

    webdev007 Active Member

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    You can try opensiteexplorer or KeywordSpy to find out the competitor's backlinks or sources of traffic, but some of their advance features are not free.
     
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    Spyglass is a good program to use. But for what your talking about, I would just learn how to use google like ryan said above. Thats the best way imo
     
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    I do use Alexa for comparing/analyzing the competitor website. Even there is comparison tool, with that we can enter the competitor's website and our to compare them both in stats point of view (stats means website traffic).
     
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    There are different angles you can look upon when doing competitor analysis. And the tools you need may depend on which angle you want to see about the competition.

    For instance, if you want to look on how well the on-page optimization has been by your competitors, you may use the websitegrader.com as well as aboutus.org sites. These sites provides free on-page analysis on a site's homepage.

    Moreover, if you want to look at how the competition are linking back to their pages and where they've placed their links on, you can use blacklinkwatch.com and linkdiagnosis.com - both tools are working perfect for backlink analysis.

    Hope that helps.. Cheers!
     
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  12. JerrickYeoh

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    Yes that you can use spyglass.
    I been using so much system and paid for it and found that no other system and able to provide a complete reports and details as spyglass which you can check all their backlinks and keywords they target. It is the best SEO tools ever.
     
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