Chapter 2

Competitive Research Techniques and Tools

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Finding out how to equal your high-ranking competitors

Bullet Calculating what your site needs to gain high ranking

Bullet Running a Page Analyzer

Bullet Using Excel to help analyze your competition

Bullet Discovering other tools for analyzing your competitors

Bullet Diving into SERP research

If you followed our suggestions in Chapter 1 of this minibook, you spent some time finding out who your real competitors are on the web, and you might have discovered that they are quite different from your real-world, brick-and-mortar competitors. You also found out that for each of your main keyword phrases, you probably have a different set of competitors. If you’re starting to feel overwhelmed and thinking that you’ll never be able to compete in such a busy, complicated marketplace, take heart! In this chapter, we show you how to get under the hood of your ...

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