Every webmaster wants to rank well in the search engines. Only a madman wouldn't. <b>It is the number one way to get free traffic and advertising.</b> Although Adwords is great, it has been said 70% of search engine users look to the natural results rather than the paid advertisements. Well to be good in something you have to follow those who went before you, and we are going to discuss how to spy on your competitor's Search Engine strategy like a thief in the night. Firstly, let's say you have a site all about SUV vehicles. Let's type "SUV vehicles" with the quotation marks into Google. Now go to each one of the sites on the first page, and copy their url into a text file like Notepad. Once you have done this, go to Google again and type this - link:yourcompetitorsurl.com. Now you can see all the sites that link to your competitor's website. Why is this a good thing? Every site that links to his/her site is voting for that site, giving it a higher rank in the search engines. The higher the reputation of the site that is linking out, the greater weight is given to it by the search engines. Now that you have seen with clarity which sites are causing your competitor to rank so high for this search term, all you have to do is contact these same sites and ask them to link to your website (and possibly do a reciprocal exchange, you link to mine, I link to yours). You will be following the exact reasons why your competitors are ranking so high for that particular search term. © Fabian Tan
mmmmm ...... link exchange are not a good think in google eyes. and to look for links, use yahoo of trchnorati for that, google show some links (you will never know if this links are crap)
Seo Elite will do this for you automatically, i have had some great results from the program using this theory.
Is it just me, or does Google not show all the links to a page when using the link:domainhere.com search? According to Google, a competitor has 33 links, according to other software, they have 1,643.
No, Google does not show all links, only some. For Fabian: I think that looking at your competitors page sources it will sure help you and give you a start.