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4 Indispensable “SEO TOOLS” for Competitive Research
SEO News Source: http://www.seodesignsolutions.com
Published: Jan 11, 2008 - 02:00 am
Story Found By: DaveDavis 1494 Days ago
Category: SEO
When your tired of playing childish games like leap-frog and tidily-winks in the SERPs (search engine result pages) with your competitors and your ready to change the subject from recess to biology and literally dissect your competition. You’ll need to break out some real SEO Tools to step up the pace.
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from mikemurray 1493 Days ago #
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Nice collection; good find. One of the comments on the article questioned the value of the sites, but I can see their use for some assessment.

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from emanuelh 1493 Days ago #
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Really? Let’s look at one of them - This by far is my favorite, because aside from just showing you who ranks for the term, it provides an accurate snapshot of how many links per month your competitors are building to maintain that term for their position, for that keyword - Priceless SEO data.Isn’t it like counting the number of coins and bills regardless of their face value? And moreover, what if each reciprocal link has a small negative value and high volume will soon cause large relevance score loss? 

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from ruchirkc 1493 Days ago #
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Some really nice tools. Hmm, I’m thinking to post "the ultimate" collection of SEO toolson my blog...

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from chilax 1493 Days ago #
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I think having an idea of how many links a competitor is building per month gives a sense how tricky it is going to be to overtake the competitor. Because ultimately you wiill probably be putting the same sort of quality links in place. e.g. if you have a myspace layouts page most of your links are probably going to be coming from myspace, and if someone else is managing to put 2k links on per day you need to be beating that.

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from emanuelh 1493 Days ago #
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chilax, please take a look at http://www.wordze.com/topranking.php and tell me whether you need 12.35 links per month (like lycos) or 24,452.71 links per month (like seochat) because they’re both in the Top 10 for the same search query.

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from SeoDesignSolutions 1493 Days ago #
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I’m glad this one warmed up and caught the eye of som many people.We all know that there is more to SEO than links alone. The tools however do provide a great snapshot of the variables we would otherwise have to discern anyway when optimizing a site or blog.1. Age of domain.2. Back links (link velocity, age of links, quantity)3. Authority (which is not always always appearant by initial observation).4. Relevance.I huge site with thousands of pages is hungry vs. some sites that have stronger link architecture. There are some pages in the top 10 for extremely competitive terms that only have 300-400 backlinks total (so it’s all about the method they use, which is why tools are important).When I wrote the post, I knew there would be some backlash, but the idea is, if you have suggestions, go make a comment or turn other people on to some of your favorite tools or treasure troves if you will.There is nothing wrong with mixing things up a bit, so you can find a more effective method. Like stated, so many tools online, so little time. This post definitely needs a part 2, part 3 with a different focus for each "part", hint, hint...

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from emanuelh 1492 Days ago #
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Dave, which tool measures relevance? I used to think that what you need for it is  an adequate model of Google’s ranking algorithm. That is, something into which you feed the data of say the Top 100 web pages of Google’s SERP for a given search query, and it produces a list that resembles Google’s SERP well enough to be useful for SEO practice. For instance, if your web page is # 100 at Google and between 95 and 105 in the relevance tool, you now play with the variables till your page gets # 1 in the relevance tool. Now you know, with very good precision, what to do in order to get to # 1 at Google.  

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