rank highly in search engine results for the same or similar products or services that you offer What is SEO Compe&tor Analysis? SEO Compe&tor Analysis is the process of analysing your compe&tor’s websites: • on-‐page • off-‐page
Compe&tors? Enter one of the targeted keywords into one of the main search engines -‐ the leading sites will show NB! Choose your geographical region!
search engines determine authorita&veness and trust ➥ hGp://www.seologs.com/dns/domain-‐check.html • Backlinks ➥ find how many of the links to your compe&tors contain your target keywords -‐ try to have more inbound links that contain your target keywords than your compe&tors’ in order to beat your compe&tor
linking pages ➥ Google, Inc link analysis algorithm ➥ Used to measure the amount of links a page has to determine it's rela&ve importance ➥ Higher PageRank a URL = higher Google authority ➥ Updated every 3-‐6 month at Google’s discre&on • Top level domains of the linking pages ➥ Get more backlinks from websites that use analogue top level domains than compe&tor
pages ➥ Google prefers websites that get links from related websites ➥ secure more inbound links from related websites than the websites of your compe&tors
➥ Domain Authority (DA) ➥ relevancy and quan&ty of high quality sites and domains that link to the en&re domain • Unique Domains ➥ quality of inbound links that point to a specific URL or page
reflects the true quan&ty of inbound links • Unique Domains ➥ reflects the true quan&ty of inbound links that point to the en&re domain • Keyword Relevance ➥ reflects the true quan&ty of inbound links ➥ how relevant a specific URL or page is for a specific keyword or phrase ➥ KW in URL reflects how many of the target keywords are present in the ranking URL
reflects the true quan&ty of inbound links • Meta Data ➥ descrip&on and &tles should be present and in-‐ line with best prac&ces • Site Structure • Addi&onal Files ➥ robots.txt ➥ sitemap.xml ➥ an error 404 page ➥ a sitemap.html…
Result Page Data Google Trends hGp://trends.google.com/websites Alexa hGp://www.alexa.com/siteinfo Compete hGp://www.compete.com/ Quantcast hGp://www.quantcast.com/ Google Ad Planner hGp://www.google.com/adplanner Compe&tor Analysis Tools