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Revealing your Competitor’s FULL External Relevance Profile – One of my best kept secrets at Hamlet Batista dot Com
SEM News Source: http://hamletbatista.com
Published: Oct 19, 2007 - 11:17 am
Story Found By: cmiddlebrook 1578 Days ago
Category: SEM
Hamlet shares some of his most closely guarded SEO tricks for checking out your competition. Warning - it requires a little programming skills!
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from Hugh 1577 Days ago #
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Is the tool they mention SEO Quake?

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from tappingcreativity 1577 Days ago #
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Lots of legwork, sure. For a competitive market, however, finding opportunities your competitors are missing can get you fast returns. Great stuff, Hamlet.

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from HamletBatista 1577 Days ago #
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Thanks for your kind words, tappingcreativity.Hugh - the tool that does this is still in the works. SEO Quake doesn’t do this AFAIK.

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from iBrian 1575 Days ago #
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IMO analysing competition is only of limited value - coders will lap it up, but for manual? I don’t think it’s a big issue. Let’s face it, good SEO is about being creative and trailblazing. If all you’re doing is trying to follow other people’s footsteps, you’re always going to be a step behind them because you are failing to appreciate the mindset involved in the first place.2c.

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from brian 1575 Days ago #
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Maybe I’m a bit daft, but I read this and it boiled down to 1. They get around Yahoo API’s access limits with web proxies and 2. the tool is going to promote stuff to help him/her make money indirectly, which is pretty much against Yahoo’s API TOS.Am I off base?

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from HamletBatista 1575 Days ago #
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iBrain - if your plan is simply to copy your competitors I agree with you. When I do competitive research I try to undertand and extract the elements that make them succesful and use creativity to come up with similar/better ideas.brian - you forgot the most important element that is getting past the one thousand link mark most link analysis tools have. On the other hand, please let me ask you this: Do you spend money and resources on things to give away for free, and expect absolutely nothing on return.?In my optinion everything we access for free online benefits the creator directly or indirectly.Thanks for your comments.

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from brian 1575 Days ago #
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Well, yeah, a service is given away, yet powered by Yahoo’s data, so they may have something to say about that.  I’m just pointing out that there are potentially two violations of Yahoo’s policy as stated in the conversation.  I’m guessing Yahoo wants to offer a free service but don’t want it abused, like the imposed query limit in the API.

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from HamletBatista 1575 Days ago #
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brian - I understand what you are saying and I am sure if they had problems with this technique they would have brought it up to Rand when he visits them. SEOmoz page strenght tool (paid tool) uses the Yahoo API and proxies last time I checked.If Yahoo and Google provided a paid API like Amazon does I would be the first one to signup. Cheers

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