Whether your developing a new website or upgrading an existing one, there are some SEO tips that not everybody incorporates into their plan. However, they happen to be surprisingly effective in getting your website to the coveted top spot!
Research Your Competitions Winning Keyword Phrases
After identifying the best keywords to focus on for your website, make sure you look at your competitors websites. Look at the on-site and offsite aspects of what you believe is their to help their SEO initiatives. You will start to see links and text on their site that stand out because most likely it’s intentionally there to boost their search ranking. Research what you can do to beat them in organic search for those same phrases.
What Else Is Your Competition Doing?
If the goal is to get the competitors traffic coming to your site, then it is imperative that you understand why Google ranks them where they do. After coming up with a list of keywords that your direct competitors are using, you can also check if they have higher domain recognition than you, and if their web pages have more page authorities or back links than you do. There are free online tools that make it easy to gather this information, such as installing a free Moz toolbar or SEM Rush’s free addition.
Determine How Your Website is Different From Competitors
After checking what your competitors have to offer, the next thing you need to do is to determine how you can improve the calls to action of your own website. How can you make it better than your competitor’s site?
Take note of things that you can do to make your site better and more appealing to your customers. If your competition doesn’t have a useful blog, than that would be a good place to start. Blogs are a source of more pages and rich high quality information that Google recognizes and awards ranking for.
There are several free tools that will help organize all of the important aspects of the competition that are earning them their rank. One that is often used is SeoBook. also, Microsoft has a new free download tool named Web SEO Toolkit
What are you doing to learn from your competitors and improve your website and SEO?
56 Comments
Do Christians have competitors?
Certainly from purely a search engine marketing perspective we do. Christian churches, schools, nonprofits and businesses are all competing for the best search rankings so they can connect with new people through search engines.
From a big-picture, philosophical perspective, do Christians have competitors? Hmmm, that's another issue. What do you think?
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Yes, your post is very good but there are another to get targeted traffic.
Hi Jonathan Keener,
Thank you for this amazing post, my name is Brenda Thorne, I am a SEO Consultant in Montreal and iv'e found your article very interesting. I am not a Christian but as for me what Im doing to learn from my competition and improve my SEO is that I analyse their backlinks profile, their on page SEO and I try to reproduce their profile the best I can and I try to do it even better so I can outrank them.
If you would like to read more SEO tips I invite you to come visit my SEO Blog : Safe Canada SEO , but it's a french blog (Referencement web) so I only recommend people that understand french to come read my articles.
Best Regards,
Brenda
I usually check the backlinks of the competitors just to find out some worth of links from them. This is what I call Backlink Link Building
Apart from analysis of back links of competitors, we can also have through look on keywords for which they are ranking well and on page also…that helps a lot in seo !
I like your tips to find the way to get more traffic with new SEO strategies. I always do that you said in your post.
The SEO Strategies you wrote in the article is excellent…thanks for sharing with us sir…I appreaciate your help
SEO is just about the rolling techniques by the google and the strategies used to change by the time, so you are supposed to work with the latest one that could bring competition along with bringing your website on the top.
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