Hi I need some help in checking how many other websites (competition) are there on Google for certain keywords. I know there is a tool `Google Keyword tool` which helps us in giving the competition and the search volume for a certain keyword. But the competitors given in that tool is for paid websites. I need something to figure out for non paid website who are using SEO tactics to promote their websites. Please advice. Thanks
well i personally figure out my competitors by search the keyword on which i m doing to optimize my website, let suppose i have a website that provides web hosting services in Pakistan, so i search in google for web hosting Pakistan and what i see on the ist page are my competitors
that will work but with rank checker you can do a whole list 100's at a time for the major search engines.
You can look on their site and look at their title tags and etc to see what they're targeting, and then Google search those terms. Once you've established the KWs write them down and manually check them occasionally to see how they're doing.
Go to Yahoo site explorer (http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/) and search for the domain. You will get an idea on number of backlinks plus the sites that link to them.
I used wordtracker for a while. It has a competitive analysis feature called KEI analysis which shows the competition for organic search results in all major search engines.
Put your keywords under quotes and do a search in Google. If you have less than 100K results it wont be too difficult to rank. Example your keyword is digital cameras , go to google.com and search for "digital cameras" see how many results it returns, if it's less than 100K go for it