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How To Quickly Evaluate Your SERP Competition
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Published: Dec 11, 2008 - 10:16 am
Story Found By: Musa 1158 Days ago
Category: SEM
Very often you just don’t have time (or don’t feel it’s necessary) to run a thorough competitive analysis. All you need is just do a quick key term “difficulty” evaluation (term invented at SEOmoz, I guess) to see if it’s worth digging deeper. Let’s see what can be done in this case.
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from crimsongirl 1158 Days ago #
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I’ve come to the conclusion that this is an area where "thin slicing" (as made famous by Malcolm Gladwell) really does work best.  And experienced SEO can size up the competition pretty quickly, and spending too much time and using formal metrics often makes your evaluation worse, I suspect.

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from seomike 1156 Days ago #
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I use a very helpful tool called linkdiagnosis.com, and consider competitive analysis one of the more fun SEO tasks I get to do on a regular basis... The back links export of the CSV rocks... I liked this post as her isight with the Google Ad Words Tool was very helpful.Cheers

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from D@WEED 1155 Days ago #
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I think the best SEO tool is your brain fnd hands. Only your brain can be the most suitible tool to your site. As for me - I made link list and every monday I’m spending on link diagnose.

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