Once you figure out what it takes to get to the first page you can make a plan to get there. I am doing a series of videos on how to study your competition (seo wise) for my upcoming Home Study course.
This first part is using the tool spydermate.com which gives each site a ranking score based on backlinks, page rank, alexa, compete, age and domain expiration. Now we know there are many more factors in ranking a page, but this gives us barometer to measure by.
Sypdermate.com also creates a really cool graph to easily see where improvement can be made. In this video, I take two keywords, a monster one, “Weight Loss” and a less competitive niche keyword, “Organic Olive Oil” that I am actually interested in. 🙂
I then analyzed the sites on page one and then a couple on page 3 and put them all in a spreadsheet to take a quick snapshot of the competition. Enjoy!
The next part in this series will study the back links of these sites to get a better understanding of why they are rank where they do and what we would need to do to get there.
