Backlinks strategy to compete your competitor

Step 1: Find your competitors for the keyword you would like to rank.

This can be done easily by doing a google search for that particular keyword, also you can check it in tools like ahreff, semrush, ubersuggest,etc.

Step 2 : List out 2-4 Main competitors.

Step 3: Check the backlinks of each competitor individually.

This can be done easily by ahreff and many SEO tools.

Step 4: Combine all backlinks of all the competitors and filter the unique domains.

Step 5: Filter good authority blogs in that list.

Step 6: Ask for those filtered high authority blogs to link building service providers and get them or try outreach those blogs by own if you have enough time and patience.

Step 7: Try to get more high-quality backlinks that your competitor not yet got.

Check the rankings after all these steps are done. Hopefully, you should get a higher rank than your competitors.

Note: Before doing all these make sure that you have done on-page SEO well for that Keyword.

Yeah, backlink audit of your competitors will help you outrank them or perform better than they do. Replicating their quality backlinks and adding some more high authority links helps the site rank higher.